Sentences with phrase «on both batted balls»

Statcast is based on batted ball data and hit probability, so it certainly has as many merits as UZR / 150.

Not exact matches

Whereas most hitters would send a ball dribbling into the infield on a broken bat, Harper instead lifted his a whopping 406 feet over the wall in right - center at Citifield.

When your playing a silly game with a bat and ball you bring him out, you thank him when you move a pig skin across a line, you stamp his name on my currency, you tell my children about him in our public schools, you trot him out like a prized pig at a fair anytime something good or bad or even mediocre happens, and even when you stub your toe.

Finally, in 1913, McGraw sent Faust out to pitch an inning of limp «nothing - ball» against Cincinnati, and when three outs were later made before Faust's chance to bat, the Reds stayed on the field for a fourth out.

If all the comments on belief blog were a cartoon there would be a Scotsman (not a true one), there would be a straw man on fire, and there would be Hitler (for the Hitler card) and the three of them would be used as tennis balls being batted back and forth between the opposing sides.

Corey Seager breaks his bat on a ground ball — Morton had to avoid the bat, as it went to the side of the mound he falls off of — and the Astros end the threat while allowing only the one run.

With some help with batting average on balls in play, he can be an excellent bat off the bench.

Except Clifton himself fumbled at the MTSU 16, and the ball got batted around a bit before another Arkansas State player fell on it for a touchdown, 98 yards or so from where Middle Tennessee's Tucker maybe caught the ball a few moments earlier.

On May 31, in his first at bat after missing more than a year with back and hamstring injuries, Indians rightfielder Juan Gonzalez (left) strained his right hamstring while running out a ground ball and wound up back on the DOn May 31, in his first at bat after missing more than a year with back and hamstring injuries, Indians rightfielder Juan Gonzalez (left) strained his right hamstring while running out a ground ball and wound up back on the Don the DL.

Then there was number 6: a 438 - foot blast at Coors Field on a 23 ¬ ∫ afternoon in April, a missile that according to hittrackeronline.com left Gattis's bat at 112.1 mph, the second - hardest - hit ball in Colorado this season.

A. Nine: hit, walk, error, forceout, fielder's choice (when the man on base is not forced out or not retired), hit by pitched ball, interference by catcher or other member of fielding team, missed third strike, and batted fair ball hitting a runner or umpire before it is touched by a fielder.

Milwaukee Shortstop Robin Yount caught the ball on the first - base side of second and swept down with his glove hand at Henderson, who was in the dirt now, crash - landing on his chest with his arms extended and his batting helmet flying off toward leftfield.

Desmond enlisted outfield coach Jayce Tingler to run him through as many as three one - on - one tutorials a day, and spent his new club's batting practice sessions power shagging — he'd field each ball at full speed instead of lazily snagging them, as most outfielders do.

Rollins is hitting into some bad luck, and not just with batting average on balls in play.

But under the rules all he can do is declare the runner out for being hit by a batted ball and put the hitter on first with a single... I hope I'm around when some real belligerent big league manager lets his boys try this dodge.

«The ball came right at me, just rising off the bat on a line.

A home run, though, is far preferable to any other kind of batted ball, on account of the thing where they give you a whole run for it.

The highlight of the game came when two Korean Little Leaguers pulled off Yasiel Puig - like bat - flips on fly ball outs.

Backswing reaches its conclusion, recoil sends the bat flying, and there's a dusting of air sex as Park sends the ball on its way.

«He's getting the bat on the ball.

His bat met the ball solidly, sending it on a gentle arc into the rightfield bleachers.

On May 2 the Marlins» Eric Ludwick tried to block a batted ball and fractured his throwing arm; he's expected to be out for three months.

Elsewhere, Yankees lefthander Andy Pettitte, who was hit in the face by a batted ball last season, has already been plunked twice this season — on his right knee and right leg.

George Springer isn't making things easy on Jansen, working a 3 - 2 count, and on the seventh pitch of the at - bat, he grounds a ball past Turner at third base for a two - out double.

His bat flashed like a cracking whip, launching the ball on a 418 - foot sortie into a maintenance tunnel in rightfield.

The inning starts with Gurriel unable to hold on to a ball at first, so Bellinger reaches on an error, and is at first with Puig up to bat.

He then lays the bat on the ground, and the fielder tries to hit the bat with the ball from the place he catches or runs down the ball.

Instead of three or four kids deciding on the spur of the moment — having between them a bat, ball and the inclination — to play knockout - and - laydown, Little League takes almost massive preparations.

Last year the Mets were the worst team in baseball by defensive efficiency -LRB-.667) and the worst team on batting average on balls in play -LRB-.322) while allowing more runs (863) than any team in franchise history except the infamous 1962 Mets.

The extra bats, balls and uniforms are still stored in the ceiling of the clubhouse, brought down by a clubhouse attendant on a ladder every day.

One might reasonably argue that McGwire's crimes were equivalent to those committed by all the future Hall of Famers who were hopped up on greenies in the»70s and»80... and were less egregious than those committed by all the ball - scuffers and bat - corkers who broke actual rules designed to ensure that everyone was playing the games fairly.

He put 59 of those into play, 10 for home runs — an alarming rate of solid, square contact by a rounded bat on a round ball.

On the ping of the bat she snared a two - hop shot, transferring ball from glove to hand in one fluid, fast motion and fired a strike to second baseman Karlee Sparacino to start an inning - ending double play.

Back on that nameless, soiled field, where I took my round of disreputable BP, the balls shot off the dirty bats with the force of a cannon, the pinging sound masking the peril.

It was just batting practice, 65 - mph stuff, but balls were jumping off his bat, which had GO BO engraved on the barrel.

Years ago in Vero Beach, Fla., spring home to the Los Angeles Dodgers, the shattering of an elderly woman's jaw by a foul ball could be heard at the batting cage; it sounded as if someone had stepped on an unopened bag of potato chips.

«We'd put all kinds of crap inside of them,» said Sparky, anything to give them some kind of extra juice, to make the trampoline effect more pronounced: Tennis balls, rubber balls, various weights on the handle or towards the top of the bat.

The first two days, they didn't get a bat on the ball, but by the time they had to face the female fireballer, her vaunted offerings looked like changeups, and she was quickly driven out of the box.

Just put the barrel of the bat on the ball.»»

It's a little tough to say for sure — especially given Buxton's batting average on balls in play is nearly.400 during these 55 games — but all the elements he needs to thrive are in place.

«Automatically, right off the bat, I rushed the ball, came up with it, took my time on the throw and was just glad it went where I wanted it to go.»

I know that you could give me a good breakdown on the advanced portions of what makes him more valuable than I am seeing — even in terms of batted ball profile and whatnot.

During stoppage time in Atlanta's 4 - 1 win over Vancouver on Saturday, Brad Guzan collided with Escobar while trying to bat a ball out of the penalty area.

When the ball isn't passed in basketball or a player isn't supported when batting, this type of player behavior is a telltale sign of friction on the team.

Grab your t - ball set or just a baseball bat, depending on your child's ability level.

Don't forget to stock up on balls, baseball bats and tees, footballs, soccer balls, golf clubs and small nets.

Whether it's a snap - in stroller base to take your infant along on family adventures or a batting helmet for your t - ball tyke, a lot of -LSB-...]

This is crazy: there is supposed to be an optimal space on every bat designed to make that ball fly high and long.

Just as our chiral hands can manipulate perfectly symmetrical objects — pens, bats, balls and so on — so the iron - sulphur protein l - rubredoxin, binds achiral metal ions.

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.»