Strikeout

Interesting career “Baseball is more than a game, it’s like life played out on a field.”-Juliana Hatfield. Baseball is one of the worlds greatest sports and is played almost everywhere in the world. An interesting career would be playing in the MLB (Major League Baseball). If I was to play professional baseball I would play at the one and only Fenway Park, home of the Boston Red Sox. According to mlb.com it says that the Boston Red Sox have been World Series champions 8 times altogether. I…

Strike Three! At ninety-eight miles per hour, Jennie Finch pitches all strikes for every game. But that is what you may have seen if you had been lucky enough to witness one of the games that Finch was the pitcher in: She stunned the softball world with her amazing performance. At age five Jennie Finch started playing softball, and became a pitcher at eight years old(Team). She played for the Arizona Wildcats, and the Chicago Bandits, and she has won two Olympic medals and seven world…

years before and after revision reconstructive surgery. These statistics included innings pitched, earned run average (ERA), walks, and hits per innings pinched (WHIP), wins, losses, in percentage, walks per nine innings (BB/9), strikeouts per nine innings (SO/9), strikeouts per walk (SO/BB), hits per nine innings (H/9), home runs per nine innings (HR/9), wins above…

During a 12-year career, he had a .247 batting average with a total of 20 home runs and 229 runs batted in. In 1988, he had career highs with 150 games played, 512 at bats, 52 runs scored, eight stolen bases, and 63 strikeouts. In 1990, he had a career high of 38 runs batted in, and in 1992, he hit a career high of four home runs. From 1992 until his final season in 1998, Ripken was good enough defensively to be used as a utility infielder, but his low offensive production…

second short goal is to start the first game May 23. Making the starting lineup will be a huge step in accomplishing my goal. By June 30th, my goal is to have at least five wins and an Earned Run Average (ERA) under 2.5. My final goal is to have more strikeouts than walks by the end of the season. These goals all can be proven statistically, but there are more goals I need to accomplish mentally. When I’m on the field, I need to try my hardest and hustle wherever the coaches want me. I need to…

Perham softball head coach Tyler Doll knew his team would need to score a lot of runs if it wanted to beat the Park Rapids Area Panthers on April 4 at Arvig Park. However, Panther pitcher Brooke Jerger made sure that didn’t happen when she shut down the Yellowjackets, helping the Panthers to an 11-1 season opening win. Jerger scattered four hits while allowing one run. She struck out eight and did not walk a batter. She started strong, striking out five of the six batters she faced to start the…

David Letzler, author of “Walking Around the Fences: Troy Maxson and the Ideology of “Going Down Swinging”” argues that many critics celebrate Troy Maxson’s agitated feelings towards the Major League Baseball community not combing both Caucasian and African-American players, when actually he states that we should be disagreeing with Troy’s feelings. Letzler admits he sees why there are so many that agree with Troy, because he claims that his points can be overlooked from time to time again.…

farther away from home plate, the bases move further away from each other, pitchers throw faster and you have to learn to become more independent and make the right decisions in the game. We will have good and bad days, but we must learn from when we strikeout or make an error, to get back up, and try to make the right decisions the next time. Baseball is a game of failure and…

When it comes to football, being replaced is always in the back of the athlete’s mind. The reason for that is because there will always be someone that is younger or faster than you. Even though you are a veteran, once you aren’t able to perform at the same elite level constantly required you will be let go, which is why athlete will do whatever they need to do to remain on the team. One example of this includes taking pain pills and sleeping pills. Without these pills, the athletes are not…

The Role of Statistics. A game of numbers, the Moneyball effect is considered start of professional baseball statistics. Statistics play the main role in baseball. It’s made a huge change in the way baseball runs and how players are evaluated and could be rated to be drafted. Every team uses statistics and it is not an even playing field. There are high salary cap teams and there are low salary cap teams. When statistic first became a huge role in baseball because low salary cap teams…