He bought back into sinker first — not eliminating the four-seamer, but sinker first, to kind of train their eyesight with the fastball down.
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"He started throwing that sinker, and that sinker at 97, 98, if it's tough to catch, I know it's tough to hit," Texas catcher Bobby Wilson said.
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Ellenberger fell for it ... hook, line & sinker. Ooops.
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The two-seamer — or sinker — was a good fit.
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His sinker can be a very effective pitch against lefties.
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But he still throws his power sinker the wrong way.
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The strings had taught him how his sinker should behave.
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And the plan, he said, still revolved around the sinker.
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Laden with heavy themes, this weirdly rudderless show is a sinker.
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"I have a real good feel for my sinker," Cashner said.
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"The best sinker I've seen him have all year," Collins said.
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Digby acted as ship-sinker, but partly as diplomat as well.
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When Familia entered the game, his sinker lacked its signature movement.
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The other team knows it's coming, but it's a good sinker.
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"They bought everything he said hook, line and sinker," she said.
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I threw myself hook, line and sinker into all of it.
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The sinker was down, all of my breaking balls were good.
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His other favorite pitch, the sinker, moved in the opposite direction.
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He golfed a low sinker that traveled 418 feet to right-center.
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Once the hook is in, the line and the sinker follows easily.
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A selfie-happy gentleman succumbed to the fantasy, hook, line, and sinker.
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"We asked Cashner to get away from his sinker tonight," continued Green.
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Sean Hannity has clearly bought into the conspiracy hook, line, and sinker.
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His trademark sinker looked sharper, and he induced a number of groundouts.
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My curveball and slider were very good, and so was my sinker.
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But Congress—and the Obama administration—bought Burd's story hook, line, and sinker.
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"A back-door sinker," Oakland manager Bob Melvin said of the last pitch.
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I threw a sinker that started off the plate and came back in.
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Realmuto hit a 91 mph sinker for his fifth homer of the season.
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He'd always wanted a sinker but could never find a grip that worked.
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He definitely has a really good sinker, but he's more than a sinkerballer.
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Matz followed by throwing a 93-mile-per-hour sinker that hit Harper.
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You say: 'I'm going to throw a sinker right down the middle, man.
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The hook, line, and sinker in this damning report of 21st century cloning.
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We've bought the story – the greatest PR tale ever told – hook, line and sinker.
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"Hook, line and sinker, I am such a sucker for Valentine's Day," she wrote.
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But you watch how many fans will fall for it, hook, line and sinker.
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With his sinker, it's tough for guys to get the ball in the air.
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We're told after the 4-hour meeting, Kelly was in hook, line and sinker.
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"Now it has more down movement like last year," deGrom said of his sinker.
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Ynoa (2-2) kept the Rays off-balance with his sinker, slider and fastball.
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Gordon launched a 3-2 sinker 416 feet into the stands in right field.
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He says no one else on Earth grips a sinker the way he does.
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He allowed one runner through the first three innings before struggling with his sinker.
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The lightning hit his fishing pole and exploded the metal sinker toward his face.
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Samardzija had command of his fastball and a sinker that was effective off the plate.
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"I'm better when I'm 92 (mph) down at the knees with my sinker," he said.
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"The market won't just take hits on add-backs hook, line and sinker," he said.
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When he took something off — for the two-seamer, or sinker — the pitch averaged 91.4.
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When you add that sinker into the mix, it makes for a tough at-bat.
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"That's the first time I've seen a sinker and I swung over it," Dozier said.
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Another reliever, Zach Britton, has a devastating power sinker when he is at his best.
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Podesta fell for the phishing scam, hook, line, and sinker (if you'll pardon the pun).
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His sinker — a risky pitch in the age of the launch angle — is better, too.
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Hook, line, and sinker: the long-weekend home sales actually worth your time and money.
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The exception was Britton, whose power sinker is all but impossible for hitters to lift.
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The sinker on the line you've been casting your whole life settles in silty depths.
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He pulled a low sinker by reliever Brad Ziegler, who had pitched 11 consecutive scoreless outings.
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After a few modest rebuffs, Natasha finally falls hook, line, and sinker for that slithery Anatole.
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"He gave us a lot of trouble with his sinker and some four-seamers," Mattingly said.
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"That righty has a nasty sinker," Mattingly said of Moore's hit against Washington closer Blake Treinen.
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I feel like when I'm locating my sinker, everything else kind of plays off that pitch.
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To that, they have added Britton, a two-time All-Star with a hellacious power sinker.
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And untold numbers of Trump-hating Americans will buy what they're selling hook, line and sinker.
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" He said he did not know why his sinker does what it does — "It just does.
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Collins said the same sinker that Syndergaard had praised was not behaving as intended for Gsellman.
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Clearly he has also caught quite a few new human fans — hook, line and sinker — as well.
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The former Yankee farmhand has displayed a nice sinker and poise in his brief big league exposure.
