Sentences with phrase «team as a pitcher»

A sportswriter for the Chicago Daily News, Hewitt went out to do a story on the Storm and ended up making the team as a pitcher.

Frank Potestio graduated from UC Riverside with a degree in Sociology and was named to the All - American team as a pitcher.

Not exact matches

According to TiqIQ, the average ticket price for Jeter's last regular - season home game has already reached more than 2 1/2 times the peak average price for the final home game of all - star pitcher Mariano Rivera, who debuted with the Yankees in 1995, the same year as Jeter, and retired last year after 19 seasons with the team.

As if it's weird to look at a.500 team that lost its most reliable pitcher and think they might get worse.

He's far from alone, however, as Cleveland as a team has batted.265 /.340 /.453 during this 82 - game run... and have done so at a time that their starting pitchers, collectively, have an ERA of 3.34 with 10.6 strikeouts per nine and a 4.3 K / BB.

They appeal to his status as the Pitcher of the»80s, or his performance in Game 7, or his tenacity, or that gleam in his eye that made you feel like you were going to be alright, or the smell of his aftershave as he cradled the rest of the team in his arms, or... whatever they feel like appealing to.

There are a few different theories on why this could be, such as good teams being more motivated to enter the break on a high note, and / or star pitchers getting the last start for solid teams.

As for the Minnesota Twins, a horrendous June (7 - 21), coming after a terrific May (21 - 7), is a warning to Twins fans to be patient with the team's young pitchers.

How much better would this team look (and the organization as a whole) if they still had a young, up - and - coming pitcher with team options through 2021?

And if down the stretch we're in it but need more pitching, we've got one of the minors best pitchers (Luzardo) as a possible reinforcement (I know, I know, he's almost certainly not coming up this year, but I can dream — as a side note, I really think teams like the A's should be more aggressive with promoting pitchers who have shown they can pitch and have stuff that seems like it can get out major leaguers — why wait when they'll probably just blow out their elbow anyway — might as well get some quality innings out of them in the majors — yeah, I'm salty about Puk, but whatever, I've held this belief for a long time).

A team such as this might be able to get by without pitchers, but the Yanks have them too.

If there was ever a pitcher to make a team want to deal its best prospects, as well as a player or two off its 25 - man roster, Quintana is it.

TEAM HOME RUNS The tremendous home - run power of the Dodgers and Giants was nullified when their pitchers gave up just about as many homers to the opposition as their own batters hit.

We're going to skip the editorial and get right to the stories this morning, as baseball lost two players to car accidents in the Dominican Republic on Sunday morning: Royals» pitcher Yordano Ventura and former top prospect and infielder for a number of big - league teams, Andy Marte.

As a pitcher on the baseball team, he once pitched opposite Don Sutton, a future National Baseball Hall of Fame member, and won.

So as a team, they have definitely decided to let it rip at the start of the PA, and they're jumping the pitcher.

As a matter of fact, the only pitcher on either team to have World Series experience is Justin Verlander — and it has not been pretty.

Adam Dunn entered Tuesday's White Sox game against the Texas Rangers as a pitcher in the 9th inning with his team...

Without having distinguished himself as a high school pitcher, he dropped out at 16 and contacted Don Nomura, a former player in Japan who was part owner of an independent Class A team in Salinas, Calif. «I just wanted to play the highest level of baseball in the world,» Suzuki said last week through an interpreter.

As a pitcher on the baseball team he has been a disappointment, barely worth the effort it took to sign him to a scholarship in the spring of 1974.

They were fielding 10 two - way starters to the three or four of conference rivals South and North Medford and Grants Pass, and a crucial element of their previous success was missing: From 1989 through 1992, Ashland quarterbacks Bert Peterson, Kevin Greene, Chris Chambers and Chad Guthrie (brother of Kansas City Royal pitcher Jeremy Guthrie) succeeded each other one after another as first team All - State.

As I said before, the voters like players on winning teams and pitchers that win games, which McCullers is set up to do this season.

As it stands now, the fans pick the first team except the pitchers and the managers pick the rest of the squad including the pitchers.

BIG LEAGUE SECRETS: CAUSE AND EFFECT Sirs: As an avid baseball fan, to whom the pitcher has always been the most interesting player on the team (I married one who gave it up to study medicine), I want you to know how much Sal Maglie's fine article (SI, March 17) will increase my enjoyment of the game.

However, Colorado pitchers definitely benefit from road starts as their team ERA is more than a full run lower on the road than it is at home (4.75 vs. 5.91).

Jersey City has had minor league baseball teams intermittently since 1878 and has fielded some noteworthy players, such as George Stovey, a black pitcher who won 35 games in 1886, and George (Twinkletoes) Selkirk, the Yankee who was nicknamed after a Jersey show girl.

I'm curious hypothetically in the case of a young pitcher coming from the D - league and playing his way onto the team as much as I'm asking about Wisler specifically.

With ace pitchers like David Price and Chris Sale, and guys like Betts, who are equally as effective in the field and the batter's box, it seemed like maybe the team could hold its own.

And as far as Sandy was concerned, one important reason that he drew more people was the fact that we tried to use him whenever we could in crucial games, and more often than not the other teams saved up their best pitchers to go against him.

Other key players include Mitch Benson, typically the starting catcher as well as one of the team's pitchers behind Wolfe.

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Bull Durham (Amazon, July 1st) A veteran minor - league catcher (Dennis Quaid) gets sent down to a single - A team to step in as mentor for their talented but undisciplined rookie pitcher (Tim Robbins).

Participants were offered a cash prize plus an opportunity to train in America and then try out as a pitcher for a Major League Baseball team.

Described as some kind of «spiritual sequel» to Linklater's Dazed & Confused, this film is set in 1980 about an «incoming freshman experiencing his first weekend in college as a pitcher on the school's nationally ranked baseball team.»

In 1957 San Francisco, 10 - year - old Katy Gordon is an ace pitcher who makes a Little League team while disguised as a boy, only to be told she's ineligible when the coach discovers she's a girl.

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-- Rosenberg played pitcher in the famous 1954 art - world baseball game in East Hampton, and his team — which included Willem and Elaine de Kooning as well as Franz Kline — decided to play a joke on the other team's star hitter, the artist Philip Pavia.

Greenberg, a Reed Smith sports attorney who has interests in such minor league baseball teams as the Myrtle Beach Pelicans, was looking to buy the Texas Rangers, along with Hall of Fame pitcher Nolan Ryan.

As the story continues, Martin witnesses Rick use his ten laws of selling to successfully train two new salespeople and even a pitcher on the youth softball team Martin coaches.