How To Use Hitter In A Sentence
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Both throw a lot of strikes and both make hitters swing the bat early in the count.
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I tried that noise she so often used in her interrogatives and she chittered a bit.
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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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His pitching was a legend among major league hitters.
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As for prominence, some of that is luck, some is skill, and some is being on good terms ideologically or acquaintance-wise with a big-hitter like Instapundit.
Marcotte blames sexism for her troubles.
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Yes | No | Report from bullshitter wrote 1 week 3 days ago it's midnight and I still can't stop laughing about that lab winning with a stiffie.
Best Gun Dog Contest
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In that breath the fume of pig foot, chitterling and cheap chili, malign, mocked John.
John Lundberg: Three Poems For Martin Luther King Day
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I think I might fashion a craft from silk," Jumper chittered.
Falcon Street
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The big hitters will rake in tens of millions this summer alone.
The Sun
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A long hitter whose game should be suited to the challenge.
Times, Sunday Times
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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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Holliday is among several hitters, especially Cardinals such as infielders Skip Schumaker and Brendan Ryan, who have worked with McGwire in previous offseasons.
Org. report: Cardinals ready to mentor a pair of masters
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The difference between the two long hitters was stark.
Times, Sunday Times
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Strange are the ways of this world," Jumper chittered.
Falcon Street
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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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• The only way to approach the Twins 'big hitters is with velocity.
USATODAY.com - Twins underrated on offense, in bullpen
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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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In a local high school game several years ago, a pitcher lost a no-hitter because of that scoring rule.
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How do you keep your guests awake during the slow bits, until the big hitters swagger up to feign surprise and humility?
Times, Sunday Times
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The baseball hitter fumbled his attempt to catch it.
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No pinch hitters, runners, or relievers were used.
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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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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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My fiancé and I, being dorks, were chittering about whether the animals shown in the opening sequence have any real significance on the fighting style.
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I'm not sure PEDs ever made a .270 hitter a .330 hitter.
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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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He walked pinch-hitter Matt Stairs (FSY) with one out.
Rockies top shaky Hamels 5-4, tie NL Division Series vs. Phils
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He was also offered a bunch of other name heavies but he hand picked Barrett (who is not a big hitter).
East Side Boxing
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Coca - Cola parties in Georgia, the chitterling strut in North Carolina, cooking for the threshers in Nebraska, a Choctaw funeral, and a Puget Sound Indian salmon feast.
‘The Food of a Younger Land’
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One of the tiny bat-creatures chittered nervously from the darkness.
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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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If he does play, however, he will face a keen battle of wits with England's big hitters.
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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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He buys one and thinks as he eats it how he used to pretend that he didn't like yams, chitterlings, and other soul food because he thought liking that food made him seem ignorant and common.
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He doesn't want to surrender the advantage he has as a fine hitter.
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They roared when catcher Carlos Ruiz — who made the final putout as closer Brad Lidge struck out Tampa Bay Rays pinch-hitter Eric Hinske — offered through a loudspeaker the Spanish version of "We're the champs": "Somos los campeones!
Series champs tip caps to long-suffering Philly fans
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In the words of Mets general manager Frank Cashen , Mr. Carter added a "bopper," a power hitter.
Slugging Catcher Fueled Mets' Glory of 1980s
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Widely known as a pesky hitter, Eckstein is looking for a new home after brief stints in
SI.com
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He's a clutch hitter who makes everyone around him better.
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I can't imagine what a pitcher is thinking in the eighth and ninth inning of a no-hitter.
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A pitcher throws to different parts of the plate, trying to keep the hitter off balance.
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If you want to sovle the "headhunting" problem, the solution is pretty simple: let the commissioner's office punish players that it reasoanble concludes were throwing at hitters 'heads.
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The rookie, who threw a no-hitter against Baltimore as a September call - up last year, is still looking for his first win as a starter since that game.
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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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If you want to listen to some ex editor of a Tabloid whitter on about the usual left wing rubbish, then watch Question Time.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
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She was only half awake until the whitter of skeeter blades roused her from her reverie.
