Sentences with phrase «pitch for the baseball»

He plays center field and pitches for the baseball team, and the major league scouts faithfully attend every game.

Or maybe he can pitch for the baseball team.

With instant and accurate feedback, suddenly an athlete has a number to work with, and the ability to instantly see what motions in the fundamentals «'' whether it's pitching for baseball and softball or a serve in volleyball «'' are working or not.

Not exact matches

For more esoteric items such as baseball pitching machines and cricket bats, the market is less competitive so retailers may be able to retain a significant portion of the savings and prices will take longer to adjust.

South Florida high school baseball standouts that play for USA national teams, which all won international titles this year, will be honored before first pitch to the Miami Marlins game on Saturday at Marlins Park.

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Because the game of baseball requires a pitcher and a catcher, and life has been pitching and catching for billions of years.

My ball playing days are long over since the only baseball that is available for old girls like me is slow pitch and I am terrible at that.

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.

Pick any of the pitches, any of them at all, and realize that baseball allows for runs to score in completely nonsensical ways.

He's the best arm they've had in a long time, though, and you have to root for pitching prospects who get drafted into the worst pitching environment in baseball.

Superb pitching by two great masters, airtight defensive baseball and the use of all the wiles and stratagems that either team possessed made the fifteen - inning contest yesterday merely a resumption of the hostilities between Washington and Philadelphia that raged for months last year.

Presumably the old Acme Packers may have helped push some Acme knockwurst, but even with Bo Belinsky pitching for them an IBM baseball team could hardly be expected to sell a 1401 computer.

Baseball was a little harder for him to figure out with some of the controls those early games had for fielding, but he knew how to pitch enough to offset that.

Harvey's Legacy Harvey Haddix, who died of emphysema last week at age 68, will forever be remembered for the 12 innings of perfect baseball he threw for the Pittsburgh Pirates on May 26, 1959, arguably the best - pitched game in history.

Smith sometimes took four pitches to warm up for a save, but he needed six years to warm up to baseball.

«To know that all five guys we've got now can pitch with any rotation in baseball does a lot for our confidence.

So it goes for the embattled pitch - free intentional walk, the gimmick that will save us a minute in every other baseball game, while getting rid of so much.

That fact is bittersweet: Smoltz is delighted to have pitched for only one big league club but saddened that the economics of baseball have driven off his playmates.

And the more and more I look at the Twins, the more I think about Santana and Santiago being quality pitchers with one of the best pitching prospects in baseball behind them, with Sano breaking out and Kepler continuing to progress, with Buxton still having the world's greatest building blocks for continued baseball success, with players like Dozier, who can be a star, and players Grossman and Escobar, who have each contributed something over the last couple seasons.

Rated by Baseball America as the best pitching prospect in 2003, Foppert broke into the Giant's starting rotation in 2003 and was traded in 2005 to the Mariners along with Yorvit Torrealba for Randy Winn.

Services include baseball classes for hitting, pitching, catching, base running, infield and outfield defense, speed / agility / strength training, and teaching the mental aspect of baseball.

PREPARING LEGENDS BASEBALL CAMP FEATURES Pitching Instruction Learn proper mechanics to help avoid injury and improve efficiency Hitting Instruction Learn mechanics, pitch selection, and mental preparation Defense and Base Running Individual and group instruction Intrinsic Motivation Identify and develop the ability to motivate from within Goal Setting Learn our formula for success as it pertains to baseball and life Nutrition for Performance Learn the impact nutrition plays in your performance Speed, Agility and Core Strengthening A key for baseball perBASEBALL CAMP FEATURES Pitching Instruction Learn proper mechanics to help avoid injury and improve efficiency Hitting Instruction Learn mechanics, pitch selection, and mental preparation Defense and Base Running Individual and group instruction Intrinsic Motivation Identify and develop the ability to motivate from within Goal Setting Learn our formula for success as it pertains to baseball and life Nutrition for Performance Learn the impact nutrition plays in your performance Speed, Agility and Core Strengthening A key for baseball perbaseball and life Nutrition for Performance Learn the impact nutrition plays in your performance Speed, Agility and Core Strengthening A key for baseball perbaseball performance

Some will tell of last year's Legion baseball championship in Ransom when Mike batted 3 for 5 and pitched a seven - hit game to win the title.

