Dye is a fine hitter when healthy, but he hasn't made it through any of the past three seasons unscathed. |
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He was an instant power hitter, and never mind that at 5 feet 11 inches and 180 pounds, he was hardly a Brobdingnagian presence. |
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Berard is the potential home run hitter who hasn't found his long-ball stroke just yet. |
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A right-handed hitter, he will be even more of a threat when he can execute a push bunt as well as a drag bunt. |
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Ted was basically a dead lowball hitter when he came into the league and didn't hit the high fastball too well. |
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I don't know if he's the best catcher, but he certainly can be the best hitter among these backstops. |
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The next time a hitter comes up after his team has just gone for back-to-back homers, you watch and decide. |
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At a game last week, a hitter popped the ball up in foul territory, right by the first base bag. |
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He was a better hitter and base runner than either Phil Rizzuto or Pee Wee Reese. |
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He's one of the fastest players in baseball, and he handles the bat well for a young hitter. |
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No drug can eliminate that mental torment when a hitter is supposed to deliver or a pitcher is supposed to succeed. |
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A left-handed hitter pulls a single to right field, scoring the runner from second and sending the other to third. |
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One idea is to require pitching prospects to come to the plate in the minor leagues, even in leagues that allow a designated hitter. |
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Riley, a reserve outside hitter from Texas, converted a kill on game point to tie the match. |
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He is not an ideal second hitter, because he doesn't drive the ball into the gaps and isn't a run producer. |
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Whenever a hitter bloops a ball into the outfield during the day or at twilight, Wilson has a tough time picking it up. |
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He was a bloop hitter to right field, but he got around on a high fastball, and it jumped out of the ballpark. |
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One of the more uncouth retorts was delivered by a hitter when the ump called a strike on a shoulder-high fastball. |
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Throw the ball down the middle and let the action on his pitches fool the hitter. |
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He's consistent, powerful, a huge hitter and, most importantly, he has bags of confidence and momentum just now. |
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Staying with the body beautiful, cosmetic dentistry is set to become this year's big hitter. |
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He is a switch hitter who has a severe uppercut, resulting in too many fly balls. |
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His quick and strong wrists, his reflex action, and keen eyesight all figured in his ability to succeed as a hitter. |
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He continued to talk inside baseball, following the trades and rumors, in particular the team's need find a left-handed hitter. |
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Delgado, who considers himself a gap-to-gap hitter, says that through all of the seasons he has faced shifts, he never has attempted to bunt. |
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He is known as a streak hitter who, when he does get dialed in, can carry a team on his back. |
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Has there been a more productive hitter in the American League the past 15 years than Thomas? |
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Can you tell me the hitter and pitcher who played the longest in the minors without ever appearing in a major league game? |
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During that time, the Yankees showed how much they miss their cleanup hitter. |
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The general manager went into the off-season looking for a leadoff hitter, cleanup hitter and closer. |
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No hitter has ever cut so well, and his footwork enabled him to cut balls even on his leg stump, or pull them to leg from outside his off stump. |
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One way to see how well a hitter covers the plate is by looking at a batting average heat map of the strike zone. |
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He recently learned to play the outfield corners and is an outstanding pinch hitter. |
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The number of runs scored by a home run doesn't depend on the hitter, but on how many runners are already on base. |
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I'm not the type of hitter you would try to pitch around, I'm not a McGwire who can hit the ball out on each swing. |
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She definitely didn't want to let the cat out of the bag about her being a switch hitter. |
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Primarily a first baseman and outfielder, he also played 62 games as a designated hitter. |
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A patient power hitter, he led the National League in home runs twice and in walks four times. |
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Gonzalez would bat cleanup and play right field or be the designated hitter. |
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He is an excellent cleanup hitter who makes contact and delivers in the clutch. |
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A fierce hitter who is tough against the ran, he has proved wrong the skeptics who doubted he was durable enough to be a longtime starter. |
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Next are right fielders with 21 followed by left field, center field, third and second base, shortstop, catcher and designated hitter. |
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He is a decent hitter, has great patience at the plate and is defensively solid. |
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He has speed and defense on his side, but riding the bench surely won't help him develop as a hitter. |
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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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The two glaring needs are a leadoff hitter with speed who can play center and a third baseman who can make contact and drive in runs. |
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He also had 240 hits and became the first leadoff hitter ever to drive in 100 runs. |
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A dead lowball hitter with a loop in his swing, Lankford this season has been swinging at too many pitches up in the zone. |
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He's a dependable No 5 hitter who might develop into a cleanup hitter. |
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In 1973, the American League introduced the designated hitter rule on an experimental basis in hopes it would help attendance and liven up the game. |
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Darius is a punishing hitter who provides dynamite run support. |
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Vernon, an excellent hitter who had won the 1946 batting title with a.353 mark, rapped two singles in four at-bats against Joe Coleman, including a bunt. |
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Guerrero, 27, is one of the game's most electrifying players, a hitter equally adept at crushing pitches that are a foot over his head or an inch off the ground. |
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The hitter cracks a deep fly ball, playable down the left field line. |
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Staying with the body beautiful, cosmetic dentistry, once the prerogative of American mid-west beauty queens, is set to become this year's big hitter. |
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Former Florencia 13 heavy hitter Alfred Lomas says that gang members were far from the only participants in the riots. |
