Sentences with phrase «start of baseball»

Rusty's Real Deal Baseball (Nintendo)-- Rated: E Celebrate the start of the baseball season with a collection of baseball - themed mini-games.

Celebrate the start of the baseball season with a collection of baseball - themed mini-games.

It's my favorite time of year... Spring is around the corner, the start of the baseball season is days away, and best of all: MLB 15 The Show launches today PS4, PS3, PS Vita.

I'm looking forward to the start of baseball season and figured it's time to invest in a Dodgers shirt!

Park officials want the restaurant operating by the start of the baseball season in May 2000.

The start of baseball is just a few short days away and Bovada wants to make sure you have an appropriate action fix.

A strike that could delay the start of the baseball season is brewing, and once more Marvin Miller, the head of the players» union, stands at storm center

The start of baseball season is still several days away, but a recent survey conducted by Bank of America Merrill Lynch found that 59 percent of U.S. fund managers believe the current stretch of economic growth is in its «final innings.»

Not exact matches

I sometimes compare customer service to a farm team in baseball — our new employees who start there have plenty of fresh talent and energy, but may need a little guidance to figure out how they can shine the brightest.

This week is packed with major sporting events, starting with the first official games of Major League Baseball's 2016 season on Sunday and Monday.

Maybe you won't get exactly what you want for your collection of Barbie dolls or baseball cards, but by selling it, you'll start putting some cash to work.

«So if you want to play [fantasy] baseball, you can play today's games; you don't have to start at the beginning of the season.»

In many ways, Fitza's idea is a lot like what baseball sabermetricians conceived of when they started calculating a player's WARP — his wins above a replacement player.

Gary Vaynerchuk got his entrepreneurial start selling baseball cards and lemonade on the streets of Edison, New Jersey.

Major League Baseball has marked the start of its playoffs tonight by partnering with YouTube to promote its paid online streaming service, YouTube TV, during the 2017 World Series later this month.

Back at the start of the twentieth century, baseball players weren't paid the megabucks they are now.

What started in 2008 with a fake athlete, soon morphed into efforts with real athletes like now - retired NFL star Ray Lewis, then extended into Major League Baseball with a Head & Shoulders collabo starring Anaheim Angels» C.J. Wilson and Josh Hamilton, and now brings us to current NFL stars Wes Welker of the Denver Broncos and New England Patriots» Jerod Mayo.

«We plan to have baseball completely covered by the start of the 2015 season,» he said.

The beginning of March signals the start of preseason exhibition games for Major League Baseball...

My daughter says sometimes someone who doesn't know him will start explaining to him how to play football or baseball (both of which he's quite good at) and he just nods and is very attentive, as if he thinks the other person knows what he's talking about.

In the 1960s, when many of professional baseball's earliest heroes began passing away — starting with Ty Cobb in 1961 — Ritter embarked on a five - year, 75,000 - mile journey, criss - crossing the country in search of the stars of yesteryear.

There were moments of mild excitement as we anticipated the baseball game or started to play the video game.

Spring means baseball season and though it may only be the start of spring training, to us, that means our time with my Ryan comes to a halt.

«In order to assure the fans and press of the stability of the franchise in Oakland,» said Nahas, «we want to repeat that our long - term lease with Mr. Finley started on the first day of April 1968 and continues through the last day of the 1987 baseball season.»

If baseball puts in a pitch clock, raises the strike zone, eliminates extensive mound visits, limits pitching changes, institutes a mercy rule, starts extra innings with a runner on second base, limits the number of pickoff throws, requires pitchers to face a minimum number of batters, limits defensive shifts, and institutes all sorts of other changes to speed the game up and improve quality of play, there might be improvements.

Start with the obvious, that the Diamondbacks have a 4.4 - percent chance of reaching the postseason, according to Baseball Prospectus.

By the time he was pulled from the rotation, Lee became one of the few pitchers in baseball history to allow seven earned runs in three consecutive starts.

