Sentences with phrase «swinging at a baseball»

The issues are inportant no doubt, but for you to ignore the «person» to focus on the issues is like swinging at a baseball with your eyes closed.

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.

Max Scherzer and Stephen Strasburg are must - see pitchers every fifth day, Trea Turner's speed is something to behold, third baseman Anthony Rendon has one of the prettiest swings in baseball, and the Nationals» bullpen is actually fun to watch now with sinker - balling right - hander Brandon Kintzler, hard - throwing righty Ryan Madson, and bearded heat - thrower Sean Doolittle at the back end.

It's why we remember the squirrels on the field, the mitts thrown to first with baseballs in them, and the hitters who swing at a pitchout to protect a hit - and - run.

Michael Cuddyer was hitting cleanup, Wilmer Flores was hitting fifth, and the Mets swung and missed at a lot of baseballs.

Swinging from the heels, and often at each other, Charlie Finley's club became baseball's most entertaining spectacle — and its most forward - looking

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.

Now Cleveland I don't want to tell you how to play baseball, give you're arguably the best team in the game, but maybe stop swinging at splitters that are hitting the ground.

He'd played on a baseball team in Australia, where parents applauded and cooed, «Awwww, bad luck, mate,» whenever a boy or girl on his team swung and missed by a foot — and he'd played on a traveling AAU baseball team in the U.S., where parents stormed the dugout and seethed at coaches for pulling their sons out of games so benchwarmers could have a chance.

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.

Michigan captain Andrew Copp must have played some baseball as a kid because this was a perfect swing at the puck...

Many MLB, collegiate and youth players have trusted Coach Lisle to perfect their swing and he's putting all of his principles, tips, drills and curriculum in one place, The Hitting Vault, and made them available for baseball and softball players at every level.

Take a swing, throw a curveball, steal second, and celebrate baseball at the Red Sox Showcase (Boston)

With 4 little ones, it's easy to get discouraged when I find that my sister - in - law has her kids in soccer and baseball and swimming, and they're camping and doing crafty things, and they're vacationing at all of these wonderful places, while the six of us are at home, playing in our backyard with nothing more than a swing set.

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.

Sometimes we must restrain ourselves to gain a reward (baseball batters can get on base by not swinging at bad pitches) or take action to avoid a penalty (tax cheaters can come forward during amnesties).

In everyday photography, a camera flashbulb can «stop time» at about 1/1, 000 of a second — fast enough to freeze the swing of a baseball batter, if not a speeding fastball.

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

isn't just a phrase baseball coaches holler when their batter has the good sense not to swing at a bad pitch.

It's helpful for walking and standing and great at producing rotational power (the type of force you need to hit a baseball or swing a golf club).

He made «Bull Durham» and «Field of Dreams» back - to - back in the late 80s, took a swing at golf with «Tin Cup» in the mid-90s, and returned to baseball «For the Love of the Game» at the end of that decade.

Yet the junior version conveys the essence of baseball — swinging at and hitting a ball and then making your way around bases while the opposing team scrambles to put you out.

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.

Lethal League intuitively combines fighting and baseball in a unique blend of gameplay as every participating A.I. or human controlled player attempts to appropriately time their swing at the ball and guide it directly back at their opponent until it hits that respective character in order to score a point.

Everyone else should take a swing at the best console baseball game of 1999.

Politics are a metaphor for baseball, McKibben said, because presidents have to field issues that come out of left field and often swing and miss at curveballs when they are expecting fastballs over the middle of the plate.

The Court's attempt to articulate rules governing standard of review is like a baseball coach trying to develop a set of rules for players to use when deciding whether to swing, when the appropriate advice is both simple and incapable of more precise articulation: swing at a strike; don't swing at a ball (or, alternately, swing at a pitch you have the skill to hit, and leave the rest alone).

Say you are at a baseball game and one of the two rear cameras captures a wide shot of the batter, while you assign the second rear camera to zoom in and catch the batter in full swing.

In baseball however the pitcher decides what pitch you have to swing at.