Sentence examples for played poor from inspiring English sources

Both teams continually played poor shots into the net, without even a pretence of trying their hardest.

Last season was tough to watch, Amaro said, because the Phillies played poor defense and did not run the bases well.

The children played poor ball - the pitchers walked many - but Ed couldn't replace them because the mothers said it would damage their egos.

"We played poor defense and we didn't play well in the neutral zone," said Scott Stevens, the captain of the Devils.

An interesting case this year is Alfonso Soriano, who's still owed $54 million for three years, but went.244/.289/.469 last year and played poor defense in left field.

Eventually, though, both Alastair Cook and Kevin Pietersen played poor shots, meaning the lower order will be exposed to a new ball, which is due 12 overs into the third day.

Besides that, we were playing poor baseball".

Not being able to hit and playing poor defense.

"We're playing poor relative to the US market," she said.

"We're in the ballgames, rather than chasing a deficit and playing poor fundamental baseball.

The institution had taken repeated critical batterings during the Communist era, when it was forced to play poor relation to the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow.