What is "hitters"

Usage examples of "hitters".

In the top of the second, Eric Hiljus continues to indulge Yankee hitters with fastballs down the middle of the plate and they strike for four more runs, three on a home run by Derek Jeter.

All he knew was that when he threw it from lower down, his ball had a new movement to it that flummoxed hitters during minor league spring training, and continued to flummox them in Double-A ball.

To determine the best dead hitters, you needed to build tools to evaluate them, and those tools worked just as well on the living.

Some left-handed hitters fared worse against lefties than righties, and some right-handed hitters fared worse against righties than lefties.

Having realized that he can get most of the best hitters, Billy is now seeing if he can also get the best pitchers, too.

A team might send four hitters to the plate in an inning, for instance.

On 2-1 most average major league hitters become all-stars, yet on 1-2 they become anemic nine-hole hitters.

The Dominican hitters were notorious hackers because they had been told they had to be to survive.

Most big league hitters, even very good ones, had some glaring weakness.

Their philosophy was just to buy the best hitters money can buy, and set them loose.

In exchange for one of the best left-handed hitters in the game, Billy Beane had offered a Double-A pitcher who was promising but hardly a prized possession.

Even hitters who had faced him before fought the instinct to flinch, and found it nearly impossible to get under his pitches and lift them into the mountain air.

Big League Pitcher, Chad Bradford dominated Triple-A hitters, even as every other pitcher on the Calgary team struggled.

He was a trickster that big league hitters were certain to figure out.

For two years he simply dominated Triple-A hitters and watched pitchers with much less impressive statistics leapfrog him.