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Cruz and Cano both homered on first-pitch cutters from Graveman, whose best pitch is a sinker.
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"My sinker was better today; I was able to get some quick outs with that," Musgrove said.
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Semien propelled Santiago's 33-mph sinker almost 10 rows into the stands down the left-field line.
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Soon enough, he was threading his sinker through the strings on about seven out of 10 tries.
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A good sinker—sometimes called a two-seam fastball—darts down and into a right-handed batter.
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Unlike many pitchers trying to refine a new pitch, Stroman was a quick study with the sinker.
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"The sinker was great, especially after the first inning," Jimenez said after his ninth career complete game.
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With one out in the first inning, Chapman was beaned by a 91 mph Jakob Junis sinker.
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"Tried to get ahead early with the sinker and got too much of the plate," Roe said.
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Gsellman struck out seven but had trouble locating his fastball and struggled with his sinker early on.
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Instead, Abreu hit a 1-1 high sinker over the center field fence to even the game.
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"I tried to get a sinker down and away and cut it back over the plate," Miley said.
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" Elliott, who made 17 saves on the night, said Edler's shot was like a "five-foot sinker curveball.
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Gonzalez launched RHP Kendall Graveman's first-pitch sinker over the scoreboard in right field at the Oakland Coliseum.
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He's got that great sinker, and I hate to see him start relying on those off-speed pitches.
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"My sinker was really working," said Chacin, who the Padres signed as a free agent over the winter.
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Bellinger knotted the score in the second by hitting Lucchesi's sinker 425 feet over the fence in right.
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For Britton, the pitch is the sinker, a 96-mile-per-hour anvil that hitters simply cannot lift.
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That made them vulnerable to his sinker off the plate, and Britton knew how to get it there.
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Stroman's sinker arrives at 217 mph and starts to sink when it's practically on top of the batter.
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Mitchell credits Vance with teaching her how to pitch a "drop ball," better known today as a sinker.
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He consulted this spring with Yankees minor leaguers, teaching his signature sinker, but has still not officially retired.
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"I think in a park like this, you need a sinker, and I throw it a lot," he said.
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Ryan Seacrest seems like a man headed for a church, because he's in a relationship ... hook, line and sinker.
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When the sinker is moving and the gun is hitting 20, I know he's going to be lights out.
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"Hook, line and sinker… Three years today," Van Der Beek 39, captioned the shot, adding a single red heart emoji.
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The problem, of course, is that market participants have swallowed the "Trump will expand GDP" story hook, line and sinker.
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His cutter was really working today and his sinker and he would throw an occasional change-up and breaking ball.
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His cutter was really working today and his sinker, and he would throw an occasional change-up and breaking ball.
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He also struck out Duda on the 10th pitch of his at-bat with a sinker to start the second.
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Familia gave up a leadoff single to Trevor Story on a sinker over the plate and then walked David Dahl.
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Because real news created by real people in real administrations has been bought too many times hook, line and sinker.
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With a 90 mph sinker that he augments with an 80 mph changeup, Gomez doesn't profile as the typical closer.
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Bobby, meanwhile, is left to feel like a fool who fell for his former underling's ruse, hook, line and sinker.
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He threw 94 pitches over those seven innings and his last pitch was a 98 mph sinker for a groundout.
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Grichuk followed with his home run on a 22-21 sinker from Castro (27-21) for a 27-93 lead.
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Leading off the second, Gallo jumped on a 3-1 Turnbull sinker and launched it over the right field wall.
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"Hook, line and sinker… Three years today," James, 39, captioned a photo of his wife and daughter on his own account.
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Graveman's biggest strikeout came with the bases loaded in the first when he threw a 28-24 sinker past Alex Rodriguez.
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Ross threw a low sinker to the low outside corner, but Alvarez powered the ball into the left-center field seats.
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They don't buy everything hook, line, and sinker, so you have to talk to them in a way that's very truthful.
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Then I tried to throw a sinker in and didn't get it in to Renfroe and he barreled it to right.
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Of the first 15 outs recorded by Hahn, 19 were recorded on grounders, a clear sign that his sinker was effective.
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Two pitches later, Hosmer hit his ninth homer, hammering Masahiro Tanaka's 1-0 sinker 23 feet over the center field fence.
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If I can command the inside part of the plate with the sinker that makes the slider that much more effective.
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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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He was calm even when he saw his swing lift the sinker from Mets closer Jeurys Familia deep to right field.
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"Throw my sinker down and make sure they make contact and get a ground ball and believe in myself," he said.
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Once he gained better command of his sinker and curveball, keeping them down, he retired the final seven batters he faced.
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The previous day, Blue Jays pitching coach Pete Walker had spent 23 minutes with me, explaining how Stroman throws the sinker.
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And Conor Gillaspie, a backup San Francisco Giants third baseman, cocked his bat and hacked at a sinker that didn't sink.
