Word: batterics
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...third baseman Phil Mathias slammed a solid single to center field, and Ward walked the next batter. Yale short-stop Phil Schiffino, who had struck out in his first two plate appearances, then spanked a double to right center field, scoring Mathias. MacKenzie, who had also struck out twice, laced another double down the right field line, scoring two more runs...
Yale picked up their final two tallies in the eighth inning. With one out, Eli center fielder Ray Lamontagne laid a perfect bunt down the third base line. The next batter, Ray Guidotti, walked, and a double steal put men on second and third. After the following batter struck out, Mathias singled to center, tallying both runners. When Ward hit Ray Walker, coach Norm Shepard relieved him with Kon Rossano, who struck out Schiffino to end the frame...
...next batter, Bill Cleary, hit a high bouncing grounder over MacKenzie's head, but was nipped by a stride at first...
Beauty and Power. When fight time came. Rocky showed that he needed no help from either ring or rackets. With rough-and-tumble power, as clumsy as any champion since Camera, he took 8 rounds and 54 seconds to batter Cockell senseless. Then the British writers, who once upon a time were renowned for understatement, really turned it on. Their champion, taking a savage beating, had indeed met defeat like a true Briton. "And that is why the high and the mighty, the men with power, the women with beauty and vast possessions are rising in a kind of primeval...
Airtight Case. In Reno, acting as his own attorney, Ex-Convict Thomas Mitchell argued successfully in district court that he was obviously not the man who tried to batter open an automobile-agency safe, because an old pro like himself could have done the job neatly and quietly in 20 minutes...