He's moving from a hitters park inhabited by a wretched Royals squad to a neutral park with a good defensive team and pitching coach Leo Mazzone. |
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He also pitches to the score, working carefully in tight games and challenging hitters with a big lead. |
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There are lots of guys out there now who aren't prodigious hitters of the golf ball but are wonderful shotmakers. |
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The talk was about knockdown pitches thrown to hitters who had showboated after hitting home runs. |
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Power hitters can lose their mojo very, very quickly, and there were whispers before last night that Sammy might have hit the wall. |
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His sidearm delivery is tough on right-handed hitters because the fastball moves down and in on them. |
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As a middle and long reliever, Pina continued to fool hitters with his sidearm delivery and deceptive palmball. |
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Shouse, 33, is a longtime minor leaguer who developed a sidearm delivery to use against left-handed hitters last year. |
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When used in nonsave situations, Escobar seemed frustrated by bleeps, infield-in bleeders and an inability to put hitters away with two strikes. |
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He's one of the Southern League's most dominant hitters at the age of twenty, and his numbers reflect a huge breakout down the road. |
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Today's broad-shouldered, thick-armed hitters make those players look, well, ordinary-sized. |
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His argument was that umpires weren't doing anything about illegal spitballers, so hitters felt justified in corking their bats. |
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Wood's high fastball is tough to catch up to, and if umpires call it a strike, hitters must chase it. |
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Ainsworth is the best of the three, and if he mows down Pacific Coast League hitters, the team will be tempted to call him up. |
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The fairway tilts right-to-left, so the camber goes the right way, but long hitters can miss it and go into the trees. |
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The bill lets politicians express solidarity with constituents who lost their jobs, without offending big hitters. |
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It is not about home runs and strikeouts, Hall of Fame hitters and knockdown pitchers. |
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Bernero has savvy and changes speeds, but hitters sometimes sit on his off-speed stuff. |
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When the team puts runners in scoring position, hitters are overanxious and tend to swing at bad pitches early in the count. |
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The hitters have been overanxious and are pressing too much in clutch situations. |
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His sharp-breaking curveball fooled hitters in early batting practice sessions. |
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The hard-throwing Weaver has a knack for challenging left-handed hitters in a manner that reminds me of a young Frank Tanana. |
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Instead of trying to overpower hitters, he throws hittable balls and lets his team's defense do the work. |
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In the past, Pirates hitters have been too eager to hack at the first hittable pitch. |
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When he has fallen behind hitters, he has overthrown, trying to blow his fastball past hitters. |
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Not to mention he accomplished this playing his home games in Yankee Stadium, a difficult park for righthanded hitters. |
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He has not been that productive at Dolphins Stadium, a park considered unfriendly to lefthanded power hitters. |
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The shape of the park challenged left and right fielders in playing caroms off the walls on long drives by opposing hitters. |
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This course with its wide-open fairways and long total yards tends to be good for the long, straight, hitters. |
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His cut fastball has been very effective, especially against righthanded hitters. |
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Pitchers aim to keep hitters off-balance by mixing their pitches, such as following a fastball with a changeup. |
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He is one of the fastest players and most fearless hitters on the team, even at a mere 195 pounds. |
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The lineup, laden with veterans, has proven hitters with good defense in center field and at the infield corners. |
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Both are righthanded hitters who can play the infield and outfield corners. |
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He has been criticized for using one pitch too often or failing to set up hitters. |
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He was determined to go after hitters rather than trying to make the perfect pitch. |
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Pinch hitters have almost all of their chances against fireballing, late-inning relief pitchers capable of breaking bats and crippling wills. |
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His play in October has enhanced his standing as one of the game's top young hitters. |
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But through 42 games, Giants hitters had been plunked 13 times, which projects to 50 for the season. |
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Fortunately for the team, second base and left field are positions where leadoff hitters can be found, making the task a little easier. |
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White Sox hitters were consistently late on the fastball, hitting four foul balls in the inning. |
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He is the most damnably varied of the big hitters currently in action in contemporary art. |
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Unlike some minor league power hitters who struggle with major league curveballs, he can hit breaking pitches as well as fastballs. |
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His most successful pitch has been a slow curveball that has been especially tough on right-handed hitters. |
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Radar gun readings gauge the raw ability of pitchers, but no such measure exists for hitters. |
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As hitters gear up, he gears down, recording outs with changeups traveling as slowly as 68 mph. |
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It's reasonable to suppose that good psychics, like good hitters in baseball, succeed only a modest fraction of the time. |
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Lefthanded hitters pull the ball, and sure-handed righthanders slap the ball to the opposite field. |
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The reaction so far has been a sweeping condemnation of the team's hitters, who are described as inept and puny and feeble. |
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Before last season, he had been one of the most durable players in the game, as well as one of the best fastball hitters. |
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When he's not, the batting order is thrown out of whack, with hitters moved into slots they are not suited to. |
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In his 14-year career, he whiffed only 114 times, fewer times than many of today's hitters strike out in one season. |
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If he does play, however, he will face a keen battle of wits with England's big hitters. |
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There's no place like home for Jays hitters, who believe no opponent's lead is safe, no matter how large. |
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One of the concerns going into the season was how the club would fare against lefties, because the team had six lefthanded hitters in its lineup. |
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Starting in the 4th inning he pitches lefthanded whenever Baltimore's lefty hitters are at bat. |
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Sirotka doesn't blow hitters away with a big fastball, but he throws a lethal sinker and gets a lot of groundouts. |
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We prefer big hitters who can't field a lick to gold-glove shortstops with their.243 batting averages. |
