Just because you're a slugging star all summer doesn't mean you'll get the job done come the fall.
The New York Mets right fielder batted in just 54 runs and had a slugging percentage of .365 in '02.
Cincinnati right fielder Austin Kearns had a strong rookie year with a slugging average of .500, but he still makes rookie pay.
In six years (1914 to 1919) with Ruth, who was primarily a pitcher in Boston before turning into a slugging outfielder, the Sox went 514-359 (.589) and won the World Series three times.
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That put him on pace to finish this season with more home runs (56) and a higher slugging percentage (.744) than any 20-year-old in major-league history.
Baseball rules state a player needs to average 3.1 plate appearances for each of his team's games to become a batting, slugging or on-base percentage champion.
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And so I explained that, given Loretta had hit just 63 homeruns in 11 big league seasons, the chances of him slugging a walk off were slim and none.
One top national Republican official described their job as trying to avoid having "a banana Republican primary" with four Republican candidates slugging it out in a bitter, nasty primary.
"It's about what you'd expect for a team that's put up the worst record in the league, " said slugging outfielder Adam Dunn, a bright spot with 19 homers and 53 RBI this year.
He had only 61 at bats last season, but finished the year with a .328 average and slugging percentage of .590.
"It was a real old-fashioned slugging match - we went for it and then they went for it, " said Redknapp, who left Portsmouth for Spurs last weekend.
Forty years later, they've assembled a lineup that appears capable of slugging its way to the top again.
Through the years, players flashed the least power during the 1920s, '30s, and '70s, a fact that lifts the relative slugging feats of Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Jimmy Foxx and Mel Ott (all of whom played in the '20s and '30s), along with those of Mike Schmidt, Willie Stargell and Dave Kingman ('70s and '80s).
Stop slugging it out and find a more "coherent and rational way forward".
Detroit Tigers star Miguel Cabrera was arrested late Wednesday on suspicion of drunk driving in Florida, leaving teammates concerned about the slugging first baseman less than a week into spring training.
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Sometimes there is a "Clash of the Titans, " struggle -- two players at the top of their games slugging it out to the best of their ability -- or a previous rivalry, be it through country allegiances or past matches between the players.
But there is a more worrying possibility: that Mr Draghi is slugging it out with deputies trying to keep the gun-closet locked.
General Manager Brian Cashman says that as long as Teixeira is hitting 30 homers, 100 RBI, and putting up a mid-.800s on-base plus slugging percentage, that's more than enough.
Both Republican voters and the establishment will face a new choice: not one between a flagging front-runner and a briefly successful maverick, but between two candidates slugging it out on equal terms.
That big move came when Cashman gambled his can't-miss top prospect, the slugging catcher Jesus Montero, for Pineda, a 6-foot-7 flamethrower from the Dominican Republic who became an All Star in his 2011 rookie season.
Since 2011, Apple and Samsung have been slugging it out across the world's courts in a series of distracting patent battles.
In a few months, the governing Awami League and opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party will be slugging it out in the polls.
The slugging decades of the 1950s, '60s, '90s and 2000s show that a host of players--Aaron, Willie Mays, Frank Robinson, Mickey Mantle, Harmon Killebrew, Bonds, McGwire, Sammy Sosa and Rafael Palmeiro--come in lower in relative terms than their lifetime home run totals suggest.
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