He developed a unique dipping motion, where he nestles into a crouch before coming set, staring at the base runner, then rising and either delivering the ball to the plate or to first base.
By every available measure he's an excellent defensive player and the best base runner in the game, picking up a marginal win every year on steals, avoiding double plays, going first to third and the like.
For baseball games, there are five different prediction games, including the results of an at bat, the direction of the next hit and what a runner on base will do.
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The Yankees never got a runner to second base off him as he induced a pair of double play grounders.
Later in the game, Carl Crawford struck out looking in the seventh inning of a 1-1 tie with a runner at second base.
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Miami, which ranks last in the majors in batting average and homers, didn't advance a runner beyond first base until the ninth against Hefner.
He got 18 groundball outs, and the Orioles didn't get a runner past first base until Nick Markakis took second on Adam Jones' bouncer to third in the ninth.
The Dutch lefty, who came in at a 2-0 with a 0.90 ERA in his two previous WBC outings, didn't allow a runner past first base through four innings.
The Mets' slumping slugger was called for obstructing a runner rounding first base in a three-run first inning and went hitless in three at-bats for New York during a 4-3 loss to the Cincinnati Reds on Monday night.
Girardi wanted the hit changed to a ground-rule double, and the runner returned to third base.
If you chose to have a runner try to take an extra base, a speedy one would safe if you drew, say, between 1 and 17, an 85% success rate.
The Yankees stranded three runners at third base but each time there were two outs when the runner got there.
But the rules say a runner in that situation must reach the next base--if he's forced out at second for the third out, the run doesn't count.
Mr Woodhead's mother is understood to have urged police to widen the search on the grounds that her son, an experienced long-distance runner, could have travelled some way from his base, near the town of Longreach.
With a runner on first, Francisco hit a soft grounder to third base.
But there have been a number of questionable calls on base running--when it wasn't immediately clear if a player actually tagged the bag or if a runner was tagged or not.
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