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The fifth hitter Tony Lazzeri, no slouch himself, watched four pitches miss wide and drew a walk. |
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He strikes out a lot, but he was the most patient hitter on the club, seeing the most pitches per plate appearance and drawing 86 walks last season. |
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Pohl once was the longest hitter on tour, even though he faded the ball. |
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The focus will now switch to the other bidder still in the race, a consortium of venture capital companies headed by merchant banking heavy hitter Goldman Sachs. |
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As a swan song, he is playing Madison Square Garden in a career-canvassing concert that brings together almost every heavy hitter in the field of modern hip-hop. |
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Pound for pound he is probably the longest hitter in golf, and when his streaky putter clicks, he is capable of overpowering any course or opponent. |
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Their catcher, first baseman, shortstop, third baseman, centerfielder, and designated hitter all rank among the top four at their position in the minors. |
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With all of the starting spots filled, the Mariners may try to land a hitter who can share time in the outfield and come off the bench late in games. |
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I have always maintained that Mickey Mantle was a more devastating hitter right-handed than left-handed, but have never had the statistics to support my argument. |
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The big hitter who plays first base has represented New Zealand 116 times. |
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He doesn't want to surrender the advantage he has as a fine hitter. |
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On any other pitch, except a pitchout, the hitter should make an effort to put the ball on the ground. |
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This year's heavy hitter is Bobby Bonilla, the Pirates' slugger who's seeking to hit the biggest home run of his life. |
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This is a heavy hitter list including the likes of Tiger Woods, LeBron James, and Alex Rodriguez. |
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For Yamana, its El Penon mine in Chile is its heavy hitter, with production expectations of 450,000 to 500,000 ounces per year. |
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He's in a jam now, having walked the bases loaded with the cleanup hitter coming to bat. |
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I'll be sending a pinch hitter to do the presentation because I have the flu. |
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The average ball player can become an effective switch hitter only if he has switched hit from the time he commenced playing. |
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Littlerock was led by outside hitter Mike Kreel, who had 19 kills and eight digs. |
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Jace Peterson showed why he's Eugene's leadoff hitter, but Matthew Colantonio proved he could fit that spot as well. |
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Kubenka allowed a sac fly to pinch hitter Quilvio Veras that tied the game at seven. |
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The 30-day squat challenge has become a Liverpool fitness phenomenon while squats have become a big hitter on Twitter. |
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In golf, if you're up against a real big hitter, the last thing you do is try to compete with him. |
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Agoura's other big hitter of the night was right fielder Matt Prater, who went 2 for 3, including a leadoff triple in the seventh inning. |
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A pinch hitter named Pickle Smith was announced for Jacksonville. |
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But while he was throwing harder shots he was being outworked by the busier Hertfordshire hitter, who caught the eye with slick combinations. |
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Designated hitter Joe Reddington hit a two-run triple in the seventh to pace visiting Central Mass. |
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Coaches didn't know whether to put in a pinch hitter or a pinch runner for us and often tried to do both. |
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The 21-year-old big hitter is a hardcourt specialist but Murray was impressed by his display on clay. |
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This has more relevance in the Japan market, where the heavy hitter of the new five-machine range, the DMR-E90H, houses a 120-GB hard disk. |
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On the other hand, the sales manager may choose not to discipline a heavy hitter because it could cause a serious problem. |
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With the flat and unfunny Culture of Desire, though, this heavy hitter strikes out. |
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But you tell us which story is bigger, the one about hizzoner in left field or the one about the heavy hitter in the mayor's chair. |
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For a strong power hitter with a reputation for hitting balls out of the ballpark, Billy became an even more intriguing hitter. |
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Expect a breakout softball season for Valencia infielder Jessica Spigner, who could develop into the Foothill League's most feared power hitter. |
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They're looking for a prototypical leadoff hitter,'' Butler said. |
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Microsoft was the next heavy hitter on the list of earnings announcements. |
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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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Our leadoff hitter has more chins than a Chinese phone book. |
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The key for a pinch hitter is you can't let the manager surprise you. |
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Holden French's two-run single in the seventh broke a 2-2 tie, a half inning after pinch hitter Tyler Anderson's two-run single gave Devlin a 2-1 lead. |
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Winfield played 23 years, the majority of them in the American League, in the kingdom of the designated hitter, where he and others like him ruled. |
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Fan balloting will determine the eight position players in each league, and the designated hitter in the American League, who will start the All-Star Game. |
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First baseman Jeff Barbale went 2 for 4 with a double and three RBIs and designated hitter Matt Vaccaro collected two hits and one RBI for Shrewsbury. |
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Pierre's speed makes him a logical leadoff hitter, but his OBP and the fact he walked just 32 times in 750 plate appearances make him anything but a perfect one. |
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Apparently, the hitter had let go of the bat and conked him over the head. |
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Despite his reputation as a big hitter in the live arena, the unlikely nerve centre for his multi-million-pound enterprise is a tiny boxroom in his Edinburgh flat. |
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We want to let guys walk onto his shots because he's a big hitter as well. |
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Guerrero will never be confused with a patient hitter, but in this series his free-swinging ways resulted only in weak dribblers, rather than booming line drives. |
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If a base hit or out is recorded, the defense has 10 seconds to get the ball in and the offense has 10 seconds to get the next hitter into the batter's box. |
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Left-handed relief specialist Reuben Kerbs is summoned by JetHawks manager Bill Plummer to face a tough left-handed hitter in a crucial situation late in the game. |
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Steve Martin introduced his innovative sales system in Heavy Hitter Selling. |
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Past recipients of the Big Hitter Award include Senator David Williams and Centre College and the City of Danville for hosting of the Vice Presidential debate. |
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