Bruce broke the tie with a line drive into the right-field seats leading off the sixth.
Bruce broke the tie with a scorching line drive into the right-field seats leading off the sixth.
While I hit the occasional line drive to the back of the cage, mostly I pounded balls into the ground.
And when a hitter turns a hanging slider or a not-so-fastball into a line drive, you can call it clutch hitting.
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His 45% ground ball rate was on par with past seasons and his 19% line drive rate was even better than 2008-2009.
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Duda hit a laser line drive into the second deck in right field in the second after Marlon Byrd singled off Richard (0-1).
He went 7 2-3 innings last Friday at Tampa Bay before leaving when he was hit on his pitching arm by a line drive.
Like most tort cases, it begins with a tragic accident: The pitcher at an American Legion baseball game was killed by a line drive to the head.
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A. Happ get hit in the head by a line drive and taken off the field on a stretcher during Toronto's 6-4 win over the Tampa Bay Rays.
Yoenis Cespedes walked leading off and went to third base on a line drive by Josh Donaldson that right fielder Ichiro Suzuki appeared to lose in the lights.
Jair Jurrjens started for the Orioles, but left in the second with a bruised right rib when he was a hit by a line drive by Thomas Neal.
Oakland right-hander Brandon McCarthy was hit in the head by a line drive last September, causing a skull fracture, an epidural hemorrhage and a brain contusion that required surgery.
Davis was up next, and he did well to keep his hands back on a breaking ball and hit a line drive the other way to left-center for a single.
Every baseball season seems to bring at least one new report of a young pitcher or infielder gravely injured after taking a line drive to the head or the chest.
A. Happ was hit in the head by a line drive and taken off the field on a stretcher during Toronto's game against the Tampa Bay Rays on Tuesday night.
Yoenis Cespedes walked leading off the sixth and went to third base on a line drive by Josh Donaldson that right fielder Ichiro Suzuki appeared to lose in the lights.
When hitter Al Bridwell slapped a line drive into center field, the runner on third trotted in with the apparent winning run, and the happy crowd poured onto the field.
After a leadoff single in the ninth, Brandon Barnes was running on the pitch when Matt Dominguez hit a line drive that was caught by a leaping Cano at second base.
Murphy, who had three hits for his second straight game, hit a soft line drive to center field that hit off Upton's glove as he came in on it and Buck scored.
Yankees starter Hiroki Kuroda left in the third with a bruised right calf, one inning after he was struck in the leg by a line drive off the bat of Manny Machado.
After a leadoff single in the ninth, Brandon Barnes was running on the pitch when Matt Dominguez hit a line drive that was caught by Cano in full stride at second base.
Pitcher Hiroki Kuroda became the latest Yankees player to get hurt, leaving in the second inning with a 2-0 deficit, four batters after Victorino's line drive bruised the middle finger of his pitching hand.
He took a line drive off the middle finger on his pitching hand in his first start and had to come out, then was shaky against Clevelandm, when he allowed four walks and five hits.
Yankees right-hander Hiroki Kuroda is expected to take his next turn in the rotation Monday at Cleveland after bruising the middle finger on his throwing hand when hit by a Shane Victorino line drive Wednesday.
Pitcher Hiroki Kuroda became the latest Yankees player to get hurt, leaving in the second inning with a 2-0 deficit, four batters after Shane Victorino's line drive bruised the middle finger of his pitching hand.
A. Happ (skull fracture, knee) is still sidelined because of the knee injury he sustained when he fell to the turf after being hit in the head by a line drive and is not near pitching again.
Yankees RHP Hiroki Kuroda is expected to take his next turn in the rotation Monday at Cleveland after bruising the middle finger on his pitching hand when it was hit by Shane Victorino's line drive Wednesday night.
Making his first start since taking a line drive off his forearm, Phelps was rocked for five quick runs Wednesday night and got only one out for the New York Yankees in a 9-4 loss to the Mets.
Happ was removed from the field on a stretcher in the second inning Tuesday night after being struck on the head by a line drive off the bat of Jennings in the Blue Jays' 6-4 victory over the Rays.
Pettitte, who turns 41 in June, was 5-4 with a 2.87 ERA in 12 starts last year, when he missed almost three months because of a broken lower left leg, sustained when he was hit by a line drive off the bat of Cleveland's Casey Kotchman on June 27.
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