Sentences with phrase «top hitters»

About Youtuber Slow pitch softball hitting videos and game footage from some of the top hitters in the game.

It has four game modes and is consistently among the top hitters on the Steam «most played» list.

The first console game to be designed by Yu Suzuki, the man behind other titles like After Burner, Daytona USA and Shenmue, it could be considered the «rise» of the brainchild behind most of Sega's top hitters right up to the Dreamcast era.

Seven of the team's top hitters return, including senior infielder Shea Moreno -LRB-.430, 43 hits, team - best 38 RBI) and sophomore outfielder Sam Oliver -LRB-.405, 34 hits, 35 RBI).

Though the club lost outfielder Melky Cabrera, one of its top hitters, to a 50 - game suspension on Aug. 15 after he flunked a drug test for using synthetic testosterone (his ban will end after San Francisco's fifth postseason game, but the club said last week he is not welcome to return), the offense improved over the past two months.

Whatever the reason, the top hitters and pitchers are setting blistering paces, with numbers like.400 and 10 - 1 and eight straight becoming commonplace.

«Brady's been one of our top hitters in our first three games,» said Donald, whose squad won those games 13 - 3, 13 - 2 and 11 - 2.

The real holdup appears to be contract length: The Red Sox don't want to go past five, and Martinez, the top hitter on the market who was on par offensively with Giancarlo Stanton in 2017, is looking for more than that.

Not exact matches

One thing that drew investors to Grey Area was a successful first launch: back in November, when Shadow Cities was released in Finland, it dethroned big - hitter Angry Birds as the top - grossing app in the country.

The A's insist on playing a guy who is clearly not a good hitter, nor will he ever be, instead of their top hitting prospect who could have helped them win a game or two by now.

Hopefully some day he's a solid hitter near top or order, but Snit was right in putting him in 8th hole for now.

Albert Belle (23 homers) is one of the league's top power hitters.

A switch - hitter like Fowler would slot nicely behind Adam Eaton at the top of the lineup, allowing Melky Cabrera to slide further down.

If the Royals want to stay on top, they probably still need to add another hitter and absolutely need to add another starter, or else the bullpen is going to be run into the ground before the season is over: Kansas City starters averaged just 5-1/3 innings during these 20 games to go along with that horrid ERA, and that's not going to work all season in what is still a competitive division.

There's a lot to like about the three hitters at the top of the order, and Chris Sale is still starting 20 percent of the games.

On the flip side, playing in Safeco Field means that Seattle needs top - tier hitters, and right now it has just one: second baseman Dustin Ackley.

There was a dropped third strike that led to runs (but maybe shouldn't have), catcher's interference, an intentional walk to bad hitters, and an HBP with the bases loaded, and that was just the top of the fifth.

If his slider and four - seamer come out of his hand looking the same, one stays up at the top of the zone while the other dives down and out, that's enough to get a hitter off balance.

I like Ender but if he ends up a top 3 hitter in our lineup after this wave of prospects settles something went very wrong....

Only three hitters topped 30 home runs in the NL, and 21 home runs was good enough to crack the top ten.

Whatever the case, many of the winningest pitchers and top home run hitters in the major leagues since 1920 were born in close proximity to one another

The eight top home run hitters over the past five years — McGwire, Sosa, Albert Belle, Vinny Castilla, Juan Gonzalez, Ken Griffey Jr., Rafael Palmeiro and Mo Vaughn — have a combined career average of.107 against Martinez, with just one home run (by Gonzalez) in 84 times at bat.

Everybody at the top of the White Sox lineup has contributed: At week's end leadoff man Tim Raines had a first - inning batting average of.389, Joey Cora had scored 21 runs, Frank Thomas had hit 10 homers (no other player had more than seven) and driven in 25 runs, and sometimes cleanup hitter Robin Ventura was batting a major league - high.511 (23 for 45) with 22 RBIs.

