The first batter Paige faced was Browns first baseman Chuck Stevens.
Stone took the win (without retiring a batter) and Conley was tagged with the loss while Virgil Trucks earned the save.
Injuries continued to batter the Flames towards the end of the regular season, as defencemen Robyn Regehr (MCL) and Cory Sarich (broken foot) were both lost in early April.
This happened because Mike Gonzalez was injured and left the game with a 3-2 count on the batter, Allen Craig.
He also was on the end of a $500 fine from Giants manager Mel Ott for allowing St Louis Cardinals batter Johnny Hopp to get a hit on an 0-2 count during a June 1 game at Sportsman's Park.
In one instance, he called three straight strikes on a batter for Crookston to end a game when the team was mounting a comeback against visiting Winnipeg; the batter dropped his bat and got into a fight with Owens, whereupon a fan jumped from the stands, picked up the bat and hit Owens over the head.
Brushback pitch, a baseball pitch thrown high and inside, to force the batter away from the plate
Lansford had a cameo role as Kit "Hit or Die" Kesey, the Chicago White Sox batter that Mel Clark (played by Tony Danza) retires for the final out in the Angels' pennant-winning game in the 1994 remake of Angels in the Outfield.
His batter introductory music in Philadelphia is the song "Kashmir" by Led Zeppelin.
Biggio, a fan of the musical group U2, often had their song "Mysterious Ways" played as he stepped up to the batter's box.
In 2001 she was named as the best batter in the Dutch Softball Hoofdklasse.
He would redeem himself in his next start on June 24, 2007, as he had a no-hitter in the first 8 innings against the Colorado Rockies at Rogers Centre, allowing only an 0–1 single to the first batter he faced in the ninth, designated hitter Jeff Baker, making him just the 6th pitcher in franchise history to carry a no-hitter into the 9th inning.
Skip Lockwood struck out the first batter he faces, then gave up a grand slam to Jeff Burroughs.
It is highly appreciated as food in certain areas of Italy, as well as in Catalan cuisine where it is prepared fried, after being slightly coated in batter.
Ernie Banks was the first batter Gilson ever faced - Banks reached base on an error.
For instance in "The Dreaded Batter Pudding Hurler of Bexhill-on-Sea" he is a police inspector; in "The Whistling Spy Enigma" he is the secret Government agent who sends Neddie Seagoon to Hungary to booby-trap the boots of the national football team; and in "The Jet-Propelled Guided NAAFI" he is Prime Minister Neddie's butler and confidante, but also an undercover Soviet agent plotting with Moriarty to sell the guided NAAFI secrets to the Russians.
Joaquín Fernando "Jackie" Gutiérrez (born June 27, 1960 in Cartagena, Colombia) is a former Major League Baseball shortstop and right-handed batter.
On opening day 1993, he was the first batter to ever face the Florida Marlins, striking out against Charlie Hough.
On August 31, Church surrendered a pinch-hit home run to Cincinnati's Art Shamsky, the first batter he faced, but prior pitcher Curt Simmons was on the hook for the loss due to a player reaching on an error, followed by an intentional walk to the next batter.
In the first game, he pitched 1.2 innings, allowing no hits or runs despite an error (throwing a comebacker to the mound over first baseman Joey Votto's head) that allowed the first batter he faced to reach second base.
Putkonen was ejected for the first time in his MLB career on July 11, 2013 after throwing a first-pitch sinker high and inside to White Sox batter Alexei Ramirez immediately following a Josh Phegley grand slam.
After Tony Fernández connected off him for a home run that pushed the score to 7-0, Loynd vented his anger by hitting the next batter, Lloyd Moseby, with a pitch.
National Corndog Day is a celebration of basketball, the corn dog (A corn dog is usually a hot dog sausage coated in a thick layer of cornmeal batter), Tater Tots, and American beer that occurs in March of every year on the first Saturday of the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship.
He also struck out the first batter and delivered the first pitch in the history of Nationals Park.
Orlando Ramírez Leal (born December 18, 1951 in Cartagena, Colombia) is a former Major League Baseball shortstop and right-handed batter who played for the California Angels between 1974 and 1979.
His older brothers persuaded him to become a right-handed batter, and he was a .400 hitter at William Cullen Bryant High School in Astoria, New York.
Publications include: My Own Harlem (1998); So, You Want to be Pro (2000), "We're American Too: The Negro Leagues and the Philosophy of Resistance" in Baseball and Philosophy: Thinking Outside the Batter's Box (2004); reviews in Hampton University's International Review of African American Art related to the work of artists Kadir Nelson and Hale Woodruff.
Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Sharman was a right-handed batter who began his professional baseball career in 1915, at the age of 20, for the Portsmouth Cobblers of the class-D Ohio State League.
The first batter he pitched against in his major league career was Hank Aaron.
For example, in 1990, Bill James identified Eric Davis as the most productive batter with a career average below .275; in spite of his low batting average, Davis had a career secondary average of .504, which was the highest of any active player at the time.
This is the type of pitch that Tom Selleck's character is continually unable to hit, even though he is a left hand batter.
Brad Lidge featured a devastating slider as his primary weapon in his perfect season as a closer in 2008, and used a slider to strikeout the final batter of the 2008 World Series for the Philadelphia Phillies.
Western Australian Chelsea Forkin was named the competition's most valuable player and best batter.
Frazier is a fan of Frank Sinatra, even choosing Sinatra's songs to play when he walks up to the batter's box before an at-bat during home games.
Cubs starter Bill Hands knocked down the first batter he faced, Agee, who had been moved into the lead-off spot in the line-up, in the bottom half of the first inning.
He attended Trinity College in Durham in 1895, becoming one of the school's best athletes as an outfielder and batter, breaking a number of baseball records and eventually earning his nickname "Cap." Card was team captain in 1899.
In the Western world, swords of an equivalent size such as the Zweihänder may have been used to batter into formations of pikemen or to cut out the front legs of a galloping horse, although the historical accuracy of this information is also a matter of debate.