Sentences with phrase «swinging the bat well»

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

He is cheap, can play pretty good D and can swing the bat well enough for a backup.

He's found a home in the outfield and has been swinging the bat well....

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.

If Beyonce swinging her baseball bat, nicknamed Hot Sauce, in the music video for «Hold Up» seemed like a good stress - reliever for you, Lemonade Rage is here to give you...

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.

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.

OUTLOOK Coach Kennedy can depend on several things: Santo, Williams and Banks will swing their bats with the same old effectiveness, Altman will hit better than last year's.230 and Jackson can be relied upon for another good year.

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

maybe it's optimism, but I think that — as hard as he swings / as good as his bat speed is, and as good a feel as he has bat to ball — he'll have power that'll develop.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

To defeat AEPi SO / JR you need to swing the bats very well.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

You wait for the right pitch, swing your bat, and hope for the best.

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).

For example, that bonafide badass soldier you rescued is a crackshot with rifles, played baseball all his life so he can swing a bat real good, and knows his way around a set of tools so he's handy when it comes to building something out of nothing.

The bow whispers, the guns» roar, and the bat makes a meaty swoosh as you swing it around; it's fair to say that the presentation is very good indeed.

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.

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.

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