Miami's leadoff hitters other than Gordon this season have done quite well in his absence, hitting.324 /.396 /.420, with time split at the top of the order mostly between outfielder Ichiro Suzuki (31 starts), second baseman Derek Dietrich (22 starts) and catcher J.T. Realmuto (21 starts).

That combination has helped to make her one of the top high school outside hitters in the class of 2020.

Take «L.A.,» the name for Duke's trademark quick hitter, in which center Shelden Williams sets a ball screen for the point guard (in this case, Paulus) near the top of the key.

After all, American League pitchers don't take batting practice and National League team's don't shell out top dollar for designated hitters.

This is likely because many of the high - profile, big - market teams reside in the AL, and the public perceives the lineups are more potent from top to bottom because of the designated hitter.»

With a short left field porch in Philadelphia and Franco's high contact rate for a hitter with his power, we could see Franco near the top of the home run leaders list in 2016.

It's how Aaron Judge went from a bottom - tier prospect on the top - 100 list, mostly because he came with preinstalled power that was hard to find, to a complete hitter.

Troy Tulowitzki, Justin Morneau, Carlos Gonzalez and Nolan Arenado make a fearsome middle of the order, and they have worthwhile hitters at the top of the order, too.

Of the top 30 hitters as measured by OPS, however, 17 were exclusively or predominantly lefthanded.

Paul Goldschmidt is one the league's top three hitters and AJ Pollock emerged as an elite player last season, but there are still significant question marks on the left side of the infield.

Other top pitching performances, Tampa Bay's Matt Garza's no hitter against the Detroit Tigers, Arizona Diamondback's Edwin Jackson's no hitter against the Tampa Bay Rays, Colorado Rockies Ubaldo Jimenez's unbelievable.78 ERA through 11 starts, Washington Nationals Stephen Strasburg's dominance to begin his career, and Florida Marlins Josh Johnson's 8 consecutive starts with giving up 1 or less runs.

Zach Nankin, an All Sports Series veteran, went 2 - 3 with one RBI keeping him at the top as one the League's best hitters.

II top seed a year ago before being upset in the quarterfinals, the Irish return three of their top four hitters, as well as a quartet of pitchers who combined for 19 wins in 2017.

I get that the lineup is filled with solid hitters from top to bottom, but that trio screams 500 combined innings pitched with a 5.34 ERA, and you can see these storm clouds from a distance.

Joe Garagiola, baseball's most famous.250 hitter, reached the top in broadcasting — his new career — when he took Mel Allen's spot with the New York Yankees

Valley Christian returns half of their title team, including three of the section's top pitchers, the league's leading hitter and three others who finished in the top 20.

He was one of the top pinch hitters in baseball, hitting.356 /.396 /.644 in 48 plate appearances, tied for first in MLB with four pinch - hit home runs and second with 13 RBI.

Six of the Warriors top seven hitters from 2016 return, and that includes All - State junior Patrick Wicklander.

DiSanto and Grover were two of the team's top three hitters last year and will have to make up for the loss of second - leading hitter Leanna Collins, who graduated after last season.

If you prefer to look at raw exit velocity, note that only one Giants hitter shows up in the top 90 names.

A large number of Arsenal fans are of the belief that the Gunners will never get the glory days back while Arsene Wenger is still the manager, while many others feel that the Frenchman could propel Arsenal back to the top of English football if he was willing and able to match the really big hitters in the transfer market.

The last great diaper bag for twins on this list is a heavy hitter when it comes to a high quality luxury baby item that has top of the line features and storage.

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After Mr Corbyn's better - than - expected performance in Thursday's election big hitters in the so - called «moderate» wing of the party have been angling to be restored to the top table.

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There's also many Nintendo games in the Top 20, which will come to no surprise: Nintendo did have some heavy - hitters last year!

After securing the 2013 Sundance Film Festival's Screenwriting award, a slot on the National Board of Review's top ten list of indie films, and the vocal support of critical heavy hitters like A.O. Scott, Lake Bell's pitch - perfectly precise comedy In A World... announced itself as one of the more confident debut features in recent memory, let alone from an actor - turned - director / writer.