Beowulf's Children
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Unlike Stephenson, another ‘buried’ jewel of a hitter, Johnson never had the good fortune of at least playing for a winner before retreating into the status of an uncelebrated star.
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Manager Jim Tracy instead sent pinch-hitter Ryan Doumit to the plate, and as a light rain began to fall, Cox sprang from the dugout and shuffled toward the mound, his artificial knees seeming to creak with each step.
In the Time of Bobby Cox
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This anticipates a love of chitterlings, grilled pig's ears, marrow bones, stuffed trotters, kidneys and brains.
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Now, faced with a deficit of historic proportions, to whitter on about low taxes is a betrayal of the mose fundamental of conservative values - our commitment to the national interest.
Conservatives at Manchester: heresy #2
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Plus, we stayed up a bit late, drinking vino and back-yarding and chitter-chattering Barzak and I have lived disturbingly parallel lives.
Forlorn
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The big hitters in the cast include Michael Caine and Ewan McGregor.
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The goldfinches chittered and sang like drunken canaries and once in a thunderstorm a barred owl blundered into that fake crystal chandelier she had always detested.
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She is an excellent hitter and able to drive the ball beyond 200 metres.
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He is an excellent cleanup hitter who makes contact and delivers in the clutch.
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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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Bernero has savvy and changes speeds, but hitters sometimes sit on his off-speed stuff.
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Welcome to the liveblog of the political chitter-chat shows that we are forced to contend with in order to understand the minds of your political figures (addled) and the men and women who cover them (needy).
TV SoundOff: Sunday Talking Heads
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Trying to outdrive other long hitters was irresistible to me.
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Mushing together some of Yoko Ono's classic toothy chitter, some lethargic piano, and haphazard sound tweaking, it's topped off by weary chants and hand drums.
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But it's worth bearing in mind slick and slippery boxers nearly always have the edge over the big hitters.
The Sun
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On the mound, Willis relied on a windmill windup with a herky-jerky motion and a puzzling assortment of pitches to set National League hitters on their ears for a couple of months until he ran into a slump in mid-August.
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The redesigned course is a lengthy beast and the top five last year were all big hitters.
The Sun
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Favre typically plays shortstop in the game, which raises money for the Brett Favre Fourward Foundation, but he said he would probably be limited to being a designated hitter.
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The seat has a strong pedigree as a home to Conservative big hitters.
Times, Sunday Times
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In the end, the eurozone heavy hitters could not hide their frustration at the slow progress.
Times, Sunday Times
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The ground squirrel that called the crevice his home came shooting out of his burrow, tail high and stiff, bounding with rage, to chitter angrily at her.
The Elvenbane
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"I faced more right-handed hitters today, so I threw more curveballs," Park said.
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Hitters need a good track record of success, with walk rates as a key indicator.
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Then he started chittering and whimpering in shock.
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His sharp-breaking curveball fooled hitters in early batting practice sessions.
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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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He also had 240 hits and became the first leadoff hitter ever to drive in 100 runs.
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Liberals invented the designated hitter rule because it wasn't fair to make the pitcher also bat.
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Cast full of heavy hitters?
The Sun
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This anticipates a love of chitterlings, grilled pig's ears, marrow bones, stuffed trotters, kidneys and brains.
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For example, she was quite surprised when she went to Europe and saw that they ate what Americans call chitterlings.
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People shout to be heard over the din, loud mufflerless trucks rumble by on the street, dogs bark, a mysterious polytonal chittering in the background sounds like a great horde of rats.
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One used to be a big hitter and isn't any more.
The Sun
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In those days, she was a switch-hitter, now she was straight dyke.
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The statistics don't reflect, for instance, how many times pitchers plunk batters with changeups, curveballs or other off-speed pitches, or how much effort a hitter makes to get out of the way.
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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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We have also had recent successes with several new launches including Pixie a publication on teens celebrity news, heavy-hitters a title focused on owners of exotic vehicles and Camaro Performers, which has grown from a single issue publication to a frequency of nine times per year.
