NOTES: Dodgers INF Corey Seager (elbow) took grounders on Monday.
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We took turns hitting, then fielded grounders at every base.
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Pomeranz got double-play grounders in the second and third innings.
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I guess the grounders all trusted people would respect the ceremony.
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Chopped grounders that bound high into the air elude the radar.
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We haven't even gotten to the Grounders or the Reapers yet.
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Then he retired Taylor and Seager on routine grounders to Altuve.
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Their grounders found holes, and their runners found the plate three times.
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He was much more effective getting grounders at 86 or 87 m.p.h.
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Two fielder's choice grounders broke the shutout but got Guerra one out away.
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Thanks to four double-play grounders, Senzatela got 15 outs on ground balls.
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Three of the Padres' baserunners against Newcomb were eliminated on double-play grounders.
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He recorded 16 outs via grounders, inducing a pair of double play balls.
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Rizzo, an above-average fielder, must keep his eye on all sharp grounders.
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The left-hander then retired the next three Rockies in order on grounders.
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J.B. Wendelken came on to preserve the tie, getting a pair of grounders.
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Treinen ranked second in the major leagues in double-play grounders this season.
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Second baseman Asdrubal Cabrera and third baseman Todd Frazier misplayed grounders for errors.
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Lexa was the leader of the Grounders and love interest to bisexual heroine Clarke.
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Solarte is taking batting practice from both sides of the plate and fielding grounders.
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Gourriel took batting practice, ran the bases and took grounders at second and third.
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Keuchel (3-2) allowed 10 baserunners, but two were eliminated on double-play grounders.
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Yet they ranked 12th in opponents' batting average on grounders and short liners, at .258.
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Myers was fielding grounders at third when one skipped off his glove and hit him.
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If the dad can get the Grounders to open the door, he'll get some leverage.
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While all this is happening, Octavia and the Grounders are debating using force against Skaikru.
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Yes, Bryant is an MLB star paid heaps of money to field routine grounders like this.
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Many of these middle-grounders resented Mr Blair's speech as an unhelpful polarisation of the debate.
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Rockies right-hander Miguel Castro then came on and retired Matt Kemp and Myers on grounders.
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The Grounders pack everybody into a room to make their decision (Octavia gave them 12 hours).
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Borucki coaxed double-play grounders in the fourth and fifth innings, each time after a walk.
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He looked spry enough before Wednesday's game, fielding grounders and taking swings in the batting cage.
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It just may spur an irreversible fracture amongst the Grounders' 12 clans, to possibly devastating effect.
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He used to take infield grounders during batting practice, just for fun, but decided it was pointless.
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We know for certain that this plan isn't going to hold forever, because it definitely excludes Grounders.
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The Skaikru troops think they can use hydrazine to start a fire and light up the Grounders.
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However, I do think something is missing in terms of how the Grounders see their religion now.
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He never retired the side in order but ended the third and fourth with double-play grounders.
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Volquez, who was helped by two double-play grounders, needed just 98 pitches to complete the no-hitter.
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Besides throwing to hitters, O'Day also fielded grounders on the right side to test out covering first base.
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Pedroia fielded five of those grounders in seven innings, including a diving stop on Ellsbury in the fifth.
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But the two most eye-catching shortstops took turns taking grounders in the searing late afternoon heat Thursday.
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Los Angeles shortstop Manny Machado took grounders during batting practice with his throwing hand tucked inside his sweatshirt.
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"All I know is Terry asked me to take some grounders at third base," a bemused Cabrera said.
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Freeman, who played third in high school, took grounders Wednesday and expects to be cleared Friday to begin hitting.
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What will the Sky People's decision to open up Mount Weather mean for their strained relations with the Grounders?
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The Grounders drag the unconscious bodies of people around, based on who can stay and who has to go.
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Twins slugger Miguel Sano took batting practice and fielded grounders on Tuesday as he deals with lower back tightness.
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With more and more grounders swallowed up by smartly positioned infielders, hitters decided to lift balls over their heads.
