How To Use Strike zone In A Sentence
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Management multiplied the camera angles, narrowed the strike zone, sodded the diamonds and the gridirons with AstroTurf, enlarged the jumbotrons, shortened the distance to the outfield fences, strengthened the golf clubs, adjusted the rules and the clocks to allow more time for the beer and truck commercials, bulked up the salaries paid to players bulked up to resemble the designated hitters in World of Warcraft.
Lewis Lapham: Field of Dreams: The CIA and Me and Other Adventures in American Sports
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Lugo projects to have good at-bats against left-handed pitcher Franklin Morales because Lugo is a good high ball hitter and Morales tends to make most of his mistakes up in the strike zone.
Scout's take: Boston Red Sox lineup analysis
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You're taught, in fact, to call a rulebook strike zone and that the runner has to beat the ball to the bag in order to be called safe.
Undefined
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But courtesy and confirmation Kabuki prevented her from outright discrediting Roberts 'claim that the strike zone of the rulebook is the same as the strike zone of live play.
Eric Liu: The Real Meaning of Balls and Strikes
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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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He expects to profit from the high strike mostly when he throws his overhand curve which breaks late into the strike zone.
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Knowing doesn't help you when you swing at something five feet out of the strike zone.
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As players were getting bigger, ballparks and strike zones were getting smaller, bats and baseballs were getting harder and the quality of pitching was declining.
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Suppan sports a 5.34 ERA and has been hanging his fastballs and off-speed stuff in the strike zone.
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The final pitch of the night was perfectly in the strike zone and perfectly gloved by the catcher.
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He usually throws it high in the strike zone, which results in more fly balls than grounders.
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Yet, his short, quick swing and sharp eye for the strike zone still make him a demanding test for opposing pitchers brave enough to try to outfox him when he's in the batter's box.
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As long as the ump is consistent, minor differences in the strike zone from ump to ump can be accommodated.
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Looking at the numbers, what jumps out as different between 2007 and 2009 are isolated power and zone% - i.e. how hard the ball is hit and how often a pitch ends up in the strike zone.
Lookout Landing
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Pitchers in the Gibon era pitched off a mound that was nearly a foot higher than the current one, they had the advantage of a larger strike zone, and they were allowed to use the beanball to injure and intimidate at will.
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The strike zone shall be determined from the batter's stance as the batter is prepared to swing at a pitched ball.
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Management multiplied the camera angles, narrowed the strike zone, sodded the diamonds and the gridirons with AstroTurf, enlarged the jumbotrons, shortened the distance to the outfield fences, strengthened the golf clubs, adjusted the rules and the clocks to allow more time for the beer and truck commercials, bulked up the salaries paid to players bulked up to resemble the designated hitters in World of Warcraft.
Lewis Lapham: Field of Dreams: The CIA and Me and Other Adventures in American Sports
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Instead, over time, the umps have made the adjustment to a lower and wider strike zone from the higher and tighter one.
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Good low ball hitters from the left side of the plate, such as designated hitter David Ortiz and right fielder J.D. Drew, will take away Fogg's ability to use his slider effectively out of the strike zone.
Scout's take: Fogg vs. Matsuzaka in Game 3
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Tight strike zones; the area the umps are calling is about the size of a basketball.
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All 68 major-league umpires went through orientation sessions this winter and have vowed to create a uniform strike zone.
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When the pitcher throws to the batter, it is a strike if he swings and misses, if he hits the pitch into foul territory, or if he does not swing at a pitch in the strike zone.
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I seem to recall that when he was stopped after hitting in 44 straight games, he said the opposing pitcher should have grooved him a fastball right down the heart of the strike zone so he could continue his streak.
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For the Cardinal slugger, the sweet spot is a fast ball pitched to the lower-right corner of the strike zone.
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He expects to profit from the high strike mostly when he throws his overhand curve which breaks late into the strike zone.
