Sentences with phrase «sacrifice bunts in»

• Pirate shortstop Jay Bell had five sacrifice bunts in his first 11 games.

(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.)

Not exact matches

Even Dean Chance got a hit, his first in 78 consecutive times at bat, an intended sacrifice bunt that no one could field.

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.

First and second with nobody out brought up Charlie Culberson in a sacrifice situation, but he failed to get the bunt down three straight times, striking out.

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.