Just dingers a real man should be able to shake off.
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This year, major league teams have already logged 5,309 dingers and counting.
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A total of 7 homers so far, more than 1 miles of dingers.
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Which is reasonable, actually, because dingers produce runs, whereas bunts mostly produce outs.
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Mark McGwire comes on stage to pop a few dingers into the audience.
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Will Aaron Judge and Giancarlo Stanton make me an honorary member of Dingers, Inc.?
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Gurriel squeezed an RBI single between those dingers to facilitate that seven-run frame.
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And Trout seems to get it—he understands his place in society as a man who gets paid to crush dingers, steal dingers back from the undeserving, and make a young man's day/week/year/life by taking time to sign an autograph.
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Mark Trumbo, a flying elephant, hits eight dingers in a row with his big trunk.
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Dingers is the most popular alternate term, but that is not the end of the discussion.
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And what do you need after something as pleasurable as a Barry Bonds parade of dingers?
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Somewhere in the recesses of my brain I remembered that home runs are sometimes called DINGERS.
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Texas Rangers All the dingers offset Cole Hamels entering the Old Extremely Dickhead portion of his career.
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J. D. Martinez hits so many home runs his initials might as well stand for Just Dingers.
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Thor's Twin Dingers By the God of Thunder, two home runs in the same game by a pitcher?
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One night after recording his 100th career home run, Altuve socked solo dingers in the first and fifth innings.
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Plus, the players' names are hilarious: Rip Dingers, Joanna Heater, Liane Drive, and Hammer Longballo, to name a few.
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Half-way through the 2019 season, they are hitting 1.37 dingers per game, more than in any other season in history.
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The Tigers slugged four home runs, all against Verlander, after entering the game last in the majors in dingers with 76.
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I start to think about the number of visual metaphor I can get out of dudes hitting dingers over and over.
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The camera catches sad dad Todd Frazier in a moment of despair as he tries to overcome Giancarlo's torrent of dingers.
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As for Babe Ruth and his single-season 60 dingers, let's simply note that he was a fellow of prodigious appetites.
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He seems confused, because, realistically, everyone's strategy is to try and hit those slow-moving baseballs hard enough that they become dingers.
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Suarez, who has a team-best and a career-high 37 homers, leads all National League players with 27.11 second-half dingers.
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Suarez, who has a team-best and a career-high 37 homers, leads all National League players with 17 second-half dingers.
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Gurriel has homered in five consecutive games, recording six dingers during that stretch, and now has nine homers in his past 11 games.
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Of course, hitting dingers ain't anything new for Jones ... the 5-time All-Star crushed 434 homers in his legendary 17-year career.
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Before that, he was content to nod along happily as all those dingers helped displace memories of the World Series that he had cancelled.
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Marwin Gonzalez took Walker deep in the second, lining a two-run homer to right for his first career non-solo homer run after 2426 previous dingers.
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Jason Castro and Miguel Sano hit home runs off Angels starter Ricky Nolasco (225-266), who is among the major league leaders in dingers allowed this season.
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And if you're sitting in the Green Monster seats at Fenway Park, look out, because a guy nicknamed Just Dingers — J. D. Martinez — has come to town.
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What Duvall does, and what he has done very well, is turn on a pitch every so often: he has 16 doubles and 18 dingers in 61 games.
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I decide that this is a suitable metaphor for a long home run and continue drawing the event without regarding my responsibility to explain dingers with weird metaphors.
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They go at least 400 feet ... and it probably ain't the smartest idea -- 'cause cars are zooming by just inches from the landing spot of his moonshot dingers!!!
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Now I work hard to stay short to the ball but have a flat path — finish flat, not just try to be up there hitting dingers all day.
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Trea Turner hit a three-run homer, Matt Adams and Asdrubal Cabrera each hit two-run dingers, and Adam Eaton hit a solo shot among the Nationals' 20 hits.
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According to LoHud's Chad Jennings, the Baseball Hall of Fame has asked for the bats that Judge and Austin used to hit back-to-back dingers on Saturday afternoon.
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The last major leaguer to hit his first 23 homers against right-handers was Lee May for Houston in 1972 when he hit his first 24 dingers off righties.
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The Rays had a bunch to celebrate -- from Yandy Diaz's 2 solo dingers and Avisail Garcia and Tommy Pham's HRs to Charlie Morton getting the win on the mound.
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Baseball fans appear ready to have this conversation in earnest, and if they've settled on Dingers as their backup term of choice, they are by no means leaving it there.
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Hell, even Jonathan Schoop has managed to hit 15 dingers each of the last two years, and he's a second baseman whose name looks like a Salt N' Pepa song.
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MLB: Whether it's the balls, launch angles, or absurd velocity of modern pitchers, dingers have never been hit at a higher rate than the 1.30 per game mark so far this season.
