Sentences with word «righthander»

Manager Art Howe's Opening Day staff will be infinitely better than last year's, when now - departed Jimmy Haynes — routinely ripped by teammates for his softness — shared ace status with Gil Heredia, a nomadic righthander who never had more than six wins in a year.

The Expos also never found an adequate replacement for middle reliever Jeff Parrett, who, with pitcher Floyd Youmans, was traded to the Phillies last winter for righthander Kevin Gross (11 - 11, 4.14 ERA).

Schilling had been the only pitcher to yield three home runs to Bonds this year until last Friday night, when Padres rookie righthander Jason Middlebrook joined him by mistakenly grooving a 3 - and - 0 fastball.

Zimmer replaced lefthander John Henry Johnson with righthander Dave Schmidt, who got Winfield to weakly ground out.

At 1:21 p.m., McGwire stepped into the batter's box and one minute later propelled a pitch from 38 - year - old righthander Mike Morgan into the history books.

«That's a knee buckler,» says Yankees catcher Joe Girardi, who hit against the Astros righthander in the National League.

Conversely, Houston manager Phil Garner's decision not to use a rested Lidge with the score tied at 4 — 4 in the eighth inning of Game 2 of the NLCS backfired when righthander Dan Miceli gave up back - to - back homers to Albert Pujols and Scott Rolen.

The next day Veeck announced the signing, and after Doby spent six innings on the bench under the watch of two black Chicago detectives sent to guard him, he went in to pinch - hit against righthander Earl Harrist.

Ask the Cubs, who have had their fill of righthander Carlos Zambrano four years into a five - year, $ 91.5 million contract that also kept their then ace off the market.

In signing now, Weaver guarantees himself just a bit more than beleaguered Yankees righthander A.J. Burnett is making on his five - year, $ 82.5 million deal.

«I'd take the mound, look back at the outfielders, and they've got their heads down,» says righthander Matt Palmer, whostarted the season in Salt Lake before his promotion to the bigs on April 23.

As a senior righthander at Brattleboro High, Dave, 18, led the Colonels to a 13 - 6 record and the state Class L title, winning all four of the playoff games.

So Chandler was given permission to sign righthander Jack Sanford of the Philadelphia Phillies, future White Sox pitcher Joel Horlen and future Dodger slugger Carl Warwick.

As McGwire walked to the plate in the first inning last Friday against Cincinnati Reds righthander Pete Harnisch, Puerte handed balls numbered 1 through 4 to ball boy Kevin Corbin, who gave them to Rippley.

Pittinger, also known as Horse Face, was a hard - throwing righthander for the Boston Beaneaters and the Philadelphia Phillies in the early 1900s.

The faster the spin, the louder the hiss, which explains why the sinking 93 - mph fastball thrown by Florida Marlins righthander Kevin Brown sounds like air rushing out of a punctured tire.

After beating the Mets last Friday, rookie righthander Jason Jennings was 15 - 5 with a 4.17 ERA.

Towers overhauled that group almost entirely: He signed veteran righthander J.J. Putz (2.76 ERA, 32 saves) to close games, acquired righty David Hernandez (2.67 ERA, 11 saves) in the Reynolds deal to pitch the eighth inning and plucked lefty specialist Joe Paterson (2.73 ERA) from the Giants in the Rule 5 draft.

Adds righthander A.J. Burnett, «With what Dontrelle's doing now, he should probably watch that movie the rest of his career.»

9 No - decisions for Astros righthander Shawn Chacon in his first nine starts, the longest decisionless streak to start a season in major league history.

9 Wins by Diamondbacks righthander Brandon Webb in his first nine starts, the majors» longest winning streak without a no - decision to start a season since San Diego's Andy Hawkins won his first 10 starts in 1985.

Royal Revival Bolstered by castoffs such as righthander Jose Lima, Kansas City is the unlikely leader in the AL Central.

