The pitching staff has hit enough batters and thrown enough wild pitches to be on pace to set major league records in both areas. |
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He often fields ground balls behind second base and makes the throw to first to put out batters. |
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Besides all the hits, Post 115 hurlers issued eight walks, hit two batters and wild-pitched three runs home. |
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The indifferent weather is affecting the outcome of matches as batters are finding it hard to get any rhythm. |
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Pitchers don't just wind up and let go, they throw to spots, which makes batters far more likely victims. |
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Once upon an era, batters cheated by corking their bats or taking uppers to keep themselves stimulated. |
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I predict he climbs an even higher mountain in the off season and comes back in 2013 to pwn even more batters. |
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Even Tiant's repertoire of pace-changing wind-ups did little to confuse the Reds' batters. |
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The team that's batting always has two batters on the field at one time. The team in the field always has at least two pitchers, or bowlers. |
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Ross, in his book, explains the most common baseball statistics for evaluating batters. |
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Chuck Finley struck out four batters in one inning three times, twice with the Angels and once with the Indians. |
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Going both ways is a good thing with regard to two-way streets, switch-hitting batters and special football players. |
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It becomes easier with height as the wall batters in, and the gap between the face of the wall and the corner of the pillar increases. |
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She batters her tom-toms at a tempo either ahead of or behind the guitars and vocals. |
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Mulder hit two batters and walked Young in the third, but got out of that with a pop-out and grounder. |
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Chambers walked eight batters and struck out four in a game that took two hours and one minute to play. |
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Only a handful of pitchers in major league history have struck out 19 batters in a game. |
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Can you tell me what the major league record is for most consecutive batters retired by a pitcher and who holds it? |
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Taiwan got the next two batters out, but Chang made another error, bobbling a ball hit by Chris Snopek. |
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He allowed just one hit and one unearned run in five innings while striking out eight batters. |
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While the batters exhibited marked improvements in temperament, they are still unfit for the long haul. |
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Well, crude oil prices are spiking as the hurricane batters oil production facilities in and around the Gulf of Mexico. |
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Turner began the game in dominating form, striking out four of the first six batters he faced. |
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He consistently is around the plate and can retire batters with strikeouts or by forcing them to hit the ball on the ground. |
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The fact of the matter is that the best batters and outfielders will come from India, even from the non-Test playing First Class cricket pool. |
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Some batters take a see-ball-hit-ball approach to their job, but many others try to outguess pitchers and anticipate what's coming. |
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He's also constantly jamming left-handed batters with his cut fastball and using his 92-mph fastball to get ahead in counts. |
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And why do batters feel as if they're hitting a bowling ball when they connect against certain pitchers' deliveries? |
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It requires retiring all twenty-seven batters in order, without allowing a single runner. |
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When our batters try to get out, they drop the catches and when our bowlers bowl them full tosses they pat them back as catches to the fielders. |
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The Steinbach ace faced only 15 batters in the contest, fanning 13 of them. |
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Pitcher Troy Pruess blew the Brothers batters from the box, conceding just three hits and fanning 12 batters at the plate. |
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On June 11, he retired two batters to end the seventh, then loaded the bases against two lefty hitters and a switch hitter in the eighth. |
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Disparaging exchanges between batters and plate umpires have always been part of baseball. |
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Two batters later he faced Andy Phillips, who was making his major-league debut. |
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Vizquel's barehanded plays on slow bounding balls and Alomar's far-reaching range constantly frustrate opposing batters. |
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Carillon sent 10 batters to the plate in the seventh scoring four runs on four walks, two base hits and two errors. |
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Neither starter was dominating against the opposing batters, but both managed to keep the game close with some fine defensive help and key outs in clutch moments. |
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Personally, I tend to favor pitchers who throw more innings with fewer hits, earned runs, and home runs allowed while also striking out more batters. |
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We use them to thicken sauces and bind crisp batters to succulent, deep-fried treats. |
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This year, Rusch sports a tighter, bigger-breaking curve, and he has been using a sidearm delivery occasionally on breaking pitches to left-handed batters. |
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Among the pots and pans was a dog-eared ledger book with faded batters. |
