Sentences with phrase «pitching in a baseball game»

well that and it's a shame to see Casilla pitching in a baseball game at all.

As the father of four boys who spends more time on youth baseball fields then any other adult in the United States, I was a bit dismayed to read about a 17 - year - old pitcher in Prince George's County, Md. who fractured his right arm while throwing a pitch in a baseball game — and then somehow obtained a $ 52,703 jury verdict against the tournament organizer for building a mound that was «too big and too deep.»

Not exact matches

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.

Danny Litwhiler, onetime outfielder in the National League, now Florida State University baseball coach, hit seven home runs in seven tournament games depite a broken hand, sparked his Tallahassee, Fla. team to the state slow - pitch softball title.

He overcame a depressing physical disability that manifested itself in spring training (he had to pack his elbow in ice after each game during the season) and spread - eagled baseball as he pitched the Dodgers to the world championship.

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.

This is the book on baseball's best pitcher: If he isn't being rained out or out being arraigned or in some other way prevented from pitching, you can consider the game over before the first out has been made.

The regular White Sox lineup is one of the most impressive in baseball — they can hit (well), run (very well) and field (beautifully), and the big - three pitching staff of Pierce, Harshman and Donovan will win a lot of games.

But baseball starts almost every play in the game with a pitch (much like tennis starts every play with a serve), while plays in basketball originate in a variety of ways, and there is a constant and rapid change from offense to defense that can not be avoided.

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.

The pitching got better after the Boston Braves and Brooklyn Robins passed the tough 17th inning of the longest game in all baseball history

That is why the Little League Baseball and Softball organization has established maximum pitch counts, or limits on the number of throws a pitcher can make in a game, and how many days of rest pitchers need between the days that they pitch.

Indeed, the whole town habitually mobilizes as if it were going to war when a sports project is under way, and there are countless stories about the Jaycees building baseball bleachers and the Jaycees, the Lions and the American Legion playing benefit games to buy a new P. A. system and whole platoons of town fathers pitching in to carve a sleek new baseball diamond out of a rocky pasture.

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.

In his scrap - book there are yellowed clippings from days when Mike Peterson was a mere wisp of a child who still could lead the local midgets to a state baseball title by pitching the same game he won with a two - run homer.

A yoga instructor threw out the first - pitch before a Lamigo Monkeys and Brother Elephants baseball game, and unlike every ceremonial first - pitch in the United States, the woman didn't keep her shirt on to toss the pitch.

Prior to taking over the office as baseball's latest commissioner, Manfred worked alongside Selig in introducing the pitch clock, as well as creating ways of speeding up and modernizing the game.

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.

Despite playing in arguably the most competitive division in baseball and possessing neither a potent offense (18th in baseball in runs scored) nor an elite pitching staff (11th in baseball in team ERA), Baltimore is 10 games above.500.

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.

Minor League Baseball has had a pitch clock in place since 2015, and there hasn't been any kind of mass revolt against attending MiLB games.

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

I don't expect miracles from a backup, but watching him play QB reminds me of those baseball games that go deep into extras and the teams run out of pitching and end up putting the shortstop on the mound because he pitched a little in high school.

It's far too early to be thinking about which pitching matchups you might want to see or anything like that, but you'll be able to get a baseball fix by watching any of these four day games, and that's something in itself.

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«I support Congressman Rangel; I support his re-election bid,» Paterson said this morning a press conference in Albany's Lincoln Park after he threw out the first pitch at the American Little League of Albany vs. Garden City Bombers Baseball Club Tee Ball Game.

One used this analogy: Sometimes, late in a baseball game, an able third baseman is brought in to pitch.

Agricultural economist Marshall Burke and his colleagues conducted a meta analysis of 60 previous studies that looked at climatic events and their link to human conflict, including the fall of the Mayan Empire, civil conflicts in Africa, ethnic clashes in India, road rage in the U.S. and even the type of pitches thrown during Major League Baseball games when temperatures rise.

Proposed rule changes by Major League Baseball, designed to speed up the game by reducing time between pitches, could lead to a spike in arm injuries as players have less time to recover between throws, say researchers who have analyzed the impact of fatigue.

I catch you in my thoughts and write my pitch in an infinite game of baseball.

If you spend all your time practising bunting, there is no time left to practise hitting, fielding, and pitching which matter far, far more in the game of baseball.

There's plenty of good In case you needed confirmation that John and Chrissy's baby is cooler than you, Luna threw the first pitch at a baseball game on Tuesday.

For example, in my book, Jake pitches a perfect game, a tremendous achievement for a baseball pitcher.

For instance, major league baseball players don't see their first pitch in a game.

Pippin Barr goes «Strolling in the Zen Game Garden» and is inspired to consider strolling casually through video games more often: «What would it feel like to play Baseball Stars for the NES and to think about the smooth swing of the bat, the greenness of the field, the beauty in the curve of a pixellated pitch?

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Somewhat like baseball statistics — you know: «the longest game ever played during rain in the twilight pitched by a left - hander from Cleveland»; that sort of thing — stats about her are being developed.

Frieden, an IP lawyer at Odin Feldman Pittleman in Fairfax, Va., pitches us a brief history of and primer on the game of baseball as he takes us on a tour of the week's legal blog postings.

So the practice sessions for the baseball players that didn't know the pitch mirrored what they would face in the game.