Sentences with phrase «pitcher who»

What does a professional ball player have to do to become a threat at the plate, a pitcher who can throw a ball as fast as one can drive a car, or a fielder to make that impossible flying catch in the outfield?

The visiting team had a young fireball pitcher who could throw the ball 110 miles per hour.

A Chicago Tribune article about the lawsuit noted that a Montana jury awarded $ 850,000 in 2009 to the family of a youth league pitcher who was struck and killed by a line drive hit off an aluminum bat.

Most recently, a New York appellate court ruled this week that a college baseball pitcher who was struck in the face by a batted ball during batting practice could not sue his school because he assumed the risk of injury.

In a post today, Abnormal Use writes that things were beginning to look bleak for H&B following these cases and another high - profile settlement last month in which H&B and other defendants agreed to pay $ 14.5 million to settle a lawsuit filed by a pitcher who was severely injured by a batted ball.

On December 9, 2011, another case went against Hillerich & Bradsby when a jury awarded $ 951,000 to the family of Dillon Yeaman, a 15 - year - old pitcher who suffered severe facial injuries when he was struck by a batted ball in a game.

In 2009, for example, a Montana jury awarded $ 850,000 to the family of a pitcher who was struck and killed by a ball struck by an aluminum bat made by defendant Hillerich & Bradsby Co., the manufacturer of Louisville Slugger bats.

He played for a long time, won a lot of games, but he was the kind of pitcher who, as knuckleball pitchers tend to be, are invited on the roster.

It follows the trials of Eijun Sawamura, a left - handed pitcher who... [Read more...]

It follows the trials of Eijun Sawamura, a left - handed pitcher who strives to become the ace of his team.

The use of Tommy John surgery, the corrective procedure developed 40 years ago and named after the pitcher who pioneered it, has skyrocketed.

In 1957 San Francisco, 10 - year - old Katy Gordon is an ace pitcher who makes a Little League team while disguised as a boy, only to be told she's ineligible when the coach discovers she's a girl.

Maybe something from Christy Mathewson (the great and universally respected Hall Of Fame former pitcher who was one of the reporters who suspected the fix) or Eddie Collins, arguably the greatest second baseman of all - time and one of the clean Sox, he's depicted as nothing but a jerk in the movie.

Hopper Gibson (a very good Johnny Simmons, «The Stanford Prison Experiment») is a young, hotshot pitcher who has lost his groove.

Hopper Gibson Jr. (Johnny Simmons), a 19 - year - old pro baseball pitcher who's suffering from a case of the yips and currently serving a stint in the Minor Leagues, is having a generically tender - hearted phone conversation with his old high school coach.

He's like a pitcher who always keeps you guessing: curveballs, sliders, spitballs and sometimes a fast one right over the plate.

Jake Bradford (Blake Jenner) is a freshman baseball pitcher who arrives in September 1980 at Southeast Texas University, where he moves in with his future teammates and fraternity brothers.

In a way the film reminds me of Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck's Sugar (2008), the story of a Dominican pitcher who comes to the States to play professional baseball.

The story follows Blake Jenner (seen on «Glee») as the freshmen pitcher who «finds himself among a hard partying group of baseball players.

The story follows Blake Jenner («Glee») as the freshmen pitcher who «finds himself among a hard partying group of baseball players.»

They demote you, and that's exactly what happens to Hopper Gibson (Simmons), a rookie pitcher who gets demoted to the Little Leagues after completely losing his game.

Tommy John surgery, named after the former Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher who underwent the pioneering surgery more than 40 years ago, has since been performed on legions of pitchers at the professional and collegiate levels.

New York City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito slammed the Yankees for trading for a relief pitcher who has been accused of domestic violence.

You know when we go to a ballpark we heckle the pitcher who throws one bad pitch.

There is value to eating up innings, but a raise and faith of this magnitude for a pitcher who just saw his strikeout rate drop while his homer rate jumped is questionable, at best.

While the The Record had to connect the dots to find out that it was Familia, the Mets have already released a statement confirming that it is indeed their pitcher who was arrested for domestic violence.

Dallas Keuchel is looking a lot more like the ace that won the Cy Young in 2015 than the pitcher who authored the disappointing followup campaign.

Why would Milw want a 34.5 yo pitcher who had a 4.62 FIP last year and a 5.97 FIP this year?

The one premier pitcher who remained, Dennis Martinez, is unhappy with his contract and threatened his own personal «lockout» this spring.

If you pro rate his home stats over a year, he was the worst pitcher who started 25 + games.

If they do decide to sell, though, there will be no lack of suitors for the pitcher who just might be this winter's Max Scherzer, a free agent capable of pulling in over $ 200 million.

Taller than any pitcher who has ever appeared in a Major League Baseball game.

They have one pitcher who might end up getting surgery that would keep him from throwing at all for at least six weeks, and another who is experiencing enough discomfort because of a reported bone spur that he was lit up on Monday.

A guy who keeps the drives alive with underneath passes, and a pitcher who is comfortable with that scheme.

There might not be a pitcher who's more fun to watch.

In the series A History of the LOOGY, published in 2005, Hardball Times writer Steve Treder defined a «hard - core LOOGY» as a lefthanded relief pitcher who appears in at least 20 games in a season and averages less than one inning and fewer than 0.2 saves per game.

Moya looks like a pitcher who can contribute in a major league bullpen right away; Murphy was hitting poorly for a Triple - A catcher, much less someone who belongs on a major league roster.

They traded even more for a pitcher who isn't likely to be much better than the one they traded away for Prado, and they spent money on a first baseman who can't really play first base.

My arm would get so weak I felt like a pitcher who had gone too many innings.

Jersey City has had minor league baseball teams intermittently since 1878 and has fielded some noteworthy players, such as George Stovey, a black pitcher who won 35 games in 1886, and George (Twinkletoes) Selkirk, the Yankee who was nicknamed after a Jersey show girl.

Jeff Bagwell was one of baseball's greatest sluggers, someone who will eternally terrify any pitcher who remembers what it was like to face him.

• Vida Blue, Oakland - based pitcher who has signed with the A's after playing with the Giants last year: «It's great to work on this side — those daily bridge tolls to San Francisco were killing me.»

But it took the Yankees coming over the top with a young, cost - controlled pitcher who had already proven his worth in the major leagues to get a trade done.

The article I read said he pitched way too many innings for a young pitcher who'd had T.J. Surgery.

It's hard to imagine two pros more unalike than DonaldHall, the poet, and Dock Ellis (right), the pitcher who once wore curlers inthe Pirates» clubhouse.

Johnson is a 26 - year - old pitcher who has made two starts for the White Sox this season.

Miller's choice for a breakthrough candidate is the pitcher who seemed most broken in» 95.

«He's a pitcher who wants the ball, who'll come out on two days» rest.

He's of the opinion that this is an unwritten rule, and I am very much into this question: Is it poor form to bunt against a pitcher who can't field his position well?

For some reason, though, I'm hoping that Chen is more than that, a pitcher who serves as sort of a baseline for interesting and competent.