On Sept. 4, to the cheers of fellow inmates wishing him well, Dennis Dale McLain, 43, walked out of the Federal Correctional Institution in Talladega, Ala., where he had just finished serving almost as many months in prison (29 1/2) as games he had won pitching (31) for the Detroit Tigers in 1968 — the year he was the dominant player in baseball, the American League's Most Valuable Player and winner of its Cy Young Award.

One practice per week for each team will be held at a local high school or city park, with a second practice each week being held at an indoor baseball facility to focus on small group instruction for hitting, pitching, and catching.

BASEBALL — JAPAN, with Masahiro Miyahara, a 104 - pound right - hander, pitching a three - hitter, won the Little League World Series in Williamsport, Pa. for the first time in the 21 - year history of the tournament, as the West Tokyo team defeated Roseland North of Chicago 4 - 1 in the final game.

It might be noted that Botham, pondering baseball on a recent occasion, allowed that he would find pitching alien, pointing out that the grass is a vehicle for his delivery as much as his arm or his hand — the cricket ball is bounced to the batsman.

Paige pitched one of his best games as a Marlin, in a repurposed stadium that wasn't meant for baseball.

He is a living example of how hard pitching is a proxy for how baseball works and how it doesn't.

Eventual champion El Toro also had a Mr. Baseball finalist in 12 - 1 pitcher Jake Jackson, but for Jackson to have been a more serious contender to the other three he would have had to have had solid hitting totals in addition to the pitching.

Physically, I can still go downhill skiing and pitch baseballs for exercise.

Packing a yummy lunch fast makes me as happy as... when I see the smile on the face of my son after he pitched for the first time on his third grade baseball team!

And a pitching machine is an inexpensive way for kids to put in some more baseball practice (batting or fielding).

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In 2007 Little League Baseball dropped its decades - old pitching rules - which limited pitchers age 12 and under to six innings per week and six innings per game, with the number of innings increasing for older age groups - in favor of rules based on pitch count.

The new rules were hailed by Dr. James Andrews, medical director of the American Sports Medicine Institute in Birmingham, Alabama and perhaps the world's foremost authority on pitching injuries and so - called «Tommy John» elbow reconstructive surgery, as the «most important injury prevention step ever initiated in youth baseball - certain to serve as the youth sports injury prevention cornerstone and inspiration for other youth organizations to take the initiative to get serious about injury prevention in youth sports.»

Clint Hoover, a longtime club coach at Lamorinda Baseball Academy, asks his scorekeepers to tabulate pitches for both teams, and he's seen 12 - year - old opponents throw 130 in a single weekend.

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Danielle Gelish, 3, can't wait to join Island Park Little League, which received youth baseball and softball equipment, donated by Philadelphia - based nonprofit Pitch In For Baseball, to replace items lost after superstorbaseball and softball equipment, donated by Philadelphia - based nonprofit Pitch In For Baseball, to replace items lost after superstorBaseball, to replace items lost after superstorm Sandy.

The governor praised the two new legislative leaders for stepping up, comparing them to baseball rookies who arrived in the 7th inning, and told they had to pitch.

We learn to play baseball, for instance, not by flailing a bat at fastballs until we hit one but via education: We are shown how to knock Wiffle balls off a tee and then to swing at easy lofts until we're ready for a real pitch.

Though Move is designed for Pilates, Darmour imagines extending the system to other sports where body placement is paramount: a golf swing, or a pitch in baseball, for example.

As the number of overuse injuries continues to rise in young baseball players, safe pitching guidelines — which focus on proper warm up exercises; maximum play time and pitch counts; recommended rest periods; appropriate ages for learning various types of pitches; and not playing on multiple teams, year round or on consecutive days — are being integrated into play at many of the nation's 200,000 youth baseball teams, ideally with a firm, cooperative commitment from coaches, parents / caregivers and players.

Just as spring is the time for getting outside — finally — to enjoy blooming flowers and baseball pitches, it's also a time of misery for allergy suffers.

Just as spring is the time for getting outside to enjoy blooming flowers and baseball pitches, it's also a time of misery for allergy sufferers.

For example, during the follow through of a baseball pitch, the involved muscle groups must provide important decelerative contractions to preserve healthy arthrokinematics (joint functioning).

Well, I play in a men's baseball league for guys that do not want to throw in the towel by playing slow pitch softball.

Basic to advanced strategy and pro baseball tips for hitting, fielding, pitching, catching, and so much more Frequency about 1 post per month.

Basic to advanced strategy and pro baseball tips for hitting, fielding, pitching, catching, and so much more Frequency about 1 post per month.