Sentences with phrase «bat balls»

Use your paddle to bat balls into the air.

How many times we seen QBs have ALL DAY to throw & the DL isnt even putting up their hands to bat balls?

He was willfully and deliberately interfering with a fielder in the act of fielding a batted ball with the obvious intent to break up a double play.

If, in the judgment of the umpire, a base runner willfully and deliberately interferes with a batted ball or a fielder in the act of fielding a batted ball with the obvious intent to break up a double play, the ball is dead

(a)(1) He runs more than three feet away from his baseline to avoid being tagged unless his action is to avoid interference with a fielder fielding a batted ball.

He has nobody to play with, but every day he stands in the shadow of the barn, batting balls into the empty chrome skies, and every day his dog, his faithful soft - mouthed yellow mutt, tirelessly retrieves his every grounder, his every pop fly, his every line drive and then, yes, his every epic home run...

Statcast is based on batted ball data and hit probability, so it certainly has as many merits as UZR / 150.

But Lewis found himself grappling with three Steelers, and it was Keith Cash, a third - year backup tight end who had spent his first NFL season with the Steelers, who batted the ball as it came off the foot of punter Mark Royals.

STRONG POINTS: Herb Score appears to have recovered completely from the terrible eye injury he suffered last May when he was hit by a batted ball.

«If, in the judgment of the umpire, a base runner willfully and deliberately interferes with a batted ball with the obvious intent to break up a double play, the ball is dead, the umpire shall call the runner out for interference and also call out the following runner because of the action of his teammate.

But under the rules all he can do is declare the runner out for being hit by a batted ball and put the hitter on first with a single... I hope I'm around when some real belligerent big league manager lets his boys try this dodge.

A home run, though, is far preferable to any other kind of batted ball, on account of the thing where they give you a whole run for it.

All too often, works of sports fiction amount to hyperbolic accounts of rambunctious Texas football teams or overwrought odes to batted balls and tee shots.

A tip and there he is, a batted ball and there he is.

Boggan began batting a ball around the basement table at his family home in Merrick, N.Y. when he was four.

That means that not only will a batted ball travel farther, but also a pitcher with a big 12 - 6 curveball or other big breaking balls will become increasingly more hittable.

On May 2 the Marlins» Eric Ludwick tried to block a batted ball and fractured his throwing arm; he's expected to be out for three months.

Baltimore manager Ray Miller believes that the distance from home plate to the mound is too short in this age of bigger and stronger hitters whose batted balls travel as fast as 110 mph.

Elsewhere, Yankees lefthander Andy Pettitte, who was hit in the face by a batted ball last season, has already been plunked twice this season — on his right knee and right leg.

That sentiment has been echoed by many of his confreres recently, since a barrage of batted balls has pelted pitchers in the opening weeks of this season.

You are terrible at judging the distance of a batted ball.

This means that after a ball is hit, assuming an exit velocity of between 78 and 102 mph, the pitcher has between 0.456 and 0.350 seconds to react to a batted ball.

The ball clearly rebounded off aluminum more quickly, and traveled farther; a subsequent examination into why pointed to the bat's hollow construction, which caused the bat to compress, then spring back, «trampolining» the batted ball upon contact.

That means that not only will a batted ball travel farther, but also that a pitcher with a huge curveball or sweeping slider will become far less effective.

I know that you could give me a good breakdown on the advanced portions of what makes him more valuable than I am seeing — even in terms of batted ball profile and whatnot.

The timer in each round starts when the first pitch is thrown, and a subsequent pitch can't be thrown until the batted ball is caught, ruled a home run, hits the ground, or leaves the field in foul territory.

During stoppage time in Atlanta's 4 - 1 win over Vancouver on Saturday, Brad Guzan collided with Escobar while trying to bat a ball out of the penalty area.

Watch as the baby bats the ball to the side — tests the taste with their tongue and uses their developing grip to move it from their chest and «throw» to the side.

People can also unconsciously detect gender, do simple adding problems when «invisible» numbers are flashed onto the screen, or distinguish between depictions of inappropriate and appropriate actions (for example, discerning between an invisible image of an athlete batting a ball with a baseball bat and an image that has been doctored to show the player swatting at the ball using a flower bouquet).

Shirley MacLaine, at age 82, bats the ball out of the park, and Amanda Seyfreid, along with newcomer AnnJewell Lee Dixon are terrific teammates in a game that changes all for the better.

Nate Granzow: They'd probably see a man hunched over a wood desk too large for the room it's in, a kitschy coffee mug emblazoned with a cat batting a ball of yarn in one hand, fingers of the other kneading the bridge of his nose.

Whereas Halle loves interactive playing, Bonnie will spend long times playing, quite noisily, with toys by herself, batting balls through tunnels, tossing and recapturing her soft toys.

It's a great way to stimulate our pets» innate predatory instincts as they must have lightning - quick reflexes to pounce or even bat the ball off its track.

Use your Wii Remote like a paddle to bat the ball and try to beat the computer or human opponent.

The idea is the short one - liner would enable you to «bat the ball back over the net» and then more detail could be provided in subsequent discussion.

It means that you do not attempt to bat a ball).

On December 9, 2011, another case went against Hillerich & Bradsby when a jury awarded $ 951,000 to the family of Dillon Yeaman, a 15 - year - old pitcher who suffered severe facial injuries when he was struck by a batted ball in a game.

In a post today, Abnormal Use writes that things were beginning to look bleak for H&B following these cases and another high - profile settlement last month in which H&B and other defendants agreed to pay $ 14.5 million to settle a lawsuit filed by a pitcher who was severely injured by a batted ball.

Most recently, a New York appellate court ruled this week that a college baseball pitcher who was struck in the face by a batted ball during batting practice could not sue his school because he assumed the risk of injury.

The holder assumes all risk and danger incidental to the game of baseball, whether occurring prior to, during or subsequent to, the actual playing of the game, including specifically... the danger of being injured by thrown or batted balls, thrown or broken bats.

Not exact matches

Whereas most hitters would send a ball dribbling into the infield on a broken bat, Harper instead lifted his a whopping 406 feet over the wall in right - center at Citifield.

There's an important difference between — a piece of wood and a baseball bat, a ball of yarn and a sweater, and a piece of plastic and a Rubik's Cube.

The 1980's and 1990's will bring plenty of tumult in terms of ownership, as Arabian princes, Primerica, Shearson and others will bat the company around like kittens in a box with a ball of string.

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.

Anyone that doesn't like it can take their bat and ball and get blotted out.

You don't like what He's done, take your bat and ball and go get blotted out for eternity.

In the third deck, a group bats around a beach ball, eventually knocking it to the cheering...

«Managing» relationship is a terrible idea and all those who bring it up must be subjected to 50 whacks with the metaphorical whiffle - ball bat of righteous doom.

Wiffle ball bat and tennis ball.

When your playing a silly game with a bat and ball you bring him out, you thank him when you move a pig skin across a line, you stamp his name on my currency, you tell my children about him in our public schools, you trot him out like a prized pig at a fair anytime something good or bad or even mediocre happens, and even when you stub your toe.