Sentences with phrase «of knuckleball»

The emergence of knuckleball phenom R.A. Dickey probably contributed, as that would have been what Crash (now a manager) would teach Nuke to keep him from being out of baseball entirely.

Plus, R.A. Dickey sheds some light on the secret of the knuckleball and an in - depth look at the World Darts Championship.

There is actually a bit more to the story, however, since sometimes players will strike balls so as to give them very little spin — the equivalent of a knuckleball in baseball.

The puck may be standing on end, a no - chance proposition for the goalie, the shot following the flighty course of a knuckleball — at 90 miles per hour.

There can be personal problems, financial problems, a death or any one of those knuckleballs life continually throws at us all.

Not exact matches

If Eric Hosmer doesn't get that pitch — if he gets a cement mixer of a slider, floating up there like a knuckleball, and pops it up — maybe everything's different.

It was a fast, subtle knuckleball that was without a lot of peers in baseball history.

He looked around for the big flexible mitt he used to catch knuckleballs and discovered that Gary Gentry, a pitcher what's more, had swiped it, leaving Silvestri with a regular catcher's glove, which is not the best piece of equipment with which to catch a long drive.

And this year he has pulled a low - and - inside Phil Niekro knuckleball for a homer; hit a high - and - tight fastball past Steve Carlton into centerfield to knock in a run in a 6 - 0, four - hit shutout of the Phillies; and, in another complete - game win, a five - hit shutout of the Mets, he got an RBI on a groundout after New York Pitcher Charlie Puleo had walked the Padres» No. 8 hitter intentionally.

In the first week of the season the graphic was only a minor annoyance, but soon it will drive us mad as we find out for the 316th time that Tim Wakefield has thrown another 68 mph knuckleball for the Boston Red Sox.

Out of desperation he learned to throw a knuckleball, and 24 years later, at age 45, he has 202 major league wins.

In addition, the researchers determined that «the optimally hit curveball will travel farther than both the fastball and knuckleball, because of beneficial topspin on the pitched curve ball that is enhanced during impact with the bat.»

A witty and sometimes surreal sci - fi comedy, Men in Black is a wild knuckleball of a movie that keeps dancing in and out of the strike zone.

He played for a long time, won a lot of games, but he was the kind of pitcher who, as knuckleball pitchers tend to be, are invited on the roster.