Sentence examples for big slugger from inspiring English sources
"He wasn't just a big slugger trying to hit the long ball all the time.
Hamilton will not make that much, but it is easy to imagine a team's believing it is one big slugger away from the pennant.
X-rays were negative, but the Yankees fell short without their big slugger Tuesday, getting started way too late in a 6-5 loss to Oakland.
They won without Strawberry for five months last year -- they were 13-11 withimin in the lineup and 85-53 when he was not -- and they can feel comfortable about starting this season without him or without another big slugger at designated hitter.
All those big sluggers and not one timely hit.
It is also stuck with a stretch limousine full of the biggest sluggers of this generation: Mark McGwire, Sammy Sosa, Rafael Palmeiro and that admitted partaker of steroids, Alex Rodriguez, who is 145 homers behind Bonds after a homer Wednesday, to say nothing of Manny Ramirez, who retired last week facing a 100-game suspension for testing positive for banned drugs.
The big Phillies slugger braced for a collision with Posada and got a piece of the New York catcher -- replays, however, appeared to show Howard never touched the plate, yet another missed call in a shaky postseason for umpires.
Garrido added that he planned to recruit more fast players with defensive skills rather than big, slow sluggers.
Jose Canseco, the former big-league slugger, former steroid user and modern-day Twitter philosopher, tried something new on Monday: political activism.
Testing last season revealed that 5percentto7percentcent of players were taking steroids, and the federal agents recently raided the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative, or Balco, a nutritional supplement company, two of whose executives have been charged with selling illegal performance-enhancing drugs to dozens of athletes, including many big league sluggers.
Did you bite into a giant orange juiced up like a big-league slugger, or maybe make an omelet with eggs the size of grapefruits?