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Tony Watson pitched the ninth for his first save, hitting a batter before getting two grounders and a fly out.
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Otherwise we'd just be blowing up hydrogenerators, murdering an army of Grounders, or shooting a dope-ass leader (RIP Lexa).
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So now Octavia and Kane are stuck outside with a bunch of Grounders who feel like Skaikru betrayed them. Ughhhhh!
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Wainwright varied speeds, spins and deliveries to keep Miami off-balance, collecting a spate or weak grounders and fly balls.
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Perdomo (6-6) induced four double-play grounders, including three inning-ending DPs, all of the 20-221-21 variety.
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Rather than shutting down friends or family members with differing opinions, common grounders listen to others in order to understand them.
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Of the first 15 outs recorded by Hahn, 19 were recorded on grounders, a clear sign that his sinker was effective.
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INF/OF Rob Refsnyder, who has played second and third base and right field, took some grounders at first base Wednesday.
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The Reds had the bases loaded in the third and fourth innings but double-play grounders helped Liriano escape further trouble.
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SS Jhonny Peralta (left thumb) took grounders on Sunday as well as what were termed "controlled swings" by manager Mike Matheny.
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For the first three innings, their hitters swung at anything, producing a succession of pop-ups, grounders and more pop-ups.
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Likewise, not all hitters should prioritize contact; they might just slap a lot of low-impact grounders early in the count.
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Alderson said Wright would begin baseball activity — fielding grounders, taking swings and perhaps engaging in throwing drills — as early as Wednesday.
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Senzatela, 22, gave up five hits and, thanks to four double-play grounders all on sliders, got 15 outs on ground balls.
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Richards threw fastballs, curveballs and sliders, getting three hitters to hit routine grounders, while one hitter hit a single to left field.
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Lexa's death will motivate Clarke even harder to negotiate peace between her space station people and the Grounders she's come to know.
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Over the second half of last season, Richard induced grounders on a major league-high 63.9 percent of balls put in play. 3.
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INSIDE PITCH Outfielder Yoenis Cespedes has been taking grounders at first base while rehabbing at the spring complex in Port St. Lucie, Florida.
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In later videos, Smith fields grounders while hopping through tires, and Burt works on his second-base feeds by knocking over water bottles.
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But Greer liked how he pulled the ball with authority as a designated hitter, and how close he came to beating out routine grounders.
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Merritt allowed runners in four of the first five innings, but coaxed double play grounders to bail himself out of two of those innings.
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Jaha's plan is to gas the Grounders, get to the crop supply, and threaten to destroy it if they don't let all of Skaikru survive.
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That run proved important when shortstop Didi Gregorius and Castro booted consecutive grounders in the eighth that allowed the A's to close to 5-4.
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In the third inning, Senzel walked, moved to third on two grounders and scored on Josh VanMeter's sacrifice fly to put Cincinnati ahead 2-0.
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McNeil moved to third, picking grounders and talking positioning with Frazier, who has played every spot in the majors except pitcher, catcher and center field.
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One of the best Cubs pitchers of the postwar years was righty Rick Reuschel, a heavyset guy with great control and a penchant for getting grounders.
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A group called the Grounders built up an immunity to the lingering radiation — an only-the-strong-survive scenario — and reverted to a rudimentary tribal existence.
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Mets Manager Mickey Callaway said Syndergaard was tired after throwing 98 pitches because he had kept hustling to cover first base on grounders to that side.
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Then there's Bellamy's sister, Octavia (Marie Avgeropoulos), who is so impressed with the Grounders' survivalist way of life that she leaves her people behind to embrace it.
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Shortstop Troy Tulowitzki, sidelined since April 3 by a strained left calf, took on-field batting practice Monday and continued taking grounders at shortstop and third base.
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Second baseman Neil Walker also ran the bases and fielded grounders, moving closer to his own return after he partly tore his left hamstring on June 14.
