In Friday's game, during his last at-bat of the first game of the home stand against the A's, it started. |
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Famously, he hit a home run in his first at-bat, the only homer of his career. |
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Derek Lee nearly took Pettitte out of the yard on the next at-bat, but Rivera ran down the ball at the warning track to end the inning. |
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I knew Jimmy had to go with the curveball for the tenth pitch of the at-bat. |
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And, in his first major league at-bat, he banged a single off veteran right-hander Hank Borowy. |
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In my first at-bat, I hit one right back to the pitcher, Don Drysdale, who fielded the ball and threw me out. |
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When Reyes strides to the plate, odds are the at-bat won't end with him handing his stick to the batboy and jogging to first base. |
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My brother and I have been trying to find out how you record the at-bat for a batter reaching first base after being struck out on a passed ball. |
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When I come up for my first at-bat, I'll lay down a bunt so I can try to get a single. |
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One boxer has plenty of pop, can hit bad pitches, and is a fun at-bat, while the other is your average palooka with a wood stick. |
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By your third or fourth at-bat, your hand has taken a pounding. |
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Both Broome and Jahn have seen a segment of the at-bat on restored film. |
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He came within several feet of homering in his first big-league at-bat, his first-inning double hitting halfway up the wall in right-center July 16 against the Mariners. |
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In his first at-bat, the touted slugger reached on an infield hit. |
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Jeter fell behind 0-2 before homering to left, and O'Neill had almost the exact same at-bat against Paul Assenmacher, homering on an 0-2 pitch. |
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Pinch-hitting for reliever Elmer Dessens, Marlon Anderson singled in his first at-bat as a Dodger. |
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No at-bat occurs that hasn't actually happened in a Major League game, and players can strategize around righty and lefty pitching matchups. |
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Ashley, who seems to average an appearance per every 42 days, connected against left-handed reliever Tony Fossas in a pinch at-bat in the eighth. |
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There was a 3-0 pitch that was called a strike that was not, the check swing in his first at-bat and the check swing in the final at-bat. |
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The Hall of Famer Al Simmons of the Philadelphia Athletics made a similar splash in 1930, homering in his first at-bat on opening day after ending a springlong holdout. |
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