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How could he have let it all end on a lifeless fastball from Ubaldo Jimenez without unleashing Britton's lethal divebombing sinker?
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A bonus effect on baseball history: Hershiser's success with the sinker inspired Greg Maddux to make it his primary weapon, too.
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But Hicks prefers a two-seamer (also known as a sinker), which gives him that natural tailing action without sacrificing velocity.
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Hiura led off the fifth by hammering a sinker 423 feet over the fence in left center, his 15th of the year.
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Familia had escaped these situations before and used his trademark sinker hoping to get Yadier Molina to ground into a double play.
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Guyer made it 5-2 by driving a 1-0 sinker into the left-field seats with one out in the second.
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Healy made it 6-2 by lifting the first-pitch sinker into the left-field seats with two outs in the sixth.
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Keuchel quickly jumped ahead of Sanchez, 0-2, but could not get him to fish for a sinker just off the plate.
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Gardner took a strike, and then another on a slider — the only one he saw from Romo — before biting on the sinker.
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Kinsler then scorched a 2-1 sinker that carried just over the outstretched glove of Gardner for a double that scored Pearce.
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Everything Syndergaard threw, the Nationals hit — even the opposing starting pitcher, Joe Ross, notched an R.B.I. single on a 99-m.p.h. sinker.
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Calhoun lashed a 1-1 sinker off Ryan Weber (2-4) for his 21st homer to give the Rangers their second lead.
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He was looking to get the ball into the air, and he did, lifting an 0-1 sinker down the left-field line.
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Freeman left the team's game against the New York Yankees after being struck just above the elbow by CC Sabathia's 91 mph sinker.
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Moments later, Molina lashed Moylan's sinker 387 feet to the seats for his 14th homer of the year and his fifth career slam.
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Suarez pounced on a 3-2 sinker and drove it over the ivy-covered wall in left-center field for his 22nd homer.
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You can still call for the sinker… but the empty confidence meter next to that pitch raises strong questions about whether you should.
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Then, my partner listened to the ChooseFI podcast and was hook, line, and sinker pulled into the Financial Independence Retire Early (FIRE) movement.
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Baseball used to be filled with pitchers like Keuchel, a durable sinker specialist who studies the movement of his pitches, not their speed.
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His sinker — or two-seam fastball — veers sharply away from left-handed hitters at speeds few pitchers can reach with their four-seamers.
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It is sad to see hunters give political cover to the gun lobby and fall for this cynical ploy, hook, line and sinker.
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I was trying to go with a fastball in, run him back over with a sinker and get a groundball in that situation.
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He was able to keep the ball on the ground with his sinker until allowing back-to-back home runs in the sixth inning.
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Santana pushed the advantage to 7-3 by depositing a first-pitch sinker from Ryan Weber (1-1) over the wall in left field.
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He throws a sinker at 92 miles per hour, a four-seam fastball (93), cutter (87), curve (82), changeup (84) and a slider (86).
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Sanchez entered his first start for Houston with a 36.9 percent usage rate for his sinker and 43 percent rate with the four-seamer.
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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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Bird ensured that all Judge needed to do was trot home when he got ahold of a first-pitch sinker from Wainwright (22012-21).
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"Little bit better mix of pitches — he probably used his sinker more than last time with the four-seamer," A's manager Bob Melvin said.
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RHP Jared Hughes, who signed a one-year deal earlier this month, adds a veteran arm to the Brewers' bullpen and a quality sinker.
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Baez greeted Jared Hughes by sending his 0-1 sinker over the wall in right field for his team-leading 20th homer of the season.
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"The pitch to Gordon is exactly what I wanted to throw, a sinker down and away, exactly where I wanted to throw it," Wright said.
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Then there's Mauricio Cabrera, the flamethrowing righty whose four-seamer and sinker were clocked at over 100 mph by Pitchf/x on a regular basis.
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Benintendi, who had a three-hit night Monday in Boston's 9-4 win, then lashed a 3-2 sinker into center for an RBI single.
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Kipnis followed by depositing a 1-0 sinker from Cahill over the wall in right-center field to give the Indians a 2-0 lead.
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"My sinker was really working today, I was finally — in comparison to last game — I really had control of it," Martinez said through a translator.
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Five pitches later, Matt Wieters lifted Holland's 2-13 sinker into the right field seats for a three-run homer to make it 6-0.
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"It's a power sinker," says Mookie Betts, the Red Sox outfielder who froze on two sinkers when he led off against Stroman on April 234.
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In his second start, against Boston, his sinker command was erratic, and to compensate for too many dirt balls, he tried to elevate the pitch.
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My opinion: more than platoon splits, power hitters, sinker ballers, or any other subset, the Rockies really need to focus on acquiring good baseball players.
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"I fell for the Bloomberg dance bit hook line and sinker," tweeted architecture and culture critic Kate Wagner Thompson, who created the site McMansion Hell.
