Definition, Betydelse & Synonymer | Engelska ordet SOUTHPAW

Definition av SOUTHPAW

1. en boxare som boxas med höger hand framför vänster fot (går med högern före)
2. en boxare som har betydligt större slagstyrka i vänster hand än i höger hand
3. någon som är vänsterhänt i allmänhet, särskilt inom sport

Exempel på hur du använder SOUTHPAW i en mening

• On November 7, 2008, Lee was inducted into the Red Sox Hall of Fame as the team's record-holder for most games pitched by a left-hander (321) and the third highest win total by a Red Sox southpaw (94).
• The mainstays of the Detroit Stars during the 1920s were Hall of Fame center fielder Turkey Stearnes, who ranks among the all-time Negro league leaders in nearly every batting category; Hall of Fame pitcher Andy Cooper, a workhorse southpaw; pitcher Bill Holland; and first baseman Wesley, who led the league in home runs twice and batting average once.
• In a brief and entertaining fight, Sprott rocked the southpaw before being decked himself, and suffering a controversial stoppage by the referee, with even the South African commentators deploring the stoppage.
• The following year Smith upset future cruiserweight world champion and southpaw Ricky Parkey, then 2–0 as a pro, by winning a 6-round points decision.
• With 19 wins and 11 losses, Shocker had the second-best pitching record on the team, behind the Game 1 starter, southpaw Herb Pennock.
• Boxing Illustrated ranked him fourth of all-time in terms of pound-for-pound punchers, while the Bleacher Report named him the 14th greatest southpaw in boxing history.
• July   8 – "Wild Bill" Hallahan, 78, southpaw hurler and three-time World Series champion (1926, 1931, 1934) for the St.
• February 4 – The Cincinnati Reds acquire southpaw hurler Bo Belinsky from the Pittsburgh Pirates for right-hander Dennis Ribant.
• Louis Cardinals acquire well-traveled southpaw George Brunet and former NL batting champ Matty Alou from the Pittsburgh Pirates in exchange for right-hander Nelson Briles and outfielder Vic Davalillo.
• The Indians also acquire southpaw relief pitcher Dave LaRoche, along with outfielder Brock Davis, from the Chicago Cubs for right-hander Milt Wilcox.
• January 24 – Left-handed pitcher Warren Spahn, with 363 triumphs the winningest southpaw of all time, is elected to the Hall of Fame in his first try on the Baseball Writers' Association of America ballot, receiving 316 of 380 votes.
• May 29 – Mike Epstein's sit-down strike ends after 19 days when the Orioles trade him to the Washington Senators with left-handed pitcher Frank Bertaina for southpaw Pete Richert.
• May 20 – Warren Spahn, the winningest southpaw of all time—now a pitcher-coach for the New York Mets—faces his old team, the Milwaukee Braves, for the first time after winning 356 games in a Brave uniform.
• A three-time All-Star, Burdette had formed a formidable one-two pitching tandem with southpaw Warren Spahn since the Braves moved to Wisconsin in 1953, and had carried the team to its 1957 World Series championship with three complete-game victories.
• January 25 – In a waiver deal, the Cincinnati Reds trade stalwart southpaw Joe Nuxhall to Lane's Athletics for right-handers John Briggs and John Tsitouris.
• Hasegawa had been sparring with southpaws in preparation to fight Morales, who was a southpaw, but the change to Martinez meant he would now be fighting an orthodox style fighter.
• May 18 – A 19-hit attack, including home runs from Vic Wertz, Ralph Kiner and Hank Majeski, powers the Cleveland Indians and rookie southpaw Herb Score to a 19–0 blanking of the Boston Red Sox at Fenway Park.
• The New York Giants obtain southpaw pitchers Johnny Antonelli and Don Liddle, backup catcher Ebba St.
• Phillies First baseman Marv Blaylock struggled against left-handed pitchers, so the decision was made to start Lopata at first base whenever the Phillies were up against a southpaw pitcher.

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