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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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He earned the dough to bring this asinine concept to life, and has even recruited some heavy hitters to nurture it. |
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Unless you'd rather believe that the Yankee hitters all hate him and are tanking deliberately in games when he starts. |
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He baffles hitters with an awkward delivery, a hard fastball and a Frisbee slider. |
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He is in front of his locker, placing written scouting reports and color-coded charts on Orioles hitters into neat stacks on the floor. |
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Shrinking ballparks, postage-stamp strike zones, rocket-fueled baseballs and laboratory-powered hitters are just a few factors. |
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While smaller ballparks have juiced home run totals, they have the opposite advantage on gap-to-gap hitters who utilize expanses of grass. |
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With four hitters in the lineup like the ones you mention, it wouldn't matter much where the manager placed them in the batting order. |
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He dominated hitters, posting the top numbers in ERA, strikeout-to-walk, and the batting average of opposing hitters. |
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Cleveland hitters swung at and missed five of the 79 pitches. |
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Trying to outdrive other long hitters was irresistible to me. |
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The thick infield grass at Wrigley Field has helped the Cubs in recent years because their infielders haven't had much range and their hitters thrived on the long ball. |
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He aims for the right hip of lefthanded hitters, and if the sinker breaks properly, they are unable to take a good hack as it crosses the inner half of the plate. |
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He was one of the greatest right-handed hitters of all time. |
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He wants his pitchers to be willing to challenge hitters and believes they'll build confidence when they find they can get major league hitters out. |
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Every team has a couple of Kreskins, decent hitters who seem to be on every pitch for a week or two when their personal Ouija boards line up with their biorhythms. |
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The team acquired two superstar hitters during the off-season. |
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Clearly, even as starters, these pitchers were lethal to opposing hitters. |
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There is no denying that Penman is an intuitive journalist with immense skills, but he remains unknown to the majority of big hitters in Scottish business. |
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Neither do we include Wall Street big hitters who spend time in London. |
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Luka hitters had eight hits and many chances to score over the course of the game, but were unable to do so, due to some key miscues with runners in scoring position. |
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The Royals are 30th, having used just 59 pinch hitters all season. |
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The coalition now includes some of the country's heaviest financial hitters, pension fund managers and mutual fund honchos that control a half-trillion in assets. |
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This was a year when the big hitters in the book industry paid vast sums for huge, often very self-important books which swiftly wound up in the remainder bins. |
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Clutch hitters don't necessarily post a sparkling overall average. |
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This requires a long tee shot but big hitters are able to cut the corner. |
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His control also is very good, though he won't overpower many hitters. |
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When Rocky received this somewhat exaggerated and highly unfavorable profile of them he assigned three of his heaviest hitters to consummate the transaction. |
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High school and college hitters who use aluminum bats often develop longer, less efficient swings because the bats' larger sweet spots give them greater margin for error. |
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There are other big hitters on this, like David Guetta, Zedd and hitmaker supreme Ryan Tedder of OneRepublic. |
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That pitcher doesn't like the hitters too close to the plate so every once in a while he'll dust off a batter. |
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He was calm, elusive and able to frustrate those who faced him, especially heavy hitters. |
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The overshift works well against left-handed hitters who pull the ball farthest to the right. |
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The two Super League big hitters were out to hammer home their title credentials and Sneddon reckons both sides did exactly that. |
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Pinch hitters, defensive replacements, pinch runners, and relief pitchers contribute much during the course of a season. |
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When questioned on his presence among the heavy hitters, Kaye refused to comment. |
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Going into Friday's game, Angels designated hitters were hitting a combined. |
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The reality is that today's lineup will be another patchwork job by manager Mike Scioscia as he tries simply to find nine healthy hitters. |
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Cooper appeared to run out of gas in the seventh, when he walked two consecutive hitters with one out. |
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Aluminum bats, which had replaced wood in the college game in 1974, were so potent they made Babe Ruths out of banjo hitters. |
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Khan said his side has plenty of big hitters as well as players who can bat through the 20 overs in England's testing conditions. |
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In the late 1980s and early 1990s Everton were the big hitters in the transfer market. |
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In the late 1980s and early 1990s we were the big hitters in the transfer market. |
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Generally speaking, young pitchers try to trick 2-2 hitters by throwing too fine or throwing breaking balls. |
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We want to teach hitters to be tough outs, not necessarily great hitters, but tough outs. |
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He helps the coaching staff by throwing batting practice, hitting fungoes and doing soft-toss work with hitters. |
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That risk paid off when the market became glutted with free-agent designated hitters and first basemen. |
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In the whole 20-year period it has existed, can you think of any designated hitters who could unambiguously be classified as all stars? |
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Herschelle Gibbs and Graeme Smith are formidable hitters and they have some good manoeuvrers like AB de Villiers and JP Duminy in the middle order. |
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You 're lezzers. A couple of beanflickers, gaplappers, switch hitters. |
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In trying to draw that elusive fourth ball, many coaches prefer their hitters to move up to the extreme front of the box or hunch over the plate in an effort to conceal it. |
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The new Euro 3 is already attracting the attention of some heavy hitters. |
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The pace-of-game rules were talked about, the manager said, and one clarification was that hitters only have to keep one foot in the batter's box after they take a pitch. |
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Rick Southall, Harvey Hargrove and Kuzmic are the designated hitters. |
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We've enjoyed seeing Simon Cowell's emerging touchy-feely side and the acts so far, but it'd be great to crank up the excitement with a few more big hitters. |
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All of our machines are designed to develop muscle memory and hand-eye coordination, and give hitters as many game-like strikes as they will ever need. |
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In that match, behind outside hitters Courtney Alberi and Layne Castro and junior setter Taylor Kasha, the Vikings were able to hold off a pressuring Centurions team. |
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