Sentences with phrase «of swinging the bat»

Instead of swinging his bat at every ball he would patiently wait for the right one, a ball which is well inside his circle of competence (remember those perfectly executed cover drives).

All of them swing the bat with only one hand.

The most likely outcome of swinging the bat will be a single — or perhaps a double.

Not exact matches

Investments in technology have also been made at the league and franchise level - virtual reality, in - game wearable tech (the Motus Baseball Sleeve measuring stress on elbows and the Zephyr Bioharness monitoring heart and breathing rates) and the recent announcement of Blast Motion as the official «bat sensor technology» analyzing swings.

At least then we would be living with a swing and a miss instead of having watched a strike go by with the bat on our shoulder.

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.

The entire point of venture investing is to hit grand slams, and that calls for more swings of the bat.

By all means take a swing at «Panama vs. Costa Rica» — but be ready to trade the bat for a magnifying glass as soon as you figure out exactly what kind of weather, scenery, population, infrastructure, cost of living, and real estate prices make up your ideal location.

He wrote as naturally as Ted Williams (one of his heroes) swung a bat.

And S * e * x * u * a * l desires are one of the hardest sins to overcome, no matter which way you swing the bat, so to speak.

The giants swing their triple arms or poise, frozen like hazmat signs, on every hill: alien prayer wheels of unending noise or monuments to birds and bats they kill; Shivas, whose dance preserves us and destroys a landscape that no longer can stand still.

Some things I have always done as though I were right - handed, without giving them another thought (swinging anything two - handed, like a bat or an axe); other things are merely annoying because the world seems to be made with righties in mind (like blackening the heel of my hand with ink or graphite as I write).

A firm believer in early training («Kids are the best learners there are, and the older they get, the longer it takes to teach them»), Colleen had all the children swimming by the age of 3, swinging golf clubs, tennis rackets and baseball bats by 4, skiing, bike and horseback riding, playing basketball and football ever since they were 5.

The original Reggie went toe - to - toe with his manager, swung the bat as if each time were his last and, what's more, did something that both enraged and delighted fans: He stood at home plate and had the nerve to admire his homers, something akin to making love in front of a mirror.

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).....

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.

These days baseball belongs to the biggest, strongest men ever to have played the game swinging extremely light bats at baseballs that seem harder and livelier while the dimensions of ballparks and the strike zone grow smaller.

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.

He swings a bat in the tunnel of the clubhouse, and he swings one in the entryway of his home.

This conditioning seamlessly translates to success at throwing a ball effectively, swinging a bat, dismounting off of an apparatus, sprinting towards home or defying injury from a hard hit.

The painting depicts a muscular man, dressed only in a baseball cap, swinging a bat in front of a fully uniformed and rather perplexed - looking Little Leaguer.

When Bonds finally unloosed his swing, there was a flash of his bat, and the baseball was gone, 16 rows up in the centerfield bleachers, 438 feet away.

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.

And with one booming swing of Joc Pederson's bat, it's now 6 - 1, Dodgers.

Spithorst was good enough as a sophomore to allow Dylan Carlson to move to the outfield before being drafted in the first round of the Major League Baseball draft by the Cardinals, and continued to anchor the defense at first base while swinging a mighty bat.

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...

Most impressive part of the at - bat: The smooth opposite - field swing that you're going to see until your first ride in a flying car.

There hang portraits of former Dodgers Jackie Robinson and Jim Gilliam as well as a photo from 1965 of the rivalry's most notorious flash point, Giants pitcher Juan Marichal's swinging a bat at the head of Los Angeles catcher Johnny Roseboro, with Dodgers pitcher Sandy Koufax futilely attempting to keep the peace.

When Buggs took the bat out for a few swings, he noticed that the ball went further; the loss of weight and even thinner wall provided both quicker bat speed and more powerful trampolining effect.

Another method — «end - loading» — adds extra weight towards the top of the bat to increase torque, like swinging a hammer.

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

Based on the athleticism of this group I think they will have no problem with Flag Football in the coming weeks... Their season will come down to how they swing the bats..

The game went back and forth throughout the early stages and with one swing of the bat Anthony «Twan» Maione put Team Wilneff up for good.

Team Hakimian was up to bat and a «might - have - been» chop at the plate was ruled a legitimate swing, this kept the inning alive for Mark Reding who came up and hit a 3 - Run HR to open up the lead for Team Hakimian by a score of 6 - 0..

He has great stability, and when he goes to swing his bat, he produces a great amount of force into the ground from these powerful force producers.

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?

As the season begins, some of the sweetest swingers in the history of the game, including a superb youth corps, go to bat

That kid is swinging a bat because of Mike Trout.

Freddy Avis of Menlo School is a two - way player (SS / RHP), and in addition to being one of the top high school right - handed pitchers in the nation, he can also really swing the bat.

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.

The crack of bats, missing baseball caps and dirt - crusted cleats can only mean one thing: Little League season is in full swing.

The problem with the sorts of ideas being batted around at the moment — primarily devolution for the English regions — is that they are at once too concrete and too unsystematic, while also being too «top down», and too vulnerable to short term swings of public opinion.

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.»

When you take this bat out to the field and let it swing, that gap is meant to extend the size of the bat's sweet spot.

This gives just enough time for light signals from the baseball to hit the batter's eye, work through the circuitry of the retina, activate successions of cells along the loopy superhighways of the visual system at the back of the head, cross vast territories to the motor areas, and modify the contraction of the muscles swinging the bat.

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).

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.

Certainly no more than swinging a baseball bat or golf club, and you do that, often with the full explosive power of your entire body, to no ill effect.

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.

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.