Having never faced Baltimore, Maddux prepared for his start by watching videotapes of other hurlers, including Chicago White Sox righthander Doug Drabek, pitching against the Orioles.

Rookie righthander Paul Wilson, the No. 1 overall pick in the 1994 draft, who led all minor league pitchers last season with 194 strikeouts in 186 2/3 innings, might be the best of all the team's prospects.

Observers felt that the 6» 5», 205 - pound righthander would dominate games by throwing mid-90s heat and striking out roughly one hitter per inning.

This finished Norman and brought on righthander Jack Billingham.

The second home run came in the fifth inning, against Dodger righthander Elias Sosa.

Listening to Tim assure him that interest in the Montreal Expo righthander has been alive since spring training, Reggie runs through his stack of cards again.

• Twins righthander Carlos Silva, 26, has become a strike - throwing machine of historic proportions.

In 1953, when Dodger pitching star Don Newcombe and St. Louis Browns righthander Bob Turley were stationed at the Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, Mr. Herbert flew the entire Brooke team to Alpine to play the Cowboys.

Rangers righthander Mark Clark and Indians slugger Jim Thome, who became close friends when they were Cleveland teammates from 1993 through» 95, went out to dinner last Friday night; naturally, Clark's next day start against the Indians at Jacobs Field was a topic of conversation.

Malone also thinks, given a rotation that also includes righthanders Kevin Brown, Chan Ho Park and Andy Ashby, that Los Angeles has some of the best starting pitching in baseball, which it does — potentially.

One possibility is Reds righthander Pete Harnisch, who was being scouted by the White Sox and several other teams last week when he threw his second straight complete - game win, against Houston.

Greg Maddux, Baseball player The Cubs righthander won four consecutive Cy Young Awards from 1992 to»95 and may win his 300th game this season.

The Marlins righthander throws this pitch 93 mph and with the tightest spin in the game, giving the ball a wicked sinking action in the last five feet before the plate.

Phillies righthander Andy Ashby and first baseman Rico Brogna, Rangers first baseman David Segui, Orioles catcher Charles Johnson, Pirates righthanded starter Jose Silva and Rangers righthanded closer John Wetteland.

It is at least conceivable that Clemens will become the greatest righthander ever to play the game because of, and not in spite of, all that has happened to him away from the game.

«I was warming him up last night,» said Marzano on Saturday, «and I was actually thinking that I could be catching the guy who will one day be called the greatest righthander ever to play the game.»

«It goes sssssssss,» says Atlanta Braves righthander Greg Maddux, softly blowing air through his teeth in what sounds like the preamble to a steaming teakettle's whistle.

At the start of spring training in 1992, righthander Greg Gohr was considered one of the front - runners for AL Rookie of the Year.

«We're very aggressive, and the personalities are starting to mesh,» says ace righthander Charles Nagy, who improved to 16 - 4 with eight solid innings in a 9 - 2 win against the Oakland A's in the first game of a doubleheader sweep last Saturday.

Better Late Than Never After years of frustrating underachievement, Padres righthander Andy Ashby has joined the ranks of the National League's pitching elite

Last week he grabbed inconsistent but talented righthander Esteban Loaiza (5 - 7, 5.53 ERA at week's end) from the Rangers and stuck him in the rotation.

Says righthander Dave Burba (7 - 2, 5.31 ERA), whose pitch count has been limited by a strained groin muscle, «The relievers are doing such a great job, if you can get through five or six innings, chances are you're going to win.»

After the Indians activated righthander Charles Nagy from the DL last Friday, their pitching rotation appeared to boast an embarrassment of riches.

Hart, who has such gems as righthanders Bartolo Colon and Jaret Wright rising through the minor leagues, was stunned.

Since then the Rangers have developed one formerly reliable starter (righthander Rick Helling, who won 20 games in 1998 but only 30 since), traded two future All - Stars (starter Ryan Dempster, now with the Florida Marlins, and closer Robb Nen, with the San Francisco Giants) and whiffed terribly in the draft.