How To Use Strikeout In A Sentence
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Looking for starting pitchers with two starts during a given week will usually give an edge in "counting" categories such as wins and strikeouts, but two bad outings can ruin your "average" categories like ERA and WHIP.
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With nearly 700 plate appearances in 2000, Sweeney whiffed just 67 times and had more walks than strikeouts for the second consecutive season.
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Blyleven led the league in complete games once, shutouts three times, innings pitched twice and strikeouts once.
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The strikeout is essentially the pitcher's unassisted contribution to the game.
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Gardner: Kazmir might be the top pick in strikeout leagues, but I'd definitely give Haren the edge in 4x4, maybe by a couple of dollars over Kazmir.
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The strikeout numbers stayed low, with Barry never whiffing 70 times in a season.
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The righthander had four strikeouts and waled one, but failed to last six innings for just the second time in 14 starts.
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Only two pitchers with 3,000 or more strikeouts failed to win a league strikeout title.
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Montgomery's split-finger fastball is his strikeout pitch.
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Don Sutton and Orel Hershiser launched brilliant careers after rookie years where they exhibited similar strikeout dominance and control.
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It is not about home runs and strikeouts, Hall of Fame hitters and knockdown pitchers.
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The eighth was a strikeout, the ninth a pop fly to first base, the 10th a foul pop to the catcher.
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Eric Gagne recorded his ninth save, Andy Ashby went out and pitched eight innings of one-hit, eight-strikeout ball as the Dodgers swept a doubleheader from the Cubs
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Ten men won the privilege of batting against baseball's all-time strikeouts king as part of a promotion for a candy bar.
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So he was farmed out for a month with instructions to delay his swing a bit, go to right field more often, improve his bunting and reduce strikeouts.
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He started the year in the bullpen, where he was issuing more walks than strikeouts.
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Ain't no jibba jabbaBottom 7th: Bryan Shaw is a good choice as relief pitcher for the Dbacks striking out three, McGeHee, Hart and Morgan, with Nyjer looking particularly inelegant as he falls and simultaneously flings his bat towards the dugout in his strikeout swing.
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Buoyed by Logan's strikeout, the Yankees loaded the bases in the next inning, and scored three runs on a single, a double play groundout by Robinson Cano, and a Nick Swisher double that gave them the 3-2 lead.
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Microsoft Word has this this editing thing called redline/strikethrough or strikeout or something.
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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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In this day of home runs and strikeouts, I would like to know how many players have hit 40 home runs in a season without fanning more than 50 times?
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The next year, he finished second among all minor league pitchers with 187 strikeouts.
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GAINESVILLE -- The Lakeview Academy baseball team got 10 strikeouts from Tyler Ward as the Lions surged past Towns County 7-2 on Saturday in Gainesville.
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His "battler" reputation can't rehabilitate an unsustainably low strikeout rate (49 in 121 innings), though he will be helped by the Feliz addition.
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A strikeout is not a good out in that situation. ''
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There are times when a strikeout is just another out.
Globe and Mail
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His one strikeout also tied his career-low as a starter.
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While Smith, a sidearmer, doesn't have the velocity to pile up strikeouts, he helps himself by fielding his position well.
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But for locals, it appears there's more to cheer about than Yankee third baseman Alex Rodriguez's game-ending strikeout, or the Dallas Cowboys' second-half collapse against the Lions last Sunday.
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Scouts rave about your raw power, but you've also piled up a lot of strikeouts.
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Lilly set a club record for strikeouts by a left-hander - the previous mark of 11 was accomplished twice by David Wells and once by Al Leiter.
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He retired five by groundout, three by fly out and Ryan Howard by strikeout.
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One Activision Keystone Kapers cartridge for Atari 2600, borrowed by you, claimed lost, $19.99; one baseball bat shattered in anger, without apology after humiliating strikeout, $7.99; one green swordtail fish, leapt to its death after you opened aquarium lid, chased it with net, $0.79.
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Spin: Moyer generally doesn't have a lot of fantasy value in strikeout leagues, but he's someone who is consistent and reliable.
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Even though Valenzuela led the National League in complete games, shutouts, innings pitched and strikeouts, Seaver, as you mention, had a better won-lost record.
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He is an uppercutting power hitter with a reputation for frequent bad strikeouts and the occasional moonshot.
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He was traded to the Detroit Tigers in 1938 and actually beat Bob Feller when the Cleveland fireballer set the strikeout record at 18.
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Questioned about his 43 whiffs in 250 at-bats, Furcal says strikeouts are part of the game.
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Harper entered the game in the bottom of the fifth, as a pinch-hitter for Jayson Werth, who went 0 for 1 with a walk in a strikeout in his Nationals debut.
Bryce Harper records his first hit during Nationals spring training
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The big righthander had been working on a streak of five outings of 10 or more whiffs, including back-to-back games of 15 strikeouts heading into his start vs. Arizona.
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Both players mix OK strikeout numbers with good groundball rates, and both are workhorses with solid control.
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Andy Van Hekken, Detroit ($4): Sure, you don't want him in strikeout leagues because that's three categories (strikeouts, saves and wins being a Tiger) where he can't help you.
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In his career, he issued 70 walks in 160 innings pitched and collected 50 strikeouts.
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He averages just under a strikeout per inning and should develop into a top power pitcher.
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No other rookie hurler with at least 150 innings has ever had more than nine strikeouts and fewer than three walks per nine innings.
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Roger Clemens owners in strikeout leagues should expect K's.
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With one out in the ninth and the strikeout total at 25, the next batter hit a high foul ball between first and home plate.
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Last year, he was one home run from a 40-40 season, and he improved his walks-to-strikeouts ratio, walking more than whiffing for the first time in his career.
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There are times when a strikeout is just another out.
Globe and Mail
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Amazed by the velocity and crispness of his pitches—late in the game, he audaciously used changeups with two strikes—so powerful was his eight-inning/one-run/four-hit/seven-strikeout effort, that the crowd repeatedly chanted the initials of the big lefty when he got two strikes on an Angels batter.
One Season
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His one strikeout also tied his career-low as a starter.
Houston Chronicle
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The Rays third baseman is hitting .441 (15-for-34) with five homers and 12 RBIs on the season, but is a middling 2-for-7 with five strikeouts versus the Yankees this week.
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Spin: Tough break this year for those in strikeout leagues, but Shields-Kazmir fans in keeper leagues should benefit long-term from this bit of restraint by Rays manager Joe Maddon.
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He worked eight innings and gave up five runs on nine hits while recording nine strikeouts and four walks.
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Bert led the league that season in innings pitched, complete games, shutouts, and strikeouts.
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The rotation also includes Tim Shibuya, who is 12-2 with a 1.95 ERA and 73 strikeouts in 111 innings; Guido Knudson (9-3, 4.09 ERA), who threw a complete-game in the NCAA West Region title clincher against Hawaii Pacific; and Kirby St. John (11-1, 3.92 ERA), who threw a complete game in the CCAA tournament championship.
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Of course, he has 28 strikeouts and zero walks against opposing pitchers, so that kind of inflates the numbers a little bit, but still, you'd think that someone like, I dunno, San Diego could've used him for nothing.
Lookout Landing
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Perez (1-0), who was making his first start since being optioned from the San Diego Padres, allowed two runs, scattered four hits and retired 10 straight to start the game, including seven strikeouts over that span.
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