"You're supposed to freeze on a line drive," Mackanin said.
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His 29.8% line drive rate represents yet another individual benchmark.
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Then Gerardo Parra banged a sinking line drive to left.
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His single to left field was a solid line drive.
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We didn't turn two on that ball, the line drive.
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He bounced off the center-field wall to snatch a line drive by Mitch Haniger in the third, and two batters later made a sliding catch of a sinking line drive by Carlos Ruiz.
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Two pitches later, he slugged a line-drive homer to left.
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The crack of the bat on a nice, sharp line drive.
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Bullet time but for Nick Evans repeatedly blasting line drive triples.
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Ray was hit by a 108 mph line drive July 28.
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"It was a line drive in front of Altuve," Correa said.
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A line drive double play allowed Verlander to escape further damage.
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Turner then cleared the bases with a line-drive double to left.
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The 376-foot line drive was Reyes' fourth homer of the season.
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He was hit around the hip by a Spencer Kieboom line drive.
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Rougned Odor then hit a line drive down the first-base line.
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Diaz opened the Pirates' ninth with a line-drive double to left.
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He had been hit by a line drive in the third inning.
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"I'll take a line drive up the middle all day," Drury said.
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Turner laced a line drive to right field behind the imaginary runner.
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Ramon Laureano led off with a line-drive double to right field.
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The game ended when Swanson dove to catch Manny Pina's line drive.
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Santana followed with a line-drive single to center to plate Smith.
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Shoemaker said once the game started, he didn't think about the line drive.
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He also had a loud out — a line-drive out to left field.
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Bogaerts scored on Ramirez's line drive to left to make it 4-1.
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After Chatwood walked his fourth batter, Cahill, Margot hit a sinking line drive.
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Two outs later, Hunter Renfroe hit a line drive directly to shortstop Lindor.
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The inning ended on a soft line drive to second by Dioner Navarro.
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Fried was then knocked out of the game on Verdugo's line-drive comebacker.
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The Mets' strikeout and line-drive rates vary only slightly in those situations.
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Two batters later, Garrett Cooper hit a line-drive RBI single to center.
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"It's a line drive, coming off at 100 miles per hour," Mithoff said.
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Gennett scored when Adam Duvall stroked a line-drive RBI single to left.
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Grossman then ripped a line drive to right field to drive in two runs.
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The decisive seventh game ended when McCovey's line drive was caught by Bobby Richardson.
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Domingo Santana led off with a line-drive single to left, ending Wainwright's night.
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Bryant made a diving catch on Suarez's line drive to end the second inning.
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An out later, he advanced to second on Beckham's line-drive single to right.
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You don't just say I'm going to hit a line drive to left field.
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They say a bloop hit looks like a line drive in the box score.
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D'Arnaud followed with a line-drive single to center to break the scoreless tie.
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George Springer led off the game with a line-drive single to center field.
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Gardner hit a line drive to right field, where Kole Calhoun made a diving attempt.
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Starlin Castro followed that with a line-drive double to right field that scored Realmuto.
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Carrasco was struck in his hand by an Ian Kinsler line drive on Sept. 17.
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Paxton had been sidelined since taking a line drive off his pitching forearm on Aug.
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His nose was broken when he was hit in the face with a line drive.
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Pederson hit a soft line drive at Baez, who let it drop to the ground.
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His 437-foot line drive off Arizona starter Zack Greinke followed an Eric Hosmer single.
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He swung at the first pitch and lashed a sinking line drive into left field.
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Separately, another young baseball fan was injured by a line drive last night in Houston.
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Chen missed his last start after a line drive struck his left arm opening day.
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Flores turned on the pitch and rifled a line drive into the left-field seats.
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Blackburn was struck on the hand by a line drive at Baltimore on Aug. 22.
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McFarland was removed from the Tuesday game after he was stuck by a line drive.
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The center fielder hit a line drive to left-center that scored Carpenter and Moss.
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It was a line drive that I pulled foul and it went over the net.
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Astros CF Jake Marisnick's line drive hit Escobar in the left wrist, causing a contusion.
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Shoemaker sustained a fractured skull and cranial bleeding after being hit by a line drive Sept.
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But his stay on base was brief - he got doubled off first on a line drive.
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His line drive to center field scored Darwin Barney, who doubled to lead off the inning.
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On Saturday, Blackmon made a diving catch of Billy Hamilton's line drive in the sixth inning.
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When a line drive is hit right at you, they are the hardest plays to make.
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He missed 26 days after being struck in the head by a line drive July 28.
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Velasquez suffered a bruised right forearm after being hit by a line drive during Saturday's game.
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He walked, singled and made a nice defensive play on a line drive in the third.
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He stayed in despite taking a sharp line drive off his left shin in the second.
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Rosario hit a line-drive home run to right-field, stretching Minnesota's lead to 3-33.
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He also fractured his skull in 2016 when a line drive hit him in the head.
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Judge hit one ball hard, a line drive that was snagged by center fielder Zack Granite.
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It happened when Cub's player, Albert Almora Jr. hit a foul line drive into the stands.
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Kepler then drove in Buxton with a line-drive double over the head of Tilson in center.
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He was struck by Whit Merrifield's line drive single and committed a throwing error on the play.
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The threat ended when right fielder Gregory Polanco doubled Gyorko off first on Yadier Molina's line drive.
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I get nailed in the leg with a line drive, which quickly turns into a gnarly bruise.
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Shoemaker took a line drive off the bat of Seager to the right side of his head.
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After Shane Robinson walked, Giavotella hit a line drive to right fielder Max Muncy, ending the inning.
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Corey Dickerson hit a line-drive double just out of the reach of left fielder Jose Ramirez.
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Michael Saunders, with the bases loaded, had a line drive snared by Goldschmidt to end the seventh.
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He has a smooth line-drive swing and he can spray the ball all over the park.
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After the line drive went into the stands, the crowd let out a gasp then when silent.
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"All I know is, I hit a line drive to short, and I wasn't out," he said.
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Duke faced two batters and threw six pitches, including a line drive from Rizzo for an out.
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"If he hits a line drive and I'm going on contact, it's a double play," Desmond said.
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Escobar then hit his third triple of the season, a line drive to the right field corner.
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Bellinger trimmed the deficit to 2-1 with a line-drive solo homer in the third inning.
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David Freese followed that up with a line-drive single to left that sent Turner to second.
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The inning ended when Tellez was doubled off second on Danny Jansen's line drive to second base.
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Stanton swung at a curveball in the opposite batter's box and lashed a line drive to right.
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He finished the regular season with a 23.1 percent line drive rate, the highest of his career.
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There was a Gio Urshela line drive off Greinke snared by the leaping third baseman, Alex Bregman.
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Travis d'Arnaud led off the bottom of the 11th with a line-drive double to left field.
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Another starter, Carlos Carrasco, missed the postseason after a line drive broke his pitching hand in September.
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Alonso hit a line-drive, two-out single off the top of third baseman Brian Anderson's glove.
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"I don't think anybody hits a prettier line drive over the infield than Mark does," Showalter said.
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Pinch hitter Asdrubal Cabrera followed with a line-drive double to right, scoring Matt Adams and Suzuki.
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NOTES: A first-inning, line-drive single by Marlins RF Giancarlo Stanton was clocked at 13 mph.
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Martin Prado smoked a line-drive double to left-center and scored on Brian Anderson's single to center.
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Santana then retired Edwin Encarnacion on a line drive to center fielder Byron Buxton to end the inning.
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A 210-mph line drive into the seats seared an imprint of the ball's seams on her forehead.
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Center fielder Jon Jay made a sliding catch of Granderson's line drive in left center in the third.
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"That's always the toughest one to read — the one that's a line drive," Yankees manager Joe Girardi said.
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He also made a leaping grab of a line drive from Brian Dozier leading off the first inning.
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He could throw a ball from deep in the outfield straight to the catcher on a line drive.
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Mark Melancon came in and walked Franmil Reyes ahead of a line-drive RBI single by Hunter Renfroe.
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Santana got hit in the head with a line drive while sitting in the dugout during Thursday's game.
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With the Astros leading 3-0, Yuli Gurriel and Josh Reddick opened the fourth with line-drive singles.
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And Harold Ramirez singled and Prado doubled ahead of Alfaro's line-drive double to right in the fourth.
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He is filling for Mike Foltynewicz, who was hit in the left calf by a line drive Monday.
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Matt Carpenter hit a line drive back up the middle, scoring Ozuna and sending Keller to the showers.
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Josh Naylor's line-drive double to left brought home both runners and tied the score at 3-3.
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Max Kepler led off the fourth by hitting a routine line drive to Yoenis Cespedes in left field.
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It will look like a line drive in the box score as Baez reached first for a single.
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After overrunning a line drive, he stuck his glove behind him for the catch, starting a double play.
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Robbie Scott replaced Porcello and retired Ezequiel Carrera on a line drive to center to end the threat.
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Kyle Seager led off with a line-drive single to right, and Daniel Vogelbach walked an out later.
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Yelich advanced to second on a wild pitch and went home on Moustakas's line drive to right field.
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Yoenis Cespedes then hit a line drive into the left-field bleachers, putting the Mets up, 5-0.
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The Indians went on top for good on Abraham Almonte's line-drive single to center in the ninth.
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SS Addison Russell had five line-drive outs in his first 10 at-bats in the Cincinnati series.
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He also played well defensively, getting an unassisted double play by grabbing a line drive at first base.
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The Blue Jays failed to get the double play on a line drive to second by Mallex Smith.
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Even at that lower height, it offers protection in what is prime territory for line-drive foul balls.
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He was pulled after getting Davis on a hard line drive to lead off the bottom of the seventh.
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Daniel Vogelbach, Narvaez and Seager followed with line-drive singles, the latter scoring Vogelbach with the go-ahead run.
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RHP Ken Giles suffered a right wrist contusion after being struck by a line drive during early batting practice.
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Two pitches later, he slugged a line-drive homer to left that had an exit velocity of 108 mph.
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The Ionic represented a bit of a swing and a miss, while the Versa was a solid line drive.
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Dexter Fowler greeted left-hander Roenis Elias with a line-drive single to right to thwart the shutout bid.
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On one occasion in 2013, Tulowitzki scorched a line drive that Fernandez somehow snared, leaving Tulowitzki staring in awe.
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Paxton was dominating the Angels before sustaining the injury on a one-out line drive in the ninth inning.
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He just turned 22, and once more appears to have that special line-drive quickness in his back pocket.
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NOTES: Detroit RHP Jeff Ferrell was struck in the head by Ryon Healy's line drive in the eighth inning.
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Tyler Naquin nearly caught Brantley's line drive, but officials upheld the initial ruling that the ball hit the ground.
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Didi Gregorius, who ended the game with a line drive over the right-field fence, would not go there.
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A line drive by Ryan Zimmerman measured at 110 miles per hour struck Mets reliever Hansel Robles's right leg.
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Saladino's two-out, bases-loaded line drive that whistled past Boyd put the White Sox on top, 2-1.
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Bryant followed with a line-drive single to right, scoring Fowler with the only run the Cubs would need.
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He has not pitched since being struck by a line drive in a July 28 start in St. Louis.
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His home runs are functions of solid contact from a line-drive swing that just carry over the fence.
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Kris Bryant started off the half-inning with a line-drive home run to center that tied the score.
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With one on and nobody out in the fourth, he ripped a high line drive toward straightaway center field.
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Bour, not speedy, scored from first when Prado's line-drive stuck near the wall in the left-field corner.
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McCutchen also chased down a second-inning line drive by Yasmani Grandal that could have gone for extra bases.
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Atlanta starter Mike Foltynewicz left the game after being struck in the leg by a Marcell Ozuna line drive.
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Even reliever Jerry Blevins got his first career hit, a line-drive run-scoring single off infielder Scott Kingery.
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Another run scored on Severino's second RBI single, but it was only a line drive in the box score.
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Didi Gregorius was on first with one out when Gary Sanchez hit a slow line drive toward second base.
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The second, a line drive off Ryan Tepera in the seventh, was a two-run shot to left-center.
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Corbin then responded by shooting a line drive in the gap in right field for his second career triple.
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The Yankees took a 1-0 lead on a line drive home run from Austin Romine in the second inning.
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Right fielder Tarasco jumped up and hit the wall to snare a line drive hit by pinch hitter Scott Livingstone.
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Then with two out, Heyward hit a low line drive that first baseman Gonzalez lunged to his right to catch.
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This week Woods tweeted out a new video, showing him hitting a "stinger"—a low, line drive, down the fairway.
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Brantley extended his hitting streak to 10 games by hitting a line drive into the gap in left-center field.
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Jones then followed with his seventh homer of the year, a 418-foot line drive into the left field bleachers.
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Duffy took a hard line drive off his shin on his plant leg to end the top of the second.
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RHP Mike Foltynewicz left his Monday start after being hit by a line drive struck by Miami OF Marcell Ozuna.
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Paul DeJong hit a two-out single and scored when Taylor misjudged Jose Martinez's line drive into a RBI double.
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He was struck in the head by a Ryon Healy line drive in the eighth inning against Oakland on Monday.
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After Matt Duffy struck out, Buster Posey hit a line drive to left field that Melvin Upton Jr. squared up.
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Manny Machado delivered a line-drive single past Kershaw in the third to give the Padres a 2-1 edge.
