Sentences with phrase «pickoff plays»

The diagrams showed pickoff plays, backing - up plays and rundowns.

The same pickoff plays and cutoffs were practiced.

Actually, Henderson has a remarkable 32 - for - 43 record on attempts to steal third, and of his total «caught - stealings,» 13 have come from pickoff plays.

While the new system is obviously popular among the younger players, most of the older Cubs, the established major leaguers, would rather wait before commenting («How many times during a season do you see the pickoff play work?»

Not exact matches

If baseball puts in a pitch clock, raises the strike zone, eliminates extensive mound visits, limits pitching changes, institutes a mercy rule, starts extra innings with a runner on second base, limits the number of pickoff throws, requires pitchers to face a minimum number of batters, limits defensive shifts, and institutes all sorts of other changes to speed the game up and improve quality of play, there might be improvements.