Sentences with phrase «pitch at bat»

One of my favorite vignettes from the game was the inning where Kingery had the 9 pitch at bat.

Through five innings Baltimore had only a line drive single by Mussina, who capped a 10 - pitch at bat with his first hit since 1987, when he was playing for Montoursville (Pa.) High.

Not exact matches

In The Circle, Eggers doesn't so much take his best swing at technology as ignore its pitches entirely and chase after it with his bat.

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.

Things slowed down considerably after that, as Seager drew a walk in a nine - pitch at - bat, which brings up Justin Turner.

I am just hoping McMahon gets enough at bats to convince BB to play him against RH pitching at 1B.

At any point during the streak, a hitter could have swung at a pitch above his eyes, reached on a dribbler to third, advanced on a fielder's choice, and scored on a broken - bat looper just over the first basemaAt any point during the streak, a hitter could have swung at a pitch above his eyes, reached on a dribbler to third, advanced on a fielder's choice, and scored on a broken - bat looper just over the first basemaat a pitch above his eyes, reached on a dribbler to third, advanced on a fielder's choice, and scored on a broken - bat looper just over the first baseman.

His rating system is not concerned with pitching or fielding or the relative cleverness of managers; it is made solely to evaluate a player at bat in the clutch.

Nava became only the fourth player in major league history to hit a grand slam in his first at bat and the second to do it on the first pitch.

Springer is taking more work — he earns a 3 - 2 count on the seventh pitch of the at - bat, which pushes Tanaka to 71 on the evening.

Altuve ran the count full and sent the seventh pitch — a 94 - mph fastball — of the at - bat into the center - field standing room section.

1st at bat had runners at 1st and 2nd with no outs and he twice tried to bunt at terrible pitches putting him down in the count and proceeded to ground out into a double play.

If Gausman and Bundy can be reliable pitchers, if Cashner doesn't regress, if Cobb can pitch a sub - 4.00 ERA with half his games in hitter - friendly Camden Yards, if Tillman can have a huge comeback year, if the bullpen continues to be strong, if Brach can be a solid closer until Britton's return, if Davis and Trumbo can find their batting stroke again, if Mancini and Schoop replicate last season, if Manny continues to be Manny at short and with his improved swing, if Adam is still Adam, if Beckham can learn to play defense at 3rd and be August - Beckham instead of September - Beckham at the plate, if the catchers can somehow do their part, and if the O's figure out their right field situation (and all of that put together is one big IF).....

Baez attempted to bunt relatively late into the pitch, and jabbed at the pitch instead of letting the ball make contact with his bat.

Since intentional walks often come in high leverage situations, that brief pause to the game while they throw the four pitches has always got me super pumped for the next at bat and really sold how much of a threat the other team thought the current batter was compared to the next one — making it so much sweeter when the next guy defied the odds and got a hit anyway.

Transgressions: Yelling at opponents for breaking different unwritten rules that include, but are not limited to: flipping bats, being mad at just missing a pitch down the middle, staring at home runs, running the bases too slowly, popping gum incorrectly, preferring creamy peanut butter, looking like maybe thinking about staring at a home run one day.

«And on the next at bat he may hook a pitch that's two inches outside for a home run.»

This is the essence of Colby Lewis when he's right, an outside fastball with movement that's useless to a hitter in the first pitch of the at - bat.

Hawkins took Guillen to a full count, losing him on the seventh pitch of the at - bat, and 21st of the inning.

You can't exactly teach this technique — «Make sure you hang your second pitch of every at - bat, kids, they just won't be looking for it.

He had two separate 10 - pitch at - bats against Scott Baker in the same game.

He went 23 — 4 with a 2.07 ERA, won the pitching triple crown (wins, ERA and strikeouts), set a major league record with 13.2 strikeouts per nine innings, did not allow a home run in any of the 293 at bats against him with a runner on, permitted only three leadoff walks to score (he walked the first batter only six times in 213 1/3 innings) and struck out 37 % of all batters he faced.

It basically neutralizes Harper, because he's going to get junk (if they even pitch to him at all), if there's even one base open when he comes up to bat.

More than that, the third at - bat that ended on a very un-Kershaw pitch.

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.

Chris Taylor is doing his best to get that pitch total up, working a full count and pushing Verlander to seven pitches in this one at - bat.

«Hey,» Black told him at the batting cage before Game 1, «you're going to get pitches to hit.»

He's had some solid 9 and 10 pitch at - bats, he just needs to get better results at the end of said 9 and 10 pitch at - bats.

Then in Austin's next at bat, Kelly throws him an off speed pitch down.

Austin should have been hit with the 1st pitch of the next at bat.

«I was struggling to see the ball in my first at bat and the first couple of pitches,» Lucas said.

If Bryce Harper did half of the things Ortiz gets away with, he'd get drilled by a pitch before he left the on - deck circle in his next at - bat.

«He won't see a strike for four at bats, then on the 13th pitch he'll get something to hit, and he won't miss it.»

He was a large dinger boy back in his day, and it was fun to watch him swat at batting - practice pitches.

He was by then up to pitch 44 of the outing, and thoroughly smarting from TCU's extended at - bats.

Springer's second at - bat of the game doesn't go as well as the first, as he grounds out on the third pitch.

Most impressive part of the at - bat: When the 19 - year - old spit on the second and third pitches he ever saw in the majors, inside fastballs with good location that were designed to punish an overanxious hitter.

And remember WAR is a counting stat so if you are just looking at his batting WAR Ohtani has less PAs because of his pitching schedule.

Most impressive part of the at - bat: How Harper waited on a first - pitch, get - it - in curve and ripped it foul

Most big league managers believe that the approximately 60 at bats or 20 innings pitched that a player is afforded in the spring can't possibly provide a sufficient sampling of his skills.

Note: They tossed the first pitch of the at - bat into the dugout for safekeeping.

Something crazy like an 11 pitch at - bat and Kendrick was on every pitch.

Saltalamacchia hit 25 home runs last year in 405 at - bats, but hit just.222 and caught a Red Sox pitching staff that had a markedly unsuccessful year.

Unfortunately, the at - bat ended with Chamberlain drilling Jeter with a pitch, and Chamberlain feeling really bad about it.

Got to bat at AT&T park (5 pitches, struck out) in 2007.

He used to coach part time at West Los Angeles Little League, pitching batting practice to his son the morning after night games and hitting fungoes while wearing a cast when he broke his right hand.

The son - in - law went down the single line devoted to Stephen's two games in the bigs, in 1968, when he was a September call - up for the Minnesota Twins: one win, one loss, 4.76 ERA, 11 1/3 innings pitched, 11 hits, seven walks, four strikeouts, three at bats without a hit, one putout, two assists, one error.

He eventually struck out on a cutter, but it at least took six pitches — Morrow entered the at - bat having retired four batters on just nine of them.

Tanaka enters the fourth inning at 44 pitches, and retires Correa on a grounder to short on his third pitch of the at - bat.

Addison Russell leads off the fifth inning for the Cubs, and on the fourth pitch of the at - bat, hits a solo home run to left to put Chicago on the board.