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Mark Patrick Sweeney (born October 26, 1969) is an American former Major League Baseball (MLB) first baseman who played for several teams from 1995 to 2008. He is best known for his skill as a pinch hitter, where he ranks second in career pinch hits with 175 and first in career pinch hit runs batted in with 102.
Lenny Harris had 212 hits in 804 pinch hit at bats, both records in Major League Baseball.. In baseball, a pinch hitter (PH) is a substitute batter.Batters can be substituted at any time while the ball is dead (not in active play); the manager may use any player who has not yet entered the game as a substitute.
Pinch hitter is a substitute batter in baseball. Pinch hitter may also refer to: Pinch hitter (cricket), a batsman in cricket promoted up the batting order in order to score quick runs; Pinchie or one-hitter, a type of pipe for smoking cannabis, tobacco, and other herbs; The Pinch Hitter, a 1917 American film directed by Victor Schertzinger
Overall, he amassed 90 RBI in 435 at-bats in that role, a rate of one per 4.8 attempts along with 18 home runs. Overall, Lynch batted .264 (115-for-435) as a pinch-hitter in his MLB career. "The good pinch-hitter is the guy who can relax enough to get the pitch he can hit," Lynch was quoted as saying.
Download QR code; Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Pinch hitter; Switch hitter; The Hitter may refer to: The Hitter (film)
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Really what we need is more text in the cricket section, but that might be tricky because it's often hard to decide whether such-and-such a batsman is a pinch-hitter. Maybe a short discussion of Jayasuriya's batting in the 1996 World Cup would be useful, since that's where a lot of cricket fans (eg me!) first came across the term used in this way.
Pinch-hitter Pavin Smith connected for a two-run homer in the bottom of the ninth inning to lift the Arizona Diamondbacks over the San Francisco Giants 4-2 on Monday night. Jake McCarthy got the ...