Sentences with phrase «of outfield»

A ball hit off of the outfield wall will bounce off and come back at you exactly how you thought it would, so playing the angles and making sound decisions in the outfield about when to go for the spectacular catch and when to limit the damage by only surrendering a single will play a big role in your level of success.

Heynckes had all of his outfield players fit to face Besiktas and admits it was a struggle deciding who to leave out.

Has the lack of glamour in the position compared to the twinkletoes of outfield players blinded us, and indeed the transfer market, to the real value of a goalkeeper to a football team?

I think some of the outfield players will look at what Hart's wearing, and will be secretly thanking themselves for being outfitted in this kit.

This is in line with most of the goalkeepers in the league, and it tops the list for most of the outfield players in the lineup.

We lined up in an ultra-attacking 3 -1-4-2 formation, and dominated the game by suffocating PSG and keeping the play in PSG's half (to such an extent that the average positions of almost all of the outfield players on both sides were in PSG's half).

There's also a handful of outfield players who went in goal as an emergency measure including Dani Alves» late effort for PSG and Jackie Blanchflower's FA Cup final heroics against Aston Villa back in 1957.

Alongside Myhill's indiscretion are a collection of outfield players who saved a penalty, the tale of Gordon West going to the pub at Everton's expense after buying some goalkeeper gloves, the lengths Chelsea's Thibaut Courtois goes to in order not forget his gloves and some fine goalkeeper quotes.

Looking at all of the outfield players with mainly defensive responsibilities (i.e. everyone except Mario, Lanzini and Arnie) they are characterised by an overall lack of pace throughout.

The former is preferable given Turner's success in center is based entirely on athleticism — just remember how their season ended if you want a reminder of what a lack of outfield instincts can do.

Warming up in the bullpen, he was not even conscious of the drizzle or the cold or the young boy, his arms outspread like wings, who was tightrope - walking across the top of the outfield fence.

Just look at the injury list of outfield players.

Right now Oxlade is probably the biggest character we have of the outfield players — know what I mean without saying much?

When you're talking 50 % or over of your outfield players are just having total mares, it makes it nigh impossible for other players to perform.

The center fielder is the commander of the outfield defense and Boog does not appear to be up to the challenge.

Not really... As soon as Walcott and Ramsey appear on team sheet u should know there is trouble ahead... Add an overweight welbeck an under confident xhaka a misfiring bellerin and a right back well past sell by date and bulk of outfield is lower table stuff... So no surprise only surprise is still lack of anger from paying fans....

Between that and some of the outfield defense (approaches on throws, angles, etc), I think our coaching staff isn't very good.

Giving Tucker some playing time to prove himself, especially since a large part why he didn't get too many chances with Houston was because of their outfield depth.

And to those saying Kroenke spent money last year he did, but fan opinion was getting toxic after the lack of any outfield signing the previous year.

The decline has been evident over the last 12 years; however the final straw for me was the signing of no outfield players, when Cech was signed in 2015.

@Arsenal007 I also agree with your «appraisal» of AFC, with the signing of any outfield players the exception.

Definitely don't get outfield seats in the upper deck if you want to see him — like others said, it can be hard to see deeper parts of the outfield.

With a man on third and one out, Benji «shortest sac fly in the history of 16 ″ softball» Patzik hit a TOWERING (not really) sac fly to edge of the outfield grass... and it was just far enough to get home the run from 3rd to tie the game!

Im all for bringing Mahrez in if we had a full contingent of outfield players who can fit the bill thats required, do nt get me wrong I rate Mahrez but all this talk of coversions to strikers ect is a thing that takes time and theres little garuntee that it will work and while we are finding out if it works or not we are again loosing games we should win through a deficit of goals and real goal scorers.

At the same time, he has about 15 innings of outfield experience as a professional.

If Rose got the record by playing longer than he otherwise would have without a record to chase, we get to imagine Ichiro being the Julio Franco of the outfield, just to get him closer and closer to the record.

And, although the dimensions of the diamond are invariable, there are no fixed measures for the placement of the outfield walls.

She tosses a miniature bat into the waiting hands of outfielder Noah Hall.

Except there are still plenty of outfielders on the free agent market, and the demand is low.

And while it's true that he didn't really have a place to play with the Cubs» Schwarber / Happ / Heyward permutation... I mean, one of those outfielders is Jason Heyward... you don't ditch your best prospects because you're not sure how they'll fit in with a defense - first outfielder.

The Reds» fast start has also come without the full services of outfielder Eric Davis, who missed three weeks in April and May with a knee injury and hit only.233 in the first half.

He also feels that it is the simple duty of all outfielders and infielders to catch every ball which comes their way even though it may be hit with atomic force.

(They already rejected Toronto «soffer of outfielder Eric Hinske.)

It had been the Yankees» practice in the American League playoffs against Kansas City to place one of their functionaries in the stands with a walkie - talkie, the better to advise Manager Billy Martin on the positioning of his outfielders.

... The acceptance of outfielder George Bell by Cub fans and teammates was never more evident than after he homered in the second inning against the Phillies on April 17 at Wrigley Field.

The condition of outfielder Kevin Mitchell's sore wrists has been a major concern for the Giants.

Dombrowski expects the Expos to improve next year because of the full - time presence of outfielders Marquis Grissom and Larry Walker, both of whom have been impressive this season, and infielder Delino DeShields.

There are just too many variables that would need to happen — path of the ball, positioning of the outfielder, height of the fence, athleticism and derring - do of the outfielder — that would make it more like guessing a coin flip 40 times in a row than a repeatable baseball play.

with Alford and Pompey activated and sent to Buffalo there's a glut of outfielders at the top levels, if they were to send Teoscar down it'll be interesting to see how the playing time gets divvied up.

Fact is, the White Sox prepared for the»93 season thinking Jackson wouldn't be able to play, and they wound up with a surplus of outfielders as well as one of the best designated hitters in the game, George Bell.

The glut of outfielders and lack of desperate teams might make the price drop even more.

Ten of their outfielders played more than three - quarters of available minutes compared with Chelsea's nine.

Not exact matches

There are ambassadors of all varieties — for one example, Yankees outfielder Jacoby Ellsbury and Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Sam Bradford are both ambassadors for N7, an initiative from Nike's Native American division that designs footwear for Native communities and gives proceeds to youth activities.

At a crucial October 4th home game, a fan of the Toronto Blue Jays (my home town team) threw a can of beer that just missed hitting Baltimore Orioles outfielder Hyun Soo Kim.

A Toronto reporter asked Harper, a Washington Nationals outfielder, whether he'd have a beer to celebrate a whopper of a home run and the Nationals» win against the Blue Jays, taking advantage of Ontario's lower drinking age.

All these variations, all these hints of arbitrariness, are absolutely crucial to the aesthetics and moral metaphysics of the game because they remind us that fair territory is, in fact, conceptually limitless and extends endlessly beyond any outfield walls.

«I'm a little worried about them,» confesses Luke Yoder, director of field operations, leading us through a door in the outfield.

The senior Whitelaw was in the outfield, or slightly to the stoop side of the white line, and fair game for the eastbound crosstown bus.

There's outfielder Russ Chambliss, son of former New York Yankees star and current Yankees batting coach Chris Chambliss.

A group of players watches a televised tribute to Don Drysdale and Roy Campanella while Reggie horses around, trading insults with some of his friends on the team — outfielder Danny Tartabull and rookie pitcher Bobby Munoz.