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The Mariners' Tom Murphy led off the fifth inning with a line-drive single to left but was stranded there.
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Colon took a line drive off his thumb Tuesday, but is expected to make his scheduled start Sunday in Atlanta.
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But Dodgers Manager Dave Roberts pulled Kershaw after his 114th pitch, a hard line drive by pinch-hitter Michael Conforto.
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Paxton had been sidelined for two weeks with a bruised elbow after being hit by a line drive Aug. 7.
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Kelly Johnson followed De Aza's grab by leading off the fifth with a line drive toward the right-field seats.
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Rivera smoked a line drive over a drawn-in infield for his first walk-off hit as a Marlins player.
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Albies jumped as high as possible at second to snag Joey Votto's line drive that might have cleared the bases.
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Domingo Santana led off with a line-drive single to center and scored on Vogelbach's homer to right, his 21st.
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Edwin Encarnacion led off the sixth with a long line drive to right that Eaton hauled in at the wall.
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Story advanced to third on Gerardo Parra's line drive, and then stepped up Wolters, a 26-year-old who batted .
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Ryu started the inning by allowing hard contact from J.D. Martinez, but Enrique Hernandez caught the line drive in center.
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He went to the disabled list twice last season, once after being hit on the arm by a line drive.
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Kendrick drew a leadoff walk in the fourth ahead of Dozier's line-drive homer into the stands in left center.
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Profar followed with a line drive to left off the glove of Mariners shortstop J.P. Crawford, making it 3-0.
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Ahmed hit a line drive into the left field corner on the first pitch from DeSclafani in the third inning.
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In the fifth, Salvador Perez singled in two more runs with a line drive that zipped past Severino's outstretched glove.
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Kimmich rockets in a line drive of a cross that a center fielder with a glove might not have handled.
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Alex Bregman made the play of the game so far, jumping to snare a sizzling line drive by Gio Urshela.
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Baez crushed Hoover's 2-2 pitch for a line-drive homer over the left field wall leading off the ninth.
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Joey Wendle greeted Brewer with a line drive single to right, also off Hernandez's glove, to make it 2-0.
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Pham homered on a line drive to left field, and much of the crowd of 32,178 at Tropicana Field erupted.
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Cano started the deluge with a line drive to right, his sixth homer in 10 games against Houston this season.
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Eric Sogard then ripped a line drive single in the right, driving in Broxton to tie the game at 2.
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The line-drive solo shot to left came on the three-year anniversary of his first major league home run.
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I remember I hit a line drive in the gap in right-center, and the guy slid and got it.
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With two outs and a 3-2 count, Ravelo pulled his line-drive single to left, advancing Martinez to third.
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With one on and two outs in the fifth, Tomas made a diving catch of Frazier's line drive to left-center.
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Melville pitched seven innings, allowing one run and two hits — including a line-drive homer by Ketel Marte in the sixth.
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RF Steven Souza is nursing a sore left hip after diving to attempt a catch on a line drive Tuesday night.
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Defensively, Trout made a diving backhanded catch of RF Seth Smith's line drive into left-center field in the sixth inning.
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McKinney advanced to third on a flyout to center by Danny Jansen and scored on Bichette's line-drive single to left.
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Hunter Dozier gave the Royals a two-run cushion in the bottom of seventh with a line-drive homer to left.
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Merrifield led off with a line-drive single to right field and advanced to third on Adalberto Mondesi's single to center.
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Two batters later, left fielder Robbie Grossman couldn't corral a line drive by Kendrys Morales, allowing two more runs to score.
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The rally started with a line drive by Albert Almora Jr. that struck Padres starting pitcher Eric Lauer in the back.
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Descalso's one-out line drive to left-center skipped between outfielders Andrew McCutchen and Odubel Herrera and rolled to the wall.
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Gattis hit a line drive off the outstretched glove of Mariners right fielder Mitch Haniger, who almost made a spectacular play.
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However, a pair of hard line-drive outs left the bases loaded and the Cardinals clinging to a 4-3 lead.
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He was hit on the right side of his head by a line drive off the bat of teammate Francisco Lindor.
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You laugh, but tell me this: When a little league player takes a line drive straight to the crotch, who profits?
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Tyler Naquin made a diving catch of a Nicholas Castellanos line drive, then threw to first base to double up Stewart.
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Judge reached when his line drive went off the top of Jones' glove in right field for a two-base error.
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In the third, Hamilton raced in to make a diving catch on Kris Bryant's sinker line drive to end the inning.
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In his 10 at-bats in the first two games of the series in Cincinnati, Russell has five line-drive outs.
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There are things you can't anticipate, a line drive off the shin in the second inning, we had no long man.
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He was struck by Jason Kipnis' line drive, and the ball deflected to first baseman Miguel Cabrera, who recorded the out.
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LHP James Paxton has yet to win a game since taking a line drive off his pitching elbow in an Aug.
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Eric Hosmer then hit an opposite-field line drive that Brewers third baseman Mike Moustakas gloved while diving to his right.
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Buehler escaped the jam by getting Stephen Vogt on a line drive and Kevin Pillar on a flyout to center field.
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Didi Gregorius sent a screaming line drive over the right field wall for a three-run home run in the first.
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He went 2 for 6 on Tuesday with a line-drive double that just missed clearing the wall in left field.
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More seriously, it was also Frazier whose line drive struck a small girl in the face last week at Yankee Stadium.
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Hicks advanced to third on a passed ball and then scored easily on a line drive to left field by Holliday.
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Taillon was hit in the head by a line drive on Tuesday in what was only his sixth major-league start.
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Years ago, a line drive at a softball game smacked into Mr. Spicer's jaw, leaving his mouth wired shut for weeks.
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Another 2-year-old girl was struck in the face by a 105-mph line drive at Yankees Stadium in 2017.
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He went 0-for-4 and made a diving catch in the third on a line drive from LF Trey Mancini.
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Cubs outfielder Albert Almora Jr. hit a line drive that swerved into the field-level seats along the third-base line.
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"Not often I fall down from a line drive, but I didn't feel like I saw it that well," Headley said.
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Ray has passed the concussion protocol after being struck on the head with a line drive in a game July 28.
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They could have added more but first baseman Reynolds made a leaping catch of Bellinger's line drive to end the inning.
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He ripped a line drive over the wall in left field to also bring home Kyle Schwarber, Anthony Rizzo and Javier Baez.
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His line drive cut through the wind as he yanked an outside fastball to center with an exit velocity of 108 mph.
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"For me, I was just telling myself to stay short and try to hit a line drive up the middle," Cain said.
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Miguel Sano led off with a line-drive double down the left field line and Max Kepler was hit by a pitch.
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Following a mound visit, second baseman Gleyber Torres made a diving catch behind the bag on Bregman's line drive up the middle.
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"I knew I hit a line drive, I didn't know if it had enough spin to stay in the air," Lugo said.
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Right fielder Scott Schebler prevented another run with a full-sprint, backhanded stab of Phillips' hard line drive to end the inning.
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Prior to Gordon's single, the closest Miami came to a hit came was when Miguel Rojas hit a sixth-inning line-drive.
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However, after Myers struck out, Yangervis Solarte hit a low line drive that second baseman Chase Utley backhanded for the final out.
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Paxton is scheduled to play catch Wednesday, his first time throwing since taking a line drive off his left elbow on Sunday.
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When Houston loaded the bases with two outs in the ninth, Kimbrel surrendered a first-pitch, sinking line drive to Alex Bregman.
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Chris Taylor drove in a run with an infield grounder, and Alex Verdugo plated another with a line-drive single to left.
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Davis then cracked a line drive off the glove of diving first baseman Ehire Adrianza to bring home the game-winning runs.
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Other than that, just a few line-drive outs, but it was way better than what we saw the first time out.
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Perez made it 3-1 in the ninth inning with a line-drive home run that landed in the White Sox bullpen.
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He stole third, but then he was doubled up to end the inning on a line drive to shortstop by Trey Mancini.
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Hosmer was erased on a double play before Franmil Reyes got the Padres' first hit, a line drive single to left field.
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Chicago SS Tim Anderson (calf) departed Thursday's game after being hit by a line drive off the bat of teammate Melky Cabrera.
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The A's weren't done, as Ramon Laureano reached on an infield single and scored on Marcus Semien's line-drive double to right.
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On Saturday, he made a diving catch of a line drive, hopped up and flipped the ball into his bare hand, smiling.
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Urshela, who committed just five errors during the season, could not handle Starlin Castro's one-out line drive in the second inning.
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But it wasn't Corey Seager, their regular starter at the position, who caught that line drive from the Chicago Cubs' Willson Contreras.
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On Thursday he got a line drive off Jacob deGrom, the reigning two-time Cy Young Award winner in the National League.
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Wacha also benefited from a line-drive double play by Castellanos in the first after Anthony Rizzo led off with a walk.
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A line drive came screaming into the right-field corner, cleared a portable protective screen and hit Montgomery in the right ear.
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Puig, who also walked twice and scored three runs, smacked a line drive clocked at 110.8 mph over the left-field fence.
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The only threat of a hit was a line drive by Brad Miller that Brett Gardner ran down in left-center field.
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First baseman Ryan Zimmerman extended Sanchez's no-hit bid in the eighth inning by diving to catch Tommy Edman's leadoff line drive.
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Seager smoked a line drive that ricocheted off Keuchel and into right field, plating Cano with the third run of the frame.
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That came in the wake of a woman at Guaranteed Rate Field getting struck by a hard line drive on June 10.
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The line drive to right (for a single in the seventh), the ball that hit off the wall — that was good to see.
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His low line drive over the wall in right field with two outs came on the first pitch from Dodgers starter Rich Hill.
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Triggs was hit by a line drive off the bat of Toronto 103B Josh Donaldson with one out in the first inning Sunday.
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With two on and two outs, the left-handed-hitting All-Star hit a slicing line drive off the left field foul pole.
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The inning only ended because a screaming line drive by Trea Turner happened to be hit right at Mets left-fielder Michael Conforto.
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To that point, he had been an All-Star once and had built a reputation as a line-drive hitter, not a slugger.
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And then, in his fifth start of the 21964 season, when Score was 27 years old, came the line drive off McDougald's bat.
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Wil Myers followed with a line-drive double off the wall in left-center, and Amarista limped into third clutching his left hamstring.
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Carter played a key role on defense, too, snaring an Andrelton Simmons line drive in the fourth to record an unassisted double play.
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Manager Craig Counsell said Chase Anderson, sidelined by a line drive in the first inning on Tuesday, might be well enough to start.
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And in the sixth, Teheran was lucky Peter Bourjos' two-out, bases-loaded line drive to right field was right at Nick Markakis.
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Colon left his previous start after four pitches when he was struck on the right thumb by a line drive against Kansas City.
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In the fourth, Joey Gallo led off with a line-drive single off the glove of a leaping Mariners second baseman Shed Long.
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In the second, Hamilton prevented the tying run from scoring with a diving catch of Jason Heyward's line drive for the third out.
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Austin's was a delicate line drive that landed just inside the right-field foul pole and in the first row of the stands.
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The Reds had the bases loaded in the fourth, but Stanton raced in to snare Tucker Barnhart's line drive for the third out.
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Flores scorched a line drive that could have sparked a rally, but Cubs third baseman Kris Bryant snared it, diving to his left.
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Eddie Rosario led off with a line-drive single to right field and Cron then hit a 1-0 pitch deep to left.
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An inning later, Hunter Dozier extended the lead with a line drive into the seats in left, his club-leading seventh home run.
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They included a line-drive home run to left that carried through the teeth of an uncommonly strong summer wind in the Bronx.
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And the Yankees took the lead in Game 4 when Frazier's line drive landed precisely on the line, opening a four-run inning.
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One afternoon early in spring training, he was manning left field when he tried to track a line drive from Miami's Isaac Galloway.
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An error by Blue Jays rookie third baseman Vladimir Guerrero Jr. on a dropped line drive started the fifth inning for the Astros.
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Martin Maldonado, Houston's catcher, squared up one ball and hit a sharp line drive down the third base line, but Urshela caught it.
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Chris Taylor was hit by a pitch to start the inning and Corey Seager followed with a line drive single up the middle.
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If you saw the look on Todd Frazier's face on Wednesday after his line drive hit the little girl, you would know why.
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Mets left fielder Brandon Nimmo made a diving catch on Brian Anderson's two-out line drive, helping Seth Lugo escape the eighth unscathed.
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Yasiel Puig led off the fifth inning with a line-drive homer to center field to give the Reds a 1-0 lead.
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Franmil Reyes capped a three-run fifth inning against Patrick Corbin (5-4) with a line drive for a tie-breaking sacrifice fly.
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Pinch hitter Abraham Almonte followed with a line drive to center for a single, scoring Davis to cut the Oakland lead to 3-2.
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RF Giancarlo Stanton went 2-for-3 on Friday and had a two-out, two-run single on a hard line-drive to center.
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Ezequiel Carrera followed with a line-drive triple into the right field corner and scored on Kendrys Morales' single to make it 227-123.
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Yoenis Cespedes, who had three home runs in four games at Petco last year, hit a line-drive triple off the center field fence.
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Shaw followed with a line drive off the glove of outstretched first baseman Max Muncy, scoring Grandal and Moustakas to make it 4-1.
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RHP Ken Giles took a line drive off his right wrist during batting practice on Saturday, putting the rest of his season in doubt.
