Sentences with phrase «pickoff throws»

Consider Jon Lester, who famously didn't like making pickoff throws to first base.

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.

Two years ago Gary Sheffield of the Dodgers was leading off first base when Michael Barrett, the Expos» catcher, chucked a pickoff throw into the outfield.

They still have a crowd that boos when the other team makes a pickoff throw in a tense moment.

Johnson, who is 6» 10», has encountered more than the usual problems of inexperience: In a game this spring, catcher Dave Valle fired a pickoff throw to second; Johnson reached out and caught it.