Sentences with phrase «slugging at»

Ideal Partner — Humour is vital, I spend most of my day slugging at most things.

The Red Sox can not replace Ortiz, not with one player — Ortiz just beat out Willie Mays» age - 40 season for the greatest age - 40 season ever, and led the AL in slugging at.620 while doing it — but a one - year deal for Beltran is a great way for them to hold on until the next free agent market, or to avoid getting in on a long - term deal for Edwin Encarnacion.

Opportunities always come up, and I want to be prepared to deploy $ 20,000 — $ 50,000 slugs at a time without penalty.

Picture this, if we had a quick, agile defender alongside kos, our full backs would have the freedom to bombard forward without worrying about covering for a slug at the back.Same if we had a big strong athletic dmf like gustavo, our midfield midgets would be free to move forward and create chances knowing that there is someone reliable protecting the back four.But then again this can only happen in my dreams or on FIFA manager

«Teams wanted great left tackles and got by with slugs at right tackle,» says Green Bay Packers pro personnel director Reggie McKenzie.

Nelson Cruz has slugged at least 40 home runs in each of the past three seasons, which makes him an intriguing option at 30/1.

In comes Demiurge Studios, whose latest title was dubbed Border - Slug at the recent PAX convention in Boston.

Its 280 lb ft of torque feels like a generous slug at medium revs, and the engine is also reasonably happy to rev for one of its type.

Though it resembles a sea slug as it attaches to the seabed, Madonna's Bra is not in fact a sea slug at all.

Download this Chinese Secret Pack and you'll stay on your feet no matter who takes a slug at you.

Not exact matches

Without so much as a glimmer of light at the end of the tunnel, the thought of slugging along yet another day can seem boring in itself, but this is why entrepreneurs are cut from a different cloth.

A detention officer body - slammed and slugged a 14 - year - old detainees at the Broward lockup.

[18] With few exceptions, most Banana Slugs teams had consistently very low attendance at their matches.

Just be aware that the capital gains tax isn't the only tax you'll pay, if you take a really big slug of profits all at once.

A big slug of it belongs to mega-buyout funds that are already at or approaching their use - by date.

So at which point in evolution, then, is a person «human», and bound for heaven, or merely a slug with no afterlife?

By extension, evolving from less advanced life forms is distasteful to those same individuals, as that necessitates a point in evolution at which humans are not really humans at all in the modern sense, which then brings up problems such as «do slugs go to heaven?»

Slaughter is slaughter Rainer and it makes no difference of it being a «slit» throat or a slug in the brain although the latter might be more humane but at what cost?

Then they aggregate at a number of centers to form at each center a slug - like creature that slithers like a slug.

These remind me of «Slugs» at Los Bagels in California.

little slug, waving its antennae at me.

Bosch will launch its Pack 301 LS (Length Slug) flexible packaging system for biscuits and crackers for the first time at IBA.

I still race three times a week, but before each race I take a slug of cognac, which is desirable at my age, 50, to dilate the arteries for strenuous play.

He also still has a shot at slugging higher than 1.000 on the month, which would be the first time that's ever been done in August.

Meanwhile, besiktas, Porto, German giants, Leipzig & a much depleted Monaco had to slug it out in almighty group G. PSG & Real Madrid in d round of 16 is a crime while games like roma - shaktar, sevilla - man utd & porto - liverpool still go on at d same round.

At a press conference that afternoon Wake Forest's Bones McKinney, the last of the whooping cranes, took a long slug from a Royal Crown Cola, flashed his wild red socks, fluttered his arms unhappily and said of his semifinal round opponent, Ohio State, that «I'd take most any player they've got and use him instead of mine.»

While the other teams had not played before either, they at least had the benefit of watching these squads slug it out (and figure it out)..

The country's two best teams at slugging it out in the mud also have attacks built around two of the country's shiniest stars.

Nobody had heard of the 28 - year - old two years ago, but since Swansea earned promotion he's become a rock at the heart of the team as well as one of the country's hottest properties with both Liverpool and Arsenal said to slugging it out to land his signature this summer.

Everyone else, to some degree, is a friend of the cash - spitting mind - slug, and assumes in definition that at one point, somewhere, the NCAA lost its way, and could serve some future use.

Forget Gattis's home runs, slugging percentage (through Sunday it was.593, fourth highest in the National League among players with at least 150 plate appearances) and the 6» 4», 235 - pound frame and compact, batting gloveless righthanded swing that exude old school strength.

At the end of last week he was batting.370 and he ranked in the top four in the American League in runs (26), homers (seven) and slugging -LRB-.640).

Here was a fellow who had played a football game with a broken jaw, who had threatened to slug affable Art Rooney of the Steelers over a lousy $ 500 dispute, who, a friend once said, «believes that if you haven't got anything to do, you ought to be at your office doing it.»

«People look at Johnny's speed, but he had a better slugging percentage than Ben.»

In 2011, Gattis hit 22 home runs and slugged.601 in 88 games at Class A, and the shots he hit caught the eye of several Braves veterans — including Chipper Jones — during spring training in 2012.

Hayes's final rage at the vagaries of the forward pass occurred in the last moments of the 1978 Gator Bowl when he slugged Clemson noseguard Charlie Bauman, who had just intercepted a last - gasp OSU pass.

With the Tigers, he batted.305 /.388 /.630 for a 163 OPS +, and his overall season line is at.304 /.379 /.694 with 44 homers and a 168 OPS + — that slugging percentage is the highest in the majors, and his overall OPS + bests that of Aaron Judge and Jose Altuve and Stanton, too.

That man hurt you for no reason at all, either take a giant pile of his money or put a slug in the back of his skull.

The Yankees and the Red Sox took their cuts at conventional October wisdom by slugging it out in a classic and contentious American League Championship Series

He doesn't slug much at all, this is true.

3B Chipper Jones, 28, Braves [SKINNY] At the break the ever - consistent Jones (above) led all third basemen in on - base percentage -LRB-.423) and slugging percentage -LRB-.621), was second in batting average -LRB-.325), RBIs (64) and walks (50), and was third in home runs (21).

At week's end he was leading the National League with a.441 on - base percentage, was third in slugging percentage -LRB-.579) and fourth in batting -LRB-.331).

Considering his Coors Field splits (last season he slugged.617 at home and.464 on the road), any trade would likely kill his home run total.

At week's end Pe √ ± a hadbelted 25 homers, and his.602 slugging percentage was second in the AL..

Cust became thefirst player in A's history to homer six times in his first seven games, buteven more impressive is what he's done since: At week's end the 6» 1», 230 - pound DH led the A's in home runs (17), slugging -LRB-.532) and was second inon - base percentage -LRB-.384).

Sam, a senior shortstop at Messalonskee High and a John Winkin Award finalist for Maine's best player, batted.475 and slugged.729 this season, leading the Eagles to a 6 — 3 win over Scarborough for the Class A state championship.

Most afternoons you'll find Willie Ferrell at Renegade sparring, slugging the heavy bag, skipping rope.

Also, impressive youngster David Wright -LRB-.525 slugging percentage in» 04) will put in his first full season at third base and in the cleanup spot.

Michael Andretti and Juan Pablo Montoya slugged it out in the closing laps, swapping the lead at pretty much every corner.

It's a tough one, I actually think debuchy's best matches were at centre back, I think long term wenger sees debuchy leaving and jenkinson / bellerin then slugging it out rather like gibbs / monreal on the other side.