Sentence examples for batters on a from inspiring English sources

They still would like to add a specialist who can retire left-handed batters on a one-year contract.

In that span, he gave up one hit and one walk; he retired two batters on a line-drive double play; he struck out one batter.

After allowing a leadoff double in the second, he retired the next three batters on a groundout and two strikeouts.

Vogelsong (1-1) yieight eighitsits and five runs in the first three innings before retiring his final 10 batters on a foggy and damp 40-degree day.

The players in the Detroit clubhouse after Gibson's seventeen-strikeout game had none of the aggrieved, blustery manner of batters on a losing team who wish to suggest that only bad luck or their own bad play kept them from putting away a pitcher who has just beaten them.

But Hartnell retired the next three batters on a fly ball and two ground outs to shortstop.

They scored nine on Thursday: three on hits, three on ground balls, one on a wild pitch, one on a hit batter, one on a rare trifecta: a strikeout and passed ball and error, all wrapped into the same play.

He struck out four, retired three others on grounders, got one batter on a foul pop and actually let one batter hit a fly to the outfield.

Nobody thought the pitcher, protecting a one-run lead, would purposely hit the leadoff batter on a 3-2 pitch.

We are being battered on a lot of different fronts.

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