Sentences with phrase «movement of the bat»

Not exact matches

This is the essence of Colby Lewis when he's right, an outside fastball with movement that's useless to a hitter in the first pitch of the at - bat.

It was a very busy offseason in terms of player movement with Max Scherzer signing with the Nationals, Jon Lester joining a talented young Cubs roster, Hanley Ramirez and Pablo Sandoval adding to an already potent Red Sox offense and the San Diego Padres making a wealth of moves including the addition of three major bats (Justin Upton, Matt Kemp and Wil Myers) to their outfield.

Although these approaches can effectively analyze the joint kinematics of bat wings in flight, they can not help understand how specific wing movement patterns contribute to a particular flight maneuver of a bat.

A bat ecologist at the University of California, Santa Cruz, Frick uses weather radars to monitor the movements of animals that used to vanish quickly from scientists's view as they took to the night sky for daily or seasonal journeys.

In the wild, the movement of the frog's vocal sacs as they inflate before they croak can be picked up by echolocation, so the bats could use both listening (eavesdropping) and echolocation for hunting.

Small, an expert on the brain imaging of human behavior, uses functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to study how the brain of professional athletes plans complex movements, such as swinging a baseball bat.

Examples of these specific training exercises are hitting a blocking sled, throwing a weighted ball, swinging a weighted bat, and performing sport specific movements with resistance bands.

Buscemi has a gift for finding something funny about anything, whether it's people fighting over lines of cocaine, Tommy climbing a backstop fence to avoid that swinging bat or the laughably doom - ridden atmosphere at Trees Lounge, where aging, regular client Bill (Bronson Dudley) sits statue - like at his regular spot, his only discernible movement to raise liquor to his mouth.

Clooney does a good job of batting his eyes and lowering his head and all those other movements that have endeared him to fans as the sexy doctor on ER.

In humans, the dopamine reward response that promotes pleasure and motivation also requires that they are aware that they solved a problem, figured out a puzzle, correctly answered a challenging question, or achieved the sequence of movements needed to play a song on the piano or swing a baseball bat to hit a home run.

Then, scratch and poke the sides of the bag while your kitten bats at the movements and noises from the inside.

Baseball was doubly frustrating as while the game could detect even the smallest of hand movements while bowling or batting, it struggled to tell when we began running.

Biodiversity Research Institute (BRI) has established a new wildlife and renewable energy program to study and understand the movements of birds and bats and to assess the potential interactions between energy facilities and wildlife.

«This is an exciting opportunity to pilot digital VHF technology for tracking movements of birds and bats at the first offshore wind energy facility in the United States,» Loring said.

«This newest station on the Block Island Wind Farm, coupled with the two stations on Block Island, represents the first attempt anywhere in the world to assess fine - scale movements of birds and bats near an active offshore wind farm,» said Dr. Peter Paton of the University of Rhode Island.