Sentences with phrase «while at bat»

It's like a pitcher getting hit while at bat.

Not exact matches

While Oliver and the federal government play coy and bat their eyelashes at Asia, the United States remains the closest, easiest and most appealing market for Canadian oil.

It's like saying that, while Vlad may have been a pretty bad guy who impaled his enemies by ramming poles up their wazoos, that doesn't mean that we should believe that he could turn into a bat at will and didn't cast reflections in mirrors.

Ralph Green III is enormous and as good as anybody at batting down passes at the line, while end Robert McCray III did manage 5.5 TFLs for himself.

While fans anticipate that a loud crowd will impact the road team, baseball is the only sport where home teams have a tangible advantage (teams constructed to utilize unique ballpark dimensions and last at - bats).

Gabe Krause, who was 4 for 4 while batting and also had a Home Run, led Team Stotter at the dish.

While Baines is batting.285 with 14 homers and 45 RBIs this season, he has hit.333 in 36 lifetime at bats against Roger Clemens and.367 in 49 at - bats against Mike Boddicker.

One afternoon, while recuperating from a fractured thumb, he spent almost an hour taking batting practice at Jarry Park.

Since intentional walks often come in high leverage situations, that brief pause to the game while they throw the four pitches has always got me super pumped for the next at bat and really sold how much of a threat the other team thought the current batter was compared to the next one — making it so much sweeter when the next guy defied the odds and got a hit anyway.

On May 31, in his first at bat after missing more than a year with back and hamstring injuries, Indians rightfielder Juan Gonzalez (left) strained his right hamstring while running out a ground ball and wound up back on the DL.

After coming over from the Giants in the Hunter Pence trade in 2012, Joseph was limited to just a handful at - bats every year (never more than 198) because of concussions sustained while playing behind the plate.

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.

While Norman isn't specified as the player who directed pregame comments at Beckham, the Panthers star cornerback was holding the baseball bat and Stapleton says that Beckham perceived it as a message being sent.

Until this year Bonds had hit one homer in 97 postseason at bats while his team had lost all four of its playoff series.

«With all of my accomplishments as a hitter [he went hitless in his first 57 major league at bats before smashing a double last season], I've done things that no one has done in a while.»

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.

While multiple inquiries to multiple bat manufacturers through multiple methods of communication went unreturned, it should be noted that Easton, at the very least, made it look as if they've tried to put the kibosh on this.

That makes dealing him now that much more difficult, as teams aren't going to want to pay for the Machado who can produce Gold Glove defense while providing one of the best bats at this position when they can argue that he most recently was not that guy — and that on top of not knowing if he's going to be around for only a year before bolting as a free agent.

He used to coach part time at West Los Angeles Little League, pitching batting practice to his son the morning after night games and hitting fungoes while wearing a cast when he broke his right hand.

Puig clearly had no intention of swinging until he had to in this at - bat, as he just watched the 3 - 0 go by while basically stretching at the plate instead of even looking at what was coming, and did some random leg kick because why not?

My girls have their own, however my boys who are 7 head into my office every now and then and bat their eyelashes at me while asking «Can I play with one of your phones / tablets / games?

You can detach the suction base and hang the toy from a baby gym so younger babies can stare at them like a mobile or develop their understanding of cause and effect as they bat at it and activate music while laying on their backs.

She won't be able to hold toys for a while, but she'll demonstrate her preferences by batting at the ones she likes.

While baby still enjoys mouthing and sucking on her hands and feet, she might start interacting in new ways with her toys, such as pushing at those dangling before her, or batting at them.

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.

The researchers used an array of cameras, flashes, and ultrasonic recorders to take snapshots of bats while they swooped down to take a sip at a desert pond in Israel.

Bats top out at 110,000 Hz, while dolphins and porpoises can reportedly detect frequencies at 150,000 Hz.

While looking for her next project, Nasto came upon a study by researchers at Brown University who took high - speed videos of bats drinking nectar from a flower.

At least one species of bat is known to use echolocation to pick up on the ripples created in the pond by the male frogs inflating and deflating their vocal sacs while calling.

While most scientists may agree that Soon's work is nothing to bat an eyelash at, Soon's corporate funders aren't trying to influence scientists - they're trying to influence policymakers, and the people who vote for them.

Currently, you are probably working at too high of an intensity level off the bat and need to drop it back for a while till your respiratory system adjusts.

Models batted doll - like lashes at Altuzarra and Paul & Joe while super clumpy lashes appeared at DSquared2 and Emilio Pucci.

While I would never encourage digging that far back through my blog's archives (please, don't) a simple «hannahlousief fluffy jumper» google search revealed at least five such jumpers straight off the bat.

Alcohol / Drug Use: C Man offered a beer, man asks for cigarette, main character depicted smoking, several other secondary characters also shown smoking and drinking alcohol, athlete drinks beer, men drinking on streets, drunk man laying on the street, man drinking liquor while at work on several occasions, drunken man walks home where he loses his temper and breaks objects with baseball bat.

Laughably over-staged (talky scenes take place at batting cages, below circus trapezes and while jogging) and populated with stereotypes (Fisher Stevens plays a greasy, deceptive record - label scout), the film seems to have made from a My First Movie do - it - yourself kit purchased by the director (a veteran of music videos, and it shows) from a street vendor on Hollywood and Vine.

Some will cry foul at blatant whitewashing that literally talks over Japanese representation, while others won't bat an eye because googly - eyed pug faces can talk.

For example, the drawing of Jackie Robinson's captures the late baseball great at bat in his Brooklyn Dodgers uniform, while that of artist Georgia O'Keefe shows her in the midst of painting one of her trademark flowers in full bloom.

While Huawei is better known as a manufacturer of low cost Smartphones, their Ascend D2 is aimed at the premium top tier, and as you'll see below, they managed to hit a home run with the display the first time at bat — that's also very impressive!

However life on earth started, we continued on until we forgot, time batting us with its paws and leaving the gristled meat of each day at our doorstep, while we headed out into the spinning world.

While Huawei is better known as a manufacturer of low cost smartphones, their Ascend D2 is aimed at the premium top tier, so they managed to hit a home run with the display the first time at bat.

This cat would bat at his mouth while eating.

Some cats like to swat at feathers on the end of a stick, while others like to bat paper balls around.

Then, scratch and poke the sides of the bag while your kitten bats at the movements and noises from the inside.

Some cats enjoy chasing and jumping at the light beams from a small flashlight, while others like to bat at catnip - filled mice.

During a visit on Monday, many of Ella's occupants were taking the proverbial cat nap, while others padded around, batting at toys or rubbing up against visitors.

Some bat at toys while others feel the need to contort themselves into any kind of cardboard box.

Cats can be seen toying with Christmas ornaments or batting at the Christmas tree, while viewers enjoy holiday music from Legacy's Classic Christmas Album series.

Batting at the toy allows him to release energy while feeling like he has successfully captured his prey.

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