cheese. A fastball, particularly one that is difficult to hit. A fastball high in the strike zone is also called high cheese, and one low in the zone can be called cheese at the knees. 'Easy Cheese' refers to the seemingly effortless motion of a pitcher as he throws a fastball at very high velocity.
He's referring to the pitcher's fastball, usually one that is difficult to hit. A fastball that sits high in the strike zone is also called high cheese. One that sits low in the strike zone can be called cheese at the knees. “Easy Cheese” is used to describe a pitcher that has seemingly effortless velocity.
Cheese. Cheese [cheez] A particularly potent fastball. Josh Beckett will often use his “cheese” when he needs a critical strikeout. High cheese, the most commonly mentioned variety in Eckersley's vocabulary, refers to a well-placed fastball high in the zone.
ago. Additional comment actions. "Well when the pitcher has got some speed on the ball, he is said to be throwing cheddar, and if he's throwing cheddar with movement, well you got some cheddar with hair on it.
Origin. When 19th-century clerks at groceries and general stores were looking for an easier way to reach canned goods on high shelves, they started using long, hooked sticks to pull them down. After dropping the cans toward them, they would catch them in their aprons -- just like a fly ball.
ducks on the pond pl (plural only) (Australia) A coded warning used by men to alert each other that female guests ("ducks") are present ("on the pond"), so that for politeness they should moderate their language. quotations ▼ (baseball) Members of a batting order who are on base; baserunners.
Cookie: An easily hittable pitch. Crooked number: A team's inning run total greater than zero or one.
One of the early nicknames of the curveball was Uncle Charlie, or sometimes, Lord Charles. This was derived from the name of Harvard President Charles Elliot, who was opposed to the adoption of the curveball and considered it to be cheating.
Crooked numbers, or commonly known as crooked, is higher than the number being placed on the line score due to half-innings. The line score is divided into nine columns, which tells the team's runs, hits, and errors, and another two rows for each team.
The ”can of corn” in baseball refers to that style of catch with a fly ball. Essentially, the catch and the can of corn have the following in common: Catching something that's almost coming “straight down” The style of catching—letting the can, or the ball, do most of the work of coming down to you.
'' Ecksplanation: Hair. The on-the-head kind, not the moving-fastball kind. Term was actually coined by former Red Sox play-by-play man Don Orsillo in reference to Eckersley's still-impressive mane.
ago. Additional comment actions. This is a phrase from Eckersley. A home run would be “taking the pitcher over the bridge.” Perhaps referring to the Bay Bridge ie. taking him home/out of the game.
Punch and Judy pertain to a hitter who the ball or a powerless hitter does not solidly strike in baseball. It is the kind of batter, typically “slap shot,” “meet the ball” to lead it to the open areas on the field or “fall in” for defense.
Pair of Shoes
– occurs when a batter takes a called third strike, likely meaning he is just. standing there looking in his shoes.
Chadwick used S for sacrifice and chose K for strikeout. He did so because K is the prominent letter of the word "strike," which was used more frequently than strikeout. Some scorers use a forward K for a swinging strikeout, a backward K for a batter caught looking.
C (2): Catcher; Crouches behind home plate to catch pitches. 1B (3): First Baseman; Positioned closest to first base. 2B( 4): Second Baseman; Positioned closest to second base. 3B (5): Third Baseman; Positioned closest to third base.
A bandbox is a slang term designating a small ballpark in which it is easy to hit home runs. The designation was most famously applied to the Baker Bowl in Philadelphia, PA, although many other parks have been so called, mostly derisively. In common parlance, a bandbox is a cardboard box designed to hold a hat.
In baseball, a yakker is a curveball with a big break. The term apparently derives from yawker, a kind of bird that has the same kind of swooping flight.
This seems to meet the definition of "illegal pitch" in the MLB rulebook, which reads, "An ILLEGAL PITCH is (1) a pitch delivered to the batter when the pitcher does not have his pivot foot in contact with the pitcher's plate; (2) a quick return pitch. An illegal pitch when runners are on base is a balk."
Toad Ramsey, a pitcher from 1885 to 1890, is credited in some later sources with being the first knuckleballer, apparently based primarily on accounts of how he gripped the ball; however, based on more contemporary descriptions of his pitch as an "immense drop ball", it may be that his pitch was a form of knuckle curve ...
“He wants,” Bryce Harper said, “to shove.” That is modern baseball parlance for “pitching extraordinarily well,” and as he begins to hit the meat of his third season in Washington, it's remarkable how often Scherzer has shoved for the Nationals.
Arm Candy Ibuprofen, Advil, etc… Around The Horn. When you toss the ball around the infield after making the first or second out and the bases are empty. Aspirin Tablet. A fastball that is especially hard to hit, making it seem as if the ball is the size of an Aspirin.
n. (Baseball) baseball a dismissal due to three successive failures to hit the ball.