Sentences with phrase «place in baseball»

The Marlins are going to take their rightful place in the baseball universe, and the only thing to wonder is what took them so long.

It's not like the 2016 Chicago Cubs didn't face any pressure that made them reconsider their specific place in baseball purgatory.

Instant replay has a place in baseball, but only for home run calls.

To have this type of incident happen at any time or place in baseball is unacceptable, but to have it happen on as big a stage as the World Series should have the league even more concerned and diligent about recourse.

Not exact matches

The shooting took place as a GOP congressional baseball team was practicing in Alexandria, Virginia, ahead of a charity game between Republicans and Democrats scheduled for Thursday.

Usually found in one of four places: sales meeting, airplane, baseball field or basketball gym.

Watch parties popped up in places far more varied than just craft breweries in Brooklyn, with fans gathering everywhere from Hermosa Beach in California to a library in Birmingham, Ala., to the Tulsa Drillers» minor league baseball stadium in Oklahoma.

This time, the rampage happened at a high school in Broward County, Florida, but no place is safe — not baseball fields or movie theaters or concerts or even churches.

Furthermore, I would in NO WAY be ashamed to play baseball with my kids, any time, any place.

i also chose to use leeks in place of sweet onions mostly because i bought 3 leeks the size of baseball bats and needed to use them in something, but also because they're a perfect segue to spring!

Like Sadaharu Oh, baseball's all - time international home run leader, Schmidt holds a special place in basketball.

With an unproven baseball washout at QB (Weeden, who turns 28 in October, spent five years in the minors as a pitcher) and no clear No. 1 receiver last summer, Oklahoma State was tabbed for a fifth - place finish in the Big 12 South, allowing them to catch early opponents off guard.

I'd like to think that I would have been one of the enlightened champions of Robinson's rightful place in Major League Baseball, that if I were a writer back then, my typewriter would have spit out all sorts of fiery missives in support of him.

Ramirez probably won't be the second - best No. 5 hitter in baseball this year, but I'm also positive that Bogaerts won't be the 29th - best third - place hitter in baseball, either.

The Pirates are perhaps the saddest team in baseball (for multiple reasons), but not because of their inherent Piratesitude, but because expectations were so high in the first place.

Detroit was still in first place, but the student of baseball was beginning to nod his head knowingly.

Whether you're placing a wager, setting your fantasy football lineup or searching for value in your daily fantasy baseball contest, being the first to know about breaking injuries can be the difference between winning and losing.

There's baseball in strange, new places that haven't quite taken to it yet.

They've now played 19 innings of baseball, managed all of one run, and are in danger of not even qualifying for the 2021 World Baseball Classic — the team that finishes last in each pool is entered into the qualifying tournament that will take place baseball, managed all of one run, and are in danger of not even qualifying for the 2021 World Baseball Classic — the team that finishes last in each pool is entered into the qualifying tournament that will take place Baseball Classic — the team that finishes last in each pool is entered into the qualifying tournament that will take place in 2020.

Beneath its towering palms many leading trainers prepare their young trotters and pacers for the Grand Circuit, the touring series of prestige races primarily for 2 - and 3 - year - olds that gets into full swing in mid-June in places like Detroit, Lexington, Ky. and Saratoga, N.Y. Pompano is analogous to baseball's spring training camps: you get the athletes into shape in the South, then send them North for the regular season.

• Flaming Cincinnati Baseball fans in Cincinnati, burning with pennant fever for the first time in almost a decade, cast two and three ballots each to place five Redlegs on the National League All - Star team, indirectly set in motion half a dozen plans for amending the selection process next year.

The park, Centro Olimpico, is ground zero of the last place in the free world where baseball is the unchallenged national pastime.

BASEBALL — BALTIMORE»S fluttery Orioles lit momentarily in second - place tie with skidding Red Sox for best showing since entering majors in 1954.

Says Braves president Stan Kasten, «A few years ago we were a last - place team with a barren farm system and the highest payroll in baseball.

For some of the players fundraising in Manhattan, Puerto Rico isn't just their home, but the reason they were able to play professional baseball in the first place.

