Sentences with phrase «on base hits»

Now and then, we hit home runs, but our scoring relied chiefly on base hits.

Connor explained his thinking in two posts on Base Hit Investing last year, which you can read here and here.

Outfielders aren't trained to throw home to get a runner starting at third on a base hit, Heredia was probably looking at the ball and not Choo, if he throws home and doesn't get him, the go - ahead run would get to second base.

Mario Duarte followed the long ball by drawing a walk, stealing second and third, and then scoring on another base hit from Martinez.

Just try and score from 2nd on a base hit... or watch as your baserunner on 2nd dives back instead of advancing to third on a high chopper to the second basemen... or as your baserunner on third stares as your opponent attempts to turn a 4 -6-3 double play instead of scoring... It's as though 2k Sports is more impressed with their realistic collisions and the graphics of reaching into the stands to record a foul out than they are with producing a baseball simulator.

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In addition, pay is «competitive,» «raises are based on hours worked,» and workers receive «twice a year bonuses after you hit top pay.»

Operating on a simple drag and drop basis, its intuitive user interface means it should be a hit with everyone from pre-schoolers right up to senior citizens, but it should also be a great help for the small business owner or manager.

SPIN posited that, based on Spotify's publicly announced royalty rates of artists getting paid $ 0.006 and $ 0.0084 per single stream, that he'd need 287,176,547 streams of his 2002 hit single «Hot in Herre» if he's lucky enough to be on the high end of the payout system.

This list, based on data from Pitchbook, rounds up all of the companies in the US that hit the $ 1 billion valuation mark in record time.

SunPower, which is based in San Jose, Calif., but does most of its manufacturing in the Philippines and Mexico, will be hit harder than most in the industry by the announced 30 percent tariff on imported solar modules, CEO Tom Werner said in an interview.

The Baltimore - based athletic gear maker said that while it still expects to hit $ 7.5 billion in revenue by 2018, sales growth over the next two years would be within the range of the «low 20s» on a percentage basis.

«Most people plan this on a real hit - and - miss basis,» says Maloney.

Sitting on the shelf for a year due to financial issues with its production company, this comedy based on the 1997 Loomis Fargo Bank robbery, which at the time was the second - largest cash robbery in US history, is finally hitting screens.

If you delete on a hit - or - miss basis, and you're ever involved in a lawsuit, you could find yourself facing charges of destroying evidence, she says.

The company had to halt operations on Feb. 10 after it was hit with financial penalties for operating as an Internet - based tech platform rather than as a transportation company, which Taiwanese authorities have said was a misrepresentation of its business.

The only female hedge fund manager to present at the Sohn Conference, Debra Fine suggested Canada - based content producer DHX Media (dhxm) was better positioned than Netflix to capitalize on television programing for kids, including its plans to bring back the 1990s hit, The Teletubbies.

«American Idol» debuted in June 2002, during the summer broadcast doldrums, an indication that Fox didn't have high hopes for the imported singing contest based on producer Simon Fuller's hit British series, «Pop Idol.»

Employees of Royal Caribbean (rcl) based in Miami will be evacuated on one of the company's ships as Hurricane Irma hits Florida this weekend.

Based on the responses, executives for firms directly hit by the metals tariffs are already seeing serious consequences.

Yellen's final act at the Fed was to hit one of the largest U.S. banks, Wells Fargo & Co., with an unusual ban on growth that follows the San Francisco - based lender's pattern of consumer abuses and compliance lapses.

But «Ready Player One,» based on a 2011 novel, is vying for moviegoers at a time when the box office has been dominated by serial tales of comic - book superheroes and sequels to established hits, making it tougher for new material to shine.

Trump's threat to hit North Korea came as that nation — reacting to new United Nations sanctions against its nuclear program — warned the U.S. would «pay dearly» and said it was examining plans to fire a missile toward an American military base on Guam.

To promote the movie, the folks at 20th Century Fox have cooked up a somewhat unconventional marketing strategy: while hitting all the usual social media bases (Twitter, Facebook, Instagram), Taken 3 is also being promoted on LinkedIn.

Based on responses to the 3 - Hour Web Site Plan hiring someone to build your Web Site has hit the big time with small business owners who are realizing that often the time and energy spent doing - it - yourself may not only be better spent other ways, but also may not provide the results you want.

