I think of this award as being what we call 'The Year of the Complete Ballplayer,' ... The player that has done the most not only for his team, but has done most to help his team win baseball games. Not only for home runs, runs batted in and batting average, but also in the clubhouse.
Quotes about batted (16 Quotes)
It's one of the great enduring absurdities of baseball As much as the game is ruled by numbers and endlessly deconstructed by statisticians, most ball clubs don't have any reliable method for determining how far a batted ball has traveled once it leaves the field of play. When they aren't making crude geometric calculations on scratch paper or just purely guessing, team officials rely on survey diagrams that are nearly 20 years old or even send out members of the grounds crew to clamber around the outfield with spools of measuring tape. Accuracy has become such a problem that some teams have stopped trying to estimate distances entirely. There are so many variables, ... These numbers mean nothing when they're announced.
We batted him eighth most of the time and it isn't easy heading ahead of the pitcher. I see him batting higher in the order, somewhere in the middle, and we're talking about a young kid (23).
If I'd just tried for them dinky singles I could've batted around .600.
The difference between winning nineteen games and winning twenty for a pitcher is bigger than anyone out of baseball realizes. It's the same for hitters - someone who hits .300 looks back on the guy who batted .295 and says 'tough luck buddy.
It's an unpatriotic thing to say, but I honestly believe if South Africa won the toss and batted first, you wouldn't have seen all these records fall.
But England have not achieved greatness yet, nor Australia not lost this test of character. I think we have come though pretty well in tough situations, ... We batted against the wall and made 379.
Their situation is like cell phones. Studies have been batted back and forth for years. But there's no definitive scientific evidence that would demand concern.
According to medical experts, it looked at some point as if these animals were literally batted back and forth with the shovels between the two young men,
I told Felipe I don't care where I bat, first, third or fifth. I batted lower in the order last year and I'm cool with it. If I hit ahead of Barry, I'll see more fastballs.
He deserves credit for the way in which he batted in Australia and he has now cemented his place.
Right from early on I felt pretty much in control but I might have got a bit tired not having batted for a long time for a while.
He was, like, a 160-pound shortstop. Our junior year he batted second and I was lead-off. He didn't drink. He wasn't up to running around to the bars that we used to do, which is OK. He hung around the weight room a lot. He really got upper-body thick.
Sun currently enjoys no competition regarding Java, and fiercely fights against any attempt to 'open' Java to any and all comers. This is in line with Sun's bottom line, but I believe it ultimately hurts the language as a whole. The J Consortium (as with any other Java-centric collection of corporate efforts) will ultimately lead to Java's benefit, as new ideas are introduced, batted around, and ultimately accepted or rejected by the community at large,
We had a few communication mix ups and it cost us. Two of our first three wickets were run outs and we were on the back foot for most of our innings. Sri Lanka played a very good game though - they batted well and put us under pressure.
The score they (Australia) put on the board was a good total and they put a lot of pressure on us when we batted,