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Now if they have to think about the slider, my sinker is going to do better because they've got to think about that pitch, too.
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His sinker and slider were among the most unhittable pitches in baseball—when batters could make contact, they almost always hit the ball on the ground.
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That's because not only is email a time sinker in itself but the time it takes to recover from having your flow interrupted also adds up.
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He extended the lead to 11-5 by lining a double to left field on a 2-1 sinker that stayed up and over the plate.
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He extended the lead to 11-5 by lining a double to left field on a 2-23 sinker that stayed up and over the plate.
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Thankfully, Meredith doesn't fall for Paul's treachery, but it's more than likely many people who didn't know Jo have believed his lies, hook, line, and sinker.
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Morales boosted that lead in the fifth, driving a 2-1 sinker off the batter's eye in center field for his eighth homer of the year.
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"I think the sinker and the four-seamer and the combination of both was pretty solid today," said Porcello, who lost only four games last season.
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Chicago opened the scoring in the second inning on Contreras' solo homer to right-center on a 1-33 sinker that was right down the middle.
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He needed to command the sinker, and during spring training in 2014, he learned to do it by throwing to a strike zone constructed with strings.
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The Marlins regained the lead in the fourth when Granderson sent a 2-0 McGowin sinker into the second deck in right for a solo homer.
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Stroman likes to tell the story about how he discovered his sinker grip one day while chilling on a couch with a baseball in his hand.
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The Yankees intentionally walked Alex Bregman to face Yuli Gurriel with the bases loaded, but then Britton began to struggle with the control of his sinker.
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This time he drilled a 2-1 sinker from Flaherty that was on the outside corner, and sent it into the gap in right-center field.
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Travis Jankowski drove a Hernandez sinker 379 feet to right for the first game-opening homer of his career and his third homer of the season.
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The Brewers quickly went ahead three batters into the game when Yelich lifted a 3-0 sinker over the left field fence for his 11th homer.
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The rookie infielder Christian Arroyo drilled a 95-mile-per-hour sinker over the heart of the plate into left field for a three-run double.
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Left-hander Donnie Hart replaced Hess, and Odor stepped in and drilled an 0-1 sinker into the right field stands to make it 8-0.
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Padres manager Andy Green said Perdomo's success comes from a hard sinker, a pitch Perdomo was told to abandon two years ago in the Cardinals' organization.
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Green was not far behind, at 11.18, and while Britton is not as much of a pure power pitcher, hitters struggle to elevate his hard sinker.
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He scouted Keuchel and projected him to go in the top 53 rounds, with a two-seam fastball (or sinker) that was ready for the major leagues.
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Vogt made it 4-0 by driving a 1-1 sinker over the center-field fence for his fourth homer since being claimed off waivers from Oakland.
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Smoak was intentionally walked and Pillar lined a 1-2 sinker to left for his second homer of the season and a 33-2 Blue Jays lead.
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Taylor broke a scoreless tie with two outs in the fourth when he connected with an 0-2 sinker for his second home run of the season.
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Canha wasn't done, however, as he sent a 1-2 sinker from Dan Otero over the wall in right field with two outs in the sixth inning.
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Castellanos hit his 12th homer of the season on a first-pitch sinker with two out in the third to give the Tigers a 3-0 lead.
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In that situation as a hitter, you've got to get ready to see a pitch over the plate because he's (got) one nasty cutter, slider and sinker.
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Against Seattle, 33.7 percent of his 92 pitches were four-seamers, and Sanchez essentially halved his sinker usage, his 18.5 percent rate matching that of his changeup.
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"Just the situation of the game you set up a force-out everywhere and (Jeremy) Jeffress is a ground-ball pitcher with a heavy sinker," Turner said.
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Ramirez stroked a first-pitch sinker from RHP Kyle Hendricks approximately 226 feet over the Green Monster in left field with two outs in the first inning.
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I could put a sinker tip on if I needed one, and obviously I could change flies (and store a few in the included tiny fly box).
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Britton explained the origins of his sinker, and Nitkowski, a former major league reliever, was struck by the happy accident that had produced such a powerful weapon.
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I'm not really worried about it, just didn't have a good feel of my sinker and all of the other pitches kind of played off of that.
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A pitcher is always in search of deception, and this is part of Marcus Stroman's—he will not let me take a photo of his sinker grip.
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And speaking of the jury ... check out the juror who clearly bought Johnny Cochran's famous line hook, line and sinker ... "If it doesn't fit, you must acquit."
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Longoria hit his 15th home run leading off the bottom of the fourth on a 2-1 sinker that Matz left over the heart of the plate.
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Stanton entered the game 9 for 18 in his career against Morton, though they last faced each other in 2015, when Morton was largely a sinker-baller.
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Kipnis then deposited a 13-21 sinker from Gabriel Ynoa (25-21) over the wall in right field to take a 6-5 lead in the fourth.