Media Sector and Stocks Analysis from Seeking Alpha
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Yes | No | Report from bullshitter wrote 1 week 3 days ago lookit that damn dog!!
Best Gun Dog Contest
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Calming his lungs, he listened to the fractious chittering of insects in the forest.
RUSHING TO PARADISE
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Therefore Carpalin and Gymnast were ordered by Pantagruel to go for the soldiers that were on board the Cup galley, under the command of Colonel Maul-chitterling, and those on board the Vine-tub frigate, under the command of Colonel Cut-pudding the younger.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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The most exciting part about it was calling the pitches, trying to outthink the hitters.
In the Time of Bobby Cox
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The difference between the two long hitters was stark.
Times, Sunday Times
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With 2002 Cy Young Award winner Barry Zito, Jonathan Sanchez (who pitched a no-hitter in 2009) and Todd Wellemeyer (in the fifth spot), the Giants have a rotation with depth and savvy.
Giants need offense to pitch in for success
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Hitters have their own nominees for bowling ball pitchers, whose deliveries reverberate through their arms and bodies when they make contact.
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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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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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He's one of the fastest players in baseball, and he handles the bat well for a young hitter.
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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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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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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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Missing fairways on such a tricky track proved insurmountable for all but the longest hitters.
Times, Sunday Times
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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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In an earlier issue of Baseball Digest, it was stated that Bernie Williams of the Yankees is one of seven switch-hitters to win a batting title in the majors.
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A grand weapon was a genuine “flint” of old “Joe” Manton; with plenty of metal, a hard hitter, and often equally serviceable when converted into a breech-loader.
Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter
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Hello and good morning and welcome to this January 23rd edition of your Sunday morning liveblog of these political chitter-chat shows that we are forced to contend with in order to understand the minds of your political figures (addled) and the men and women who cover them (needy).
TV SoundOff: Sunday Talking Heads
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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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We prefer big hitters who can't field a lick to gold-glove shortstops with their .243 batting averages.
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You need a hard hitter who can work the City very well.
Times, Sunday Times
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Featuring some of the heaviest of the underground heavy hitters, this compilation easily stacks up to the acclaimed Volume 1.
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People think that a pitcher who throws a no-hitter totally dominates the game, but that isn't always true.
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First came the sound of voices outside, a familiar chitter of laughter, then the scratch at the door.
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Radar gun readings gauge the raw ability of pitchers, but no such measure exists for hitters.
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He is a switch hitter who has a severe uppercut, resulting in too many fly balls.
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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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Assistant Commissioner Lynne Owens told the panel that "chitter chatter" emerged of planned rioting and looting in Stratford, East London, the location of the Olympic site.
U.K. Police Say Unrest Averted at Olympic Site
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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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That would neutralise the power player enough that the shorter-hitter could compete.
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Some big hitters are no longer competing for business as once they were, while other names have opened the door a little more.
Times, Sunday Times
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Some heavy hitters headed for the door.
Times, Sunday Times
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Not content with being the biggest hitter, he worked hard on the timing and technique of his tackles.
Times, Sunday Times
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Starting in the 4th inning he pitches lefthanded whenever Baltimore's lefty hitters are at bat.
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Hitters easily can read the ball out of his hand because his delivery lacks deception and he overextends his arm.
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The most exciting part about it was calling the pitches, trying to outthink the hitters.
In the Time of Bobby Cox
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He recently learned to play the outfield corners and is an outstanding pinch hitter.
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He was a heavy hitter, it was a struggle from then on.
Times, Sunday Times
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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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She definitely didn't want to let the cat out of the bag about her being a switch hitter.
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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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As a chronic diary writer thanks to Aunty Lizzy and a Christmas presant when I was like 12! blogs are the perfect medium for me to whitter in and as for Al it is an over spill of his note books - somewhere he can share his ideas and the like
Snell-Pym » 1000th Blog Post!!!