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Hamels entered the seventh having allowed only one hit — a line-drive over the pitcher by Jorge Alfaro to lead off the second inning.
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After back-to-back singles by Victor Martinez and J.D. Martinez, Justin Upton ripped a line-drive home run into the left-field bleachers.
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He also got his first major-league hit, driving in Tampa Bay's first run with a line drive to right field that scored Morrison.
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Edwin Encarnacion then hit a line drive over the wall in center field for his sixth home run, cutting the deficit to 6-4.
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Ryan Schimpf and Wil Myers drew one-out walks from DeSclafini, with Schimpf scoring on Alexi Amarista's two-out line drive single to right.
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David Fletcher led off with a line-drive single to center and advanced to third when Trout reached on third baseman Gurriel's throwing error.
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Puig then roped a line drive over Jay's head, with the ball one-hopping the 396-foot sign in center, scoring Seager and Gonzalez.
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Mookie Betts scored on a throwing error, and Ramirez got an RBI on a line-drive double in the Red Sox's two-run first.
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Smith, a rookie center fielder, laced a line drive down the left-field line that was ruled a home run after a replay review.
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Alvarez was the first to get to Ross, hitting a line drive to center field on a 2-1 sinker in the second inning.
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Springer made a sprawling grab of Nelson Cruz's line drive to preserve the tie as Devenski stranded two base runners to conclude that threat.
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He was also fielded a line drive that went off the glove of Maikel Franco and threw out Matt Wisler to save a run.
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Arizona LHP T.J. McFarland (leg) was hit by a line drive during Tuesday's game, and his availability for the series finale is unclear. 3.
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Following Carlos Beltran's fly out to left field, five consecutive Astros reached base, starting with McCann and his line-drive homer to right field.
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With their infield in motion, Gomes ripped a line drive right at shortstop Gregorius as he was moving toward third base for an out.
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Cespedes hit his 20th homer of the season to lead off the bottom of the fifth, a line drive over the left-field wall.
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After a screaming line drive takes a direct route toward what looks like a family in the first row, our hero springs into action.
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In May 2017, he was pitching for the Memphis Redbirds of Class-AAA when he was hit in the temple by a line drive.
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Tom Murphy doubled to left field and Daniel Vogelbach followed with a line-drive single up the middle to score the go-ahead run.
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I was in center, and he hit a line drive into the gap that I thought I could cut off with a dazzling catch.
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In the second inning, he snared a hot line drive off the bat of Josh Reddick with two outs and a runner on first.
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The Yankees regained the lead with two runs on Stanton's homer, his fourth of the season — a line drive into the right-field seats.
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Canada opened the scoring in the first inning when Freddie Freeman hit a line-drive single to left field that drove in Justin Morneau.
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"That was a screaming line drive," said Tom Barton, a fan from San Francisco who said he was seated three rows behind the girl.
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Cron followed with his 15th home run of the season, a 396-foot line drive off the facing of the second deck in left.
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That's the difference between a ground ball and a line drive, broadly speaking, and it's happening for Altuve with no meaningful drop in contact ability.
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Tepera was struck in the leg by a line drive off the bat of Miguel Cabrera but stayed in to retire the next two batters.
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He hit a line drive to right field that went off the glove of Steven Souza for a single, sparking a two-run sixth inning.
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His line drive up the middle scored Tim Anderson and Omar Narvaez, who slid just in front of an attempted tag by catcher Drew Butera.
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After Gregorio Petit walked, Escobar hit a sinking line drive into center field that brought Ryan home and gave Fernando Salas (2500-260) the win.
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Boston's Xander Bogaerts led off the bottom of the ninth with a line-drive single to center and advanced to second on Steve Pearce's groundout.
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With a chance for his second career cycle, Trout smoked a line drive, but directly in front of right fielder Matt Joyce for a single.
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Freddy Galvis hit his 20.00th home run of the season, a one-out line drive to right field, to even the score at 1-1.
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INF Chris Carter smoked a line drive over the wall in right-center for a two-run homer in his club's win over the Dodgers.
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Crawford raced to third on a Nick Hundley single over a left-side shift and scored on an Austin Jackson line-drive single to center.
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Shoemaker suffered a fractured skull and cranial bleeding after being hit in the right side of the head by a 23 mph line drive Sept.
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RF Scott Schebler left Saturday's game in the sixth inning with a strained left shoulder after making a diving grab on Nick Markakis' line drive.
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Mahtook singled with two outs against closer Zach Britton and tried to score from first on Alexei Ramirez's line drive down the left-field line.
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Jason Heyward led off with a line-drive single, reaching third when the ball got past center fielder Marcell Ozuna for a two-base error.
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Martinez sent a line drive to left field and Peterson, playing the outfield for the first time at Tropicana Field, dived to make the catch.
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Eric Hosmer followed that with a line drive over the center field wall for his fifth home run, giving Kansas City a 24-73 lead.
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Olson followed with a line-drive double to center, went to third on a wild pitch and then scored on a groundout by Stephen Piscotty.
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White Sox RHP James Shields left Monday's game after being hit in the knee with a line drive, and X-rays came back negative. 2.
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Bailey (23-320) threw 32 pitches in the first but escaped further damage when shortstop Jose Peraza made a diving catch of Segedin's line drive.
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Once in 2125, after the Pirates had lost three starting pitchers to injuries, Jose Silva was hit by a line drive and broke his leg.
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He dove to his left to catch a line drive headed to center field by Tuffy Gosewisch for the first out of the third inning.
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Two batters later, Renfroe hit a low line drive over the center field fence for his 153th home run and a 2-1 Padres lead.
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INF Javier Baez crushed a line-drive homer over the left field wall off Reds right-hander J.J. Hoover leading off the ninth inning Friday.
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After the Rockies took a 3-1 lead, Villanueva connected for his second homer off Freeland, a line drive into the second deck in left.
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The Brewers got their only run in the seventh inning on Brad Miller's line drive that was deflected by Sanchez, allowing Hernan Perez to score.
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Prior to Rodriguez's RBI groundout in the eighth, former Red Sox center fielder Jacoby Ellsbury hit a decisive two-run, line-drive double to left.
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Houston RHP Ken Giles recorded his 14th save Sunday, one day after he was struck on the right wrist with a batting-practice line drive.
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"No one ever expects to be blinded by a line drive or lose vision from a layup, but these things happen every year," Haring said.
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After walking in his first plate appearance on Tuesday, he lashed a homer off deGrom on a low line drive into the left field bullpen.
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Martinez dug in and ripped a line drive down the line that just cleared Fenway Park's Green Monster to put Boston up by 3-0.
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Xander Bogaerts followed with another line drive, this one a double off the wall that would have been a home run in nearly any park.
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MLB pitcher Josh Ravin took a screaming line drive to the face while playing for the Atlanta Braves' Triple-A affiliate, Gwinnett Stripers, last June.
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Tucker ripped a line drive into right field with one out, but it was erased when Tanaka induced a double-play ball from Robinson Chirinos.
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They even got a run-scoring single in the second inning from deGrom, who had a second hit, a line-drive single, in the seventh.
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Nick Markakis singled and went to third when Ozzie Albies hit a line drive to right that handcuffed Nick Williams and turned into a double.
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Taijeron, who struck out his previous two times up, hit a line drive over the head of left fielder Jace Peterson to win the game.
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Diamondbacks right fielder David Peralta took a hit away from McCutchen to end the top of the first, diving to catch a sinking line drive.
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Taylor went 0-for-4 with a strikeout and also committed a three-base error when Chase Utley's line drive bounced out of his glove.
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But he was hit by a Gattis line drive that registered at 108.3 mph, the second-hardest ball hit off a Straily pitch this year.
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Extreme heat can help make the difference between a line drive and a shallow home run, since higher temperatures allow balls to travel slightly farther.
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Freddie Freeman gave Atlanta a 2-0 lead in the first inning with a line-drive single to left that scored Ender Inciarte and Albies.
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Toronto opened the scoring in the first inning, as designated hitter Rowdy Tellez smacked a line-drive single to right field that scored Freddy Galvis.
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"You guys should be in the dugouts when somebody hits a line drive into the stands and see the expression on guys' faces," Collins said.
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Young rebounds a missed three, takes two dribbles, then whips a one-handed line drive at Taurean Prince as he streaks up the left sideline.
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With Marte at first base, Trout made a diving backhanded catch of Seth Smith's line drive into left-center field to record the inning's second out.
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Ex-Brave Jose Bautista followed with a line-drive single to left to account for the third run of the inning against Atlanta starter Julio Teheran.
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He battled back from an 212-22 count against southpaw Scott Alexander by hitting an opposite-field line drive on a pitch off the outside corner.
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LHP Hyun-Jin Ryu had X-rays on his left foot Thursday, one day after being hit by a line drive from Angels SS Andrelton Simmons.
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Garrett Cooper drew a leadoff walk and took third when Jorge Alfaro snapped an 0-for-20 drought with a line-drive double to left-center.
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The rookie was hit on his right hand Tuesday by Orioles OF/INF Trey Mancini's line drive to lead off the fifth inning at Camden Yards.
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Atlanta starter Sean Newcomb exited in the third inning after he was struck in the back of the neck by J.T. Realmuto's 102 mph line drive.
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The Mariners loaded the bases on Austin Nola's line-drive single to left, and Dee Gordon brought home the run with a sacrifice fly to center.
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In mid-April, an A's ballboy leapt to snag a line-drive foul before it screamed into the stands — earning himself props from across the web.
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The Dodgers got on the board in the fourth inning when Thompson's line drive stayed fair and cleared the fence for a two-run home run.
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Holmberg left a pitch over the plate, and Austin ripped a line drive over the left field wall for his first home run of the season.
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With one out, Josh Phegley grounded a single into left field and Marcus Semien followed with a line-drive double to center, sending Phegley to third.
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In the visitors' half of the seventh on opening day in 1996, Cardinals outfielder Ray Lankford dropped a soft line drive into the left field corner.
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Myers, who entered the game 4-for-28 in July, opened the inning with his second straight line-drive double to boot Anderson from the game.
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Andrew Knapp hit a line drive that left fielder Ben Revere misjudged, taking a step in before realizing it was over his head for a double.
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Cleveland ace Trevor Bauer got the win Saturday night, but had to exit the game early after he took a line drive off his right ankle.
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That it was Arrieta who delivered the blow — ripping a line drive to left field, just high enough to clear the wall — was even more stunning.
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"I think the game ended with a smoking line drive to center field, we caught it but the go-ahead run was on base," Gibbons said.
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The Yankees' plan for more netting was praised by Geoffrey Jacobson, the father of the young girl who was struck by the line drive in September.
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MINNEAPOLIS — The line drive that stuck a young girl in the face at Yankee Stadium Wednesday afternoon created a painful reverberation across the world of baseball.
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Marlins right fielder Garrett Cooper then saved a run when he charged in and made a diving catch on a line drive hit by Hernan Perez.
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After Moore retired Matt Wieters and J.J. Hardy to begin the fifth, Nolan Reimold walked and Jonathan Schoop singled on a line drive to center field.
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LHP Wade Miley, who took a line drive off his left calf Thursday against the Texas Rangers, isn't expected to miss a turn in the rotation.
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Choi caught a line drive to being the game and made a basket catch of a deep fly ball in the sixth inning before being replaced.
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And while Tebow was doubled off first on a line drive after he was hit by the pitch, at least he could say he reached base.
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Rockies starter Jeff Hoffman went 3 1/3 innings before getting nailed in the right knee with a line drive off the bat of Alex Dickerson.
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The line drive shot to the bullpen in left-center field was his first homer since participating in the home run derby during All-Star week.
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Batting in the first inning, Alonso hit a line drive down the left field line on the second pitch he saw from Braves starter Dallas Keuchel.
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Less than 24 hours earlier, a Chicago Cubs outfielder named Albert Almora hit a line drive against the Astros that struck a young girl in the head.
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Bauer gave up a line drive home run over the center-field wall by Moss to lead off the fourth, cutting the Cleveland lead to 3-2.
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Tampa Bay added a run in the sixth as Austin Meadows led off with a double and moved to third on a line-drive single by D'Arnaud.
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Judge's low line drive into the seats in left field was his 14th of the season, while Sanchez hit his 29th and the 100th of his career.
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Paxton was hit in the left arm by a line drive off the bat of the third batter he faced — Lowrie — and had to leave the game.
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He was pitching in the majors for the first time since breaking a bone in his left hand when hit by a line drive in spring training.
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Correa scored Altuve with a deep fly ball to right field, and Gurriel followed with his third homer, a line drive into the Crawford Boxes in left.
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C Francisco Cervelli provided the biggest blow of the inning with a three-run, line-drive triple that went under the glove of sliding LF Marcell Ozuna.
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Davis then battled Chapman to a 2-2 count before hitting a line drive over the left field wall for a two-run, game-tying home run.
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Jones sent a shot soaring off his blocker, but Brouwer found it on its descent and ripped a line drive that would have made Stan Musial proud.
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Gray (10-7), who left his previous start after taking a line drive off his right calf, turned in one of his best starts of the season.
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One presumes that Charlie is going to be embarrassed in his customary manner, a line drive stripping him to his skivvies, becoming the object of Lucy's ridicule.
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But the most crucial defensive play belonged to Green, who snared a line drive by Dickerson and doubled Yangervis Solarte off second, protecting a 2-1 lead.