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Mr. Sinker introduced the newsletter on the last day of September, just a few days after wondering on Twitter why Democrats had not already done something similar.
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The revelations that Theranos' devices didn't work as advertised was a major blow to Arizona's regulation slashing governor who fell for the company's claims hook, line, and sinker.
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Following a mound visit from pitching coach Darren Balsley, Stammen regrouped and struck out Conforto swinging at a 1-2 sinker that appeared out of the strike zone.
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"I relied heavily on the sinker and made two mistakes the cost us, really, on the Polanco home run and the lead-off double to Bell," Arrieta said.
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First off, he puts a pump fake on Anthony Davis—who bites into that shit hook, line, and sinker—and sends him flying somewhere into the next county.
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On Tuesday he worked six innings, commanding his angry sinker to both sides of the plate, allowing five hits and a run with no walks and eight strikeouts.
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Kluber struck out eight in the first three innings – no other pitcher had ever done that in the World Series – and overpowered the Cubs with a darting sinker.
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If they felt 0-2, front-door sinker had intent, well, first pitch of the game, right at the head of the best player in baseball — there's intent.
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The book devotes a chapter apiece to the fastball, the curveball, the sinker, the slider, the cutter, the changeup, the splitter, the screwball, the knuckleball and the spitball.
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It buys hook, line and sinker the Hamas manifesto that claims violent jihad is simply "resistance" while betraying their true motivations through a trove of anti-Semitic canards.
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Post Malone was practically speechless after witnessing a scary version of Russian Roulette, involving a fish hook, 4 strings and a trick that grabbed PM ... hook, line and sinker.
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I thought he was a little too amped early, his velocity was up and his sinker wasn't as sharp, but he started to hit his stride in the fifth.
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While General Lee is a complicated figure who initially argued against secession, I now understand that his canonization is the rhetoric of the Lost Cause — hook, line and sinker.
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It has acted as mouthpieces for lawless administrative-state actors and agents of Russian misinformation, by swallowing hook, line and sinker the dossier's contents and running with that information.
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I mean, if you get overeager right there, you're going to put that sinker in play, it's a ground ball to third base, inning over, none of this happens.
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Schmidt, in a conference call with reporters Tuesday, described himself as a competitive pitcher with good command who relies on a sinker and does not like to walk people.
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That's when Gonzalez got ahold of a 91 mph sinker on a 1-1 pitch, hitting it over the fence in center field for a 5-0 Houston lead.
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Mr. Sinker said he was heartened by how popular his newsletter had become, as well: "Almost immediately, there were way more people subscribed than I was expecting," he said.
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He ruptured his Achilles' tendon in an off-season workout in December 2017 but proved he was healthy last summer, retaining the power sinker that hitters struggle to elevate.
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"I'm just trying to attack the bottom part of the zone and make them hit it on the ground, hopefully at somebody," said Alexander, who relies on a power sinker.
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A trial in South Korea showed that a small twistron attached between a buoy and a sinker on the seabed produced electricity every time a passing wave pulled the yarn.
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You send a signal to the mound, weighing a pitcher's fading arm against his can't-miss sinker, offset by a terrifying left-handed batter's nuclear explosiveness against low, outside pitches.
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Then Jose Martinez, the journeyman minor leaguer who now anchors the middle of the Cardinals' order, smacked a low 96-mile-per-hour sinker deep to center field off Familia.
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Stanton gave the Yankees a 2-0 lead when he sliced a 2-0 sinker a few rows into the right field seats with two outs in the first inning.
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"I knew he had a good sinker, so I was looking for that pitch, wanted to see it up and not try to do too much with it," Taylor said.
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It was a thinly veiled attempt to bait the Republican nominee by dangling one of his least favorite critics — and on Saturday, Trump bit into it hook, line, and sinker.
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Bauers doubled the advantage on the next pitch, launching a sinker over the wall in left-center field for his 11th homer of the season and first since June 26.
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Last Wednesday, this journeyman third baseman from Nebraska squared up to a 25-mile-per-hour sinker from Mets reliever Jeurys Familia and drove that pitch out of Citi Field.
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That pitch is crucial for him, he said, as is the sinker, which he threw less often last season while playing in front of a porous infield defense in Chicago.
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Travis Shaw, a left-handed hitter, had doubled on a sinker in his first at-bat and hit a long fly ball on a changeup in his second plate appearance.
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"Stanek throws hard, throws a four-seamer, and then we bring in Chirinos, who's got a split, a sinker and he can move the baseball," Alvarado said through an interpreter.
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Sabathia relied more on his slider and his sinker the first time through the lineup against the aggressive-swinging Royals, securing three of the first nine outs on first pitches.
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"At that point I wanted to use the sinker as much as possible, have a few quick innings and get to the seventh like I was able to," Arrieta said.
