Sentence examples for are on base from inspiring English sources

• To the Sports Editor: The announcement by the good guy and great closer Mariano Rivera that this season will be his last revives the question of why a team's best one-inning pitcher is saved for an inning when no runners are on base and his team is leading.

Howe responded, "If it's illegal, it's illegal, whether runners are on base or not".

It included sharpening his slider, adjusting his arm angles, and possibly adding a slide step when men are on base.

When runners are on base, umpires must use common sense — and perhaps a sundial — to determine how much time between pitches is too much.

As tough as it is to get a hit against him, you know it's even tougher when men are on base because he's going to bear down a little bit more.

The methods have ranged from the hard-nosed — kicking dozens of soldiers out of the Army and requiring groups of three or more troops to march, rather than walk, whenever they are on base — to the soft touch, including calling parents to tell them that their children had done an exemplary job in Iraq and bringing in a civilian social worker to counsel depressed soldiers.

He believes the three most important strengths a player can have are on-base percentage, runs scored and runs batted in.

David Ortiz is on base yet again.

There's been guys on base.

Their mentality should be "anyway on base".

Knowledge is based on forgetting.