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The small intestines were soaked in water for a day, parboiled, then fried in batter to make a popular dish called chitterlings, or ‘chitlins.’
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It's sort of like a pitcher with a no-hitter in baseball.
Houston Chronicle
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Well, I think they see in him what I see in him, which is a switch-hitter who plays good defense at all three outfield spots, has incredible plate discipline and some good power.
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It is not about home runs and strikeouts, Hall of Fame hitters and knockdown pitchers.
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He baffles hitters with an awkward delivery, a hard fastball and a Frisbee slider.
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Not content with being the biggest hitter, he worked hard on the timing and technique of his tackles.
Times, Sunday Times
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The other hitters—particularly Curtis Granderson, Mark Teixeira and Robinson Cano—will see more hittable pitches.
The A-Rod Effect May Be Overrated
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It's tough because as a hitter, when you see a ball up there," Wright said as he held his hand about shoulder-high, "you think it's going to end up kind of here," he said, bringing his hand down to his belt.
The Best Optical Illusion in Baseball
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With wide brimmed hats and skin slippery with sun block, they chittered and chattered like sparrows, as they frolicked in their favourite spot.
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In the answer to a letter-writer in the November issue with regard to switch-hitters winning a league batting title, you omitted Pete Reiser.
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The guy with a long-handled putter is also a long hitter and traditionally plays Augusta well.
USATODAY.com - Contenders
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There are many recipes which call for intestines, a more general term which would often include chitterlings.
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You could get a ball bouncing high or squirting through the infield to ruin a no-hitter.
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She is an excellent hitter and able to drive the ball beyond 200 metres.
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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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While the top tier of power hitters is a little more crowded, the overall home run rate this season is down — again.
When it comes to home run rates, knowledge is power
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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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She's a big hitter and makes lots of winners.
The Sun
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Both throw a lot of strikes and both make hitters swing the bat early in the count.
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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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Hitters beware: As veteran umpire Jim McKean put it, the high strike is here to stay.
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Alanna begins to stroke Kugarine absently, as she rubbed against Alanna's side, chittering gently.
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Guerrero again powered the offense, and SS Jose Vidro was their best hitter.
USATODAY.com - Braves still rule in NL
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Against incredible odds, this chef fed chitterlings to London's chattering classes and had them begging for more.
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Mike Mussina looks like an athlete, lean and fit, ready to run the mile or pitch a no-hitter.
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The baseball hitter fumbled his attempt to catch it.
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La Russa got a pinch hit from Allen Craig on a favorable matchup, and he later forced Washington to send up rusty pinch-hitter Esteban German, who hadn't batted in nearly a month, with the game on the line.
These Guys Just Can't Stop Meddling
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The parents went on and on about how Daniel is usually so shy, but he really loved me, and my peaceful meal turned into me trying to appease some young chitterling at the next table with some kind of rictus plastered across my weary face.
Saru-san Diary Entry
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THE credit crunch floored giants and sullied the reputations of some of the business world's biggest hitters.
The Sun
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He was a heavy hitter, it was a struggle from then on.
Times, Sunday Times
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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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Today's broad-shouldered, thick-armed hitters make those players look, well, ordinary-sized.
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Those were the good old days — breakfast was mush, lunch was chitterling strut and dinner was fried beaver tail.
A Book Lover’s Summer
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On the mound was Richard “Goose” Gossage, the premier flame-throwing relief pitcher of his time; and waving an imposing bat sixty feet, six inches away, was eighteen-year veteran Carl Yastrzemski, arguably the best fastball hitter of his.
One Season
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Local fans thought the Colonel bore a resemblance to Randy Bass, a bearded power hitter and first baseman from the U.S. who played for the team at the time.
Colonel Sanders Rescued from Osaka River | clusterflock
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The Angels haven't had a productive leadoff hitter since Tony Phillips in 1997.
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In the 7-0 title clincher against Eaton, Fultz fired a one-hitter and fanned 13.
Daytondailynews.com - News
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It chittered contentedly, its hunger and bloodlust sated.
Who's There?