Angkor Wat hit the tourist map in the early 1990s, when it became a World Heritage Site — but it is already the world's top - rated tourism destination, based on a combination of the number of reviews and what they say, according to TripAdvisor.

Steve Seelig, senior regulatory advisor at benefits consulting firm Willis Towers Watson, said that, of three changes related to executive compensation in the tax reform plan — the other two involve stock options and performance - based pay — it's the hit on tax - exempt executive compensation that is the most significant.

Katz has hit on a growing — if still small — market, says Darren Seifer, a food and beverage industry analyst for the New York City - based research firm NPD Group.

Foreign investors hit the brakes last December, shortly after the Harper government approved the Nexen and Progress deals and the prime minister warned that future takeovers in the oilsands by state - owned enterprises (SOEs) would be approved on only an exceptional basis.

Revenue has hit $ 1 billion on an annualized basis, and Houston says the company is generating a profit, excluding interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization.

The number of Perth - based technology companies pursuing a listing on the ASX this year has hit 10, with Dreamscape Networks due to list in coming days after raising $ 25 million and Secure2Go kicking off its capital raising this week.

In his third at bat he got hit by a pitch, but was later doubled off first base when he wandered a little too far from the bag on a line drive.

Shares in Perth - based online advertising business Tech Mpire rallied today on news the company had hit a revenue milestone of $ 25 million, but it was a different story for former high - flyer 1 - Page.

Besides being the host of the hit show, he is the author of Raise the Bar: An Action - Based Method for Maximum Customer Reactions, appears as an expert on numerous news outlets, and has released online courses to help hospitality entrepreneurs build their business, overcome obstacles and find success.

That would cushion the lending banks from shattering hits, and could be combined with a modification of austerity based on longer working lives, a step most countries, including the United States, are going to have to take.

In this excerpt from «The Song Machine: Inside The Hit Factory,» author John Seabrook describes the night of February 8, 2009, when singer Rihanna left a pre-Grammy party with then - boyfriend singer Chris Brown, based on a police officer's account in an affidavit.

Based on our foot traffic intelligence covering over 50 million users a month, we predicted Apple iPhone 6s sales, a hit Q4 for McDonald's all - day breakfast, and a tough Q1 for Chipotle.

The fourth riskiest thing you can do is hit fast - food restaurants on a daily basis and watch too much TV.

Based on a market valuation of US$ 50 to US$ 104 billion (at the high end), check out how rich Mark Zuckerberg, Bono and others will be when Facebook hits the open market.

Ryan's home state of Wisconsin would be hit by proposed European counter-measures on Milwaukee - based Harley - Davidson.

The consensus among Wall Street analysts is that Amazon shares can hit $ 1,123 in the next 12 months, based on Bloomberg data.

Troy Resources has become the latest Perth - based miner to take a financial hit on the back of a softer gold price, reporting a half - year net loss of $ 6.8 million.

He batted.319 with an On - Base Percentage of.413 and a 1.008 OPS (On - Base plus Slugging) and hit 29 home runs with 87 RBIs.

That may be down about 1 % year - over-year, but it still keeps the industry on track to hit an annual rate of 17.3 million vehicles based on the first five months of the year.

While the bank isn't seeking to hit a specific target at the moment, it is hoping to increase its percentage of LGBT employees, which it plans to track on a monthly, quarterly, and annual basis.

Drug giant Johnson & Johnson has been hit with a $ 417 million verdict in the latest trial focusing on alleged links between talc - based products like its Johnson's Baby Powder, use by many for feminine hygiene, and ovarian cancer.

On a reported basis, L'Oreal sales were down 1 percent in the first quarter at 6.78 billion euros ($ 1.23 billion), reflecting the hit from foreign exchange effects.

Fetisov told CNBC that the U.S. - Russian relationship hit a «low point» purely based on a «poor perception» of Russia.

«The fact that the U.S. Treasury rolled out secondary sanctions and also hit some big name oligarchs (are) the real game changing events, which I think risks re-pricing Russia risk on a more permanent basis,» Ash said.

When I asked about his confidence in Rovio being able to create a largely unrelated hit based on a similar character — given that Super Mario was based on Donkey Kong — he expressed ignorance of that basic gaming history.

The latter announced on Wednesday morning that its monthly average user base hit the 700 million mark, up by more than 100 million in just the last four months.