When baseball starts in April, we've had five months of imaginary baseball.

But the idea is that you start with a legitimately devastating front three (Greinke, Miller, Patrick Corbin) and add two of the most complete players in baseball (Goldschmidt, Pollock) and let the other 20 players figure it out.

According to Major League Baseball, the standings at the start of Tuesday featured as much parity as we've had since 1995, with 18 teams within at least five games of a postseason berth.

Even Mike Trout, owner of one of the most ridiculous starts to a career in baseball history, had just a 47 percent chance at 500 homers before this season.

Baseball - Reference doesn't have the pitch counts of all his minor league starts, with gaps during his time in the California League, but as far as we can tell, his 51 pitches were a career high.

Pitchers who could make the rotations of 20 teams around baseball were going to start in the minors.

Baseball Trade talks heat up, but pickings are slim The Angels demote their best starting pitcher An embarrassing turn of events for the Diamondbacks

As each round is only three games long for each team with a tiebreaker if necessary, starting out 1 - 0 is significant: that and a win in Friday night's head - to - head contest could be enough to propel one of these two teams to the World Baseball Classic semifinals.

In order to get the fan's excited about the upcoming start of the Major League Baseball season, the MLB Fan Cave has been releasing videos starring MLB Players performing spoofs of songs and in some cases movie scenes.

This is a great time of the year for sports fans — and especially sports investors — as the baseball season is starting up, the hockey playoffs are heating up, and NBA teams are jockeying...

I think he gets a couple of starts to at least show he's worth something, if not, it's either DFA or sent to like, the White Sox for a bag of baseballs (baseballs not included).

When I'm not talking, watching, or coaching baseball, or listening to MLB on Sirius XM, I'm just hanging out with my wife and kids most of the time, watching Alabama football (huge fan of the Tide, and that's where I started on SB Nation on Roll Bama Roll), or watching / reading Game of Thrones.

Prior to the start of the 2013 Major League Baseball season, the Detroit Tigers and Justin Verlander agreed to a contract...

The Indians at full strength, with a deep arsenal of starting pitching that's the envy of baseball, were as terrifying as the Cubs at full strength.

By the afternoonof April 9 the baseball world had learned of the death of Angels startingpitcher Nick Adenhart and his friends Courtney Stewart and Henry Pearson in acar crash, and information started to emerge about that other passenger, a24 - year - old youth baseball coach named Jon Wilhite, who had been a catcher atCal State — Fullerton.

Because he has to play 9 years in the NPB for that to happen, which would leave 4 more years of languishing and aging in Japan before he can come stateside and start signing shoe and media deals and becoming «Shohei Ohtani: Baseball Hall of Famer».

Starting in the 1870's and 1880's, semi pro baseball leagues started sprouting up all around the country, it was a time that America was fiercely and proudly isolated from the rest of the world.

Start with the concept of baseball on the radio at all.

His story strains credulity: After graduating from high school, he turned down a scholarship to Texas A&M and swore off the game; underwent treatment for drug abuse and depression; embarked on a four - year odyssey around the country in search of spiritual understanding before he was led back to baseball; was drafted in the 23rd round in 2010; then made the Braves» Opening Day roster a year after starting the»12 season in high A ball.

Even with Shields off of the table, though, baseball isn't quite ready to start: pitchers and catchers aren't reporting until we're most of the way through February, and there are still some loose ends that could be tied up before that time.

Chilton, 37, is a large and passionate man, and when he gets started on the subject of baseball gloves, he's got a lot to say.

The Cardinals opened the season at 12/1 to win the title, but with a 19 - 6 start through the first 25 games of the season and the lowest team ERA in baseball at 2.44 the Cards have moved their way up the betting board.

But baseball starts almost every play in the game with a pitch (much like tennis starts every play with a serve), while plays in basketball originate in a variety of ways, and there is a constant and rapid change from offense to defense that can not be avoided.