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Miguel Sano walked two outs later to load the bases, and Polanco followed with his game-winning hit, a line drive into the gap in right-center.
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Pineda took a line drive off the bat of Preston Tucker on the shoulder in the third inning but calmly retrieved the ball and recorded the out.
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Cruz moved to third on a fly out to the right-field wall by Kyle Seager and scored on Valencia's line-drive single to left-center field.
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When he doubled in the fifth inning to drive in the Dodgers' first run, he flipped his bat, perhaps thinking the line drive would leave the stadium.
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And in September, a 2-year-old girl suffered facial fractures when she was hit by a line drive off the bat of the Yankees' Todd Frazier.
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Marvel was summoned last week and activated Sunday after Pittsburgh's Mitch Keller left a start when he got hit in his throwing hand with a line drive.
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Facing Dodgers closer Kenley Jansen, Alex Bregman drove in the winning run on a line drive to left field, ending an incredible offensive run for both teams.
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The Mets bats reawoke in the sixth, when Yoenis Cespedes hit a line drive down the right-field line for a triple off Phillies starter Jerad Eickoff.
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Duda's homer, his 17th of the season, was a whistling line drive into the visitors' bullpen in right-center field on a 3-2 fastball from Lynn.
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In the second game of the doubleheader, Max Scherzer shook off a line drive to the knee and struck out eight as the Nationals won, 4003-2400.
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Sanchez's line drive looked to be headed to right-center, and center fielder Kevin Kiermaier misread it as the ball dropped behind him in straightaway center field.
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After being doubled off first base on a line drive to Ryon Healy, Beltre jogged past the Mariners' dugout and hugged Felix Hernandez, his former Mariners teammate.
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Kluber pitched three innings against the Los Angeles Dodgers, his first start since he was hit by a line drive on the mound against the Miami Marlins.
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On Tuesday, in the bottom of the first inning in Oakland, the A's knocked out Seattle starter James Paxton with a line drive off his left forearm.
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Agee and Jones did have a close call in the N.L.C.S. when Agee, attempting to steal home, nearly got hit by a line drive off Jones's bat.
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Asked about his plans for his first 100 days in office and beyond, he detoured at one point to recall misplaying a line drive hit by former Gov.
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Albert Almora Jr. of the Cubs was in tears after a line drive foul ball off of his bat fractured the skull of a 2-year-old girl.
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Braves 23, Diamondbacks 2110 Atlanta left-hander Max Fried showed no ill effects from being hit by a line drive last week, helping Atlanta beat Arizona in Phoenix.
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All Mancini did in the heat of the playoff pressure was go Moon River off Red Sox starter Eduardo Rodriguez, mashing a line drive tater to left center.
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Nolan Arenado doubled down the third-base line, advanced on Marlins shortstop Miguel Rojas' miscue — a high throw — and scored on Dahl's line-drive single pulled to right.
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Mancini flied out and right fielder Bubba Starling made a sliding catch of Anthony Santander's line drive before Renato Nunez flied out to left to end the inning.
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Cabrera led off the third with his ninth home run of the season, a towering line drive to dead center that hit the shrubbery just above the wall.
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Joe Mauer began the Twins fifth with a hard line-drive single that hit Gray in the upper back as he tried to twist out of the way.
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Jones singled and might have scored had it not been for Marlins right fielder Brian Anderson, who made a sensational diving catch of a line drive by Ahmed.
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However, he was hit on the arm by a Gattis line drive that registered at 108.3 mph, the second-hardest-hit ball off a Straily pitch this year.
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DH/1B Carlos Santana was held out of the lineup Friday, a day after getting hit in the head by a line drive while sitting in the dugout.
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Hellickson lived on the edge most of the afternoon, giving up several line drive outs and retiring Michael A. Taylor and Lobaton on long flyballs in the fifth.
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Kendrick's line-drive single to left brought in two runs, and Dozier's two-run double off the wall in right-center gave the Nationals a 5-0 lead.
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Springer snapped a 211-all tie with his sinking line drive to left field off Rangers right-hander Jose Leclerc (22014-211), scoring Max Stassi from second base.
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The Mets tied it at 2 in the third when Reyes scored from third on Brandon Nimmo's line drive single that glanced off the lower body of Stephenson.
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Sammy Solis walked both batters he faced before Cespedes evoked memories of Hall of Famer Mike Piazza by smoking a line drive well into the left field seats.
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Fulmer was struck in the right leg by Alex Gordon's line-drive single in the sixth but shook it off and struck out the next batter, Ramon Torres.
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Or the line drive in the first inning that center fielder Jake Marisnick dove to steal a hit, or the single Stanton lined to center in the third.
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One memory, from a few years back: Her son, then a preteen, connected with a Sanders pitch and rocketed a line drive that barely missed the boss's head.
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Then he hits a line drive to the middle that is supposed to be another hit, and it seems like he has 20 guys playing defense against him.
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His second grand slam came in the fourth inning on an 0-1 count, an opposite-field line-drive over the right-field fence off pitcher Ray Sadecki.
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Gurriel started it by ripping a line-drive home run into the left field bleachers, which can be home to some of the cheapest home runs in baseball.
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McNeil, who had three hits, put the Mets ahead with a line-drive single off A. J. Minter that fell just in front of right fielder Nick Markakis.
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If it ran the length of the dugouts, as it does at Target Field, the line drive that struck the girl would have almost certainly been deflected away.
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He also collected his first major league hit, a line-drive double into the left-field corner against an outfield playing him barely deeper than Little League depth.
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Sports of The Times A little girl, a strawberry blonde, was hit in the face with a 105-mile-per-hour line drive Wednesday afternoon at Yankee Stadium.
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While the base-running dictum is to freeze on a line drive with less than two outs, Manager Joe Girardi absolved Hicks of any blame on the play.
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Moustakas upped the Royals' lead to 4-2 when he led off the third with his 18th homer of the season, a 403-foot line drive to right.
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The first baseman battled back from an 0-2 count against southpaw Scott Alexander by hitting an opposite-field line drive on a pitch off the outside corner.
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Atlanta got a run in the bottom of seventh, cutting the deficit to 2-1 when Johan Camargo hit a line-drive homer to right field, his fourth.
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"This is my family," said Carrasco, who two weeks ago sustained a broken bone when hit by a line drive off the bat of Tigers 2B Ian Kinsler.
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However, third baseman Yunel Escobar left the game in the top of the second inning when Marisnick hit a line drive off his left wrist, causing a contusion.
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In spite of the injuries, the shoulder problems and the line drive off the forearm, in spite of the passage of time and the franchise's lack of success.
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Trout hit a line-drive homer down the left field line to lead off the inning, his 24th homer of the season and eighth against Texas in 2019.
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Another rookie, left-hander Brett Martin, replaced Fairbanks and gave up a screaming line drive by Jimenez to center field that hit off DeShields' glove for an error.
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RHP Chase Anderson was knocked out of Tuesday's doubleheader in the first inning when he was hit by Kris Bryant's line drive and suffered bruising on his left leg.
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The Twins extended their lead to 7-0 in the seventh on Kepler's 12th home run of the season, a 429-foot line drive over the center field fence.
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Cubs outfielder Albert Almora Jr. hit the line drive in the fourth inning, into the field-level seats on the third-base side at the Astros' Minute Maid Park.
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The tying run scored on a groundout by Vladimir Guerrero Jr., and Tellez followed with a line-drive double to left, giving the Blue Jays a 6-5 advantage.
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Brandon Nimmo ripped a line drive to right that a diving Alex Verdugo had in his glove but dropped when he hit the ground to make it 23-210.
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Houston Astros pitcher Collin McHugh went full Matrix on Tuesday night, bending backwards to avoid a line drive like Keanu Reeves dodging bullets in a feat of human flexibility.
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RHP Mike Foltynewicz (9-5) pitched five innings against the Phillies while making his first start since being hit in the thigh by a line drive on Sept. 12.
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Descalso had two putouts Friday, the first coming in the second inning when he made a lunging catch of Cesar Hernandez's line drive that was headed over Descalso's head.
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Barnes hit a line drive back to the mound that hit the palm of the pitching hand of Garrett, who was trying to catch the ball over his head.
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On Tuesday, he pitched a career-high 23 24/33 innings after Bartolo Colon was struck by a line drive and had to leave after throwing only four pitches.
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With two outs, rookie second baseman Urias ended an 0-for-22 drought by reaching the short porch down the line in right with a 359-foot line drive.
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Carson Kelly singled with one out, Tim Locastro doubled off the bottom of the wall in left with two outs, and Marte hit his three-run, line-drive homer.
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After turning his head just enough to avoid taking Kyle Seager's 2500-mile-per-hour line drive directly to the face, he stumbled before falling to the infield grass.
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Aside from leaving the bases loaded in the 10th, in the eighth McCann was on first with one out when Castro hit a shallow line drive to left field.
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" Weaver (8-11) said of Friday's performance, in which he gave up six extra-base hits and two line-drive outs: "I couldn't keep the ball in the yard.
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With the wind blowing out, Schwarber opened the second with his 23th homer of the season, a full-count line drive to right-center to break a scoreless game.
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In Cleveland, Carlos Carrasco's second pitch of the afternoon turned into an Ian Kinsler line drive that smashed into Carrasco's right hand, fracturing his pinkie and ending his season.
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Toronto LHP Francisco Liriano was taken to the hospital Friday for precautionary tests after being struck in the neck by a line drive, but flew home with the team.
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SCARIEST MOMENT: GAME 2, 53 That September, across the bay in Oakland, I had been there when a line drive fractured the skull of Oakland A's pitcher Brandon McCarthy.
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It already has the tragedy of the perfectly struck line drive hit right at a player, the duck farts and dying quails falling just beyond the reach of infielders.
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Rays (ss) 1, Orioles 22 Jose Martinez's sharp line-drive single in the fourth inning plated the lone run as Tampa Bay beat visiting Baltimore at Port Charlotte, Fla.
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SPORTS An article on Thursday about the Yankees' 2212-2556 victory over the Detroit Tigers misidentified, in some editions, the Detroit outfielder who caught a Chase Headley line drive.
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In the third, Cespedes showed a glimpse of the Gold Glove form he displayed in 2015, running down a Tommy Pham line drive into the left-center-field gap.
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Shoemaker's headaches continued for four weeks, but now he has a healthy baby daughter, Emmy, and a career still intact — with extra protection in case of another line drive.
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His first home run, a solo shot leading off the fifth, was eye-opening, a line drive that made a beeline for the Yankees' bullpen in left-center field.
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She smacked away the second, returning it as a tidy fly, and with the third, she connected again, a scorching line drive toward what would have been second base.
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McNeil, who finished 3-for-5, put the Mets ahead with a line-drive single off A.J. Minter that fell just in front of Atlanta right fielder Nick Markakis.
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Fried (5-2) was able to take his turn in the rotation, despite being struck on the left hand by a line drive against the Los Angeles Dodgers on Tuesday.
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NOTES: LHP Wei-Yin Chen, who was hit above his left elbow on Tuesday with a line drive by Tigers CF Anthony Gose, is expected to make his next start.
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During the May 29 game, Cubs outfielder Albert Almora Jr. hit a line drive into the field-level seats on the third-base side at the Astros' Minute Maid Park.
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After Lamb's long homer, Welington Castillo doubled as his line drive to center field skipped away from a diving Charlie Blackmon, and Chris Herrmann launched a triple to right-center.
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Jackson's near grand slam headed out of the stadium in a hurry on a line drive; the only question was which side of the foul pole it would go past.
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The Tampa Bay defense stepped up, however — Brandon Belt hit a line drive to first base and Morrison threw to second to catch Span off base for a double play.
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Then with Posey at the plate, left fielder Corey Dickerson made a sliding catch in left field on a line drive to end the inning and preserve the Rays' lead.
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Ray ranks fifth among NL qualifiers with a 2.81 ERA despite missing 26 days after being struck in the head by a line drive in St. Louis on July 1623.
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Westbrook received an inbounds pass just to the right of the top of the key and knocked down the decisive line-drive shot, leading to a raucous on-court celebration.
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Fowler was making his Major League debut in right field and 14 pitches in, José Abreu hit a line drive that was slicing down the line and into the stands.
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They almost added to the lead but Baltimore left fielder Hyun Soo Kim made a diving catch of a Dustin Pedroia line drive with two outs and the bases loaded.
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In his final game of the year, he hit a deep line drive to left field at Marlins Park, flipped his bat, and watched the ball soar into the seats.
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Descalso walked to open the pivotal sixth inning off Verlander before Pollock hit a line drive over center fielder George Springer's head to score Descalso and tie it at 1.
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After giving up line drive hits to the first three batters, Greinke permitted only one more hit after that, walking one and striking out nine in a 98-pitch outing.
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With two out and the potential tying run on second base, Brewers right fielder Christian Yelich drilled an opposite-field line drive to the left field gap against Julio Urias.
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Jung Ho Kang's line drive caromed off Duvall's glove in left field for an error, allowing a run to score to give Pittsburgh an 8-3 lead in the sixth.
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Thames followed with his third homer in six games and 12th of the season, a line drive over the right field fence to give the Brewers a 2-0 lead.
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Contreras hit a solo home run in the fourth, ripping a line drive down the line that he celebrated with a bat flip, although the ball barely cleared the wall.
