pivot man

At least once he was credited as the pivot man in a routine double play.

Jimmy Chatfield was the pivot man on his team of ten.

Frequently he was pivot man in the famous "flying wedge."

Backman, the pivot man at second base, accepted some blame.

This reeve has been described as "the pivot man of the manorial system".

His intent is to crash the pivot man, so you’ve got obvious intent there.

He has fought against pivot men of all calibres and none of them have been able to put anything over his sector.

Thornton is his pivot man.

Gibson, a home fielder, was described as a splendid pivot man by coach Eddie Powers.

Early in the second half Western Kentucky made a brief run, actually drawing a foul on the Bruins pivot man.

As the pivot man in matters that did not concern him, Thull had certainly precipitated the reign of horror, whether willingly or not.

The oft-injured pivot man hurt the tendon Friday against Minnesota, saying he felt a pop in his left Achilles while running down the court.

The pivot man on the right end of their 5-man squad was Gorlat, and John Marshall was on the left.

Shortstop Nick Punto, playing in place of the injured Adam Everett, was the pivot man on all four double plays.

Clark threw sinkers in critical spots in the sixth and seventh, and got double plays, with Alexander serving as the pivot man on both.

The third player is Aldin Begagić, a pivot men from Krivaja and later Goražde.

He spent a lifetime fishing for a young, strapping pivot man, finally reeled in a whale and then, after an intrepid struggle, threw Chris Webber back.

White, a marginal performer throughout his first two seasons in the league, looked like a top-flight pivot man in his preseason matchups with Camby.

Doerr was one of the greatest pivot men ever, but he is now sixty-one years old, and he gave up the game some years ago, when he began to pivot like Art Howe.

Even without a top-class center, and playing against a team with one of the league's best pivot men, the Warriors virtually had their way with the Knicks when the game came down to when it mattered.

For now, Blount—who started 81 games for Minnesota last year and who has averaged 5.7 points in 16 minutes per game this season—will be the primary pivot man Miami, which has the Eastern Conference's worst record at 8-32.

He is, however, the pivot man for 57 other farms connected through strategic alliances that include a further 10,000 acres of crops, a feed mill, an abattoir, and the sharing of a multitude of technical and professional resources.

Ditto for 6-10 pivot man Chinanu Onuaku (4.6 rebounds), a starter who hopes to build on his experience of helping Team USA's Under-19 team win the gold medal at the World Championships last summer.

To the orderly and respectful game as the Japanese played it, Yonamine brought what was considered bad behavior: hustling to beat out a sacrifice bunt, sliding hard to take out the pivot man on a double play, expressing outrage at the umpire.

The current rule covering slides into second base says it is "deliberate, unwarranted, unsportsmanlike action by the runner in leaving the baseline for the obvious purpose of crashing the pivot man on a double play, rather than trying to reach the base."