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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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While the shadows dappled their backs they strolled deeper into the forest, voices lost in the chitter of insects.
RUSHING TO PARADISE
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But it's worth bearing in mind slick and slippery boxers nearly always have the edge over the big hitters.
The Sun
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In the end, the eurozone heavy hitters could not hide their frustration at the slow progress.
Times, Sunday Times
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Go back further, to the heavy-hitters of the western canon, and plenty of unflattering portraits exist as well.
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At Cleveland, pinch-hitter Victor Martinez singled home the go-ahead run in the eighth inning, leading Cleveland past Cincinnati.
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Some places like to fix chitterlings as either a side or a main dish.
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‘Any time we've bunted the guy over, it's been the hitter's option,’ Boles says.
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In the past, Pirates hitters have been too eager to hack at the first hittable pitch.
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Rookie LHP Antonio Bastardo (FSY) struck out Colorado pinch-hitter Jason Giambi (FSY) to leave the bases loaded in the eighth.
Rockies top shaky Hamels 5-4, tie NL Division Series vs. Phils
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Where do the pitcher and the hitter stand?
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The switch-hitter led the National League in stolen bases in 1960 and 1961.
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The Casa Yanks were led by ace hurler “Hunkie” Wojtczak, who threw a one-hitter in the series opener.
Satch, Dizzy & Rapid Robert
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The moment his eyes fell upon madam of the fluffy hair, he burst out with a loud, rapid woodpecker "chitter," gradually growing higher in key and louder in tone.
A Bird-Lover in the West
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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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His cut fastball has been very effective, especially against righthanded hitters.
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A few feet away' through the trees behind them' was an insect realm of high-pitched chittering, dank mist and over-ripe vegetation.
RUSHING TO PARADISE
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I believe we can cross this, if we must," he chittered.
Falcon Street
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They chitter, chatter and chirrup, twitching their tails as if they were furry lariats.
In the urban game park, nut-gatherers rule
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Cast full of heavy hitters?
The Sun
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One of the presumed drawbacks for leadoff hitters is the lack of RBI opportunities they get hitting with no one on base in the first inning and (in the NL) hitting behind the pitcher most of the rest of the time.
Leadoff hitters can carry extra value for fantasy teams
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The hitters have been overanxious and are pressing too much in clutch situations.
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ODESSA (August 7, 2009) -- Erin Knox was dominant in the circle, firing a two-hitter, as the Lakeview junior league softball all-stars picked up a 9-5 victory over New Mexico in the opening game of the Southwest Regional tournament in Odessa.
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The game and the salaries are being diverted towards the big hitters.
Times, Sunday Times
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For all the beauty of this environment there is a feeling that the game 's long hitters could devour the course in benign conditions.
Times, Sunday Times
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To say that Bill was a pretty good official scorer is like saying Ted Williams was a pretty good hitter.
Billy Altman: Remembering Bill Shannon, baseball's scorer for all seasons
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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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LUGO UPDATE: Lugo was Pawtucket's designated hitter Sunday, and went 2 for 5 in a 7-4 victory over Lehigh Valley.
Reader - MassLive.com
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We had a couple of smokes and by 4am we had solved all the worlds problems with our stoned chitter chatter.
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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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These guys were the longest hitters at the time.
Times, Sunday Times
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When he has fallen behind hitters, he has overthrown, trying to blow his fastball past hitters.
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Yes | No | Report from shermanator wrote 7 weeks 2 days ago thats how i do it i walk and stop and listen if i hear chitter chatter i look or like he said corn works great man it is fun and i hate to say it its pretty good eating
I just got my liscense and my dad isnt a hunter so i get all of my answers from here.
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A long hitter whose game should be suited to the challenge.
Times, Sunday Times
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Cleveland hitters swung at and missed five of the 79 pitches.
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He's one of four pitchers to throw two no-hitters in a single season, and at age 86, Virgil Trucks still receives stacks of fan mail requesting autographed photos and baseballs.
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Only the longest hitters will get there in two.
The Sun