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One night after recording his 100th career home run, Altuve socked solo dingers in the first and fifth innings and finished 2-for-4 with two RBIs, two runs and a walk.
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Home runs — also known as long balls, four-baggers, dingers and taters — have been a major attraction in baseball since Babe Ruth slugged 211 in 1920, his first season with the Yankees.
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Victor Robles and Adam Eaton notched solo dingers for the Nationals, who tallied 19 hits and won for the sixth time in seven games, including a 17-7 win over Cincinnati on Wednesday.
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Victor Robles and Adam Eaton notched solo dingers for the Nationals, who tallied 19 hits and won for the sixth time in seven games, including a 17-13 win over Cincinnati on Wednesday.
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As far as I'm concerned, if juicing the ball instead of the players means fans get more dingers without pumping impressionable and eager young men chock-full of dangerous hormones, I'm all for it.
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Baker Mayfield will be hittin' dingers for a cause this weekend ... signing on to join Christian Yelich, Charlie Sheen and more in a celeb softball game to raise money for CA fire and shooting victims.
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Nationals 13, Pirates 0 Trea Turner hit a three-run homer, Matt Adams and Asdrubal Cabrera each hit two-run dingers, and Adam Eaton hit a solo shot as Washington cruised to victory at Pittsburgh.
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The boozing, brawling, straw-that-stirs-the-drinking Yankees were the big sports story of 1977, culminating in Reggie Jackson's three-dingers on three-pitches from three-pitchers in the World Series-clinching Game Six.
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They've decided to bet on power, and that means that as their luck runs out, as all luck does, so too will the Orioles' ability to keep those three-run dingers from turning into solo shots.
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Both players were spectacular in '286, with Strawberry belting 230 dingers in 230 games, and Gooden throwing up an otherworldly 280-286 record with 270 Ks, a 803 ERA, and winning a Cy Young in his second season.
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This power surge is not just about dingers, either: Altuve is on pace to set a career mark in doubles, and has somehow found a way to maintain the high batting average that made him stand out in the first place.
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The bottom line: These two all-time highs cancel each other out, creating a bizarre reality in which the 2019 season — despite a historic number of dingers — is on pace to be just the 57th-highest scoring season since 1900.
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He finished among the league leaders in home runs this spring despite the fact that the dinger he hit in an exhibition game against Canada's World Baseball Classic team doesn't count (Gary would never lower himself by counting dingers against Team Canada).
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Watching a game fish descend out of the dark might not be for everyone, but its unhurried progress allows time to reflect on the past, and the year ahead — like what Edwin Encarnacion's 40 dingers will mean in the middle of the Indians' batting order.
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Unless something crazy happens—which it surely could, for despite being overmatched at the plate for the past calendar year, he is still a generational player, capable of running into a few dingers—A-Rod will finish his career with 696 home runs, good enough for fourth all time.
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There was a time when bloated superteams smothered the postseason with thickly applied contract cheese and bottomless bowls of dingers—it wasn't nearly as long ago as it seems—but we are now in a less-predictable era of slow-burning stubbornness, with last year's Kansas City Royals the reigning champs in both the literal and figurative sense.
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But here are the finalists: The kid who ran past a TV crew with what appeared to be marijuana plant, the lady who shaved her legs in a swimming pool, the "I hit dingers" kid, a guy who got hit by a car doing the #InMyFeelings challenge, and a driver who hit stuff while asleep in the car.
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The results of his work are found in two primary places: in "SABR Presents the Home Run Encyclopedia" (1996), a 93,310-page compendium of all major leaguers' dingers through 1995 (it was edited by Mr. Vincent and Bob McConnell, who had previously overseen the log), and on the Baseball-Reference website, where every home run whacked (and surrendered) is meticulously detailed.
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That highly regarded farm system might not be ready to produce a playoff team, but they have already blessed the Bronx with some seriously large dudes who sock awe-inspiring dingers—the kind of moon shots that make the viewer put down his or her "Why Don't Lazy Millennial Idiots Watch Baseball?" thinkpieces and just appreciate the magnificent violence taking place between bat and ball.
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In 2004, Tomohiro appeared in only 91 games, but still managed to collect 88 hits. He had a strong comeback year in 2005, hitting 16 dingers and driving in 58 runs. Nioka hit .301 in 2005, a new career high.
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Dingman had worked in the construction and roofing industry prior to his baseball career. He returned to working in the construction industry and in 2014 he joined with a partner in Wichita Kansas to start up a roofing construction company, Dingers Roofing & Construction.
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Barry Bonds hit his final home run of 2007 on September 5, bringing his career total to 762."Big blasts decide night for Giants" Three dingers sink Rockies in season series finale This would be the final home run of his career.
