Sentence examples for has two strikes from inspiring English sources
"I see them getting into big situations when the other team's up and the pitcher has two strikes".
But it's not 1931, and, in the modern world of jazz, Mr. Giordano has two strikes against him.
It's been said the black woman in American society has two strikes against her: being born a woman and being born black.
So two fastballs might follow — one low, one high, to change Ortiz's eye level — and if Mussina has two strikes by then, he might offer a curveball down and hope Ortiz chases it for strike three.
The patient approach Raines advocates may be dangerous for a hitter who does not do well when he is behind in the count, someone who is overmatched when he has two strikes against him.
He's a brisk, nice-looking fellow, and his boosters say he gets things done, but he has two strikes against him out of town—he's a Catholic and he's a New Orleans man.
He is Oxford's top scorer this season with 10 goals, while Smalley has three strikes to his name.
"Facebook now has three strikes against it: Beacon, the privacy modifications it made in 2009 to force private user information public, and now the Kogan/Cambridge Analytica revelation," he writes.
Johnny Kucks had two strikes against a legend.
I guess I had two strikes against me.
