2 days ago
After Dickerson ended a 10-pitch battle with Hughes by socking a leadoff homer in the bottom of the third, Hafner again delivered in his next at-bat.
2 days ago
"He had his good stuff all the way around from his fastball, a good slider and a good changeup," said Indians leadoff hitter Micheal Bourn, who had one of Cleveland's two singles off Scherzer.
5 days ago
Garcia was playing for second baseman and leadoff hitter Kinsler, who was out with sore ribs.
5 days ago
"Shields paid dearly for surrendering leadoff homers in the seventh inning to Josh Donaldson and the eighth to Adam Rosales.
6 days ago
Adam Rosales scorched a leadoff homer in the bottom of the eighth inning to lift the Oakland Athletics to a 2-1 victory over the Kansas City Royals in the opener of a three-game set at the Coliseum.
8 days ago
OAKLAND, Calif. - The Oakland Athletics welcomed back leadoff hitter Coco Crisp on Wednesday, but they have no reinforcements in sight for their slumping rotation.
11 days ago
Shields started the fifth by hitting Stewart with that 1-2 change-up, which marked the fourth time in five innings that the Yankees put their leadoff hitter on base.
12 days ago
Parker, meanwhile, held the Mariners hitless until the fifth, which started with a leadoff walk to Justin Smoak.
13 days ago
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13 days ago
The Cubs already led by a run Friday night, thanks in part to new leadoff hitter Starlin Castro.
16 days ago
David Hernandez (2-2) was credited with the win, Arizona's third in four games, after surviving Matt Kemp's leadoff double in the eighth.
19 days ago
Garrett Richards (1-3) making his first relief appearance after five starts in place of the injured Jered Weaver, gave up a leadoff single through the box by Adam Jones.
19 days ago
Bruce Bochy had it all mapped out: If Buster Posey could somehow reach base as the leadoff hitter in the bottom of the ninth inning, he would dispatch the speedier Gregor Blanco as a pinch runner.
21 days ago
David Ross drew a leadoff walk, took second on a Lincoln wild pitch, then scored when Ellsbury blooped a single to left.
22 days ago
He blanked the Mariners on four hits for the first five innings before giving up a leadoff homer to Michael Morse - his eighth of the season - to start the sixth.
23 days ago
Jones was struggling to get on base through the first five games and Schlossnagle wanted to give him a chance to find his swing out of the glare of leadoff.It worked.
23 days ago
Though Darvish struck out the first two hitters, he went to a full count to leadoff hitter Jose Altuve and was behind Carlos Pena 3-1 before getting him to ground out.
23 days ago
The sixth-inning trouble started for Zach Britton when he gave up a leadoff single, and things just kept getting worse.
23 days ago
Belt's leadoff blast in the second pushed the margin to 3-0, but Arizona clubbed a trio of homers off Cain in the fourth to jump in front.
71 days ago
"Harper, who batted second for Washington last season, is now hitting behind new leadoff hitter Denard Span and Jayson Werth.
75 days ago
With the score tied at 1, McPherson hit leadoff batter Alexi Casilla in the third and walked Ryan Flaherty.
82 days ago
And Mattingly certainly has a need for a productive leadoff hitter since the Dodgers ranked 29th in the majors in batting (.226) and OBP (.281) from the No. 1 spot last season.
82 days ago
Rene Tosoni smacked a leadoff triple in the bottom of the ninth before scoring on Caleb Gindl's sacrifice fly, as the Milwaukee Brewers rallied past the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, 4-3, in...
84 days ago
Leadoff conundrum: David DeJesus will remain the leadoff man against right-handers, but Sveum said Luis Valbuena eventually could develop into the role.
85 days ago
Jemile Weeks hit a leadoff home run in the first inning, Seth Smith later homered and the Oakland Athletics beat a split squad of San Diego Padres 11-6 on Wednesday.