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Ortiz hit a screeching line drive in his first at-bat against C. C. Sabathia deep into the right-field corner, but it went foul, and then he struck out.
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Fernando Tatis Jr., who had earlier tied the game at 1 with an opposite-field single, again hit a line-drive single to right to drive in Mejia and Urias.
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But reliever Joaquin Benoit recovered to strand Descalso at third, getting David Peralta on a line drive to short and striking out Jake Lamb around a walk to Paul Goldschmidt.
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Atlanta made it 4-0 in third, using singles by Nick Markakis, Brian McCann and Albies, who earned the RBI by driving a line drive through a right-side shift.
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With one out in the third, Alvarez blistered another line drive off Gonzalez, this time driving home Bregman with a single that registered 108.4 miles per hour off the bat.
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Boyd retired the last seven batters he faced and finished with a flourish in the sixth, striking out Miguel Sano and Brian Dozier after snaring a Joe Mauer line drive.
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"So he took the line drive off his leg (leading off the sixth inning) and was able to finish, and that's not the reason I took him out," Girardi said.
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Corey Seager followed with a line drive to right that sailed over the head of Renfroe for a three-base error that enabled Taylor to score with the tying run.
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Adeiny Hechavarria was in the game for his defense and he showed why as he made a leaping grab of a line drive by Marcus Semien to start the inning.
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That hit pushed Gary Sanchez, who had reached on a fielder's choice, to third base, and he scored on a line-drive double by Drury for a 1-0 lead.
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Khris Davis doubled in two runs with a line drive off the wall in left-center field in the bottom of the fourth, giving the A's a 3-0 lead.
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For example, did he make a diving catch of a sinking line drive or did he break the wrong way, then trap a ball that he should have caught easily?
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But in the fourth inning, Greens first baseman Vic Wertz rocketed a line drive that sent Gothams center fielder Willie Mays racing to the wall, his back to the plate.
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In the bottom of the inning, his two-run home run, a line drive into the lower right-field seats, capped a five-run inning that broke the game open.
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Span's line-drive home run to lead off the top of the 62th inning off Severino Gonzalez gave the Giants a 3-2 win and avoided a sweep in Philadelphia.
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LHP Wade Miley isn't expected to miss a turn in the Orioles rotation after taking a line drive off his left calf in his start Thursday against the Texas Rangers.
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"If you aim for a line drive, and you miss a little under or on top, you're going to hit a ground ball or a fly ball," Van Scoyoc said.
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Bradley broke camp as the Diamondbacks' fifth starter last spring before his season was derailed when he was hit in the face by a line drive in his fourth start.
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Rojas, Miami's shortstop, then made a diving catch on a Molina line drive, but his throw to first to try to double up Ozuna was wild, allowing Goldschmidt to score.
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Bumgarner sustained a fractured left hand late in spring training when he was hit by a line drive off the bat of Kansas City Royals infielder Whit Merrifield on March 23.
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Turner doubled when Rockies left fielder Ryan Raburn tried to make a diving backhanded catch of Turner's line drive but missed by inches, and the ball rolled to the warning track.
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Davis â€" just as he delivered with the game-tying home run eighth inning â€" hit a line drive to center to bring Guyer in and make the score 8-7.
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Giants third baseman Jae-gyun Hwang singled in a run to tie the score, and Hundley then hit a line drive past third baseman Justin Turner, with Hwang scoring from first.
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RHP Mike Foltynewicz was on crutches a day after being hit on the inside of the left calf by a line drive, but was hopeful he might miss just one start.
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Rays starter Matt Andriese gave up one run in the first five innings, as Jorge Bonifacio hit a line-drive single to center that Kiermaier misplayed for a two-base error.
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Instead, he was left at third base, and the score remained tied when the next batter, Starlin Castro, ripped a line drive that was snagged by Athletics third baseman Danny Valencia.
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Duffy was on the verge of the Royals' first no-hitter in nearly 25 years before giving up a line-drive double to Desmond Jennings leading off Tampa Bay's eighth inning.
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It got worse for the Twins in the ninth when a line drive up the middle by Marlins catcher J.T. Realmuto hit Twins right-hander Phil Hughes on the left knee.
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And at 7 feet high, Hoy told me, the netting was high enough to protect the entire front section from a hard-hit line drive — 14 rows of seats in all.
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The A's regained the lead in the fifth off Leake as Olson led off with a line-drive single to right and advanced to second on outfielder Mitch Haniger's fielding error.
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In an otherwise poor performance by the Rays, the fans in Tampa Bay got one highlight in a slick catch by Jake Faria on a screaming line drive by Aaron Judge.
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And in 2010, Alex Rodriguez was hit on the shin by a line drive hit by a teammate while Rodriguez was distracted as he waved to a broadcaster on the sidelines.
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In the seventh, Judge hit another one, not as long but nearly as impressive as his first, a low line drive that just kept going into the right-center-field seats.
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Cuthbert hit the first pinch-hit homer of his career off reliever Taylor Rogers (2-4), a 364-foot line drive down the left field line, to drive in Ryan O'Hearn.
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Mayfield drove Cleveland into field-goal position and Joseph, who signed with the team on Monday following a tryout, drilled a low line drive to pull the Browns within 14-3.
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If Yankee Stadium had netting in place that did stretch to the far end of the third-base dugout, Frazier's line drive, in all likelihood, would not have reached the stands.
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Vargas, who throws with his left hand, was hit with a line drive on the base of his right hand when pitching in a minor league spring training game on Friday.
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NOTES: Arizona placed LHP Robbie Ray on the seven-day concussion DL after he was struck by a Luke Voit line drive in the head during the second inning on Friday night.
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The Yankees loaded the bases on two walks and LeMahieu's double in the fifth, but the threat ended when shortstop Bichette made a diving catch on a line drive by Didi Gregorius.
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One line drive did the most damage against Lamb, a shot measured at 1.20513 mph off the bat of Ryan Raburn that struck Lamb on the outer part of his left glut.
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Starter David Price lasted just three innings, coming out of the game after he was hit on his left wrist by an Austin Dean line drive that was clocked at 103 mph.
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Cain's line-drive homer to left-center off Austin Brice was the Brewers' first hit since the fifth inning and allowed Milwaukee to maintain possession of the second National League wild card.
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RHP Mike Foltynewicz was on crutches Tuesday, a day after being hit on the inside of the left calf by a line drive, but was hopeful he might miss just one start.
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Rizzo is an MVP candidate, a plate-crowding line-drive machine, as good a figurehead as any for a Cubs team that has more talent than its opponents at almost every position.
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Perez emerged in the first 11 starts of his rookie season, winning his first four decisions before a line drive off his foot in Pittsburgh June 26 sidelined him for a month.
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Brewers RH Wily Peralta (63-1, 4.71) Davis will come off the disabled list to make his third start after taking a line drive off the forearm at Pittsburgh on April 11.
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RHP Matt Shoemaker, hit in the head by a line drive in Sunday's game in Seattle, has been released from the hospital and is expected to fly to Los Angeles on Wednesday.
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Gio Urshela, who ended the bottom of the fourth with diving catch of Randal Grichuk's line drive to third base, led off the top of the fifth with a double to center.
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CF Kevin Pillar made a spectacular diving catch in the fourth inning on a line drive by C Austin Romine in the 4-1 win over the New York Yankees on Tuesday.
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The next month, after he was recalled, he was sent to the disabled list with a broken nose and another concussion after he was hit in the face by a line drive.
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When Hendricks, whose 2.13 E.R.A. was the best in the majors, was caught flush in the right forearm by Pagan's line drive with two out in the fourth, it inflicted little damage.
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And on the second pitch of his at-bat, Bird put a charge into a sinker, and into the crowd, with a line drive that seemed destined for the right-field seats.
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Another starter, first baseman Ryon Healy, had hand surgery last month, and Hernandez is just now throwing again after being struck on the pitching arm by a line drive on Feb. 26.
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For the autograph-seeking black kids in this poem, life is still a line drive, and all ball players are created equal; ninth-inning defeats and freedom riders are yet to come.
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A third-inning line drive by Jay Bruce sailed just above the top of the netting and into the seats down the right-field line, but no one appeared to be hurt.
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Rookie reliever Nick Wittgren (33-23) got out of the jam when second baseman Derek Dietrich dove to his left to grab a Mark Reynolds line drive, saving at least two runs.
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Liriano departed, but after Danny Barnes walked Holliday on a 3-2 pitch, Castro's line drive to right carried over the wall, and suddenly the Yankees were behind by just 5-03.
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That was not just because of his line drive home runs, which traveled 893 and 289 feet, but because of what a return to last year's form might portend for the Yankees.
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LHP Adam Morgan, hit on the elbow by a line drive off the bat of Colorado's Nick Hundley on Sunday, was pronounced fit by team medical personnel, according to manager Pete Mackanin.
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The Blue Jays tied it in the seventh as Yangervis Solarte led off with a line-drive single to left and Diaz followed with a two-run shot to left, his 14th.
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Stanton's seventh-inning blast off losing pitcher Steven Matz was a line drive to left-center field hit so hard that Mets center fielder Juan Lagares stopped running after a couple steps.
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He preserved the lead for the Marlins (21-225) in the bottom of the seventh, when he made a sliding catch of Lagares' sinking line drive with two outs and two on.
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Tebow was robbed of a hit in the eighth when a line drive destined for center field struck the pitcher and settled in front of the mound for an easy put-out.
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RHP Kenta Maeda suffered a lower right leg contusion Tuesday and was removed after being struck by a line drive by Arizona 1B Paul Goldschmidt leading off the last of the sixth inning.
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Rangers reliever Luke Farrell retired each of the six batters he faced in his first outing of the season after a spring training line drive broke his jaw and gave him a concussion.
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Hardy, after fouling off the final three pitches of a 10-pitch at-bat, lined a two-run double to right, then scored later on Adam Jones' line-drive single to center field.
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Chicago starter Kyle Hendricks delivered a two-run single to ignite the Cubs' three-run second inning before departing in the fourth after taking an Angel Pagan line drive off his pitching arm.
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The 4-2 loss to the Los Angeles Angels seemed to have less of importance after Seager's line drive hit pitcher Matt Shoemaker in the side of the head during the second inning.
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The loss was especially painful for the Indians, who saw starter Carlos Carrasco leave the game after being hit in the right arm by a Joe Mauer line drive in the second inning.
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Of course, one young fan at a Houston Astros game Wednesday night nearly suffered that fate after getting struck by a line drive ... but it appears the child is going to be OKAY.
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Poncedeleon, a ninth-round draft pick of the Cardinals in 2014, is only 14 months removed from undergoing emergency brain surgery after he was hit by a line drive while pitching for Memphis.
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He's not hitting the ball quite as hard early on this year by hard-hit percentage, line-drive rate, or exit velocity, but this is the most power he's ever shown with a .
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It was far less modest: Torreyes ripped a line drive into the left-center gap that just eluded the grasp of center fielder Coco Crisp and rolled to the wall for a triple.
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Toronto scored in the first when Bo Bichette led off with a double and Vladimir Guerrero Jr. hit a two-out line drive to left field that Anthony Santander misplayed into a double.
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Carrasco was hit by a hard line drive off the bat of Minnesota's Joe Mauer in mid-June and has been on the 27-day disabled list with an injured right elbow since.
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Cleveland Indians starter Carlos Carrasco broke his pitching hand on the second pitch of a 1-0, 10-inning win over the Detroit Tigers when a line drive by Ian Kinsler struck him.
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The Orioles eventually loaded the bases for J. J. Hardy, who hit a sharp line drive that deflected off the top of Gregorius's mitt and fell into left field, bringing home two runs.
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The Twins opened the scoring in the second inning, as Rosario led off with a line-drive single to left field and Eduardo Escobar followed with a run-scoring double, also to left.
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With one out in the second, Taillon threw up his glove to try to deflect a Perez line drive, but it struck him in the back of the left side of his head.
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In the second inning, a line drive misjudged by right fielder Shane Robinson led to two runs, and some lackadaisical play by second baseman Gleyber Torres led to another run in the third.
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Cleveland outfielder Tyler Naquin sustained a sprained right knee after crashing into the low wall along the left-field foul line while chasing a line drive by Joey Wendle in the fifth inning.
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Judge dented it with his major league-leading 26th home run of the season, a line drive that left the bat with a crack and landed, roughly 23 feet away, with a clank.
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Ozuna stayed in the game after being hit and came back in the same inning to hit a line drive that struck Folytnewicz in the leg and force him to leave the game.
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Taillon took a line drive off the head early in his outing against Milwaukee on Tuesday but stayed in the game and worked six innings of one-run ball in a no-decision.
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With runners at first and third in the top of the sixth inning, Gonzalez lunged to his right to snare a low line drive from RF Jason Hayward to keep the game scoreless.
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Rangers LH Martin Perez (2016: 10-11, 4.39) Carrasco returns to the rotation after missing the 2016 postseason when he was hit by a line drive that broke his right hand on Sept.
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With one on and no outs in the sixth, Kepler doubled the lead with his line-drive homer off an 0-1 fastball from Porcello that sailed into the Boston bullpen in right field.
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Melville pitched seven innings, keeping the D-backs off balance with a slider and slow curve while allowing one run and two hits — including a line-drive homer by Ketel Marte in the sixth.
