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This fielder is said to "cut off" the throw or to be the "cut-off man". This tactic increases accuracy over long distances and shortens the time required to get a ball to a specific place. It also gives the cut-off man the choice of putting out a trailing runner trying to advance on the throw if he thinks it impossible to make the play at home.
Gag cartoons and editorial cartoons are usually single-panel comics. A gag cartoon (a.k.a. panel cartoon or gag panel) is most often a single-panel cartoon, usually including a hand-lettered or typeset caption beneath the drawing. A pantomime cartoon carries no caption. In some cases, dialogue may appear in speech balloons, following the common ...
Mattingly and Strawberry arrive at the baseball field shortly before the game starts, but Burns kicks Mattingly off the team for failing to shave off his (non-existent) sideburns. Burns is thus forced to use his team of regular employees alongside Strawberry; Homer is benched while Strawberry plays his position.
The baseball field that Tom Hanks famously graced in the 1992 film "A League of Their Own" went up in flames Thursday in Ontario, according to authorities.
The Mendoza Line is baseball jargon for a .200 batting average, the supposed threshold for offensive futility at the Major League level. [1] It derives from light-hitting shortstop Mario Mendoza , who failed to reach .200 five times in his nine big league seasons. [ 2 ]
There are logical reasons for an Abreu cut. He's in his age-37 season, and he's coming off a lost year: .237/.296/.383. All of his Baseball Savant sliders are pinned to the left-hand side, the ...
Augustus Mutt is a tall, dimwitted racetrack character—a fanatic horse-race gambler who is motivated by greed. Mutt has a wife, known only as Mrs. Mutt (Mutt always addressed her as "M'love"; Al Smith revealed in a Boston Globe newspaper column that her first name was Ima – and conceded that he did not use it often because it was not a complimentary name).
The walk-off, two-run blast to left field from Hujsak to flip a 1-0 deficit with two outs in the ninth to a 2-1 victory against rival and No. 12 seed Ole Miss will be celebrated for years to come.