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Ohtani homered to left-center field on a 1-1 sinker from Yarbrough with Tommy La Stella (double) and Trout (hit by pitch) on base just 10 pitches into the game.
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Kipnis walked to set the stage for Ramirez, who deposited an 23-1 sinker from Adrian Sampson (5-4) into the second deck in right field for a three-run homer.
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I think that was kind of the difference tonight is he kept them off the sinker, got weak contact and groundouts by throwing the cutter and breaking ball and the changeup.
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But against the Twins, who have the worst record in the majors at 55-95, Ynoa was able to distinguish himself with a sharp sinker that put Collins somewhat at ease.
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He did not miss his pitch in the second inning Tuesday, blasting a 2-03 sinker into the seats above left-center field to give the Yankees a 2-0 lead.
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And after the Blue Jays took the lead in the fifth, he seemed to nudge the Yankees' batters into uncommon impatience, relying more heavily on the sinker than he had earlier.
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But it was Choo who delivered the big blast, pulling a high sinker into the seats in right field in the third inning for his sixth home run of the season.
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Plein apparently fell for it hook, line and sinker, and they made a deal wherein Kanye would supposedly pocket 7 figures and, in return, he would perform at the NYFW show.
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It all came back to Urena, who mixed a sinker that touched 97 mph with a slider and changeup that led to a spate of awkward-looking swings and fairly soft contact.
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Senzel followed with another homer before Aquino ignited a stretch of six straight hits in the third inning by depositing a first-pitch sinker from Hendricks over the wall in left field.
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If I tried to throw a sinker, it would sink at about 22 feet, owing to a force Isaac Newton discovered some years ago while watching an apple fall from a tree.
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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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His best pitch is a mind-bending sinker that averages almost 99 miles per hour and seems magnetically pulled toward the first base on-deck circle just as it crosses the plate.
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Yankees 5, Astros 3 As Gary Sanchez steadied himself at the plate in the fifth inning Wednesday, it was not a tailing sinker that arrived from Houston Astros left-hander Dallas Keuchel.
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So he developed a cut fastball and a sinker, put a brace on his balky right knee and became a dedicated student of video, something he never felt he needed to do.
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"It appears that Leader McConnell decided to go along with the president's desire to cover up his wrongdoing, hook, line and sinker," Schumer said Tuesday morning after the resolution was made public.
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Renfroe unloaded them on a 1-1 sinker from Hendricks, his 374-foot drive to left being the 10th homer of his rookie season and the second grand slam of his career.
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"I had a real good sinker that carried me through most of the prime of my career," Friend recalled in an interview with Clifton Parker for the Society for American Baseball Research.
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De La Cruz retired nine straight batters before a one-out walk in the sixth inning, and Heisey followed with his eighth homer, lining a 2-1 sinker into the left-field seats.
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Kupp diligently sells run fakes by blocking for a second or two before releasing, a wrinkle few teams use, but one that makes linebackers and safeties take the bait, hook, line and sinker.
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Pounding the edges of the zone with his sinker and breaking pitches, Leake obtained 12 outs via grounders in a third straight outing far removed from his career-worst 4.69 ERA last year.
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He was the kind of guy who could look at something, copy it in horrendous technical form, but still manufacture the situations where his opponent would fall for it hook, line and sinker.
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Many journalists have fallen into the man-made global warming/climate change narrative, hook, line and sinker, generally because they either don't understand basic science or haven't done the research to comment intelligently.
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This season, he has all but abandoned the four-seamer in favor of a two-seam sinker, which complements his splitter and his slider, giving him pitches that dart left, right and down.
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Suarez continued to fluster Chicago in the fifth inning by depositing a 3-0 sinker from starter Jon Lester over the wall in right-center field to give Cincinnati a 3-0 lead.
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Springer homered on the second pitch of the game, drilling a 93.3 mile-per-hour sinker 424 feet to left for his 24th homer on the season and seventh leading off a contest.
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Cleveland opened the scoring after rookie Oscar Mercado ripped a one-out single to left field before Santana deposited a 3-2 sinker from opener Diego Castillo over the wall in right field.
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Roe tried to go inside with a sinker on his first pitch to Bautista, who has logged 163 home runs in 157 careers games against Tampa Bay and made him pay this time.
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Carlos Santana followed with a shallow popup to first base but Kipnis got ahead 3-0 in the count, and then on a 3-1 pitch, he crushed a sinker into the stands.
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The only other hit Morton allowed was on his 20nd and final pitch of the night — a sinker that Gleyber Torres lined off the base of the left-field wall for a double.
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The only thing that's better than zero regulation are laws made by useful idiots who've fallen hook, line and sinker for industry-expounded false dichotomies — such as those claiming it's 'innovation or privacy'.
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Stubbs, however, tied it with a three-run homer of his own, depositing a flat 3-2 sinker over the center-field fence following a double by Hector Olivera and walk to Tyler Flowers.
