Sentences with phrase «strikes than balls»

Not exact matches

He's always been impatient, but now he's broken, swinging at more balls out of the strike zone and making far less contact than ever before.

Not saying he's ready, just that other than Lacazette if the ball fell kindly to him he knows how to strike it, and he's another one of those who can be hard to pick up because he's looking for half a yard over his man or he's looking for a rebound.

For more than a year he regularly complained about pure ball - striking rounds in which he never holed a putt.

The Padres are probably marginally worse than that, due to the fact that they strike out a lot, putting pressure on the guy with 2 outs to get a hit (or hope for a passed ball / wild pitch).

The forward, however, had team - mate Ronaldo to thank for his strike, as the Portuguese unselfishly chose to pass in the box, rather than shoot — and Sky Sports pundit Henry was quick to blast Hernandez for not hailing the Portuguese for his final ball.

Votto's nervous system is a supercomputer that processes balls and strikes.01 seconds quicker than the typical player's, and it makes him an absolute joy to watch.

Today interested me, we pressed collectively and very well, forcing Stoke into mistake after mistake, but it was more than that, we saw Cazorla, Coquelin even Koscielny striking from far out, I think I counted 5 or 6 times where we just played the simple ball over the top looking for Walcott, it will be interesting to see if this was just a one off, desperate as we were to get a goal at home.

However, this first slate of changes shouldn't be intrusive, as warnings and fines are in place rather than charging the players with extra balls or strikes.

Still, through Sunday, none of the reinstated umps — a group that includes veterans Drew Coble, Frank Pulli, Terry Tata and Joe West — was any closer to calling balls and strikes than before the ruling.

With a change in instructors and a retooled swing, Phil Mickelson is striking the ball better than ever, as evidenced by his impressive victory against the strongest field in the game at the Players

He's walking less, striking out more, and is even somehow hitting even more ground balls than he did a year ago when he led the league in ground ball rate.

While it is true that you don't want to see players just walking all over umpires, there's a better way to do that than giving a player the quick hook — especially when the player didn't verbally argue balls and strikes.

Woods, who failed to parlay decent ball - striking into anything better than a 3 - over 75 score on Thursday at the PGA Championship, started out on track, with a par on his first hole, the par - 4 10th on the links - style course on Lake Michigan.

He's not struck the ball particularly well at the majors, although he did say that came together better than it has in a long time at The Open.

Both sides had players missing and, if I read the stats correctly, City held 52 % procession and had more strikes on goal which goes to prove it «s what you do with the ball rather than how long you hold on to it (an old arsenal trend).

That lump of turf then slightly moves the ball from the spot, causing Kane to get under his shot, rather than striking it cleanly.

Higuain is better than Welbeck in three areas: Holding the ball, finishing, striking the ball from short and long distance

Mike Davis (a.195 hitter, well below the Mendoza line and with more K's than hits that year) behind on the count a ball and two strikes with two outs and the bases empty... Eck, a strike away from the win, somehow finds a way to walk him.

In this case, Wijnaldum joins the attack, but the only error he makes is to not tell Mané to leave the ball, as he shanks wide, leans back and opens his foot, rather than keeping his head down and striking the ball against the way it comes at him — which is easier to direct, than trying to glance a sideward moving ball.

FW Paco Alcacer, 6 — Focused more on creating chances than trying to finish them on the whole although he got the final touch for the second strike when the ball was going in anyway.

This is really a big matter that tricked all Arsenal fans including myself whether these two lads are relieble or not.To me Rosicky's injury wasnt so terifying except the fact that he needed a long 18 months to recover, anyway i still beleive he can still do what he used to do, i prefer him more than Nasri as he is more faster and he's got a good striking force when he hits the ball, to sum it up, he used to be one of my favorite, Lets see whats gonna happen!!!! As for Dudu, the terifying action of the injury cant still get out of my mind, it seems like it was my own leg, so thats why im always fearfull!!

Standing at five - foot - nine, he isn't the tallest player and is instead at his best when deployed behind a larger, stronger strike partner to hold up the ball for him to run onto and find space around rather than play as the sort of target man or «nine - and - a-half» that can play as a lone forward in the heart of a front three.

The bypass string system makes sure the ball won't strike more than 1 mainstring at the same time and the crosstrings make sure there's more power.

I'd almost bet you a pair of brass balls you can hit level 30 within a matter of hours and even access the new power cap of 380 in a week or so (heck, I'm already 345 in less than a week and that's having only poured about 15 hours into the DLC, strikes, and dailies included), and there's a new set of missions to do it in too.

I hit more tennis balls and bowled more strikes than I care to remember.

It seems like a much more realistic experience than the 05» version because even if you place a ball within the strike zone your not assured a strike and if you murder the ball... you may not hit a homerun.

Thus, it may be now that courts will be less interventionist in striking down high pay - offs (especially as Sedley LJ said that the judge had erred «by letting himself be drawn into acting more nearly as an auditor than as a judge» — a neat phrase for counsel to throw at any judge tempted to do likewise) and if the new government want to stop such payments this puts the ball very much back into their (legislative) court.