Sentences with phrase «over umpire»

Typically being a good over umpire means calling a very tight strike zone, and it will be interesting to see if that zone beings to expand at all in his third season.

Suspended Two T - ball coaches, for their part in an Aug. 28 brawl in which nearly two dozen adults stormed the field during a Miami Friends Baseball Association game and began fighting over an umpire's call as the four - and five - year - old players watched.

Even so, there are no shortage of profitable over umpires.

While it is true that you don't want to see players just walking all over umpires, there's a better way to do that than giving a player the quick hook — especially when the player didn't verbally argue balls and strikes.

Not exact matches

I will start by saying that I have been an umpire for over 20 years, umpired 100s of games from Little League to Junior College and I would guess that I have made an obstruction call in less than 1 % of those games.

The point of playing armchair umpire over David as mercenary and king is to blow the whistle when one catches this rogue being unforgivably forgiven by God.

Little Fred Patek, the 5» 4» shortstop of the Kansas City Royals, blew his low - level top recently at American League umpires, all of whom tower over the tiny shortstop.

The tables below display the five most profitable umpires for home teams, road teams, overs and unders since the start of the 2005 season.

Third base umpire Quinn Wolcott put up the protective gear to take over behind the plate in relief of Emmel.

However, if we got rid of umpire complaining LL would lose over 33 % of the game thread comments so I say go at it.

Matches on all other courts were put on hold, but Williams was in the middle of a major rally, and the chair umpire decided to let the match go on, despite the players» clear trepidation over the condition of the court.

Pitchers, hitters, totals, etc can all be affected by umpires so we track the home / away records and over / under records for every one.

Just over a week ago in this space, we used our Bet Labs software to determine which umpires have been the most profitable for home teams.

Eventually coaches are selected, umpires signed and teams picked by parents in a draft, not by kids hand over hand on a bat handle.

My research found that the under has gone 14,265 - 13,847 (50.7 %) over the past 12 seasons, and Ron Kulpa has been the top under umpire over that stretch.

As an example, umpires with tight strike zones are beneficial for over bettors, while umpires with large strike zones are beneficial for under bettors.

That said, there is no shortage of umpires who have been highly lucrative for visitors and overs.

The tables below, which utilize closing lines from Pinnacle, display the five most profitable active umpires for home teams, road teams, underdogs, favorites, overs and unders since the start of the 2005 season.

Following the Yankees 4 - 3 win over the Cleveland Indians on Tuesday night, home - plate umpire...

The way that Cutch moped around through slumps and never was overly vocal, coupled with the way that Cole always seemed ticked off at umpires, his defense and the umpires, the team over the last two seasons didn't seem to have a leader on the field.

The breaking point seemed to come at 11 - 10, when Nadal appealed to the umpire's chair that he was being blinded by the sun setting over the sheen Wimbledon roof.

Upset over «escalating verbal attacks» on its members, the World Umpires Association issued a statement and wore white wristbands in protest across Major League Baseball games on Saturday.

After giving up a game - tying grand slam to Toronto's George Bell in 1986, a frustrated Righetti took a new ball from the umpire and hurled it more than 300 feet over the rightfield fence at Exhibition Stadium.

His coach, Terry Thompson, has had a running argument with umpires over the number of warmup pitches Butz is allowed.

Baseball Handicapping - Umpires Pitchers - Over the years our posting forums have seen some of the sharpest bettors and bookmakers offer their expertise on various subjects.

The tables below show the five most profitable active umpires in our database since 2005 for home and road teams as well as for overs and unders.

She's learned over and over again, through bad calls by umpires, intentionally being hit by pitchers, and being used as the # 2 man on the bench to push (threaten) the # 1 man on the field to excel to HIS / HER potential, that life's not fair.

Last Thursday, Judge Richard G. Kopf of the United States District Court, District of Nebraska, announced he would cease blogging at «Hercules and the umpire,» the personal — and popular — blog he had maintained for over two years.

Over on The Volokh Conspiracy, Jim Lindgren writes that he doesn't think Roberts» umpire analogy is as simple as it seems:

Represented party in reinsurance dispute concerning payment by reinsurer of share of settlement of coverage dispute related to underlying asbestos - related claims; issues included dispute over appointment of umpire for arbitration.

Richard George Kopf, who blogs about life as a federal trial judge over at Hercules and the Umpire, did an interesting thought experiment in relation to this case where he wondered if it was appropriate to use a peremptory strike of a juror if that juror is ugly and your client doesn't want ugly people on the jury or the case is somehow related to physical beauty.

There's an interesting discussion in the comments over at Hercules and the Umpire as to whether a possible solution to this problem, rather than expanding the protected class definition, is to simply get rid of peremptory challenges altogether.

Umpires, referees, and other sports officials preside over competitive athletic or sporting events to help maintain standards of play.

Over the years, he has dedicated his time to the Foothills Lutheran Church, while volunteering with his children's various sporting activities by coaching, refereeing, and umpiring.