Sentence examples for outside of the strike from inspiring English sources

Know when a "pitch-out" (when the ball that is intentionally thrown high and outside of the strike zone with the purpose of preventing a stolen base) is coming, so you will be in correct position.

It was outside of the strike zone.

O'Neill took a ball outside of the strike zone, the count 1-2.

Anaheim's Ramon Ortiz threw a pitch that appeared to be well outside of the strike zone, and Cederstrom called O'Neill out on strikes.

Hitters are struggling to catch up to his pitches, swinging at 31percentt of his pitches outside of the strike zone, ninth among AL starters qualifying for the ERA title, while making contact on less than 58percentt of those pitches, 11th lowest, giving him an overall strikeout rate of 26.2percentt, seventh in the AL heading into August.

We note that the short position leaves him vulnerable to losses in the event that shares swing outside of the strike prices.

He was Liverpool's top scorer in the 2015-16 scoring scoring 13 times in 25 appearances, with the last of those a well-executed outside-of-the-foot strike in the Europa League final defeat to Sevilla.

Colon also throws the pitch to right-handed batters, aiming it so it darts back to the outside edge of the strike zone as it crosses the plate.

Tom Glavine's arrival in the off-season led Leiter to mimic Glavine by working the outside corner of the strike zone.

With the count three balls and two strikes to Nixon, Clemens whipped a fastball off the outside edge of the strike zone -- a called third strike, according to the home-plate umpire, Ed Rapuano.

Pettitte was erratic, appearing somewhat unwilling to attack the outside part of the strike zone against right-handed hitters, and the Devil Rays tied the score with two runs in the second and another in the third.