Sentences with phrase «swung a bat for»

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.

Not exact matches

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.

The decision is final for four years and those losing voters get to swing the bat again.

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...

His free - swinging bat and Emanski - approved glove make for an eminently watchable player.

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.

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

Edgar Martinez will tell you differently, that the swing that once atomized raindrops and cast bottle caps toward distant palm trees is not precisely the same swing that last year earned him a second American League batting title and carried the Seattle Mariners deep into October for the first time.

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

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.

Take some practice swings in the batting cages and stop off for a postgame meal in the Stadium Club restaurant.

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..

Think about the power needed to jump high for a dunk in basketball, to swing a baseball bat, to increase agility & sprint speed, to accelerate mid-sprint to catch up to someone in soccer, to hit someone as hard as possible in football, to shoot from the hips in wrestling, to swing a racket or golf club, and the list could go on and on.

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.

In the 400 milliseconds it takes a professionally thrown fastball to reach the plate, the batter has to budget time for locating the baseball, identifying its spin, deciding whether and where to swing, and actually whipping the bat around to the right spot.

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

This 5 minutes of the disc completely blew away ALL of the swing drills I ever did for hip strength for developing power in my bat swing when I was younger and playing baseball.

This works through a mechanism called post-activation potentiation, a neuromuscular phenomenon in which strength and power output is immediately enhanced after heavy resistance exercise.1 Basically, by performing a more intense activity first (the very heavy set), you summon more total muscle fibers into play for the work sets ahead, like a baseball player swinging a weighted bat before stepping up to the plate.

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

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.

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.

Swinging your arm like a golf club or bat in Wii Sports is fun for a little while, but after the newness of the gameplay wears off, it's just a restrictive, repetetive set of games that gets boring.

SWERY: For example, when you swing a baseball bat, you need to grab the back of the character's hand and drag it to his shoulder.

The cricket bat is a solid weapon for smashing in zombie brains, but some zombies are tougher than others, and it takes more swings to do them in.

Pippin Barr goes «Strolling in the Zen Game Garden» and is inspired to consider strolling casually through video games more often: «What would it feel like to play Baseball Stars for the NES and to think about the smooth swing of the bat, the greenness of the field, the beauty in the curve of a pixellated pitch?

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.

For the three of you out there who do not know what I'm talking about, playing games on the Wii, like tennis or baseball, involves swinging the controller like a racket or a bat, and sometimes people lose their grip on the controller.

It's like a Wii controller that can be used interactively for apps and games — swing a bat or steer an airship.