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In the fifth and sixth Nolasco induced double-play grounders, first from Tony Kemp and then Yulieski Gurriel after George Springer led off the sixth with a walk.
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The third inning actually ended with two consecutive outs by Lucas Duda and Walker, both of whom were retired on grounders into the shift in shallow right field.
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Don't forget, we learned in the last episode that Clarke's all-around badass-ery has gotten her elevated to Wanheda — the Commander of Death — status among the Grounders.
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Volquez, who was helped by two double-play grounders, needed just 3593 pitches to complete his masterpiece, which was the first no-hitter in the majors this season.
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The Marine Park field is a rutted and crowded meadow that tilts decidedly toward the south and the marshes; batted grounders in that direction bounce a long distance.
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Alex Avila and Victor Martinez followed with sharply hit balls to the right side of the infield, grounders that Jose Altuve and Yuli Gurriel failed to field cleanly.
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Wilmer Flores hit a leadoff double and went to third on a groundout by Michael Conforto but was stranded as Biddle retired Jose Bautista and Todd Frazier on grounders.
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Roark danced around first-and-second, no-out trouble in the fifth by retiring pinch-hitter Jesus Aguilar on a double play and Yelich on grounders to third base.
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INF Yulieski Gurriel took grounders and throws at first base during Friday's workout and then made his debut at first as a defensive replacement in the sixth inning Friday.
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His confidence was paid off with consecutive fielder's choice grounders, but when Starling Marte lined a single to center, Counsell had no choice but to bring on closer Jeremy Jeffress.
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"During his first workout with the staff, it took 29 grounders before they could get him to miss one," Saint Paul Saints owner Marvin Goldklang told the New York Times.
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One theory for the new power surge is that hitters have learned to tailor their swings to launch more fly balls, reasoning that fly balls produce more runs than grounders.
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Bagwell reached the majors with the Astros as a first baseman, but he struggled with balls to his backhand; at third base, most grounders had gone to the glove side.
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He allowed a home run to Jonathan Lucroy — "Golly!" he shouted, before the ball had even cleared the fence — but retired Albert Pujols on two grounders and a pop-up.
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Left-hander Martin Perez (23-22) was the victim of errors on rather routine grounders as the road weary Rangers, playing their 238th road game in the last 21, fell apart.
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However, Tony Kemp and Jake Marisnick delivered run-scoring grounders, with Davis scoring before the throw from Red Sox first baseman Mitch Moreland to give the Astros a 3-2 lead.
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"As far as I know, Rey invented that thing where he went down on one sliding knee in the hole to stop sharp grounders," says Greg Prince, the author of Piazza.
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SS Adeiny Hechavarria (oblique strain) took grounders in pregame warm-ups on Saturday and appears ready to start a rehab assignment on Monday, possibly rejoining the team in about a week.
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Perez couldn t get close pitches on either corner with any consistency and, although he got nine outs on grounders, he missed over the plate's middle just enough to get hurt.
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They'll be the ones studying that extra in the library, taking some extra grounders when practice is done, or working at a part-time job in addition to going to school.
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Bobby Wahl allowed two hits while recording the first two outs of the eighth before Robert Gsellman got the final four outs, all on grounders to second base, for his sixth save.
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The right-hander struck out one and induced three double-play grounders after coming out his previous start in New York last week after three innings with tightness in his right armpit.
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Millions of these middle-grounders are actually leaners who sorta, kinda, maybe like most of what one party stands for — and then find out that they share a label with Sarah Palin.
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" So I was taken aback when he approached me on the street after a punch-ball game and said, "Hey, 5E, you want to catch grounders, you got to bend your knees.
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Two of them, slow grounders by Jackie Bradley Jr. and Bryce Brentz, paved the way for the Red Sox to take a 2-1 lead in the fourth on Leon's ground single.
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And his team responded by stringing together sharp grounders and line drives like so many pearls and claiming a 6-5 victory to secure a spot in the National League Championship Series.
