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"I didn't hit the ball close, I didn't hit the ball well," Woods said.
Escobar hit the ball to the right side, Gentry hit the ball down the line.
"As soon as I hit the ball, I hit the ball well, but not enough," said Ramos, who nearly hit his fourth career grand slam.
When you're seeing the ball well and you hit the ball, if you ask any hitter here, you're expecting to hit the ball hard every time.
The impressive part of what they do is not that they hit the ball 420 feet, it's that they hit the ball 420 feet when facing what should be absolutely insurmountable pitching.
You're trying to hit the ball high, stop it quick.
"Uh, I'm just trying to hit the ball," he said.
All they wanted to do was hit the ball solid.
"I putted great and hit the ball great," Park said.
For a sport that seems so simple — hit the ball, find the ball, hit the ball again — the crazy quilt of rules that govern it can be a turnoff to would-be players or beginners.
" Paige: "We ran a screen for me to hit the ball.
"I don't know how that guy hit the ball," Snitker said.
Just got to hit the ball hard and whatever happens happens.
They hit the ball out of the ballpark, and they're dangerous.
"I'm pretty simple: See the ball, hit the ball," Querrey said.
Everybody will jump high, everybody will hit the ball very strong.
Why do you hit the ball and run to the right?
When you hit the ball into the water, the ball disappears.
"I don't remember liking to hit the ball," Naomi told me.
"So many guys hit the ball so hard today," Wilander said.
And, of course, to hit the ball in the air more.
"Major League hitters hit the ball," Angels manager Mike Scioscia told reporters.
"Roman Quinn had a nice night, hit the ball hard," Mackanin said.
But it's still nice to get out there and hit the ball.
Wendle hit the ball over the 404-foot sign in straightaway center.
You saw how he hit the ball last night, and in Boston.
Nail it and you'll hit the ball with a sweet metallic crack.
I was pretty excited to hit the ball the first two pitches.
And they hit the ball the other way most of the time.
"I felt like I managed where I hit the ball," Clark said.
So, I hit the ball at the left side of the cup.
"I hit the ball and starting running to first base," Villar said.
I think I hit 16 greens, and I hit the ball great.
"Announcer 211: "He doesn't seem to have hit the ball, Announcer 228.
Only four Puerto Rico hitters hit the ball out of the infield.
"It's very difficult to hit the ball like Rory McIlroy," he said.
Cubs outfielder Albert Almora Jr., who hit the ball, appeared distraught moments later.
He threw the ball over the plate and made them hit the ball.
"I don't get shaken up when they hit the ball hard," Faria said.
Barney, now with the Blue Jays, hit the ball that ended Pedroia's streak.
He lost his timing, started to think about how to hit the ball.
"We hit the ball pretty hard today, and they caught it," Collins said.
"When he hit the ball, it was 'stay in "Then the momentary fumble.
He has hit the ball harder, turning more fly balls into home runs.
They were able to hit the ball but luckily they were at people.
I hit the ball well, a lot of fairways, a lot of greens.
So every time I would hit the ball, the dog would retrieve it.
On his second homer, he hit the ball right where it was pitched.
By then, the Rays did not even need to hit the ball hard.
I thought I had a chance to hit the ball and I did.
Unbeknownst to the couple though, Resig had actually asked Murray to hit the ball.
Gordon muscled up and hit the ball into the upper deck in right field.
The bat gives Raptor more reach, letting him hit the ball from further away.
But as a trade-off, Dice can hit the ball at much sharper angles.
All I hear is fathers telling me how far their sons hit the ball.
He hit the ball out of the ballpark from both sides of the plate.
The tiny Korean women on the L.P.G.A. tour can hit the ball 250 yards.
Guys are willing to take their punchouts to hit the ball in the air.
She hit the ball out to give Kerber the only match point she needed.
Wasting little time, he hit the ball cleanly, sending it straight into the hole.
He hit the ball hard, and he's just swinging the bat well right now.
It can help tennis players and golfers to hit the ball with greater accuracy.
But we liked the matchup there for Bird, and Birdie hit the ball hard.
Stanton's approach in all his work is to hit the ball to right field.
While he has struggled on the mound, he continued to hit the ball hard.
So I think, to maximize success, you've gotta hit the ball in the gaps.
I couldn't hit the ball to right field — like, ever — so that was mechanics.
Woods was not part of the action, even though he hit the ball beautifully.
You hit the ball hard and it doesn't necessarily show up in the results.
Doesn't hit the ball long off the tee, but he's straight as an arrow.
"He can hit the ball out of the park in any direction," Francona said.
They hit the ball hard, we made some really good defensive plays behind him today.
"I played really well this week, hit the ball well tee to green," he said.
Lucroy hit the ball that kind of dunked into right field and then the bunt.
As he hit the ball, the crowd at the Weser-Stadion in Bremen fell silent.
"Hit the ball over the net and pray it falls within the lines," he replied.
He hit the ball long and straight and around the greens he was magnificent too.
They hit the ball softer to me and were trying to keep the rallies going.
If I tried my best to hit the ball but failed, that means one thing.
We're all trying to hit the ball 110 miles an hour off the bat — no.
But I can handle their pace and hit the ball quickly, and I like variety.
I tried a couple coaches, and they had no idea how I hit the ball.
