Sentences with phrase «n't swing the bat»

Don't swing that bat in the house!»

Not exact matches

In The Circle, Eggers doesn't so much take his best swing at technology as ignore its pitches entirely and chase after it with his bat.

But the promise of the new rules is that entrepreneurs like Regina, who don't live in charmed places like Menlo Park and Manhattan, or have friends at Facebook, now have more alternatives, more potential swings of the bat.

But they never even mention the fact that the hitter is standing there with a bat in his hand, and not just to swing it, either.

Williams took extra batting practice but was told not to swing the bat.

If Gausman and Bundy can be reliable pitchers, if Cashner doesn't regress, if Cobb can pitch a sub - 4.00 ERA with half his games in hitter - friendly Camden Yards, if Tillman can have a huge comeback year, if the bullpen continues to be strong, if Brach can be a solid closer until Britton's return, if Davis and Trumbo can find their batting stroke again, if Mancini and Schoop replicate last season, if Manny continues to be Manny at short and with his improved swing, if Adam is still Adam, if Beckham can learn to play defense at 3rd and be August - Beckham instead of September - Beckham at the plate, if the catchers can somehow do their part, and if the O's figure out their right field situation (and all of that put together is one big IF).....

«You can't throw the ball hard enough to get it past someone swinging those bats,» Duncan says.

There was a lot of talk this spring about Heyward having a new swing that should heal what ailed him, and it did, sort of: now he has just an 84 OPS + instead of being even worse, but that's still a below - replacement bat that even his defense can't save, especially not at $ 28 million.

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

If Wade wasn't swinging for the fences every at bat, maybe he would get more hits.

«He still swings the bat well,» Raines says, «but he doesn't get any hip spin.»

Sometimes it's a speedy, disruptive player who can't get on base, or a huge batting - practice legend whose 500 - foot home runs are as legendary as his swings on 55 - foot curveballs.

Yasiel Puig seemed genuinely shocked that the bat broke in his hands on a check swing and I don't think this has ever happened before.

Edgar Martinez will tell you differently, that the swing that once atomized raindrops and cast bottle caps toward distant palm trees is not precisely the same swing that last year earned him a second American League batting title and carried the Seattle Mariners deep into October for the first time.

You can't hit the ball without swinging the bat.

It was a quick two - shot swing, but not many batted an eye.

Some of them were strong kids who didn't even play baseball in high school, but the team felt, well, maybe they don't want to get concussions, and they're certainly strong enough to swing a bat hard.

I know some baseball people would say that they don't want a hitter to change his swing, but my gawd that seems ridiculous when teams are gifting you hits if you can just display a basic amount of bat control...

The desire to swing juiced bats is not going away.

Ryan Braun's been swinging the bat very well as of late, but on Saturday, he accidentally crushed something that wasn't a...

In a straight light and just a regular throw it wouldn't be seen, but with something with as much torque as batting those injuries could have healed differently than what he was and changed everything in his swing.

Puig clearly had no intention of swinging until he had to in this at - bat, as he just watched the 3 - 0 go by while basically stretching at the plate instead of even looking at what was coming, and did some random leg kick because why not?

And last, Rosicky's «foul» that directly led to the final goal was nothing more than a tap, and Barton dropped like he'd been hit in the back of the head with a cricket bat swung by Vinnie Jones in a bad movie — it wasn't even good acting.

NYPD Commissioner James O'Neill isn't backing down after he said a police officer «failed» when he fatally shot to death a mentally ill woman who was swinging a bat.

If the Obama team strikes out, why not give the lady from Alaska a few swings at bat to show what she can do.

The GOP nominee, who had repeatedly said his call to take a «baseball bat to Albany» was «a metaphor,» produced an orange - red bat and took pretend swings, warning Cuomo to listen to the voters and said, «Make no mistake, you have not heard the last of Carl Paladino.»

We learn to play baseball, for instance, not by flailing a bat at fastballs until we hit one but via education: We are shown how to knock Wiffle balls off a tee and then to swing at easy lofts until we're ready for a real pitch.

With Major League Baseball's All - Star game taking place tonight, a researcher explains why, when it comes to swinging a baseball bat, heavier isn't necessarily better

The heavy bat practice group averaged 77.2 kilometers per hour with their real swings — not as quick as the other two groups.

However, while I can't quote you any studies, when you're talking about neuromotor skill development (catching a ball, swinging a bat) it's better to dramatically increase the frequency of practices while keeping the duration of each practice minimal: e.g. 15 5 - minute practices per day.

McCutchen did not leave the game right away, toughing out two more at - bats after rolling his wrist, but you could tell that it was seriously bothering him as he swung the bat due to the pain etched on his face.

No, I didn't really delve into all the books like I had earlier in the decade, but I certainly became much more interested in Bats himself and I picked up quite a few comic anthologies to get me back into the swing of things.

The man carries and swings around a baseball bat, and won't give it up, no matter how many people try to take it from him.

It would be cool to say yes, but I don't think I've swung a bat for more than a minute since the casual games I used to play with my own kids when they were growing up.

Next time, swing the bat, not the ugly stick, and you'll be fine.

Just because you can swing a baseball bat and hit a baseball doesn't mean you can play in the Majors, and after spending almost a half hour browsing through App World looking at the PlayBook apps, I'd be stretching it if I said there was more than three apps that I think I'd want to download.

What matters is not how often you swing the bat, but how often you reach the bases.»

Or you're fleeing from three zombies and you don't see the two in front of you, which them turn into three more on the right, and suddenly you're too tired to swing the baseball bat or dodge the bite, and now the three you were running from have caught up to you.

Shooting isn't always the best course of action either, as noise attracts other members of the undead that are stumbling around within close proximity and, if at all possible, it's often in your best interest to take care of them individually, by viciously and repeatedly swinging a cricket bat into their already decomposed craniums.

Well, you can't get much simpler than Bounce Rescue, as other than navigating a lovely little blob from one end of a level to the other, making your way past a few enemies, actioning the odd jump and fighting back with the swing of your baseball bat, there is very little else to worry about.

Grab a baseball bat and combine it with nails to make a deadly swinging weapon, however deadly weapons are not the only things that can be forged.

And while we shouldn't feel too under fire, look at the bats that get swung at footballers or the current open - season on Hollywood's ethics, it's always good to see a more positive outlook on gaming from the mainstream media.

Those initially long, frustrating swings eventually sink in and feel more like weighty strikes with a great metal bat — couple that with the fact that pretty much solve the problem of online connections for most players and you really can not argue with the clever innovation Ubisoft is showing here.

Additional features include: · Realistic simulation and physics: Don't be fooled by the light - hearted / comical presentation; the fundamentals of the sport of baseball are well represented · Up - to four player local co-op play: In addition to solo play, there's head - to - head, 2v1, 2v2 and co-op against the CPU · Ultra responsive and blazing fast gameplay: Controls are easy to learn, but players will need to master jumping, diving, wall - catches, power - swings and cut - off plays to properly dominate friends · Full batting and pitching statistics: Comprehensive baseball statistics that ballplayers can use to show off their MVP - quality skills

Batting stance looks OK — but I don't know the swing.

But if we try choking them out right at the very beginning, we only have one swing of the bat,» he says, adding he doesn't know another firm — at least in the Hamilton / Burlington market — that does it.

For the three of you out there who do not know what I'm talking about, playing games on the Wii, like tennis or baseball, involves swinging the controller like a racket or a bat, and sometimes people lose their grip on the controller.

It's not about my batting average — it's about getting up again and swinging every day.