Sentences with phrase «swing at the batting»

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

As in previous installments, you can partake in some awkward karaoke, or spend some time sharpening your swing at the batting cages.

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.

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.

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.

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.

At any point during the streak, a hitter could have swung at a pitch above his eyes, reached on a dribbler to third, advanced on a fielder's choice, and scored on a broken - bat looper just over the first basemaAt any point during the streak, a hitter could have swung at a pitch above his eyes, reached on a dribbler to third, advanced on a fielder's choice, and scored on a broken - bat looper just over the first basemaat a pitch above his eyes, reached on a dribbler to third, advanced on a fielder's choice, and scored on a broken - bat looper just over the first baseman.

It worked this time, as Keuchel got Judge to swing at a 3 - 2 slider that dropped well under his bat.

Alderson had peddled reserve outfielder Felix (the Other) Jose, who had been filling in for the injured Henderson, and two more minor leaguers to St. Louis for centerfielder McGee, whose.335 average with the Cardinals may well be good enough to win the National League batting race — at just about the time McGee swings into the American League Championship Series.

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.

Forget Gattis's home runs, slugging percentage (through Sunday it was.593, fourth highest in the National League among players with at least 150 plate appearances) and the 6» 4», 235 - pound frame and compact, batting gloveless righthanded swing that exude old school strength.

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.

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

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.

The Acuna I watched had four terrible at bats which featured zero solid contact and a few ugly swings and misses, including being badly fooled with breaking stuff.

Valdes then took it to the next level when he picked up a bat and swung it at Alvarez's head, coming inches from hitting his head.

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.

Swung Away Monica Seles, during batting practice at Yankee Stadium last Friday.

Hatcher helped Erstad simplify his swing and got him to wave the bat below his waist before the pitcher delivers, which keeps him from tensing at the plate.

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.

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.

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..

Then, in his first at bat against the Boston Red Sox, his principal antagonists, he whistled a vicious 408 - foot line drive off the centerfield wall with a swing he estimates required «50 - to 60 - percent» effort.

Senior third baseman Brooks Day has swung a hot bat and Carlson has been clutch at the plate as well, including a walk - off double in a first - round victory over Vacaville.

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?

Shohei Ohtani hit a sharp groundout in his first at - bat and struck out swinging on an inside - corner changeup his next time up.

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.

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.

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.

Imagine standing at home plate with your body rigid, trying to swing a bat at a baseball with just your arms.

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.

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.

If that central issue of the picture lies fallow until an ill - fated recital (set up by ill - used, slapstick laughing - stock Christian cellist Graham Claydon (Tom Hollander)-RRB- ends with a few wild swings of a nail - studded bat, at least it's introduced as an elephant in a room full of people in that darkened theatre clucking at how adorable and somehow inspirational it is that a hobo is a world - class cellist.

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.

A handful of these ideas at the right times only requires you swinging the bat a few times a year.

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).

In general, cats love to swat and bat at things that they see swinging around, especially when they are younger.

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.

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.

Then at the same time (or have DK hit it a little bit before) have Ness swing the bat and DK use the B on the bag.

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.

Batting cages are also in place at Redstone Park, and only costs one dollar to practice swinging.

Every day and at every game, if they want to succeed they all have to go to bat and take a swing.