Sentences with phrase «runs in a baseball game»

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With Major League Baseball's All - Star Game and Home Run Derby officially in the books for this year, we have reached what baseball enthusiasts call the «dog days of summerBaseball's All - Star Game and Home Run Derby officially in the books for this year, we have reached what baseball enthusiasts call the «dog days of summerbaseball enthusiasts call the «dog days of summer.»

With the first game of the World Series playoffs around the bend, it's hard not to feel the buildup of excitement for the baseball teams in the running.

Los Angeles Dodgers» Austin Barnes (15) celebrates with Alex Verdugo in the second inning after hitting a solo home run against the Arizona Diamondbacks during a baseball game, Thursday, May 3, 2018, in Phoenix.

Cincinnati Reds infielder Scooter Gennett became the 17th player in baseball history to hit four home runs in one game, clubbing a quartet of home runs against the St. Louis Cardinals on Tuesday night.

This was a travesty, a caricature of baseball in which an exciting pennant contender got to play only half a game under adverse conditions and lost by only one run.

For at least 33 percent of every game, the Yankees will have three pitchers among the best in baseball at limiting runs.

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.

The odds are at least decent that you saw a dumb run like that in the last baseball game you watched.

Yet besides Yu Darvish's collapse (which itself was the Hangover 2 of the series since basically the same thing happened four games prior) and Springer's dirt - on - the - grave home run (which was the second season of Stranger Things of the series because it had all happened before but not in quite the same way) there weren't any events that baseball had never seen before to actually merit the anxiety that seeped from this game.

They're playing much better baseball than you would suspect given their run differential, too: the Giants have given up at least 10 runs in four games this year, losing all of them by a combined score of 51 - 20.

«I have run into fans on the street who said they hated the game of baseball because of what we did to it [during the strike in 1994],» McGwire said last week.

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.

They were able to do that by going 36 - 11 in one run games, the best mark in the history in baseball.

# 6 RYAN BROWN Favorite Baseball Team: San Francisco Giants Favorite Baseball Player: Buster Posey Favorite Baseball Moment: «Hitting a triple and scoring three runs in a game last year.»

The Angels and Giants clubbed more home runs (11) than had been hit in the first two games of any World Series, prompting both sides to suspect that the specially marked baseballs were harder, smaller and livelier than the ones used in the regular season.

Boston College's stretch - run offensive explosion (36 points per game in the second half of the regular season) still feels too good to be true, and a meeting with the Hawkeyes — traditionally a stylistic kindred spirit — inside a baseball stadium should remind the Eagles of the first - to -14-points thrillers from whence they came.

The Phillies had rotten luck in one - run games last year: 21 — 36, the most such losses in baseball.

Even with injuries, if you can't put up more than 2 runs a game vs. the worst team in baseball that's bad foreshadowing.

Cabrera has averaged.6497 runs per game over the past eight seasons — one of the highest rates in baseball.

As a team, the Astros lead baseball in both slugging percentage -LRB-.479) and runs per game (5.47).

And Jack Gibbs tells in hushed tones of a certain baseball game he remembers: «Mike was playing center field and a guy hit a terrific smash out toward center and Mike started running.

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.

After all, the Gators and Demon Deacons have done far more sitting around waiting than actually playing the sport of baseball this weekend, and managing to control the ebbs and flows of one's emotions — from in - game preparedness and focus to the boredom of doing nothing at all — can probably run a player psychologically ragged.

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.

But Brown didn't do anything wrong because he decided to play baseball in a one - run game.

We're not saying extra innings shouldn't exist — exhibition or no, it's still baseball — but the Midsummer Classic could use some tweaks to make sure we're never again in a situation where Robinson Cano has to save the audience and the game's managers from running out of players in extras.

Top seven in runs scored (despite fewer games) and fourth in OBP for all of baseball doesn't suck in my opinion.

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.

He also was ruled out while running to first in Game 6 of the ALCS for slapping the baseball from the glove of Boston righthander Bronson Arroyo, a maneuver Red Sox ace Curt Schilling later called «bush league.»

Make your jokes about the «Big Game» nickname or the handful of poor playoff starts if you must, but you should also recognize that James Shields just had a run as one of the best pitchers in baseball for four years.

Our first step in proving this theory was to compare the average runs per game and the average total (over / under) across baseball.

Of course a player who had never hit a walk - off home run in his life — «not even Little League,» he says — would in Game 6 of the World Series hit one of the greatest game - ending blasts in baseball histGame 6 of the World Series hit one of the greatest game - ending blasts in baseball histgame - ending blasts in baseball history.

During baseball season he hit.355 in 26 games with 27 hits, 17 runs, 12 RBI and six doubles.

It was a CIF Central Coast Section baseball game and the MLB career home run king (add asterisk if you wish) struck out in his final at - bat.

All baseball fans know that a manager's strategy changes throughout the game, especially in one - run games.

The campaign gets its name from the asterisk that originally found its way into sports in 1961 - when Major League Baseball commissioner Ford Frick decided that the new single - season home run record set by the Yankee's Roger Maris of 61 homers would be accompanied by an asterisk to denote the fact that it was set over a 162 - game season eight games longer than the 1927 season in which Babe Ruth had hit 60 homers - but which has been given a whole new meaning in the 2000's as denoting records tainted by an athlete's suspected steroid use.

As Major League Baseball prepares for tonight's Home Run Derby and tomorrow night's All - Star Game at Yankee Stadium in New York City, players and fans might be well - advised to keep a close eye not just on the ball, but on the bats as well.

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It's too bad I'm not a mommy because I felt like this outfit would be perfect for watching my kid's baseball game in the summer and running mom errands.

To make it even worse, the base running is the biggest piece of crap I have seen in any baseball game, and I'm not even a big fan of baseball.

Normally in baseball the team with the most runs wins, but not in this game.

A stormy night changes their lives forever... In LOVE BATS LAST, (The Heart of the Game, # 1), the baseball diamond isn't the only field for all - star player Alex Tavonesi; he also runs his family's prestigious vineyard.

It is like a baseball game that inning after inning there are no home runs or in a football game no score.

In his free time, Matt enjoys wine tasting with his beautiful wife Elyce, running, playing softball, playing tennis, baseball, football, and playing board games with his fellow co-workers and friends.

The PSVR - powered game will give players the chance to live out their diamond dreams on baseball's biggest stage in «the most immersive and authentic» home run derby game ever made.

Step up to the plate and see how many home runs you can smack out of the park in this high score baseball game.

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MLBAM's RBI Baseball 15 will be will be running into home this spring as the 2nd game in the popular American sports series slides onto new - gen consoles, alongside smartphones, tablets, PC and Mac.

You can eat and drink in bars and restaurants, try your hand at spear fishing or managing a baseball team, play classic Sega games Out Run, Space Harrier and Virtua Fighter 5 at the local arcade, or assemble a clan of fighters, directing them into street battles against rival gangs.

And so, the US media has covered climate negotiations like they would a baseball game, that is they usually focus on the score, who batted in the runs, and who prevented runs from scoring.