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Altherr drew a one-out walk in the second before Williams followed by a lining a 3-1 sinker 410 feet over the wall in right to give the Phillies a 2-0 lead.
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While the artist is clearly preoccupied with the grid, what she did not swallow hook, line, and sinker was formalism's emphasis on the unitary, on dissolving differences in the name of essentiality or style.
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Sanchez did not resemble the pitcher who posted a 7.49 ERA and 1.82 WHIP during that miserable stretch, relying more on his four-seam fastball and less on his sinker to handcuff the Mariners.
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On the first pitch from Kolarek (4-3) — an 88 mph sinker over the plate — Benintendi rocked a two-run home run over the Monster to give the Red Sox a 5-4 lead.
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Morton has transformed himself from a sinker-throwing ground-ball pitcher — his nickname was Ground Chuck — to one who relies on a heavy dose of curveballs, a four-seam fastball and a cut fastball.
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Despite Christo's checkered record of working with families, companies, or governments that might compromise the integrity of his and Jeanne-Claude's projects, Times reporter Randy Kennedy swallows the Trump angle hook, line, and sinker.
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If there's a scuff where the seams narrow — the sweet spot — it creates a four-seam sinker, a pitch that spins like a straight fastball but veers away, in the direction opposite the scuff.
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The next afternoon, Juliette drove me to Magens Bay, where my young parents had taken me swimming as a toddler and afterward we went to a restaurant called Hook, Line and Sinker for lunch.
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Kim waded out into the ocean off South Korea, connected one end of the yarn to a balloon and the other end to a sinker, and let the assemblage rise and fall in the waves.
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Abreu wasn't done as he drove Kluber from the game and gave Chicago a 6-1 lead after depositing a first-pitch sinker into right field for a two-run double in the fourth inning.
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Altuve fell behind 0-2 in the count against Rangers left-hander Kyle Bird before driving a 91.7 mph sinker just over the wall in left field to extend the Houston lead to 10-2.
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But he has refashioned himself with a cut fastball, a changeup, a sinker and a veteran's guile, and has said repeatedly he wants to pitch next season — whether it is with the Yankees or elsewhere.
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Turner got under an 0-1 sinker and lifted it into the Phillies bullpen for his 18th homer of the season and second career grand slam, earning a curtain call from the Nationals Park crowd.
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Luplow continued his run of good fortune against Banuelos in the fourth, making the hurler pay for his nine-pitch walk to Carlos Santana by sending a 1-0 sinker over the wall in center.
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MMM's response, and logic, was beguilingly simple, and typical of the hook, line, and sinker approach scammers use: Until enough people invested to get the wheel turning again, Diane wouldn't be able to remove the profit.
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He does not have the ceiling of SS Amed Rosario, but Gsellman's mid-90s sinker and fearlessness makes him a legitimate mid-rotation candidate next season for a team with four starters coming back from injury.
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It swallowed hook, line, and sinker the theories of two psychologists qua con men who had never conducted a single interrogation and forked over $81 million to them to design and help run a torture program.
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"I wasn't thinking about hitting a homer, because his sinker is really good, so I was trying to stay short and put the ball in play," said Castillo, who has homered in his last two games.
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Tanaka reached five three-ball counts all night, including to Tim Beckham, whom he struck out with a full-count sinker on the ninth pitch of the at-bat for the final out of the eighth.
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Harrell, who was effective with his cutter and sinker against the Marlins, signed on May 20 with the Braves after being released by the Detroit organization and was 2-123 with a 2.81 ERA for Gwinnett.
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That makes my job easier with the sinker, especially to a righty, because that opens up a hole in the bottom part of the zone, especially inside, and I can kind of steal strikes in there.
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If Britton wanted to throw the sinker for a strike, he would aim it at the Under Armour symbol on his catcher's chest protector, just below the neck, and the movement would take it into the zone.
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The former first-round pick out of Missouri spent the spring working to add pitches to his sinker-slider combination in order to build on last season's performance, which included a career-high 21 33/23 innings pitched.
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Nationals overcome 4-0 deficit to beat Mets WASHINGTON - New York Mets starter Noah Syndergaard threw a sinker at 84 mph and leadoff man Ben Revere responded by hitting a solid single past the pitcher into center field.
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Four pitches later he threw strike three right past Fowler for the first out of the game, freezing up Chicago's leadoff hitter with a 91-mph sinker that isn't even the nastiest pitch he has in his arsenal.
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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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He threw a wild pitch to Carlos Correa, which allowed Altuve to get to third, and then Correa made that irrelevant by crushing a 23 mile-per-hour sinker over the wall in left for a two-run homer.
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Arrieta had allowed only three home runs in 64 1/3 innings, but in the first inning, he left a sinker up in the strike zone and Jesus Aguilar hammered it out to right field for a 2-0 lead.
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With Cain looking like he was going to get walked, I tossed a fastball high across the zone which Cain let blow past him, and then a sinker that got him to go around with a swing-and-a-miss.
