Sentence examples for off the runner from inspiring English sources

When a pitcher believes a runner is likely to attempt a steal, he will try to shorten the runner's lead or even "pick off" the runner (catch him off base) by making throws over to the runner's base.

They are both busybodies, moving around, trying to pick off the runner, giving signs to each other regarding who should cover on a steal or a double play started from a ball hit back to the pitcher.

"If your 13 is getting buried on the outside every time, because he's so narrow, the solution is to get a team-mate to come round the corner to cut off the runner.

Sometimes you may need to pick off the runner at the base.

Afterward, Rivera (7-4) wangrygry with himself, not for taking his eyes off the runner, but for walking the speedy Hunter to begin with.

After Gee gave up a leadoff walk, he induced a potential double-play ball, but Ike Davis's throw to second base glanced off the runner's back, leaving both runners safe.

"We haven't gotten there yet," Drysdale said after watching Fusaichi Pegasus hold off the runner-up, The Deputy, by three-quarters of a length under the jockey Kent Desormeaux.

Or sink it in a pot, and pop up the pot once in a while, to snip off the runners.

With the ceremonial sound of an air horn, the race was off, the runners staying to the right down the runway, guided by orange cones, hooking back to the finish line, many stopping to take photographs with their cellphones of themselves on the tarmac or jogging as planes flew overhead, a scene that was part action film, part major studio comedy.

Off-the-shelf runner designs are not available for modular pumped-storage schemes, so a custom runner design is sought.

It was decided that Israel would have to contest a two-legged play-off against one of the runners-up from the other groups.