Sentences with phrase «pitch fastball»

I have selected the new cover for my children's book, Don't Throw Albert Pujols a First - Pitch Fastball There, Dummy, in which I use a classic Goofus / Gallant setup to praise smart kids and excoriate dumb ones.

«But for the most part, he keeps hitters in the big part of the ballpark by jumping ahead with a first - pitch fastball and throwing strikes whenever and wherever he wants.

This was a second - pitch fastball.

Yeah, he hit first pitch fastballs.

I played four years of basketball and pitched fastball on the boys» team.

Not exact matches

For example: An 86 - mph fastball down the middle seems like a 92 - mph pitch to the hitter when you throw it up and in; likewise, it can seem like an 80 - mph pitch when you throw it down and away.

Ohtani hit triple digits with his fastball eight times on Tuesday, including four pitches clocking in at 101 mph.

As pitching coach Rob Friedman pointed out on Twitter, used together, Ohtani's fastball and splitter are absolutely soul - crushing.

I have tried with a couple teams and just how terrible I am at slow pitch threatened to erase all the years I played fastball and wasn't half bad.

McCullers just hit Justin Turner with a pitch again, this time in the back, and the Astros» right - hander can not throw a fastball inside with any kind of command whatsoever.

He belted Marshall's first pitch, a not - so - sneaky fastball, into those riotous bleachers, and the 1974 baseball season was, for all practical purposes, over.

On a full count pitch, Thames took a inside fastball and fouled it off his mug.

Joe Rudi, a thinking man's hitter, observed all this and, reasoning that Marshall's arm would not be warm, concluded that the pitcher would eschew a breaking pitch in the hope of sneaking a fastball past him.

By my eyes, batters are seeing more breaking pitches, so they're expecting them, and so the fastball in odd counts is catching them off guard.

He has baseball's best pitch right now — a fastball that does what he wants.

The righty's 97.5 average fastball velocity was the second best in all of baseball among pitchers who threw at least 80 IP in 2017, and with a change - up that's a full 10 mph slower, he's got a devastating strikeout pitch to match it.

Even if the Rockies are telling him to pitch to contact, his mid-90s fastball and devastating slider won't allow it.

But if he figures out how to make that fastball work for him, if he finally has that breakout season that everyone's been predicting for years, he'll a) be the hottest commodity at the trade deadline, and b) pitch himself into a ludicrous offseason deal.

What we see might be what we get, and what we're seeing is about 600 innings of league - average pitching, with imperfect command and a much lower strikeout rate than his mid-90s fastball suggests.

They Said It Reggie Jackson, when asked how fast Seaver's pitches were: «Blind people came to the game just to listen to his fastball.»

Although he is capable of an occasional 90 - plus - mph fastball, Honeycutt is most effective when he keeps his pitches in the 80 - to 85 - mph range.

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.

Adam Wainwright looked absolutely gassed in the postseason last year, pitching backwards, curveball - first, because he wasn't sure if his fastball would go where he wanted, as fast as he wanted.

Through Sunday, Hutchinson had a 23 - 9 collegiate pitching record, including an 8 - 3 mark in 1998, and his fastball had been clocked at 97 mph.

Hopefully Burrows can work on that in Erie, because that fastball likely won't carry him in MLB without a complimentary pitch or 2, like a change - up and a slider.

«If I throw 100 pitches in a game, I'll probably throw as many as 70 fastballs, unless it's a night when I have a great changeup,» Glavine says.

A classic, power breaking pitch that Braves righthander Smoltz throws as hard as most pitchers» fastballs.

They throw their breaking ball so much that it's almost like their fastball is their off - speed pitch.

«He has all the pitches,» says Connors of his fastball, curve, changeup repertoire.

It's especially lethal to righthanded batters because the pitch appears to be a fastball until it snaps down and away as it nears the plate.

For at least 10 years the trendiest trick pitch has been the split - finger fastball.

Once when he was coaching third for the baby Blue Jays and Jim Palmer of the Orioles was pitching to John May - berry, Max shouted «Fastball!»

A college pitcher with more mph on the fastball but lesser secondary pitches?

Basically, I knew what he would like me to hit — his fastball, which tails away and, if he's right, is his best pitch.

Fastball is his money pitch.

The Cubs are the sixth organization he's played for in five years, an odyssey that began when Oakland, frustrated by his inability to develop another quality pitch to go with his fastball, gave up on him in» 96, when his career record was 18 - 29.

He shakes his head when he thinks of Marichal: «When he's at the prime of his game he throws a good fastball, a good screwball, a good changeup, a good slider, a good you - have - it... and obviously the elimination system can't work; you can't just throw out five or six different pitches in the hope of seeing the one you want; the odds of seeing it would be too much against the batter.»

The first pitch Hunter threw to him in the ninth was a high fastball.

So I set myself mentally for that one pitch I knew he'd rely on — his fastball.

It had been nine pitches since he saw his last fastball.

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.

The effort to ramp up the fastball, though, led to a four - pitch walk, just the seventh four - pitch walk Johnson had drawn in his career.

After nine straight offspeed pitches, in an offspeed count, Lawrie was looking for the fastball.

The important thing is to time the fastball and be ready for it when he throws it on the next pitch.

Lawrie wasn't looking for a fastball on the outside edge, then he wasn't looking for a hanging breaking ball, and finally, he was beat by an excellent pitch.

In the pros, speed is fetishized by teams and fans alike, the reading on each pitch displayed right alongside the score in the corner of the TV, a CG flame occasionally flaring up when a fastball reaches the high - 90s or low - 100s.

As you probably have heard, Greenberg was hit in the head with a 92 mph fastball during the first and only pitch of his MLB career.

Nelson already reaches the high 80s regularly and has good command of all four of his pitches — fastball, slider, changeup, and fork ball — which are made even harder to hit by his tall frame.

He has two pitches that can strike you out: a 95 - plus fastball and a great curve.

He challenged Bonds with a 2 - and - 0 fastball in the upper half of the strike zone, the 17th pitch in that sequence.