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He had gone 2-0 with a 0.64 ERA (1 ER/14.0 IP) in two games since returning from the DL. 3B Adrian Beltre took batting practice and fielded grounders before Saturday's game.
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Pounding the edges of the zone with his sinker and breaking pitches, Leake obtained 12 outs via grounders in a third straight outing far removed from his career-worst 4.69 ERA last year.
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A four-time All-Star shortstop with the Mets, Reyes spent about two hours on the Rockies' back fields, working with some of the younger players while fielding grounders for about 20 minutes.
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Ahmed and Jean Segura had two hits for Arizona (22015-2), which scored twice in the third on two infield grounders after loading the bases on two singles and a Chatwood throwing error.
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During batting practice, Tebow hit several balls off the fence in center field, but also hit some harmless grounders to second base and a few pop-ups into the netting of the cage.
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Playing against Detroit Tigers minor leaguers and in front of Yankees owner Hal Steinbrenner, Gregorius singled twice and cleanly fielded three grounders but got an error for a bad throw to first base.
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Even by making soft contact, their hitters can sometimes get lucky and start or sustain rallies; the Yankees' infielders booted four grounders in the later innings on Thursday, and all led to runs.
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The hits ranged from seared almost-gappers to hard grounders placed right between the first and second basemen; the swings that produced them were either low wristy sweeps or hurried twitches at inside fastballs.
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When he was a teenager, Charlie Grimm, who managed the Cubs to their last World Series, in 1945, was impressed enough with Saldaña's golf swing that he invited him to take a few grounders.
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It would be the 34-year-old Cronin's last season at shortstop; by that point, a case of the defensive yips was forcing him to go down to one knee to field routine grounders.
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While the Yankees cited Holliday's exit velocity — third in baseball (94.7 miles per hour) among players with more than 100 balls put in play last season — he said he had hit too many grounders.
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He said that he planned to cut back on the number of swings and grounders he takes before games and that he would try to limit the amount of pregame stretching he has to do.
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It was also the ninth win in the last 11 decisions against Pittsburgh for Leake, who picked up 12 outs via grounders as he was able to work the corners and stay at the knees.
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I get that Grounders gotta Grounder and Ice Nation has to be futilely making power moves, but I don't really understand why last season's A.I. business didn't fundamentally alter any of these people's world views.
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But the cacophony of activity that can take place during batting practice — hitters teeing off, coaches hitting grounders to infielders, pitchers throwing to catchers and players signing autographs — makes the odds not quite so long.
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Rodriguez said he had taken grounders at first base during the All-Star break and had done so a handful of times since but had not worked out at the position in close to a week.
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A plot about artificial intelligence finally crystallized, with a flashback to the moment said AI went rogue and destroyed the world in the aforementioned nuclear apocalypse — complete with a surprising link to the Grounders' own backstory.
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He had been taken out of the starting lineup for a game after failing to run out two grounders in Miami, and then he strained his left quadriceps while running out a ground ball on Wednesday.
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As an astute commenter pointed out last week: season 2 showed us the horrors of people being used as blood bags, so of course the grounders still can't completely trust people who need their blood to survive.
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Kendall doesn't exactly look like Roy Hobbs out on the field, but she does look like she had a blast taking BP and fielding grounders while playing around with her sisters at a ballpark in Canoga Park.
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Tanaka found himself with a runner on base in two other instances — when Carlos Santana singled in the second and walked in the fifth — but he extricated himself with double-play grounders that were turned with ease.
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First baseman Chase Headley and second baseman Tyler Wade — both relative newcomers to their positions — booted grounders, and right fielder Clint Frazier airmailed a throw to third base, allowing the Indians two unearned runs in the first.
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Although Wainwright threw just 56 strikes out of 102 pitches, he mustered enough downward movement on his offerings to attract 13 outs via grounders, including double plays after Chicago put leadoff men aboard in the third and fourth.
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The Dodgers took control with four runs in the third inning, getting RBI singles from Corey Seager and Cody Bellinger as well as RBI fielder's-choice grounders from Justin Turner and Matt Beaty for a 5-0 lead.
