Sentence examples for jerky delivery from inspiring English sources
Dickey's mastery of the knuckleball came with help from a few of the handful of living people capable of offering it, and his jerky delivery now could be described as a composite of his predecessors'.
Since making his first start against the Yankees in early June 2009, David Price has held up his billing as the Tampa Bay Rays' unquestioned ace — a 6-foot-6 left-hander and former top overall draft pick with the jerky delivery and the fastball that sings.
He seemed particularly pleased with the progress made by the right-hander RYAN BRADLEY, the former No. 1 draft pick who has smoothed out his herky-jerky delivery.
Collins believed that seldom-used right-handed batters, like Andrew Brown, Juan Lagares and Marlon Byrd, had a better chance of picking up Locke's herky-jerky delivery.
But they had scouted Scherzer extensively, and did not believe his herky-jerky delivery would cause injury problems, as some teams feared.
He has a below-average fastball, but his herky-jerky delivery helped him hold left-handers to a.591 OPS (on-base-plus-slugging percentage) in 2013.
Tom Hollander's jerky, nasal delivery makes Edgar seem both dopey and sneering: when he speaks of his father's eyes as 'bleeding rings', it's as if he's swearing.
The Phillies did solve Dontrelle Willis, the Marlins' celebrated rookie with the herky-jerky left-handed delivery.
Notwithstanding their stock of gluten-free jerky, courtesy of a recent PETA delivery, it's worth considering the combination of heavily armed and potentially hungry occupiers with — literally — sitting ducks.
"Enough's Enough" utilizes a disjointed pop structure channeling elements of the Beach Boys and Queen, while Cooper's delivery in "Dyslexia" recalls the jerky rhythms of the Talking Heads.
In the lyrics, comedy is offset by anxiety – Glover reflects on some unsettling phenomena of our internet-addled age, such as the 3D printing of guns – and his restless delivery (which, intentionally or not, mimics Frank Ocean on several tracks) is matched by jerky, off-kilter production.
