The first two home runs came off then-Tigers ace Justin Verlander, the reigning American League MVP and Cy Young Award winner, who was 7-0 with a 0.69 ERA in his previous seven starts. The second blast was especially impressive, as he crushed a 94.9 mph fastball, low and away, to the...
MLB hitters are frustrated so far this season, struggling along at a historically low .240 clip, the lowest since the year of the pitcher, 1968.
“I don’t know. I guess that’s one of my gifts, to hit a ball good on the low side of the plate,” Santander said with a wide grin. “The angle of my bat just found it there.” There’s more to it than that. It begins with Santander’s prep work, which continues in the...
I played for Bobby [Cox] for three years in the minor leagues. I was his prime pinch hitter. But George gave me kudos when he was interviewed when he went into the Hall of Fame. He was asked if he was heavily scouted in high school. He said, 'No, everyone was there to see ...
Initial presentations of malignant disease and its complications form a relatively low proportion of the caseload of emergency doctors. In this case, a patient presented after a minor injury that had failed to recover; subsequent investigation of this injury led to the diagnosis of subungual ...
I’m going to play a C on my MIDI keyboard and tweak the pitch controls until we get it hitting an actual C. Now we can program in an 808 pattern in the correct key.For this track, we’re going to pick F# Minor. It has theideal note range for 808s cutting through on big syste...
But, he added, those groups also argued employees of all ages would be priced out of jobs when the minimum wage was first introduced in 1998 - yet "the employment effects have been minor to non-existent". Image:Gordon Brown, chancellor when the minimum wage was introduced, holds the budget...
Initial presentations of malignant disease and its complications form a relatively low proportion of the caseload of emergency doctors. In this case, a patient presented after a minor injury that had failed to recover; subsequent investigation of this injury led to the diagnosis of subungual ...
low even as the economy grows richer. Indeed, the main thing holding down Chinese consumption seems to be that Chinese families never see much of the income being generated by the country’s economic growth. Some of that income flows to a politically connected elite; but much of it simply ...
99.4%, which in contrast with the first instance without any spreading apart, represented only a very minor difference. At target deviations or offsets greater than 3.5 mrad, the system possessing the spread was, however, clearly at an advantage. A 50% firing hit probability was achieved with...