Sentences with phrase «swings a bat with»

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.

All of them swing the bat with only one hand.

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.

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.

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).

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.

But they never even mention the fact that the hitter is standing there with a bat in his hand, and not just to swing it, either.

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).....

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.

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.

Was hit on the same hand on a back swing yesterday, then takes a pitch to that hand, then gets hit with the bat again to said hand and hurdle still leaves him in?!?! Christ.

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

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.

My first swings are with the legal bat I own.

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.

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.

In a straight light and just a regular throw it wouldn't be seen, but with something with as much torque as batting those injuries could have healed differently than what he was and changed everything in his swing.

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 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.

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

The heavy bat practice group averaged 77.2 kilometers per hour with their real swings — not as quick as the other two groups.

During warm ups, players swung fastest with the light and standard bats, averaging 101.4 and 82.1 kilometers per hour, respectively.

After resting for 30 seconds, players then took five «real» swings with the standard - weight bat.

With the heavy bat, you're training yourself to swing more slowly.»

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).

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

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.

«It's the difference between taking a practice swing with a bat and actually hitting a baseball.

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.

What a flurry with which to come out swinging right off the bat.

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.

It would be cool to say yes, but I don't think I've swung a bat for more than a minute since the casual games I used to play with my own kids when they were growing up.

Chatting up a few passersby reveals that major happenings this weekend include the «Naughty in N'awlins» swingers convention and a Pamplona - style running of the bulls, except instead of bulls there are Roller Derby girls chasing the runners with Wiffle Ball bats.

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.

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.

Grab a baseball bat and combine it with nails to make a deadly swinging weapon, however deadly weapons are not the only things that can be forged.

The baseball bat - wielding American boy is back to knock you off screen with his unique mix of magic and home run swings.

Make a full swing with a fast batting - speed!

Flick your finger with the same feeling in which you would swing a bat in real life.

The 90's have returned with a vengeance, swinging that metal bat harder than ever before.

Those initially long, frustrating swings eventually sink in and feel more like weighty strikes with a great metal bat — couple that with the fact that pretty much solve the problem of online connections for most players and you really can not argue with the clever innovation Ubisoft is showing here.

Batting consists of watching for the trajectory of the pitch and swinging with perfect timing.

The zone analog batting option combines the analog controls by using the right analog stick for the stride and swing with the left stick controlling where the swing will be.

«While they say a resume and profile get you a chance to swing the bat, it felt like my work with Donna got me to second base before even walking in the door!