Sentences with phrase «early at bats»

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When he died he weighed sixty pounds, the paper says, and I go out of my way to drive by the address where his brother locked him in the closet, wondering at the blue door, the flower boxes, wondering where the fury started, how early and how hidden the first bruise awaking like a bat, dark wings....

Maybe Freeland was pulled a bit too early — but the guy he was pulled for had crushed him in his two previous at bats.

Except Clifton himself fumbled at the MTSU 16, and the ball got batted around a bit before another Arkansas State player fell on it for a touchdown, 98 yards or so from where Middle Tennessee's Tucker maybe caught the ball a few moments earlier.

Kipnis fared better than his teammate, as he laced a single up the middle after swinging through a couple of Chapman fastballs earlier in the at - bat.

In my opinion, taking either of those guys with to Puerto Rico would be done as a human interest story, akin to when the Marlins gave Adam Greenberg an at - bat in 2012 after his career was derailed when he was beaned in the head in his first career plate appearance years earlier.

He's hit.209 /.283 /.293 in 382 at - bats over the last couple years, and those are numbers that help players retire early.

The defense was there for both squads early as each team realized how important it was to not give their opponent any extra at bats.

Shohei Ohtani, fooled by left - handed changeups in earlier at - bats, was really late on a 98 - mph fastball from right - hander Joe Kelly and strikes out for the third time tonight.

So we're getting into the baseball spirit early by heading to the batting cages at SoCal Batting batting cages at SoCal Batting Batting Center.

The tree also provides a baseline to test whether diurnal, or daytime, activity, a common butterfly trait, evolved much earlier than scientists previously believed, possibly at a time when bats» spread across the planet, as a means of escaping these and other nocturnal predators, Kawahara said.

There is some evidence that bats gained the ability to echolocate very early on, although fossils suggest at least one early bat species seems to have lacked the ability.

The researchers compared the wings of the earliest known bat fossil, a 50 - million - year - old specimen housed at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, with those of three other species of extinct bats and 10 species of modern bats.

Ten days earlier, Pittsburgh Pirates hitting coach Don Long was struck in the face by a shard from Pirate's center fielder Nate McLouth's shattered bat during a game at the Dodger's park.

After knocking it out of the park with What We Do in the Shadows earlier this year, Jemaine Clement is back at bat with People, Places, Things.

-- Fern had arrived early for swimming lessons at the YWCA's indoor swimming pool and had watched her brand - new swim teacher, Mrs. Lilliopole, run after a small bat flitting madly over the bleachers.

At ten o'clock on a morning in early June she was sitting in the back seat of her mother's Dodge Caravan, wearing her blue Red Sox batting practice jersey (the one with 36 GORDON on the back) and playing with Mona, her doll.

Evidence of Late - Summer Mating Readiness and Early Sexual Maturation in Migratory Tree - Roosting Bats Found Dead at Wind Turbines Cryan, Paul; Jameson, Joel; Baerwald, Erin; Willis, Craig; Barclay, Robert; Apple Snider, E.; and Crichton, Elizabeth

Take a look at these tweets about BAT from Brian Armstrong from early 2017.

cfm & ContentID = 1252 and of late, along with Mark Otis, was mentioned as a supporter by Richard Warshak («I appreciate the helpful comments from Mark Otis, Andrew Schepard, and John Zervopoulos on an earlier draft») in connection with his anti-ALI time allocation article — Richard A. Warshak (2007) PUNCHING THE PARENTING TIME CLOCK: THE APPROXIMATION RULE, SOCIAL SCIENCE, AND THE BASEBALL BAT KIDS * Family Court Review 45 (4), 600 - 619, available at http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1744-1617.2007.00174.x (Warshak is a Gardnerian derivative parental alienation theorist, author of Divorce Poison: Protecting the Parent - Child Bond from a Vindictive Ex.)