1.   But the Braves were crowding the plate on Rusch, trying to take away the outside pitch, and Rusch said he was probably too conscious of that.

2.   Foster ejected Cook, who was livid and stalked to the plate pointing, claiming Everett was crowding the plate.

3.   Gibson would hit you in the head if you crowded the plate.

4.   He repeatedly came inside on hitters who crowded the plate.

5.   Phillies pitchers showed just how difficult it is to pitch in the big leagues, where batters crowd the plate and umpires shrink the strike zone even more.

6.   That was the night Carl got hit by a Jamie Moyer pitch after crowding the plate.

7.   The first act unfolded when Seattle starter Jamie Moyer complained in the first inning that Everett, who batted lefty against the lefthanded Moyer, was crowding the plate.

8.   Time for him to, as they say, to crowd the plate and take one for the team.

9.   Washington coach Ken Knutson admitted that his hitters crowd the plate to take away the strike on the outside corner.

10.   Wolcott and Lodge are the big enchiladas of the subgenre of insider-hip fiction, which is crowding the plate this summer.