Sentences with phrase «to swing the bat»

Sometimes it's swinging a bat at flying fluorescent lights.

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

The most likely outcome of swinging the bat will be a single — or perhaps a double.

You'll be thrown into the deep end immediately and swinging your bat before you know it.

You can't hit the ball without swinging the bat.

Children love to practice swinging the bat — teach them to go behind screen or off to the side and swing by themselves.

If you want to swing a bat faster you need more horsepower.

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

Don't swing that bat in the house!»

Outfielder Gary Geiger, Cleveland's draft choice, runs well, fields beautifully, throws hard and swings a bat with grace and power.

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.

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

Don't swing the bat in the house!»

Summers sees himself walking in the near future, and maybe even swinging a bat again.

Forward Smash, I believe, just the fact Ness swings a bat & Lucas swings a stick.

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.

What you'll inevitably see is once person who hates their life (and who is living in their parent's basement), and one person who has swung the bat countless times and connected with the ball often.]

«You can't throw the ball hard enough to get it past someone swinging those bats,» Duncan says.

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

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.

Then Milt Pappas, the Baltimore pitcher, threw to the plate, Mickey Mantle swung his bat and suddenly the Yankees» troubles were no more.

Musial in a Cardinal uniform, swinging a bat under a blue sky on a June afternoon, was one thing.

And so did Pittsburgh's Pirates when Bill Mazeroski swung his bat and hit the ball over Forbes Field's distant left field wall.

Freddy Avis of Menlo School is a two - way player (SS / RHP), and in addition to being one of the top high school right - handed pitchers in the nation, he can also really swing the bat.

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.

I can remember watching the baseball player Ichiro Suzuki swing the bat one day.

The muscle fibers that you activate while swinging a bat, are the same one uses to perform many Olympic lifts.

As previously mentioned, such activities include swinging a bat or club, tennis, or using tools like a screwdriver, wrench and shovel.

When swinging the bat, if you want to maximize your power, you have to have serious forearm strength to turn the bat.

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.

When hitting, the A button will make your player swing the bat, and B sees them play a bunt.

The in - game strategy guide communicates plenty of information, but none of it is really integrated into the game's Practice Mode, where helping players have a deeper understanding of about when they should throw balls vs. strikes, swing a bat vs. wait for another pitch, or throw to one base vs. another would go a long way.

Christian: And you could actually swing the bat.

It is not evil to swing the bat with all your force to protect your dear wife but I do believe it may be evil to stand by and watch her be harmed when you are in a position to stop an evil act.

Swinging the bat as Phillies pitcher Roy Halladay, for instance, doesn't provide the same experience as knocking a ball out of the park as batter Hunter Pence.

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).

The Panthers responded to the report saying that only Marcus Ball, a practice squad player, was swinging a bat before the game, according to Adam Schefter.

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

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

On that topic, Albany whiffed — in fact, it never even swung the bat.

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

He wrote as naturally as Ted Williams (one of his heroes) swung a bat.

And S * e * x * u * a * l desires are one of the hardest sins to overcome, no matter which way you swing the bat, so to speak.

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