Sentences with phrase «of at bats»

You have to be able to stay healthy, avoid the disabled list, maintain your skills, get lots of at bats... There are so many things that have to go right in order to make this kind of thing happen, it is like the deck is stacked against you.

I think there is even some evidence of «reverse lineup protection» where guys hit better if the dude in front of them is good, because more of their at bats tend to be with

He stays in top shape year round and studies videotapes of pitchers and of his at bats.

Erstad arrived in camp this year armed with videotapes of his at bats at Nebraska — where he was an All - America and set a school record for career hits — and sat down with Anaheim's new hitting coach, Mickey Hatcher.

It's not unusual for a batter to run to the clubhouse VCR after one of his at bats.

All of his at bats yesterday seemed terrible.

The high - scoring Diamondbacks and Cubs are 2 — 3 in the league in percentage of at bats by righties, but in the Brewers» case it may cost them a promising season.

Reynolds might be an option but only at the end of ST after we give McMahon most of the at bats.

Dahl and Tapia start the year in AAA getting a lot of at bats to start the year and steady playing time.

Not exact matches

Investments in technology have also been made at the league and franchise level - virtual reality, in - game wearable tech (the Motus Baseball Sleeve measuring stress on elbows and the Zephyr Bioharness monitoring heart and breathing rates) and the recent announcement of Blast Motion as the official «bat sensor technology» analyzing swings.

Additionally, Ethan Harris, chief US economist at Bank of America Merril Lynch, noted a BAT may not even decrease the size of the trade imbalance.

In March of this year he launched Stocksy as a co-op on an agrarian model, one that pays contributors 50 % off the bat and then pays dividends at the end of the year, divesting 90 % of its profits.

At least then we would be living with a swing and a miss instead of having watched a strike go by with the bat on our shoulder.

But the promise of the new rules is that entrepreneurs like Regina, who don't live in charmed places like Menlo Park and Manhattan, or have friends at Facebook, now have more alternatives, more potential swings of the bat.

SAN DIEGO, CA - JULY 12: American League All - Star Josh Donaldson # 20 of the Toronto Blue Jays looks on during batting practice prior to the 87th MLB All - Star Game at PETCO Park

«They're beating the cars with metal bats,» the singer Courtney Love posted on Twitter from an Uber car in Paris at a time of clashes between the company and taxi drivers in 2015.

The ping of an aluminum baseball bat is not a common sound at Pahokee High School, a place far more known for it's tradition of producing top pro and college football players.

Plus: Watch a video of what might be his final at - bat in Seattle.

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By all means take a swing at «Panama vs. Costa Rica» — but be ready to trade the bat for a magnifying glass as soon as you figure out exactly what kind of weather, scenery, population, infrastructure, cost of living, and real estate prices make up your ideal location.

I don't know you Julie, but I heard the exact term «bat - shit crazy» in reference to you from at least 3 of the men in emergent.

Todd Hiestand and Mike Morrell did confess to having used the «bat shit crazy» term, but I don't recall them saying that they did it as part of any deliberate campaign — just that they were passing on hearsay or perhaps reflecting their own opinions at the time.

I am beginning to believe that you have a bit of a Republican right now «at bat».

Now, as Nagel argues, this is not the sort of question that you can answer by looking at a few examples (bats for Nagel, Christians for us) and pointing and saying, «Well, being a bat (or a Christian) is like this.»

When he died he weighed sixty pounds, the paper says, and I go out of my way to drive by the address where his brother locked him in the closet, wondering at the blue door, the flower boxes, wondering where the fury started, how early and how hidden the first bruise awaking like a bat, dark wings....

Sentimental, tender, and kindly Erkel was perhaps the most unfeeling of the murderers who gathered against Shatov, and, having no personal hatred, could be present at his murder without batting an eye.

Indian wrestling, foam rubber bats, (6) shouting yes and no at each other at close range and from opposite sides of the room all provide effective, harmless, and fun ways of draining off strong feeling so that talking becomes possible.

First at bat, a salad with spinach, red bell pepps, edamame, raw cauliflower, and dried cranz (with a heavy handed pour of Bragg's liquid aminos on top).

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None of us bat an eyelash at the notion of slathering peanut butter all over a slice of bread and then crowning it with fruit preserves, nor do we think twice about mixing chili powder and garlic into a peanut butter base and drizzling it all over our Asian pot stickers.

They might combine for 500 at - bats of 90 OPS + misery this year.

The days playing hooky at the batting cage stopped.Corky moved out of Ethel's house.

Blackmon — great hitter with now more RBI potential — perfect slot for him at # 3 Arenado — he is the no brainer # 4 hitter on this team CarGo — # 5 suits his hitting style perfectly Iannetta — good plate discipline and works the count — plus has power — nice # 6 option Parra — fits nice at # 7 or # 8 Desmond — puts a speed / pop bat towards the end of the line up — either # 7 or # 8

I'll guess that it would have been far easier for Hinch, at least when it came to PR and fan frustration, to limit Gomez's at - bats until he stumbled into some sort of hot streak.

He needs at - bats, and the Astros need to remember that the upside of a Tony Kemp or Derek Fisher in the absolute best - case scenario are akin to a standard Carlos Gomez season.

As far as I can tell, neither one of them had an at - bat in college.

Tim Lincecum has the most at - bats without a homer of anyone who's played in 2016.

Considering how the 9th bat it hitting.130 and striking out 50 % of the time, I'd like to see us, at least temporarily, go to a seven man bullpen.

It's why the purists insist that you watch every awful at - bat from every pitcher, just to feel rewarded when one of them gets a hit.

Then, in the space of two games during the»77 World Series, Reggie turned all of Yankee Stadium into his own monument when he hit four home runs in four consecutive at bats.

Send McMahon down to AAA to get some at bats and playing time since Black seems to have no intention of playing him.

Those three players might have been a part of the problem, but they weren't the reason the White Sox were so disappointing, Crumbling defense, especially in the infield, combined with hundreds and hundreds of at - bats given to low - upside young players, hamstrung the White Sox far more than the offseason mini-spending spree helped.

The original Reggie went toe - to - toe with his manager, swung the bat as if each time were his last and, what's more, did something that both enraged and delighted fans: He stood at home plate and had the nerve to admire his homers, something akin to making love in front of a mirror.

He's far from alone, however, as Cleveland as a team has batted.265 /.340 /.453 during this 82 - game run... and have done so at a time that their starting pitchers, collectively, have an ERA of 3.34 with 10.6 strikeouts per nine and a 4.3 K / BB.

The Astros haven't signed a single free agent this offseason, and Freese makes a good amount of sense, even if he's picking up only 300 at - bats or so.

One of them (two if you count his show of force in batting practice before the event) even managed to ping off the roof as if he were hitting balls at his local indoor batting cage.

His rating system is not concerned with pitching or fielding or the relative cleverness of managers; it is made solely to evaluate a player at bat in the clutch.

Even if they don't want to put Jake Lamb in a strict platoon, Uribe could at least take some of the at - bats against tougher lefties.

As the game came to the bottom of the 7th and Team Dorfman's final at bats the score remained the same.