Sentences with phrase «of batting practice»

Finally, the minigames Star Slam Heroes and Chop Champs are extremely quick bouts of batting practice and tree - cutting, respectively, and didn't really feel engaging past a single round.

«You don't learn to play baseball by a year of batting practice,» he says, but in learning math, for instance, students are all too often presented with prescribed problems with only one right solution and no clear indication how they connect with the real world.

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SAN DIEGO, CA - JULY 12: American League All - Star Josh Donaldson # 20 of the Toronto Blue Jays looks on during batting practice prior to the 87th MLB All - Star Game at PETCO Park

It was implicit in our discussion in the previous section that practices are patterns of activity that are governed by rule - like regularities: thus the judiciary, the making of western music on the piano, and batting a baseball are all rule - governed activities and hence are practices.

While most of our family and friends prefer to arrive just before the first pitch, Dad and I love getting to the ballpark as early as possible to watch batting practice.

One of them (two if you count his show of force in batting practice before the event) even managed to ping off the roof as if he were hitting balls at his local indoor batting cage.

Hernandez, whose family is one of thousands in Puerto Rico affected by the devastation of Hurricane Maria, exchanged text messages with his mother before taking batting practice for Game 5 of the NLCS.

Desmond enlisted outfield coach Jayce Tingler to run him through as many as three one - on - one tutorials a day, and spent his new club's batting practice sessions power shagging — he'd field each ball at full speed instead of lazily snagging them, as most outfielders do.

Onetime kid whiz Joe Nuxhall is the radio voice of the Cincinnati Reds, but he still pitches batting practice to prove that, though he may have retired, he didn't quit

No guarantee that is tapped, of course, but exit velocity, batting practice displays, and his second half performance — .892 OPS, 7 of his 10 homers and a.506 slugging percentage — all indicate that it's a decent possibility.

Granted some guys look better when they're pitching batting practice behind a screen than they do in a game, but these are some of the best young arms I've ever seen.»

15 - year - old Vladimir Guerrero Jr., the son of former MLBer Vlad Guerrero, recently took batting practice in front of Blue Jays, Yankees and Angels scouts in the Dominican Republic.

During Austin's half of the first inning, each Maroons hitter returned to the dugout with the same verdict: Holguin was «just a good batting - practice pitcher,» as one told his coach, according to the Austin American - Statesman.

Finally someone put a stop to this mockery of the very idea of «batting practice» and a new pitcher was found, one who wasn't the greatest left - handed hurler of all time.

One of my favorite baseball stories goes like this... In 1977 or»78 or»81 — one of the years the Dodgers were in the World Series — Sandy Koufax was throwing batting practice to the Dodger hitters before a game.

THE FOUR members of a Japanese camera crew chronicling Kazuo Matsui's every move made their customary bows to the Colorado Rockies» second baseman as he headed to batting practice at Coors Field last Saturday evening.

Most professional, college, and high school coaches feel that live batting practice is the most productive and beneficial type of hitting training.

«I'll never know why, at the single worst possible moment, I missed a fly ball I've caught thousands of times in batting practice,» Brown says.

A jammed thumb has forced the American League's MVP to miss batting practice the past four days, and there is a bridled restlessness about him, like that of a heavy smoker in his third day of trying to kick the nic.

Who paid for the bus on top of the food, drinks, photo - op, autographs and batting practice, too?

When Bolte worked in such a practice, he was horrified to find that the HMO actually generated «batting averages» — the average number of patients seen per hour by each physician — which the manager posted in a back office.

In Butler's experiment, students engaged either in rereading or in retrieval practice after reading a text that pertained to one «knowledge domain» — in this case, bats» use of sound waves to find their way around.

Practicing with a heavier bat significantly slows down the velocity of the bat head — depriving the batter of slugging power, exercise researchers at California State University, Fullerton, say.

For the study the researchers recruited 19 recreation league baseball players (all men) and had them take five practice swings with bats of different weights: a light bat, weighing just 9.6 ounces; a standard - weight bat (31.5 ounces); and a heavy warm - up bat (55.2 ounces).

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.

Best of all I can throw batting practice to my kids with no pain in my shoulder.

All it takes is a little courage and some practice to increase your batting average and knock it out of the park with someone special.

There is no batting practice mode like in High Heat, or a bunch of unlockable cheats like in All Star Baseball.

They've been practicing their batting without developing a sense of the whole math game.

First, I will say that as a former person in charge of teacher preparation in the state of New York that the portions of this report that talk about the importance of alignment, of the higher education system and the P12 system, and really understanding the ways in which we're providing opportunities for teacher candidates to have longer residencies and we're thinking about ways in which teacher candidates are participating in coursework and practice, experiences that allow them to really apply what they're learning in ways that they're getting more at bats and they're becoming more confident and they're entering the system with a set of skills that are gonna help close those gaps and help those secondary students be successful is important.

(5) For a collector, BAT, or STT, a pattern or practice of «fatal flaws» or other significant uncorrected errors in the collection process;

(4) For collectors, BATs, or STTs, a pattern or practice of using forms, testing equipment, or collection kits that do not meet the standards in this part;

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.

If you can actually make this practice to use Ctrl - space in all the right places part of your general writing habit, all the better, you will be properly prepared right off the bat, and you will make the life of your eBook formatter a whole lot easier.

So after law school, and $ 200,000 of student loan debt later I find myself trying to pass the nys bar exam while working full time because I cant afford not to work and just study because my loan bills are absurdly high, and once I do get my license to practice law then I wont find a high enough paying job right off the bat for these debts.

Plastic practice golf balls are great to slowly roll across the floor, your cat will chase and bat them around having all sorts of fun.

They take hundreds and hundreds of pitches in batting practice so when they get in the game, they have confidence and muscle memory to hit the ball.

How about a friendly game of Mahjong or practice your batting skills?

The demo of it looks simple enough, with Bats decking the practice - dummy Superman before him, but my timing?

Baseball plays as you'd expect a baseball game to play, and the level of depth that went into pitching and batting will definitely be appreciated by players willing to stick with it and practice — but for this guy, I just could not get the hitting down and was continually whooped by the AI, even on the easiest Cup.

Seven game modes allow customization of dozens of player preferences and include exhibition games, season, career, home run derby, playoffs, and pitching and batting practice.

So ready yourself to enter the world Bats, Blood and loss of control (I struggled with the last one) and practice your Count from Sesame Street impression as this game is sure to take over your life.

The final game consists of three Piranha Plants shooting balls to you like the world's most intimidating batting practice.

Washington, D.C., — The U.S. wind energy industry announced, on the eve of National Wildlife Day, a best management practice establishing a new voluntary operating protocol, which is expected to reduce impacts to bats from operating wind turbines by as much as 30 percent.

Heritage is committed to minimizing the impact of our activities on bird and bat populations by properly planning and siting our wind farms, conducting preconstruction use surveys and post-construction mortality surveys, using only state of the art technology and design, utilizing effective best management practices, and implementing adaptive management.

I believe that Brett Lane and Associates of Melbourne wrote the wind industry's «best practice» guidelines on bat and bird monitoring.

This is demonstrated by the inclusion of bats not otherwise protected under federal law in the recommended siting practices outlined in the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's «Land - based Wind Energy Guidelines,» which are broadly supported by the wind energy industry These guidelines include information on pre - and post-construction studies and analysis related to bats.

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.

Depending on your area of practice, you might feel differently, but I think it is better off starting with Fastcase rather than getting yourself into a lengthy and expensive contract with Westlaw or Lexis right off the bat.

NOW: While no one bats a thousand, my practice now regularly hits it out of the park.