You have to field your position, hold runners on, throw strikes.

Jeff Nelson wants to regain his confidence to hold runners better.

I also worked on my stretch delivery, holding runners on.

So few batters have reached base against Kazmir that he has not learned how to hold runners on.

He can hold runners and eat innings which is valuable to any team in an age of "glass arm" pitchers.

And it just so happens that the Yankees' starting pitchers sometimes struggled to hold runners on base this year.

But he was hampered by wildness and an inability to hold runners on base.

Dempsey said the Dodgers' bigger problem was their pitching staff's inability to hold runners on.

Grabow holds runners well and has a good pickoff move.

Pitchers should be given more, not less opportunity to hold runners on.