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In that game, Gibson struck out 17 Detroit Tiger batters, a record that still stands. |
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In each inning both teams bat, until three of the batters are declared out by either three strikes delivered by the pitcher, or a catch by a fielder. |
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He strikes out the lead-off man, then walks the next three batters. |
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On the mound, he had also nailed three Oriole batters with pitches. |
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Tewkesbury saucer batters are small baked puddings made by quickly baking two saucerfuls of batter, putting fruit on one and inverting the other on top of it to make a lid. |
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A pitcher retires the first two batters in the top of the first inning. |
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In the sixth, after left-handed pitcher Carleton Hargrove hit the first two batters, Daniel Stovall sent a would-be Texas leaguer into right field. |
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The batters had to wait, watch for the spin and break of the screwball. |
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Babineau hit a one-out triple to center in the fourth, but was stranded when the next two batters popped up. |
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If a ball is delivered well, batters must try to hit the ball and must run regardless of whether the ball is hit. |
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Newhouser was the toast of the town for his masterful, 11 to 0 shutout in which he struck out 10 batters. |
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But Hughes has been hitting the mid-90s on the radar gun with his fastball, and striking batters out. |
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Red Sox knuckleballer Tim Wakefield kept the Blue Jays batters off balance as Boston scored a 6-4 win over Toronto at Fenway Park on Wednesday. |
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The Eagles had leadoff batters reach base in the fifth and sixth but couldn't execute sacrifice bunts in both innings, hurting its chances. |
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Mergansers and scoters commute between feeding and roosting areas on the sea, and occasionally a great crested grebe, or auk batters past. |
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This crispness is thanks to adding cornmeal flour, which is widely used in Indian cookery, particularly in batters. |
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I remember conditions were swingy and I think I surprised the batters with slightly more pace than they thought I had. |
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These batters are goofproof, so feel free to experiment with spices or extracts for other flavor combos. |
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Helped with three double-play grounders the junior right-hander induced, Larson faced the minimum 21 batters through seven innings. |
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Then 16 of the ensuing 21 batters struck out, as the team managed just one bunt single, two walks and two groundouts over the final six innings. |
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The right-hander walked four batters, hit another, and made two throwing errors on attempted pickoffs. |
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He was successful in getting ahead of batters, and he helped himself out there with the pickoffs. |
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The pitcher has fanned six batters in the first three innings. |
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Ishii unleashed a pair of wild forkballs, but the left-hander showed off a slider that froze left-handed batters. |
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Two batters prior to Blake's home run, Andre Ethier was up to bat facing a 3-1 count and Rafael Furcal was at first base. |
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Foster compiled an earned run average of just over 1, walked only 12 batters all season and struck out 52 to earn the selection of Hometeam Magazine Player of the Year. |
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The 38-year-old right-hander retired three batters on a groundout, a popout and a strikeout in a 13-pitch outing, increasing his chances of throwing again later in the month. |
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But he started Friday's game by retiring the first six batters he faced, with three groundballs in the first inning and three strikeouts in the second. |
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Loaiza walked consecutive batters in the second inning, struck out Chris Young and then surrendered a three-run homer to Chris Snyder on a cut fastball. |
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A new interactive system called XaviX hooks up to your television and lets you control onscreen bowlers, baseball batters, and tennis players without a joystick. |
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The Athletics' first three batters reached in the fourth, and after a fielder's choice at home plate on Menechino's nubber, Park walked Jeremy Giambi to force in a run. |
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Incredible power-ups will also be available in The BIGS 2, including the ability for players to crush Big Blast home runs and throw Big Heat fastballs past opposing batters. |
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Contreras, who threw 44 of her 61 pitches for strikes, retired the first 12 batters until Coleen Cain broke the trend with a lead-off single in the fifth. |
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The meal, coarse or fine, is then used for samps, mushes, or batters, and cakes, thick or thin, and of many varieties and degrees of wholesomeness. |
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There is no limit for the number of batters a team may list. |
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The bases are marked with posts, which batters must keep in contact with and fielders must 'stump', and only one 'good' ball needs to be thrown before a batter must run. |
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In the 1970s Seaver knew that batters could connect for a long ball at almost any time, so he had to be able to reach back and strike a hitter out if necessary. |
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Raw or undercooked eggs or foods containing raw or undercooked eggs, including certain homemade salad dressings, homemade cookie dough and cake batters, and homemade eggnog. |
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