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The first Dukes team was formed in 1915 as part of the Class D Rio Grande Association. The team finished in third place with a 32-25 record. Frank Huelman was the league leader in home runs, hitting 10 dingers for the season. These Dukes folded that same year.
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Nogay of Weirton, WV is the school's all-time wins leader with a career record of 28–2. Josh Staniscia of Franklin Regional H.S. is the school's all-time hits leader, with 251 career hits from 2011–2014. Frank Quirin (2008–2010) is the all-time home run leader with 22 career dingers.
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Lawrence posted a 3–0 record with a 1.58 ERA, striking out 23 and walking just a single batter in 28 1/3 innings. The following summer, it was Lexington, Massachusetts native and Boston College slugger Chris Shaw. Shaw clubbed seven dingers to lead the league for Chatham in 2014, and finished second in the league with 31 RBIs.
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' Critical to the movie was the availability of the Dome, he said. Filming during the games was limited to capturing crowd reaction, wide- angle shots of the teams and the occasional player at bat. Dodgers outfielder Mike Marshall was, like Davis, expected to hit a homer, Masterson said. But the director found that dingers in the Dome aren't all that common.
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Door switches are simple on/off mechanisms connected to the interior light (dome light), and may also be connected to a warning light, speaker or other device, to inform the driver when the door is not closed. The door light is standard equipment on all cars. In American cars from the 1950s-1990s, they had buzzers or "door dingers" that sounded, along with the check light, whenever any door is open.
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Pitchers Eddie Nogay of Weirton, W.Va. (2011–14) and Riley Groves (2014-17) of Louisville, Ohio are tied for the most in school history with 28. Nick Vento (2014–17) is the all-time home run leader with 26 career dingers. Vento is also the school's all-time hit (255) and RBI (168) leader. Derek Helbing (2017) and Neil Pascarella (2010) are tied for the school's single-season home run record with 12.
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Duns Rugby Football Club are a rugby union side based in Duns in the Borders, Scotland. They are known as 'The Dingers' from the town motto "Duns Dings A" (Duns Beats All). For the 2015–16 season they will play in East Regional League Division One. It is unclear if they will return to the Border League(the oldest established rugby union league in the world) having lost their place in 2007–08.
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Harold Andrew "Hank" Allen (born July 23, 1940) is an American former professional baseball player who appeared in Major League Baseball, primarily as an outfielder, for the Washington Senators (–), Milwaukee Brewers () and Chicago White Sox (–). Born in Wampum, Pennsylvania, Allen threw and batted right-handed, stood tall and weighed . He is the elder brother of Dick Allen, a seven-time All-Star, 1964 National League Rookie of the Year and 1972 American League Most Valuable Player, and Ron Allen, who had a brief MLB career. As of September 2006, the Allen brothers ranked 11th in the MLB brother-combination, home run list with 358 dingers (out of more than 350 combinations all-time).
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Format: Paperback, 294pp. Language: English. Sams enjoyed a career-season in 1952, when she led the circuit with 12 home runs and finished third in average (.314) in 109 games. She also was second in hits (128), doubles (25) and total bases (195), and ended third in RBI (57) in her last year as an All-Star Team, while Kalamazoo finished 5th of six teams with a 49–60 record. During a double-header sweep of Grand Rapids in June, she homered in both games, including a two-run blast in a four-hit, 3–0 shutout by Ruth Williams in game one, and a solo homer in a seven-hit, 2–1 victory of Gloria Cordes in the nightcap. With her 12 dingers, Sams broke the league’s all-time home run record of 10 set in 1943 by Racine’s Eleanor Dapkus. That mark would be eclipsed in 1954 by Fort Wayne's Joanne Weaver, when she hit 29 home runs during what turned out to be the league’s final season.
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She also had 56 hits with 44 runs and 56 walks to her credit. Dottie Schroeder getting a hit- Opa-locka, Florida on April 22, 1948 In 1944 Schroeder stole 70 bases. Failing to hit .200 in each of her first six seasons and totalling four home runs in that time, she became a fine hitter with power in her later years after the league switched to overhand pitching. From 1949 through 1954 she hit a combined .242 average (509-for-2095); tying for third place with five home runs in 1950, and finishing fourth in 1951 with four homers. In 1952, she was again fourth with six dingers and her average raised to .245, while earning her first of three consecutive selections to the AAGPBL All-Star Team. In 1953, Schroeder saw her average climb to .285 and tied for fourth with six home runs. She also was named the Most Valuable Player of the Daisies, after helping her team to win the regular season title with a 67–42 mark. But after an exciting series, Jean Faut led the South Bend club to win the Championship Title. Schroeder enjoyed her most productive season in 1954, when she posted career-highs with .304, 17 homers and 65 runs batted in.
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