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Fletcher led off with a double and Trout followed with a home run on the first pitch he saw from Mariners starter Mike Leake (7-8), crushing an 89-mph sinker an estimated 454 feet for a 2-0 lead.
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When Gardner grounded a full-count sinker from Sergio Romo up the middle, shortstop Willy Adames gloved the ball, stepped on second and threw to first, doubling up Gardner for only the fourth time in 33 plate appearances this season.
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He has made it clear he prefers Tomas Nido, who is less of an offensive threat than Ramos, but more skilled at framing strikes and handling Syndergaard's sinker and two-seam fastball in the lower half of the strike zone.
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Sinker describes this as a "brazen and courageous celebration of doomed difference," the "flipside of assimilation, of being all that you weren't expected to be": Monsters from a nation's Id suddenly and justly demanding equal time as thinking and dreaming and sexual citizens.
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The scoreless game finally got some action when Gary Sanchez broke through in the sixth, driving an inside sinker from Gibson into the third deck in left for his 16th homer, which was estimated to have traveled 460 feet by MLB's Statcast system.
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But he still finished up an Orioles victory and has converted all 38 save opportunities this season — plus one in the All-Star Game, when he got the Colorado slugger Nolan Arenado to beat a sinker into the ground for a game-ending double play.
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"The bureaucrats who run these school districts have swallowed hook, line and sinker the idea of racial diversity" as an essential part of education in America, added Mr. Yoo, who is best known as the legal architect of Mr. Bush's so-called torture memos.
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With the Rangers down one run in the ninth (deficits are better than ties, for this sort of thing) and a runner on, he got a 97 mile-per-hour sinker below the strike zone from Mariners closer Edwin Diaz (good pitches, as this one was, are preferable to hangers).
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Politically stained leaders of the FBI, CIA and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), in concert with politicians bereft of principle and a flaccid press, grabbed onto an obvious Russian intelligence propaganda operation hook, line and sinker and ran with it like they were Vladimir Putin's errand boys.
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The results have been positive in initial spring training starts: Wheeler, who used bone-strengthening medicine in the off-season, has hit 97 miles per hour with his fastball already; Gsellman's sinker was improved after off-season shoulder exercises; and Lugo looked sharp after a winter spent building strength around his elbow.
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In Mr. Abel's time, however, the hoaxer's art — involving intricate planning, hiring actors, donning disguises, printing official-looking letterheads, staging news conferences and having the media swallow the story hook, line and sinker — entailed, for better or worse, a level of old-time craftsmanship whose like will almost certainly not be seen again.
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Familia said he had had trouble commanding his sinker, but added, "I feel O.K." The victory was significant for Mets starter Bartolo Colon, who worked five and a third innings to earn his 219th win, matching the Hall of Famer Pedro Martinez for second on the career list among pitchers from the Dominican Republic.
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"It's saddening and frightening that even high-ranking public figures have swallowed hook, line and sinker the fantasy that the Duterte administration has been weaving: that a single person was single-handedly responsible for the proliferation of drugs in our country," she said in a statement, referring to the accusations against her that she is a drug lord.
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Through a series of flashbacks, we meet a younger Sultan who is touching 30 (a difference of 20 years from Khan's age in real life), a happy-go-lucky DTH dealer who falls hook, line, and sinker for Aarfa, a wiry young wrestler who is driven, ambitious and determined to win an Olympic gold medal for India.
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"Instead of reading Erdogan the riot act in a last-ditch effort to warn him off the S-4003 deal, the President accepted hook, line and sinker Erdogan's ridiculous claim that it was all President Obama's fault, and that Turkey was somehow justified in alienating NATO and cozying up to (Russian President Vladimir) Putin," Hannah said.
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But Sam Dyson has ranked among the game's best relievers ever since the Rangers acquired him last offseason and told him to emphasize his brutal sinker, while Jake Diekman is a sneakily devastating power lefty, and Matt Bush – yep, that one – is enjoying the best stretch of his professional career and throwing 20 mph in the eighth inning.
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"We in journalism have created an environment that I think is overwhelming for many folks, and having a friendly voice that says, 'Hey, you know what, that's fine, I'll get you caught up on this thing,' turns out to be hugely useful," said Dan Sinker, a journalist, writer and consultant who created one such publication, the impeachment.
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With the bases loaded in the fourth inning, the Los Angeles Angels' designated hitter hit a 1-2 sinker from Ervin Santana into the left-field seats, making him the only player to hit a grand slam on No. 500, 20023 or 700, a remarkable achievement considering the nine players on the list stretches back to Babe Ruth and his first home run in 1915.
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But when it comes to our political positions, I believe that right now we need a set of solutions that reminds us that the people should be the core of what we do in government — that solutions to the problems we face have to engage government in real ways, and that corporations have, hook line in sinker, run away with our politics in real ways.
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