Like football, baseball is a sport in which bettors need to factor in weather when placing their bets.

In fourth place, 11 1/2 games behind the Phillies on Aug. 12, Pittsburgh had nearly made one of the most dramatic comebacks in baseball historIn fourth place, 11 1/2 games behind the Phillies on Aug. 12, Pittsburgh had nearly made one of the most dramatic comebacks in baseball historin baseball history.

The American League East has been the Boardwalk - Park Place corner of the baseball world ever since the first wild cards were handed out, in 1995.

If you can't do a baseball thing, your team should calculate if it's an acceptable consequence of you baseballing in the first place.

The place of the Negro in baseball is now taken for granted.

It was fitting that Deion Sanders — Prime Time, Hall of Fame cornerback and a star who dabbled in football, baseball and music long before Newton dabbed at all — asked Newton several questions about his persona and place.

You might snicker at his failed football career or the fact he got a workout teams attended in the first place, but baseball teams will pay attention to just about anyone built like Tebow who can run a 6.7, so it's not entirely who he has been that has got him to where he is now.

Before the start of every new season, we detail the sweet spots for betting against the public in baseball and we constantly preach the importance of shopping for the best line before placing your wager.

Imagine attending a baseball game, but having the power to hear 7,000 different conversations currently taking place in the ballpark.

It was suddenly baseball in wartime, and you weren't sure if you were in the most dangerous place in the world or the most secure.

Through Sunday, with seven weeks remaining in the season, 15 of baseball's 28 teams were either in first place or within 5-1/2 games of a playoff spot.

Major League Baseball has placed Jose Reyes on paid administrative leave while he attends to criminal proceedings in Hawaii, the league announced Tuesday.

Instead, he's been placed in the dugout, leaving Marlins» President of Baseball Operations, Michael Hill, to run the front office, along with assistant general manager Mike Berger.

With the worst record in baseball and 32 games out of first place, there is no way that they will trade for a player.

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.

Such hip pain occurs in young men and women who place stress on their hips with sports (especially in dancers, hurdlers or baseball catchers) because their activities involve the hip moving beyond its normal constraints.

Many MLB, collegiate and youth players have trusted Coach Lisle to perfect their swing and he's putting all of his principles, tips, drills and curriculum in one place, The Hitting Vault, and made them available for baseball and softball players at every level.

While baseball season is in full swing and has reached the first weekend of Inter-League play, the biggest sporting event taking place this weekend is the Preakness Stakes.

If he finishes the season in last place — which seems quite possible, as L.A. continues to pencil him into its starting lineup, day after day, despite his poor numbers — Pujols will become the first modern2 position player ever to be both baseball's best and worst player at various points in his career.

Three football teams are in the top ten there, with the NBA taking six spots and baseball placing one.

With 4 little ones, it's easy to get discouraged when I find that my sister - in - law has her kids in soccer and baseball and swimming, and they're camping and doing crafty things, and they're vacationing at all of these wonderful places, while the six of us are at home, playing in our backyard with nothing more than a swing set.

DEERFIELD — The Board of Commissioners for the Deerfield Park District unanimously approved a motion Thursday night granting a request from the Deerfield Youth Baseball Association to place a non-electric scoreboard in Woodland Park, at the intersection of Wilmot and School Roads.

In place of the dozen or so participants Acker expected, at least 50 Barack Obama devotees showed up, clad in blue T - shirts, baseball caps, and buttons blaring: «PROGRESS.&raquIn place of the dozen or so participants Acker expected, at least 50 Barack Obama devotees showed up, clad in blue T - shirts, baseball caps, and buttons blaring: «PROGRESS.&raquin blue T - shirts, baseball caps, and buttons blaring: «PROGRESS.»

As part of Teen Traffic Safety Week, the 6th Annual STOP DWI High School Baseball Classic will also take place on the following days and times at Delutis Field in Rome:

A neglected aspect of the baseball swing lies in the microscopic adjustments that take place when making the bat hit the moving pitch.