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Red Sox starter David Price lasted just three innings, coming out of the game after he was hit on his left wrist by an Austin Dean line drive that was clocked at 103 mph.
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After Stanton singled and Sanchez drew a walk, Austin hit his line drive home run to left field, his fifth of the season, for a 5-2 lead and an end to Lynn's night.
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"He rips a line drive down the third-base line and it comes in and it looks like hits someone hard," David LeVasseur, a fan who was at the game, told the Houston Chronicle.
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With the Marlins playing in on the corners in hopes of cutting a run down at the plate, Ahmed slapped a line drive just over the glove of Bour to put Arizona on top.
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But right fielder Matt Kemp opened the third with the first home run hit by the Padres at Petco Park this season, the 385-foot line drive off Buschmann to make it 3-0.
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He said he glanced at some of his advanced statistics while in Texas — things like line-drive percentage and exit velocity — and saw that many of the numbers matched up with his career figures.
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Paxton will be back in action for the first time since being drilled on the left elbow by a line drive off the bat of Los Angeles Angels shortstop Andrelton Simmons on Aug. 222.
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Sanchez, who belted a tiebreaking, three-run homer in the seventh inning Tuesday, hit a screaming line drive down the left-field line that gave the Yankees a 6-0 lead in the second.
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Toronto padded its lead with an unearned run in the fourth, as Michael Saunders hit a high line drive that went off the glove of new Rays first baseman Logan Morrison for an error.
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Think about it: Hitters don't spray line-drive foul balls to the near end of the dugout; the foul balls that are truly smashed go to the far end of the dugout and beyond.
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Boston added an insurance run in the ninth off reliever Blake Parker when Martinez doubled down the left field line and scored one out later on a line-drive double to center by Bogaerts.
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Once the referee whistled that it was game time, the Comercial striker charged the ball and just laid all the way into it, hitting a rising line drive into the back of the net.
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In July, a man was injured when a line drive hit by the Yankees' Aaron Judge struck him in the head as he sat in a lower-level seat down the right-field line.
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The question, raised again after another episode on Wednesday night in which a young girl was injured by a line drive in Houston, is whether M.L.B. has gone far enough to keep fans safe.
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When Chapman went to the mound in the ninth, and Michael Brantley greeted him with a line-drive single, the sellout crowd rose to its feet, rekindling memories of that chilly night last fall.
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Cain's line-drive homer to left-center off Austin Brice was the Brewers' first hit since the fifth inning and allowed Milwaukee to maintain possession of one of the two NL wild-card spots.
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Sanchez was robbed of another hit and at least one more RBI when first baseman Jeimer Candelario made a diving snag of his line drive with runners at second and third in the seventh.
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Colon appears to have dodged serious injury Tuesday night, when threw just four pitches before he was hit in the right thumb by a line drive off the bat of Royals 2B Whit Merrifield.
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The little girl was in the stands at Minute Maid Park in Houston when Cubs star Albert Almora Jr. ripped a line drive foul ball down the 3rd baseline that struck the child directly.
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The Phillies rallied for three runs in the third, which included a scary incident that saw Atlanta starter Sean Newcomb struck in the back of the neck by J.T. Realmuto's 102 mph line drive.
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The only blemish on his later years was a growing deafness, the result of being hit by a line drive himself, when Bob Cerv caught him in the side of the head during batting practice.
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Center fielder Kirk Nieuwenhuis ended the fourth with a rolling catch of Carlos Perez's line drive and Yadiel Rivera snared a blooper from Cliff Pennington with the bases loaded and nobody out in the seventh.
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Weaver took a line drive off his right hip and was later removed from his last outing after four innings in Oakland, giving up five runs on four hits and three walks before his exit.
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Morgan had to be removed when a line drive by Nick Hundley caught him in his left (throwing) arm; he was officially diagnosed with a left arm contusion and his status is day-to-day.
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As we previously reported ... Chicago utility man Albert Almora Jr. hit a screaming line drive into foul territory in a game earlier this week -- and the ball connected squarely with a 4-year-old girl.
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He walked Cameron Maybin with one out but set down Austin Romine on a line drive and retired Brett Gardner on a popup with a full count to keep Voit in the on-deck circle.
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A few pitches before his home run, Cespedes hit a foul line drive about head high that had Syndergaard darting and ducking out of the way as he took a short lead off third base.
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CF Charlie Blackmon hit an inside-the-park homer, a two-run shot in the fourth when right fielder Hunter Pence lost Blackmon's line drive, slipped and the ball went past him to the wall.
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In the top of the first, with the bases loaded and one out, Mike Trout misread Marte's line drive up the middle and broke for third as the ball settled into second baseman Odor's glove.
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Gary Sanchez returned from a three-game suspension with his bat seemingly well rested — he singled twice, driving in two runs, and also walked and hit a line drive right at third baseman Joey Gallo.
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But Aaron Judge tracked down a line drive to the gap by Yordan Alvarez and Bregman slipped on his way back to first base, so Judge's long throw was in time to double Bregman off.
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Anderson singled Sanchez to third, but after a strikeout and an intentional walk, Jimenez grooved a line drive over the fence in right field for his second career grand slam and a 9-1 lead.
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RHP Mike Foltynewicz was on crutches Tuesday but hopes to return to the mound before the end of the season after being hit on the inside of his left calf by a line drive Monday.
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The first metrics he was exposed to were line-drive rate, home run-to-fly ball ratio, and pull rate, the percentage of balls hit to the side of the field from which someone bats.
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He had a runner on base in three of the first four innings, running into trouble in the fourth when he gave up a line-drive single to Contreras and a two-run homer to Almora.
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The Mariners tied it at 4-4 in the bottom of the sixth as Ryon Healy led off with a double, took third on a Narvaez single and scored on Gordon's line-drive single to right.
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Rockies second baseman DJ LeMahieu kept the game tied in the bottom of the eighth when he made a leaping catch of pinch-hitter Hector Sanchez's line drive toward right with two on and two out.
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The Mets still might have absorbed a loss in the ninth inning, when closer Edwin Diaz was struck on the foot by a line drive off the bat of the only batter he faced, Manny Machado.
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Corey Seager lined a single to left field, took third base when Justin Turner lined a single down the right field line and scored the first run on Adrian Gonzalez's line-drive single into right field.
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But Rosario put Minnesota in front to stay in the bottom of the seventh with the third pinch-hit homer of his career and 21st of the season, a 414-foot line drive to right-center.
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A day earlier, Miller had left the field in anguish and annoyance after taking a line drive off his nonthrowing arm — an injury that looked as if it might be a formidable blow to the Yankees.
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Closer Brandon Kintzler loaded the bases with nobody out in the bottom of the ninth but induced David Ortiz to hit into a 4-2-3 double play and retired Hanley Ramirez on a line drive.
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He said he always crosses his fingers in the first couple of innings, hoping a pitcher will not absorb a line drive off his ankle that knocks him out of the game and taxes the bullpen.
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The rookie right fielder Max Kepler cut the Yankees' lead to 2-1 with a homer in the fifth, the first of his three hits, a line drive just clearing the 23-foot wall in right.
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Naquin swung at Turner's first pitch and hit a line drive into left-center field that was caught by center fielder Adam Eaton, but Almonte beat his throw to the plate to score the winning run.
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Fittingly, the final out of the N.L. Championship Series in Chicago was a line drive to shortstop Charlie Culberson — a fill-in for Corey Seager, the All-Star who has been sidelined with a back injury.
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I missed sports: the current that runs through you when you catch the meaty part of the ball with your bat; the way everyone cheers when the shortstop catches a line drive to win the game.
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They chose to pitch to him with the bases loaded after intentionally walking Gleyber Torres — a move that Urshela said "gave me extra confidence" to lash a line drive through the right side of the infield.
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The Cardinals got the first two batters on in the ninth and later drew a walk, but a double play and a line drive by pinch hitter Rangel Ravelo to Desmond in left ended the game.
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To his left will be outfielder Michael Brantley, who is recovering from a shoulder operation, and to his right will be starter Carlos Carrasco, whose season ended in September when a line drive broke his hand.
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Toronto Blue Jays reliever T. J. House was taken off the field in an ambulance after being hit on the head by a line drive in an exhibition game against the Detroit Tigers in Lakeland, Fla.
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Rodriguez retired Khris Davis on a line drive to left field, but Healy launched a 1-0 pitch over the left field wall for his second career walk-off hit and sixth homer of the season.
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The Mets loaded the bases with one out, but Anthony Swarzak, traded by the Mets last off-season, struck out Jeff McNeil and retired Alonso on a line drive to left field to preserve the lead.
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Salazar, who had a 40-pitch, two-run first inning that included getting hit on the left calf by a Hanley Ramirez line drive, was 2-0 with a 1.46 ERA in two previous starts against Boston.
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Chase Utley led off with a line drive to left against Angels starter Jesse Chavez (173-217), and he hustled it into a double because he knew left fielder Ben Revere does not have a strong arm.
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In the second inning against the Milwaukee Brewers last night, Pittburgh Pirates pitcher Jameson Taillon took a 105 MPH (per Statcast) line drive to the back of his head and somehow managed to stay in the game.
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Mikolas' streak of 15 straight shutout innings ended in the seventh when Suarez walked and Yasiel Puig followed with a line-drive double into the left-center field gap, scoring Suarez to tie it at 1-1.
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An inning earlier, a line drive popped out of the glove of left fielder Shane Peterson as he hit the ground on a diving catch, allowing two runs to score on a ball hit by Victor Martinez.
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Bassitt (1-0), injured when hit in the knee by a line drive in an exhibition game in Japan, was brilliant in his first appearance this season, shutting out the Rangers on two hits over five innings.
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The Indians got their first run in the third, as Greg Allen led off with a line-drive single to center, stole second, moved to third on a flyout and scored on Michael Brantley's single to left.
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Minnesota took a 2-1 lead in the bottom of the first when Kepler doubled and scored on Cruz's 27th home run of the season, a 412-foot line drive into the second deck in left-center.
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Los Angeles has to use its bullpen for 7 213/3 innings Sunday following a scary incident in which start Matt Shoemaker suffered a small skull fracture and hematoma after taking a line drive off the head.
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Sabathia escaped the inning with a bit of good fortune when Guillermo Heredia's line drive — with Marte running on the pitch — was hit right at first baseman Mark Teixeira, who stepped on first for a double play.
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And they resisted calls to extend protective netting down the foul lines at Yankee Stadium until the outcry became fierce last September after a 2-year-old girl was hit in the head by a line drive.
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Gregorius, who initially froze during the triple play because he thought Frazier had hit a line drive that would be caught, overcame his baserunning gaffe with a sparkler of a play with two outs in the fifth.
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In the fourth, Souza might have produced the Rays' best catch of the year when he made a diving grab on Chris Davis' one-out line drive to right field near the warning track, preventing extra bases.
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The Yankees mustered four hits and a walk in the interim, including a sharp, two-out line drive in the sixth that ricocheted off Astros second baseman Jose Altuve with LeMahieu rounding third base and heading home.
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Solano answered for Colombia in the third inning with a line-drive single to left that scored his brother Jhonatan, and he hit a single in the fifth that scored Tito Polo for the go-ahead run.
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Jimmy Yacabonis (1-0) got his first major league victory after throwing a scoreless 13th, which ended when Trey Mancini made a leaping catch of a Steve Pearce line drive in left with a runner on second.
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The Indians gave him an early 1-0 lead when Carlos Santana led off the second inning by hitting a line drive that just made it over the 17-foot left field wall for a home run.
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One out later, Encarnacion hit his second two-run homer in as many nights, a line drive over the left field wall for his 1563th homer of the season to cut the Chicago lead to 4-2.
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Camargo went 3-for-5 and broke open a scoreless game with a line drive homer, his 19th, against Jerad Eickhoff to help the Braves break a two-game losing streak and hand Philadelphia its ninth straight loss.
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Astros 2, Orioles 1 Marwin Gonzalez produced a soft line drive with the bases loaded in the eighth inning to score a run, and Houston matched its victory total from last season with a win over host Baltimore.
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With two outs and nobody on, Austin Romine stroked a line-drive double to left-center, and he scored on Mike Tauchman's double off the wall in center that missed being a home run by a few inches.
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After beginning 2016 as the No. 3 man in Minnesota's rotation, he was hit by a line drive off the bat of Miami's J.T. Realmuto in a relief appearance on June 9 and suffered a fractured left femur.
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Indians right-hander Trevor Bauer (12-6) stymied the White Sox through 33 1/3 innings before he was drilled on the back of his right leg by a line drive from White Sox first baseman Jose Abreu.
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Chicago's Welington Castillo drove in a run in the seventh when he was hit by a pitch before Moncada put the White Sox ahead 9-8 with a line-drive, two-run single to center against Zac Rosscup.
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Indians right-hander Trevor Bauer (234-6) stymied the White Sox through 6 1/3 innings before he was drilled on the back of his right leg by a line drive from White Sox first baseman Jose Abreu.
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Vargas, 35, was signed last month to a two-year $16 million contract to provide stability, but he was hit by a line drive on his right hand during a start in a minor league game last week.
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Sometimes change comes as quick and catastrophic as a line drive—hear the crack of wood displacing a sphere of leather, yarn, rubber, and cork; watch how it pushes the ball fat and then, just as quickly, forward.
