Sentences with phrase «aluminum bats»

What the bat is made of has little effect, the team found, as the calculations for aluminum bats did not differ significantly from those for wooden ones.

The downside to the fact that aluminum bats work better than wood bats is, apparently, a dozen million dollars or so in damages, if you are the bat manufacturer.

I still believe if you make good pitches, it wouldn't matter if they were swinging aluminum bats.

Maybe it's that they feel more comfortable evaluating players with professional experience rather than pretending they have the resources or desire to properly vet international free agents and players hitting with aluminum bats.

Undoubtedly, an expert of some sort can testify as to the increased bat speed created by aluminum bats.

It's a nightstick or a small aluminum bat used to check tires for soundness on tractor / trailer rigs.

Young pitchers in particular tend to stray from the fastball, a habit formed in high school and college where hitters whip 28 - ounce aluminum bats.

As a result state - of - the - art aluminum bats can propel a ball considerably faster than 110 mph, whereas balls hit by wood bats average about 92 and rarely exceed 96.

The bat manufacturer Easton released the first true aluminum bat, opening the floodgates for other companies to put their own versions on the market.

(One early way to disallow aluminum bats was to take a metal ring and run it over the bat, and if it caught on anything or revealed a dent, it was ushered off the field.)

The 9 - 6 vote to prohibit aluminum bats during the playoffs followed a hearing that featured testimony both from manufacturers of such bats and the father of...

Now his family is suing aluminum bat maker Easton for the injury.

The culprit for the injury is the Easton BT265 aluminum bat the hitter was swinging, according to the plaintiffs.

It's not the first time aluminum bats, which send baseballs flying at a higher velocity than wooden bats, have been blamed for baseball injuries.

But Illinois injury attorney Antonio M. Romanucci, who is representing the family, said aluminum bats put young athletes in harm's way:

Say I am talking about baseball, and different leagues in different countries and I'm comparing and contrasting various types of equipment used in those leagues (aluminum bats in college, only wood in the pros, etc.) and the topic of baseball size comes up, and it's noted that the baseballs in Japan are smaller than the balls used in Major League Baseball.

The NCAA also decided to conduct tests on both wood and aluminum bats using the Baum Hitting Machine (BHM) at an independent lab in Lowell, Mass..

New York City passed such a ban and he claims the use of aluminum bats has been controversial for some time.

Freshman Outfielder Kevin McReynolds, swinging a 36» aluminum bat (Pete Rose uses a 35» bat, Rod Carew, a 34 1/2»), was merely hitting.714 going into the final.

In six of their nine tournament victories, they had to fight from behind, swinging their aluminum bats with wicked effect.

One American League hitting coach agrees: «Instead of aluminum bats we have aluminum balls.»

With these safety concerns — not to mention outrageous scores — in mind, the rules committee and others have been pushing for a «woodlike» standard to slow the speeds of balls coming off aluminum bats (Scorecard, Jan. 12, 1998, et seq.).

And why were aluminum bats that can hit the ball much faster than 97 mph okayed for use this season?

Outfielder Dave Henderson was swinging an aluminum bat one day this spring.

Nearly a decade ago, baseball equipment manufacturer Marucci Sports put a vibration damper inside its aluminum bats to eliminate the pain, but the technology was not working as well as hoped, so the company recruited Russell.

You'll need to call to schedule this pick - up and tell the hauler what you have — bulky waste pick - up usually accepts miscellaneous scrap (e.g., ironing boards, aluminum bats, silverware) as well as large scrap (e.g., appliances and electronics).

In 2009, for example, a Montana jury awarded $ 850,000 to the family of a pitcher who was struck and killed by a ball struck by an aluminum bat made by defendant Hillerich & Bradsby Co., the manufacturer of Louisville Slugger bats.

The maker of Louisville Sluggers has had a run of bad days in court, paying $ 850,000 to a boy who was killed by a ball hit by one of its aluminum bats, and settling for $ 14.5 million with one who was injured.

A Chicago Tribune article about the lawsuit noted that a Montana jury awarded $ 850,000 in 2009 to the family of a youth league pitcher who was struck and killed by a line drive hit off an aluminum bat.