Sentence examples for catchers from inspiring English sources
Paul Strang's leg-spin in particular would have benefited from the presence of close catchers and, with 87 needed from the last 15 overs, a rare overseas win for England looked inevitable.
But a study published last month by Mike Fast, a researcher, found that they are influenced by how catchers "frame" pitches.
As part of his defence, he showed videos of professional baseball players bowling over catchers, and saying no one ever complained about baseball violence.
"Framing" has been part of baseball for generations, and bright teams can gain an advantage by identifying catchers who excel at it.
In fact, however, umpires are human, and Mr Fast shows they can be duped by skillful catchers far more than most fans would ever have thought possible.The study's methodology is straightforward: it simply compares the ratio of balls to called strikes when pitchers throw to a given catcher to those same pitchers' ratios with other catchers.
First, he notes, framing outcomes are highly consistent over time: catchers who rack up unusually high or low numbers of borderline strikes in a given season tend to continue that trend the following year, even if they change teams.
The wind-catchers – long, rectangular structures that cause airflow from the cooler undergrounds to the main rooms – in old homes are even more intricate than those found in Yazd, in the central desert.
Traditionally, homes on the islands were all built with wind-catchers.
Prawn-catchers will be cut back too because, though prawns (Scotland's main catch) are plentiful, those who fish for them also snare cod.But if Scotland's new scheme can be shown to work and as a result fewer cod are accidentally caught, Richard Lochhead, the Scottish fisheries minister, hopes to persuade the commission to let fishermen claim back the proposed loss of time.
It is a corrupt and corrupting system: parties find eye-catchers so that placemen can ride to power on their coat-tails.As a foreigner, I'm not eligible to vote.
There will be dew-catchers, rainwater harvesting and electronic sensors to raise the alarm in case of leaky pipes.
