Sentences with phrase «sacrifice bunt»
A sacrifice bunt is a strategy in baseball where a batter purposely hits the ball softly to advance a teammate on base. Full definition
(He also did fine at the plate, hitting a hard line foul in the third and laying down a perfect sacrifice bunt in the fourth.)
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The view from TIFF: Converting a book about stats geekery — the rise of OBP and walks, the fall of sacrifice bunts, stolen bases, and the intuition of veteran scouts — into a compelling human drama sounds more challenging than Miller, his screenwriters, and the cast makes it look.
A well - executed sacrifice bunt, or the discipline to not swing at ball four rarely makes SportsCenter, but they do win games.
Even Dean Chance got a hit, his first in 78 consecutive times at bat, an intended sacrifice bunt that no one could field.
He led the major leagues with 39 sacrifice bunts last year.
• Pirate shortstop Jay Bell had five sacrifice bunts in his first 11 games.
Suddenly, veteran scouts, with their unempirical observations, were cast aside in favor of Ivy League number - crunchers, and the longstanding value of sacrifice bunts and stolen bases gave way to the cult of on - base percentage and walks.
Triple of the Year Sam Horn, the Orioles» lumbering DH, who's still without a steal or a sacrifice bunt in the sixth year of his big league career, got his first triple on May 5, in his 879th at bat.
Key matched Maddux zero for zero until Baltimore scratched out four runs in the sixth inning on five softly hit singles; a sacrifice bunt by Key, his first since playing for Clemson 15 years ago; and a sacrifice fly.
He still had a no - hitter in tact though, and after a sacrifice bunt moved Mercer to 2nd base, Hill got two straight groundouts to get out of the inning.
Not 3 sacrifice bunts.
It found that that time - honoured strategies like the sacrifice bunt and the stolen base, despite their intuitive appeal, turn out to have a low probability of success.