Sentences with phrase «of leadoff hitters»

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It is, of course, silly to make Martin the leadoff hitter for the reasons you point out.

Look for New York — which has MVPcandidates in centerfielder Carlos Beltran and third baseman David Wright and ared - hot leadoff hitter in shortstop Jose Reyes — to cruise home, especially with26 of its final 33 games against teams with losing records.

Tanaka is actually ahead of Carrasco's pace, as the first out of the fourth inning was the game's leadoff hitter, Lindor.

Marlins second baseman Luis Castillo is a classic leadoff hitter, reaching base often (through Sunday his.461 on - base percentage was second in the National League), stealing bases (a major - league - best 41) and scoring lots of runs (a team - high 69).

Downing then started the season by reaching base in 21 of his first 28 plate appearances as a leadoff hitter for a.750 on - base percentage.

Everybody at the top of the White Sox lineup has contributed: At week's end leadoff man Tim Raines had a first - inning batting average of.389, Joey Cora had scored 21 runs, Frank Thomas had hit 10 homers (no other player had more than seven) and driven in 25 runs, and sometimes cleanup hitter Robin Ventura was batting a major league - high.511 (23 for 45) with 22 RBIs.

Miami's leadoff hitters other than Gordon this season have done quite well in his absence, hitting.324 /.396 /.420, with time split at the top of the order mostly between outfielder Ichiro Suzuki (31 starts), second baseman Derek Dietrich (22 starts) and catcher J.T. Realmuto (21 starts).

his hitting leadoff was mainly due to a lack of good options for the team during those years — or better said a lack of options for both # 1 and # 2 hitters.

The East struck first as leadoff hitter Nick Serafino drew a walk to open the game and eventually worked his way around to score the first of his three runs in the game.

Then on Oct. 1 in Cincy, opening game at Redland Field, bottom of the first, little Eddie Cicotte, 29 - 7 on the year, 1.82 ERA with pinpoint control, plunks the Reds» leadoff hitter, Morrie Rath, square in the back.

During spring training Twins utilityman Denny Hocking informed leftfielder Jacque Jones, the team's newly minted leadoff hitter, that he was going to keep track of how often Jones started a game by getting on base.