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And so as one Yankees coach, Reggie Willits, hit grounders to Andujar, and another, Brett Weber, was stationed at first to catch Andujar's throws, Rodriguez stationed himself — hands on his knees, like a football coach — behind the pitcher's mound.
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After having treated his glove as if it were kryptonite, Rodriguez said he had taken some grounders during the All-Star break, and upon his return, he worked out at first base before Friday's game with the bench coach Rob Thomson.
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In two sessions against Rosa, covering about 30 pitches, Judge put four balls in play — a pair of well-struck grounders up the middle, a liner into left-center and a home run that landed just over the right-field wall.
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The Grounders are not happy with Clarke — what else is new, this is just her terrible, terrible life now — and want her to leave Polis, but suddenly a Grounder discovers that King Roan is still alive and in need of a doctor.
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Carlos Correa hit a two-run homer in the first inning, and the Houston Astros scored twice on infield grounders in the fourth en route to a 4-903 win over the visiting Boston Red Sox on Thursday at Minute Maid Park.
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Moncada looked stilted and unsteady as he fielded grounders and made throws, leaving some in the Yankees' contingent of scouts, coaches and executives — which included Hal Steinbrenner, the team's principal owner — to wonder immediately if the hype about Moncada, then 24, was misplaced.
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Gaia recognizes that the people need a commander, but her beliefs are firmly rooted in the tradition of the Flame [an AI the grounders worship as a cornerstone of their religion], so she's not just going to stand by and let someone be a fake Commander.
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When his name was called in pregame introductions, the fans began to boo, and then they saw him rush onto the field in disguise, looking utterly ridiculous, taking his position at first base and tossing grounders to his teammates while that shaggy wig dragged down his back.
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He had a pair of hits in the 20-2356 victory — and probably could have had at least one more, if not for a pair of grounders that got by Seattle infielders and were ruled errors — and continues to be a thorn in the side of the Mariners.
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The 29-year-old right-hander gave up an RBI single to Eduardo Escobar in the first and had just one 1-2-3 inning but induced a pair of double-play grounders and limited the Diamondbacks to two hits in 12 at-bats with runners on base.
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I mean, be reasonable: How often, as Derek Jeter's retirement approached in 2014, were we made to endure the squealing ecstasies of television announcers too bedazzled by the fastidious delicacy of his dainty coupé-chassé en tournant on grounders to his right to notice his minuscule range or flimsy arm?
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It threw 100 delinquent teens out of a dying space station back down to Earth — now a nuclear wasteland — where they fended for themselves against the elements and the "Grounders," those who managed to survive the nuclear apocalypse three generations ago and who weren't too thrilled about anyone trying to take their land.
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Wilson, the Seattle Seahawks quarterback and former minor league baseball player, whose rights were acquired by the Yankees during the off-season, smoothly fielded grounders at second base and did not look out of place while taking swings in a group with the Yankees' biggest sluggers: Aaron Judge, Giancarlo Stanton, Gary Sanchez and Greg Bird.
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Machado has been in no mood to apologize — or really even discuss — the actions that placed him in the spotlight against the Brewers: the late slides at second base, the purposeful kicking of first baseman Jesus Aguilar, the failure to run out grounders and the grabbing of his crotch in response to boos after beating out a bunt.
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Athletics 242, Yankees 20 | 33 Innings For much of Tuesday night, as he ranged right and glided left, Didi Gregorius looked so smooth gobbling up whistling grounders that it was easy to forget how tentative and harried he had looked at the start of last season, when he had the unenviable task of replacing Derek Jeter at shortstop for the Yankees.
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Reyes and Walker have also been advised by Collins to take some grounders at third, which might be an attempt to showcase them as well, or might be an indication that the Mets are considering promoting Amed Rosario, their top infield prospect, who has played all but a handful of his 87 games for the Class AAA Las Vegas 51s at shortstop.
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