The Patriots' running game is set up by their passing game, with many shotgun handoffs and quick hitters from no-huddle situations.
After a quick out, pinch-hitter Delwyn Young battled through a tough at-bat to get a walk, then raced to third on Andre Ethier's pinch single, bringing Pierre to the plate with the tying run in scoring position.
It was a home run ball, but only for the hitter with quick enough hands and no fear, who could do something with it.
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla .— Carlos Beltran did not know the back story, the proud lineage of the young Cuban hitter with quick hands and an uncanny sense of the strike zone.
He was amazing at the game, a quick runner and hard hitter from his first game to his last out who inspired generations of black children to believe they could compete in a white man's world, that it could be them on the Wheaties box or the silver screen or maybe even giving the state of the union.
A light hitter with a quick jab, Harris, 26, of Newark, survived nine rounds and three opponents to take home the $100,000 prize.
After the 2012 season, another analyst wrote that Asche had an "average" body for a baseball player, commented that while he had limited power potential, he could be a solid contact hitter because of quick hands and "incredibly sound" hitting mechanics, but was a "terrible" defender with a "fringy arm".
He uses his stuff and his knowledge of hitters to get quick outs, and he is strong enough to stay in games late.
I snuck another quick hit from the one-hitter.