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Scheduled Mariners starter James Paxton was scratched Monday because of forearm soreness and he hasn't pitched since taking a line drive off his left elbow during the ninth inning of a victory over the Angels on Aug. 7.
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The Arizona Diamondbacks have put the All-Star left-hander Robbie Ray on the seven-day concussion disabled list after he was hit in the head by a line drive in a game against the St. Louis Cardinals.
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He spent much of last season injured, prompting an offseason of questions and worry; as if in answer to those questions, in his very first spring start he was hit by a line drive on his pitching arm.
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After pinch-hitter Jeremy Hazelbaker reached on a chopper to short to open the seventh, Blanco drove them both in with a line-drive shot to right that cleared the wall for his second home run of the year.
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After Domingo Santana struck out, catcher Jett Bandy came within inches of winning it; but his line drive was snared by Nunez, the third baseman, and Melancon got pinch-hitter Hernan Perez on a grounder to end the threat.
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Angels RHP Matt Shoemaker underwent emergency surgery to stop bleeding on his brain after suffering a skull fracture on Sunday, when he was struck in the head by a line drive off the bat of Seattle's Kyle Seager. 2.
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The line drive on a 22-2102 sinker from right-hander Joe Blanton (21-22015) cleared the left-field fence for a three-run home run and propelled the Blue Jays to a 23-21 win over the Dodgers.
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Stanton's laser-like, two-run blast in the first inning, a line drive clocked at 21 miles per hour off the bat and measured at 2278 feet, gave the Yankees a 225-27 lead over the Tampa Bay Rays.
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Duffey was called up from the minors last weekend when Ervin Santana was placed on the disabled list and allowed a run in four innings at Washington on Sunday, leaving after taking a line drive off his right arm.
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The only hit off Cahill was a sinking line drive to left by Carlos Gomez that fell in front of Spangenberg, who is a third baseman playing left in the absence of injured outfielders Travis Jankowski and Alex Dickerson.
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Jacoby Ellsbury opened the inning with a line-drive double over the head of Matt Kemp in right and advanced to third when Brett Gardner was awarded an infield single when Pomeranz botched his attempt at a sacrifice bunt.
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That rainy afternoon, a screaming line drive hit by the Oakland Athletics' Hideki Matsui whistled through a cluster of umbrellas and struck Zlotnick's face, crushing his left eye socket, fracturing his jaw and leaving him with permanently impaired vision.
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After Moustakas' two-run homer gave Milwaukee a 4-13 lead in the sixth inning, Puig halved the deficit by powering a line drive over the right field wall in the seventh for his 18th homer of the season.
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Brett Gardner, who replaced Hicks in the lineup, followed Hechavarria's home run with a triple inside the first-base bag and after Andrew McCutchen walked, Judge blistered a line drive that pitcher Jacob Faria caught out of self-preservation.
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He got career hit No. 1,500 with a line-drive single off the wall in right in the fifth inning; the center fielder went 13-for-3 overall, hitting the go-ahead homer in the seventh and reaching base four times.
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In the fourth inning, Correa led off with a double, and one out later Gattis pounded a line drive over the center field wall for a two-run homer estimated at 433 feet, cutting the Cleveland lead to 3-2.
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One softball player tweeting support for Elish was Ashlee Swindle, an Auburn pitcher injured May 17 when a line drive hit off the bat of a Colorado State player struck Swindle in the face during a tournament game in Tucson, Arizona.
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Kevin Kiermaier — who allowed three runs to score when he missed a two-out line drive in the sixth — walked and Evan Longoria doubled to right field, and the Tigers intentionally walked Brad Miller to load the bases with no outs.
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They trailed 2-0 entering the seventh inning, limited to one hit at that point by Red Sox left-hander David Price, who was making his first start since getting hit on the wrist by a line drive on Aug. 29.
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Cameron Maybin had his best day in an Angels uniform, collecting three hits and three RBIs, and Matt Shoemaker earned his first win of the season and first since sustaining a fractured skull when hit by a line drive last September.
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Bryan Reynolds and Jose Osuna each hit two-run homers in the ninth before Edwin Diaz, pitching for the first time since he took a line drive off his foot on Thursday, recorded the final two outs for his 23rd save.
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Josh Reddick lined a single down the right-field line with one out, moved to second base on Seager's single and scored on Adrian Gonzalez's double, a low line drive off the left foot of first-base umpire Alan Porter.
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Hendricks produced a two-run single that built the lead, and Wood, who was in the game only because Hendricks was knocked out by a Pagan line drive, delivered the crowning blow — a home run deep into the left-field bleachers.
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Giants 21, Cardinals 33 Madison Bumgarner gutted out two innings after getting hit by a line drive, and Austin Slater smacked just the majors' third pinch-hit grand slam of the season, helping host San Francisco turn back St. Louis.
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Nunez's home run, a line drive off a Sonny Gray fastball that buzzed into the lower-left-field seats with a man on base in the third inning, gave the Red Sox a 2-1 lead that they did not relinquish.
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Nationals principal owner and vice president Mark Lerner said he became emotional last month when he saw that a 4-year-old girl was hit by a line drive foul ball during a Chicago Cubs-Houston Astros game in Houston.
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"At some point, it's all fallen on the victims to speak up," said Geoffrey Jacobson, whose daughter suffered multiple facial fractures and bleeding on the brain when she was struck by a line drive at Yankee Stadium two years ago.
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In the 10th minute, Moralez sent a pass forward that Villa flicked off his heel to Tajouri-Shradi, who turned it with a 22-yard line drive into the upper left-hand corner of the net for a 1-0 lead.
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Mets 7, Dodgers 3 LOS ANGELES (AP) — Zack Wheeler stayed in the game after getting hit in the chest by a line drive, and pitching seven sharp innings to lead the Mets over the Los Angeles Dodgers, 7-3, on Wednesday.
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DJ LeMahieu led off the game with a line-drive single to left, and Judge followed by hitting the next pitch over the fence, his 17th home run of an injury-plagued season and his fourth in the past five games.
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The announcement was made 11 days after a young girl was hospitalized after being struck in the face by a line drive from New York third baseman Todd Frazier during the fifth inning of a game against the Minnesota Twins.
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Cruz sent the pro-Dominican crowd of more than 37,000 at Marlins Park into a frenzy when he sent a line drive off left-hander Andrew Miller rocketing into the bleachers to give the Dominicans their first lead of the game.
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The rule of thumb is that any ball struck at less than 221 degrees is a ground ball, any ball between 10 and 25 degrees is a line drive and anything between 25 and 50 degrees is a fly ball.
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Dodgers team president and CEO Stan Kasten told the Orange County Register that the move to add more netting already was in the works before a fan was struck Sunday by a line drive from Los Angeles slugger Cody Bellinger.
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Some poor bastard in the Tokyo Dome cheap seats suffered the painful indignity of taking a line drive to the dick, then hoping around in pain as some scruffy-ass white dude in a throwback Brewers tee looked on in amusement.
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Lugo is the Mets' fifth starter for now, since an other option for the role, Jason Vargas, was hit on his right hand by a line drive near the end of spring training and needed surgery to remove the broken hamate bone.
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Two of the injured fans were children, including a 2-year-old girl who suffered multiple facial fractures and bleeding on the brain after being hit in the face by a line drive off the bat of Todd Frazier on Sept. 20.
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Christian Yelich followed with a line-drive single, and after Rea struck out Marcell Ozuna, Bour beat the Padres' shift for a second straight at-bat with an opposite-field single to left to put runners at the corners with one out.
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NOTES: With RF Steven Souza nursing a sore left hip after diving to attempt a catch on a line drive Tuesday night, the Rays made a roster move, designating LHP Dana Eveland for assignment and selecting OF Jaff Decker from Triple-A Durham.
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The next day, while he was standing on Hill's top deck when a lava bomb the size of a bowling ball flew through the air like a line drive and hit Clinton with such force that it snapped the bones in his leg.
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Dahl was carted off the field in the top of the sixth inning after his right leg bent awkwardly as he tried to change direction to catch a line drive hit by Scooter Gennett, who was making his debut with the Giants.
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Odorizzi, who didn't walk a batter and struck out five, nearly saw his scoreless streak snapped in the first inning when he gave up a one-out line-drive double off the top of the wall in right field to Christin Stewart.
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The Dominican Republic native was injured in the eighth inning of Friday's ALDS Game Two against the Texas Rangers when he was hit in the back of the head or neck area by a line drive off the bat of Carlos Gomez.
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After the quick comeback in the first half, Prescott, who also had a 4-yard touchdown pass to Brice Butler in the second quarter, seemed more than happy to let Elliott and Dallas' overpowering offensive line drive the bus down the stretch.
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He was asked several questions about the issue of protective netting, which has taken on a larger profile after a young girl at Yankee Stadium was hit in the face by a line drive while sitting in seats behind the third-base dugout.
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DeGrom, who worked out of a first-inning bases-loaded jam by striking out Willson Contreras and Kyle Schwarber, allowed a run in the sixth on three consecutive singles, the final one a line drive by Anthony Rizzo that drove in Jason Heyward.
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On Monday afternoon, the Yankees played their first game at home since last Wednesday, when a line drive off the bat of Todd Frazier struck a young girl in the face as she was sitting a few rows behind the third-base dugout.
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Francisco Liriano was summoned to face Cody Bellinger, and got him to hit into a force-out, and then Chris Devenski was brought in to face Yasiel Puig, who hit a line drive right to first baseman Yuli Gurriel to end the inning.
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Three batters later, Neil Walker, a former Pirate, hit a line drive to right field that flummoxed Gregory Polanco, who paused charging the ball, crouched and then dove late as Walker turned a likely third out into a triple on the misplay.
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Jacoby Ellsbury came in as a pinch-runner and stole second base, then scored the winning run after Frazier was hit by a pitch, Ronald Torreyes loaded the bases with a bunt single, and Gardner hit a line drive up the middle.
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I'm not saying he's going to be the greatest player who ever played, but as far as when the guy hit a 97-mile-per-hour fastball that was a line drive that the shortstop jumped for and it went over the fence.
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D-backs blow lead before edging Braves in 11 PHOENIX — Brandon Drury did not hit the longest of sacrifice flies, but his line drive to short left field was all the Arizona Diamondbacks needed for their second walk-off victory in three games.
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EditorsNote: adds new last two grafs Guillermo Heredia's line-drive single to left field with one out in the 21th inning scored Ryon Healy with the winning run as the Seattle Mariners defeated the visiting Texas Rangers 803-280 Tuesday night at Safeco Field.
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Bregman drilled a line drive to right field for his eighth home run off Cubs right-hander John Lackey (9-8) immediately before Jose Altuve, battling a stomach bug, reached on a bunt single and later scored on a squeeze bunt by Marwin Gonzalez.
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"I really appreciated the way the team has welcomed me since my return, and I'm trying to show that I'm grateful for the opportunity ever since I came back," said Puig, who also ran down a line drive by Joe Panik in the fourth inning.
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The 19-year-old has previously made two starts, once in place of injured LHP Alex Wood and once to give RHP Kenta Maeda an extra day of rest after being hit in the hand with a line drive against the New York Mets.
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Jankowski made a sensational headfirst diving catch in short right-center of a Nick Ahmed line drive to open the inning and Myers made a diving stop and a flip to first to get Jean Segura for the third out with a runner on.
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The first batter Chapman faced — pinch-hitter Howie Kendrick — hit a line drive that second baseman Javier Baez alertly fielded on a short-hop instead of catching it on the fly, which allowed him to turn an easy double play and end the inning.
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Madison Bumgarner gutted out two innings after getting hit by a line drive and Austin Slater smacked just the majors' third pinch-hit grand slam of the season Saturday night, helping the host San Francisco Giants turn back the St. Louis Cardinals 16-211.
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Salas (3-4) got ahead in the count to Davis 0-230, but then grooved a 235-mph fastball up and out over the plate to Davis, who hit a line drive over the fence in left-center for his 28th homer of the year.
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Managers will surely think twice about calling on an offbeat pitcher to escape a jam, because the reliever cannot be promptly pulled from the game when a theoretically ideal matchup yields, say, a line drive into the gap instead of the desired double play.
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After Frazier scored on wild pitch, Harris threw Judge a 2-2 fastball up and in, but Judge turned on it and lashed a line drive that carried over the head of Maybin and landed in the first row of the left-field bleachers.
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After Solano and Brandon Belt opened the inning with back-to-back singles, Strahm struck out Tyler Austin and retired Buster Posey on a line drive to Hunter Renfroe, who was starting in center field for the first time in his major league career.
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Cuthbert hit the first pinch-hit homer of his career off reliever Taylor Rogers (22-22), a 22-foot line drive down the left field line, to drive in Ryan O'Hearn who had opened the inning with a single and was sacrificed to second.
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Taylor Rogers pitched two-thirds of an inning in the eighth, allowing a walk and a single before being replaced by Trevor Hildenberger, who allowed a line drive to deep center field that was caught on a diving play by Buxton for the third out.
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The left-handed Paxton came within two outs of pitching the first complete game of his career before taking a line drive off his left elbow in the ninth inning of a 3-1 Seattle Mariners win over the Los Angeles Angels on Sunday afternoon.
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The White Sox got on the board in the sixth inning when Jose Abreu ripped a line-drive, two-run home run over the left field fence off Jaime Schultz, which pushed home Yolmer Sanchez in front of him and spotted Chicago a 2-0 lead.
