Sentence examples for able to foul off from inspiring English sources
"He was able to foul off some really tough pitches and keep that at-bat alive".
"I was able to foul off two really good changeups and he left one hanging".
"He's able to foul off tough pitches and work some favorable counts for him.
On the day the group of baseball writers who vote on such things named him the American League most valuable player — a day expected to be dominated by the purists arguing with the realists about why pitchers should or should not be considered for the award with position players — the purists were barely able to foul off a few of Verlander's pitches.
"I thought, They have a stat for everything, but they don't have any stats regarding foul balls," he told me, explaining that he'd conceived a study to test the received wisdom that good hitters are able to foul off difficult pitches deliberately.
"He's able to foul them off and keep grinding out at-bats until you make a mistake".
He took two strikes, looked at two balls and then proceeded to foul off six straight pitches.
"It's one you want to foul off.
He'd foul off so many pitches!
After falling behind by 0-2 to Jose Valverde, Granderson fouled off six pitches and worked a 12-pitch walk.
