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Each entry contains the leaderboard appearances for the player in a Stat or Award. The entries are the year, the value for this stat, and their rank for statistics, and the year and the award for awards. Leaders are in bold. Rankings among career and active leaderboards are listed as well.
diving over the plate. When a batter tends to lean in toward the plate so that he can more easily hit a ball that's on the outside of the strike zone, he's said to be "diving over the plate" or "diving for the pitch."
Oct 20, 2021 · If the bat crosses the front of home plate, it is considered a full swing and results in a strike. If the batter is able to stop his swing before crossing the front of home plate, it is not considered a swing and the pitch is called based on where it was located in the strike zone. Choke Up
We required the qualifying number of plate appearances in a season for consideration in career-best BA, SLG and OBP entries to be 1.55/team game. If we didn't do this, you would end up with some players who had 1 hit in 2 at bats during a cup of coffee as their career best batting average.
Apr 27, 2015 · At its heart, baseball is a battle to control the strike zone. There are plenty of other things going on, but the origin of the action is over the plate. Good hitters make good...
- Neil Weinberg
Apr 23, 2022 · Paul Dickson’s compendious Baseball Dictionary is the go-to place for most lexical queries relating to America’s favorite pastime. For just a peek at some of the most notable examples of...
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The complete definition of over the plate, from the Dickson Baseball Dictionary, appears below, along with (where applicable) first usage, synonyms, historical details and more over the plate research, courtesy of Baseball Almanac.