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Kluber, an All-Star in each of the past three seasons and a two-time American League Cy Young Award winner, left the game with two outs in the fifth inning after he was hit by a Brian Anderson line drive that was clocked at 211 mph.
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Ryu appeared to lose the no-hitter with one out in the sixth when opposing starting pitcher Stephen Strasburg hit a line drive on one hop to right field, but Bellinger was playing near the foul line and threw out Strasburg at first on a close play.
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Makita, who returned from Triple-A El Paso two days ago, gave up back-to-back line-drive singles to Ian Desmond and Chris Iannetta with one out, followed by Parra's second homer of the season — a 363-foot drive pulled into the right field stands.
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In the eighth, the Reds went ahead for good, 7-5, when Barnhart hit a line drive that skipped past a stretching Juan Lagares in center field for a two-run double off Jeurys Familia (1-2), who was pitching for the first time on consecutive days.
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The girl was injured in the third inning, when a line drive off the bat of Chicago Cubs center fielder Albert Almora Jr. whistled into the seats in Section 111, just past the visitors dugout down the left-field line where there is no protective netting.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Alex Gordon has played most of his nine-year career in left field at Kaufmann Stadium, catching hundreds of balls in the exact spot where Yoenis Cespedes dropped an eminently catchable line drive Sunday night, the latest of his numerous lightning rod moments.
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The movement for baseball teams to add more fan protection ramped up after a 4-year-old girl was hit by a line-drive foul ball off the bat of the Chicago Cubs' Albert Almora Jr. during a game against the Astros in Houston in late May.
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Instead of attacking Al Jefferson with a straight left-hand line drive (which he successfully pulled off earlier in the same game), here's a play where James snakes back to his right, fails to turn the corner, then settles for a contested step-back along the baseline.
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Mets RH Rafael Montero (2-8, 5.47) Ray returns to the mound for the first time since July 28, when he sustained a concussion and required three staples to close the wound on the left side of his head after being on the receiving end of a line drive.
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Following a leadoff double by Rays shortstop Willy Adames and a bunt single from center fielder Kevin Kiermaier, Devenski induced a line-drive double play from Matt Duffy, with shortstop Marwin Gonzalez making the catch before doubling off Kiermaier, who was on the move with the pitch, at first.
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He singled in the first inning, blasted a two-run homer in the third, slugged an RBI double in the fourth and got his triple when Marlins right fielder Giancarlo Stanton raced in on a hard line drive and had the ball tip off the top of his glove.
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Maeda left the Dodgers' 7-4 victory over the Arizona Diamondbacks after suffering a lower right leg contusion when he was struck by a line drive in the sixth inning, but x-rays were negative and manager Dave Roberts said he expects Maeda to make his next start.
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NOTES: The Angels announced before the game that RHP Matt Shoemaker is "resting comfortably" in a Seattle hospital after undergoing skull surgery Sunday night to stop bleeding that resulted from being hit in the head by a line drive in a game against the Mariners earlier in the day.
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Though the two ballplayers crossed paths only briefly more than a half-century ago — one going up, the other going down — Michael never forgot Lerner, a good fielder and a great line-drive hitter who advocated chopping down on the ball to beat out the throw to first.
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As always, I have not read any of Griff's answers... Hi Andrew, With the Jays injuries to their pitchers and him doing great in Buffalo and a solid ST until the horrific injury from the line drive, why hasn't TJ House gotten a shot in the show yet?
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On Baseball After a young girl was hurt by a line drive Wednesday night in Houston, leaving the batter who hit the ball into the stands — Albert Almora Jr. of the Chicago Cubs — on his knees in horror, a tiny corner of the social media world lit up.
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It begins with slowed-down, black-and-white footage of the Baltimore Orioles' legendary final game of the 2011 season: With Jonathan Papelbon pitching for the Red Sox, with two out in a tie game in the bottom of the ninth, Robert Andino shot a line drive into left.
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And so minutes after Culberson caught a line drive off the bat of the Chicago Cubs' Willson Contreras last Thursday night for the final out that clinched the pennant for the Dodgers, Cecilia Geers went on the StubHub ticket site on her computer in search of Series tickets.
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The Yankees on Sunday announced that they would "significantly expand" the protective netting at Yankee Stadium next season, taking the step 10 days after a young girl was hit in the face by a line drive while sitting in seats behind the third-base dugout at the stadium.
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And Eric Young Jr., who the Yankees brought in last September as a pinch-runner and little else, tormented them for the second consecutive night — gunning down Judge at home plate and later robbing him of the go-ahead hit with a diving catch of a blistering line drive.
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Yet he had two hits on Saturday in the first half of a doubleheader against the Atlanta Braves: a line-drive single in the eighth inning and, in his final plate appearance, a homer that expanded a 2-1 lead into a 6-1 advantage, full of breathing room.
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The Astros, 11-2 against the Tigers over the past two seasons, didn't break through until the fourth inning when Alex Bregman followed a Michael Brantley (3-for-4, two RBIs) leadoff double with his career-high-tying 31st home run, a line drive into the Crawford Boxes in left field.
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The opener was not kind to either starting pitcher, however, as Philadelphia's Vince Velasquez left the game after the first inning because of numbness in his right middle finger, while New York's Jacob deGrom exited in the seventh with a bruised right triceps after he was hit by a line drive.
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Ray, pitching less than a month after he was hit in the head by a 255 mph line drive, was activated from the disabled list Thursday and tossed five strong innings as the Diamondbacks edged the Mets, 271-22, in the finale of a four-game series at Citi Field.
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Hosmer walked to begin the inning, moved to third base one out later when Alex Gordon's ground ball went under first baseman Pujols' glove for an error and scored on Kansas City's first hit: Salvador Perez's line-drive single over Simmons' glove at shortstop that also sent Gordon to second.
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Nola got more run support in the bottom of the fifth when first baseman Tommy Joseph led off with a line-drive home run to left field and second baseman Andres Blanco singled and later scored on an error by Cardinals shortstop Aledmys Diaz to make it a 153-215 ballgame.
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Minnesota then took a 5-4 lead in the sixth when Eddie Rosario led off with a walk, went to second on a single by Gonzalez and scored on a line-drive double by Cron over the head of Alex Gordon and off the bottom of the left field fence.
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Mets 10, Phillies 5 Noah Syndergaard left the game after he was hit by Cesar Hernandez's line drive in the seventh inning but managed to slow the Philadelphia Phillies' playoff run despite allowing a career-worst 12 hits and five walks in the Mets' 10-5 victory on Saturday night.
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Staked to a lead, Justin Verlander got through Austin Barnes quickly when the catcher flew out to left on the second pitch he saw, and got a little luck when Jose Altuve was able to snag a hard line drive from Chase Utley that appeared to be headed into right field.
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Trouble arose when Dellin Betances, who has struggled with his control recently, walked two of the first three hitters he faced, and then allowed a two-out R.B.I. double to Billy Hamilton, whose searing line drive to the warning track in right field glanced off the glove of a leaping Judge.
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He hit a two-run home run in the first that landed halfway up the left-field pavilion — which Balentien accentuated by flipping his bat and pounding his chest — and he nearly hit another, settling for a double when his fifth-inning line drive hit the top of the wall.
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The Cubs put the first two runners aboard against Jansen in the ninth inning, but the right-hander got pinch hitter Kyle Schwarber on a groundout, threw out Albert Almora at the plate after a comebacker and finished off the victory by getting Javier Baez on a line drive to center field.
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He struck out five straight batters in the second and third innings, including all three in the third, and did not allow a baserunner until Gallo hit a line drive that nicked off the glove of first baseman C.J. Cron and went into the corner for a one-out double in the fifth.
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NEW YORK — Yoenis Cespedes provided the exclamation point on a 12-run third inning — the biggest inning in New York Mets history — by hitting a line drive grand slam into the left field seats Friday night, when the Mets went on to rout the San Francisco Giants 423-1 at Citi Field.
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Even Kiermaier, the Rays' two-time Gold Glove center fielder, missed a line drive with two outs and the bases loaded in the sixth, so instead of a 20-25 lead and the inning over, the Rays trailed 21-133 after three runs scored on Nicholas Castellanos' second triple of the night.
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Scouts liked his versatility, and the Royals drafted him in the ninth round in 28, shortly before his line-drive single clinched the College World Series title against U.C.L.A. "People are serious about college baseball in the Southeast, and playing for South Carolina, you're expected to come in there and win," Merrifield said.
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EditorsNote: Tweaks in 1st, 3rd graf; breaks up 7th graf Marwin Gonzalez produced a soft line drive with the bases loaded in the eighth inning to score a run, and the Houston Astros matched their victory total from last season with a 2-1 win over the host Baltimore Orioles on Friday.
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The Yankees also had a chance to take the lead in the ninth when Headley singled, advanced to second with two out on a wild pitch and stayed anchored when Gardner, who fouled off four two-strike pitches from reliever Bud Norris, ripped a line drive that right fielder Kole Calhoun hauled in.
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Activated before the game, he limited the Brewers to one run in six innings in his first start since going on the disabled list June 30 with shoulder fatigue — and he stayed in the game despite taking a 105 mph line drive by Hernan Perez off the back of his head in the second inning.
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The father of a young girl who was struck in the face by a line drive at Yankee Stadium last month spoke publicly for the first time this weekend about the episode, describing in chilling detail the girl's injuries and urging the Yankees to take action to extend the protective netting in their ballpark.
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With roughly 10,000 sets of eyes zeroed in on him, Tebow strode to the plate for the first time and sent a line drive over the left-field wall for a two-run homer that — at least for a moment — silenced critics who had complained that his foray into baseball was a publicity stunt.
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Bernie SandersBernie SandersIowa Democrats to issue 'minor correction' to latest caucus results The Hill's Campaign Report: Democrats tout Obama ties as race shifts to New Hampshire Tlaib: DNC rules committee members working on Bloomberg campaign is a 'conflict of interest' MORE (I-Vt.) with a line drive straight to his likability, electability and "not-a-team-player" soft spot.
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Mets first baseman James Loney threw Carlos Ruiz out at the plate when he attempted to score on Eickhoff's infield single in the sixth, and the Mets were denied when Asche, the Philadelphia left fielder, made a sliding catch of Cabrera's line drive to the gap after the New York loaded the bases with two down in the seventh.
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That strategy could make for an odd look to Friday's lineup against Milwaukee's Chase Anderson, who has had mixed results against the Cubs this season – defeating them at home with 8 2/3 innings of two-run ball on May 17 before being lifted after just 11 pitches when he was hit by Kris Bryant's line drive on Aug.
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With the Giants leading the Reds 4-3 in the top of the eighth inning, Cincinnati center fielder Harry Craft, later remembered as a minor league manager who was a mentor to Whitey Herzog and Mickey Mantle, hit a low line drive down the left-field line that went over the fence right at the pole.
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He is not very good at either task, getting lit up in strip after strip, for year after year, occasionally suffering the pure indignity of a line drive hitting him and knocking all of his clothes off, while the rest of his teammates—including his dog, the consensus best player—just kind of don't give a shit.
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Mauer, the No. 1 overall pick of the 2001 MLB Draft from nearby Cretin-Derham Hall High School in St. Paul, went 2100-for-25 — a signature line-drive double to the gap in left-center in the seventh inning on a 214-22 pitch off reliever Juan Minaya — in his 20,25th game in 4203 seasons with the Twins.
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While Major League Baseball teams have moved incrementally in the last two years to add more protective netting to prevent severe injuries, the Yankees had resisted calls to do so — until September, when a toddler was severely injured when she was hit in the head by a line drive behind the third-base dugout at Yankee Stadium.
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Davis choked up on his bat against the overpowering Chapman and sizzled a line drive just over the tall wall down the left-field line, sending Cleveland into delirium, tying one of the most exhilarating games in World Series history and giving Cubs fans one last scare before they finally won their first World Series since 1908.
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When Harrelson brawled with Rose that October day in 1973, taking on one of the toughest players in the game (who also outweighed him by 40 pounds), I felt as if I had been recognized for my own hidden abilities — those qualities that would one day rise out of me like an apparent line-drive double that ascends to clear the fence.
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Whenever he got into slumps and wasn't hitting the ball the way he wanted to, he emphasized hitting the ball out in front — because if you're on time, the correct bat angle is important, and if you hit the ball out front with a good angle, you're more likely to do damage than hit line-drive singles or ground balls through the hole.
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Two of Houston's runs were the result of a pair of errors, the first on a throw by Andujar that pulled Greg Bird off the bag at first, the second by starter C.C. Sabathia, who, after being hit in the glove by a Jose Altuve line drive, unwisely chose to throw the ball to first — and fired it into right field instead.
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Yankees 11, Twins 3 The Yankees easily completed a three-game sweep of the Minnesota Twins on Wednesday and bolstered their bid for a postseason berth, but all of that was overshadowed by an unsettling incident in the fifth inning, when a line drive off the bat of Todd Frazier appeared to hit the face of a young girl who was seated directly behind the third-base dugout.
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The Phillies, winning successive games for the first time since June 22.35-223, didn't generate much offense themselves until the final two innings, but they turned Freddy Galvis' one-out triple in the first off starter Patrick Corbin into a run, then added a key insurance run when Franco hit his ninth homer of the season — a line drive to right field off Jorge De La Rosa on a 215-21 pitch in the eighth.
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