bench jockey

The article noted that timing was the key to being an adept bench jockey.

Those Dodgers had a reputation for being the rowdiest bench jockeys.

Virtually all of the bench jockeys have retired.

But the nagging from bench jockeys - once a staple of the game - barely exists anymore.

Are he and other skilled veterans to be harassed by batters, bench jockeys, the league presidents?

After he was ejected, though, he spit out a bench jockey's gem.

An intense ballplayer and a talented bench jockey, Rigney was known as the Cricket.

Snodgrass later claimed that the Red Sox bench jockeys had disrupted the players' timing.

Bench jockeys rode him.

Daniel Duchovny, David's brother, appeared in this episode in a minor guest role as a bench jockey.

The general opinion at the time was that the two most ferocious bench jockeys in baseball were Robinson and Leo Durocher.

The verbal jousting is frequently called "riding" - hence the "rider" from the dugout becomes a "bench jockey."

Then, Ruth rounds the bases, making mocking gestures to the bench jockeys on the Cubs who were riding him mercilessly.

He had been a popular guy with the Yankees so all through the Series the Yankes bench jockeys razzed the Cubs as being cheapskates.

As a result, he learned to play several positions (he was frequently a first baseman and third baseman) and became a notorious "bench jockey" in order to keep his major league job.

There was also a talkative player named Hal Carlson, who was designated as the primary bench jockey for the Cubs when he was not pitching in the 1929 World Series.

All the reports say that the Chicago Cubs' "bench jockeys" were riding Ruth mercilessly, and that Ruth, rather than ignoring them, was "playing" with them through words and gestures.

Taking yet another thinly veiled shot at his counterpart in the series, Van Gundy essentially said he was more impressed with Phil Jackson the bench jockey than Phil Jackson the coach.

That team, whose famous nickname "Gashouse Gang" was supposedly inspired by Leo, were a far more appropriate match for him; in St. Louis, Durocher's characteristics as a fiery player and vicious bench jockey were given full rein.

But Cards manager Eddie Dyer said, "Sid is a friend of mine," and that Gordon had been attacked not because he was Jewish but because he was a good player and "the good ones receive the attention of bench jockeys."

Hernandez looked over his left shoulder at the Devil Rays' dugout and continued to stare, until Posada ran out and nudged Hernandez in the lower back with his glove, turning him away from the bench jockeys and back to the business at hand.

Doby went through much the same kind of discrimination and abuse that Robinson suffered - not being allowed to stay in the same hotels and eat in the same restaurants as the white players, hearing the racial insults of fans and opposing bench jockeys, experiencing the reprehension of some teammates.