Sentence examples for batters off from inspiring English sources
"I think it kinda throws some batters off". First-year Bell-Jeff Coach Kiko Garcia said his team had problems figuring out the starter.
Lilly, a former Yankee, kept the Yankees' batters off stride.
It breaks the speed enough, gets batters off his fastball, and it's got a tilt on it all the time.
But he did have a reputation for knocking batters off the plate with inside pitches, if not to the ground.
Tribe pitcher Corey Kluber, the 2014 Cy Young Award winner, kept the Cubs batters off base, and lasted into the seventh inning.
But the biggest star of the day was Kuroda, who dominated the Angels with precise control and a mixture of deceptive late-moving pitches to keep batters off balance.
The change-up is a slower pitch that throws batters off-guard when expecting another fast-ball.
They also have to find a way to keep Timo Perez, the Mets' new leadoff batter, off base.
A variation employed the anvil stone, a large stationary rock against which the workpiece was swung to batter off large flakes.
The boy picked the batter off, to reveal a wing as elaborately paned as a cathedral window, and then bit into it: his first bug.
Somehow Wales were still pressing, the outstanding Toby Faletau battering off a scrum to set up good field position only for Hook to mis-hit his attempted drop-goal under pressure.