We hit the ball pretty well but the pitchers set the tempo in this series.
He hit the ball hard to right field, and it went right to a guy.
"I hit the ball halfway decent today ... so I wasn't disappointed with that," Woods told reporters.
I hit the ball the way I used to do it, and that's a step forward.
I've hit the ball cleaner and started to see the right shots at the right moments.
Despite the call, Nishikori, 29, continued playing and hit the ball past Carreño Busta to score.
"We hit the ball right on the screws — we just couldn't find any holes," Yost said.
"Maybe it's where I sat, but we hit the ball pretty stinkin' good today," Collins said.
In the top of the eighth, the first four Astros hitters hit the ball to left.
"I know our hitting coach wants you to hit the ball in the air," he said.
"I know our hitting coach wants you to hit the ball in the air," Lester said.
You have to hit the ball exactly right, squarely on the barrel of your plastic bat.
The strength and speed with which the golfers hit the ball seem to increase each year.
"Well, I didn't hit the ball very well," said Woods, a two-time champion in Dubai.
People think soccer is a great sport but watching them hit the ball with their head?
Some of these rallies where you get pushed to the side, you slide, you hit the ball, you slide, you hit the ball, you come back into it, then you can defend in a different manner than you do on the hard courts, or on the grass.
When he hit the ball with his baseball bat, it exploded into a cloud of pink smoke.
It's one of those things where I go up there and expect to hit the ball hard.
I don't try to do that, I just try to hit the ball hard all the time.
It should seem a wonder that our brains enable us to ever hit the ball at all.
"For those first 15 holes or so, I hit the ball great," said the 29-year-old.
The coaching staff reminded players to hit the ball up the middle or to the opposite field.
Every time he's hit the ball well, he's just able to stand there because of his balance.
His versatility to hit the ball and to assist his teammates, makes him a very dangerous weapon.
Landrum hit the ball to deep first base, forcing Trout to cover, and Herr scored from third.
He's not necessarily thinking, 'Hit home runs,' but he finds a way to hit the ball hard.
"I hit the ball in good spots and made birdie putts when I had them," Henderson said.
I made them hit the ball straight away, and I had Willie Mays to track it down.
He hit the ball well, but had to adjust to playing without full feeling in his fingers.
"I always felt like if you just continue to hit the ball hard, good things will happen."
"I feel like they didn't hit the ball too hard, especially early in the game," Gausman said.
Even as I encouraged Addie to focus— If you're going to swing, why not hit the ball ?
But if I let it go before two strikes, I can hit the ball hard and far.
"I don't want to say I wasn't paying attention to the numbers, because they prove a point: Obviously, if you hit the ball hard and you hit the ball in the air, you're gonna do more damage, and he's the perfect example of that," Zimmerman said of Murphy.
"I didn't miss that much and I tried to be more aggressive to hit the ball," she said.
Of course, you hope that when you do swing it back to the front, you'll hit the ball.
Additionally, with each hit the ball speeds up, and the faster it goes the more damage it does.
He didn't give up until Napoli hit the ball out of the ballpark much hard hit off him.
Even in this spacious place they hit the ball out of the ballpark, and that's what they do.
Both Ted and his son hit the ball on the green, but Trump hits his in the water.
I'm just trying to hit the ball hard, and I've been doing it a little bit more consistently.
Kepler has hit the ball with authority lately, with five extra-base hits in his past four games.
"Basically he would get up there and hit the ball hard," Mr. Paiz said in a telephone interview.
So, you can see here that the height at which you hit the ball makes a big difference.
"He always seems to know where I am going to hit the ball," Rungkat told reporters last year.
Ryan Moore hit the ball great but could not figure out the greens, which were slower than usual.
"I've hit the ball really well this week and I'm walking away not playing the weekend," McIlroy said.
I have to hit the ball strong enough to not allow him to do things from good positions.
If a player chooses not to hit the ball once tossed, it should count as a missed serve.
As Hartman tells it, Morgan slowly made her way to them, and not being verbal, hit the ball.
"Sometimes, hitters are going to hit the ball the opposite way of where the chart says," he said.
He proceeded to hit the ball from the native area into the left rough before reaching the green.
I'm not saying he can hit the ball anywhere he wants to, but it looks like it sometimes.
This time, Bautista hit the ball hard, but it was nothing more than a fly out to right.
They hit the ball hard a few times, but his command got better as the game went on.
They hit the ball in the air more than the average team and yet players rarely tag up.
Yesterday I couldn't hit the ball out of the infield and today I get hit on the head.
They used the middle of the field very well; they hit the ball on the barrel a couple times.
"If you miss location on him, he's probably going to hit the ball 25 feet," Wainwright said of Stanton.
If you hit the ball out of bounds or can't return a ball hit into your square, you're eliminated.
Nick Hundley flied out to left field but hit the ball hard enough that it warranted a mound visit.
"I didn't hit the ball as close as I did yesterday," said Herman, who opened with 11 straight pars.
They hit the ball and stay patient until something goes their way, and they take full advantage of it.
Alderson said the Mets had focused on building a lineup that reached base well and hit the ball hard.
"We got where we got because we hit the ball out of the ballpark," he said before the game.
"I hit the ball pretty unbelievable," Thomas told broadcaster NBC after his fourth career round of 61 or better.
I'm more of a grinder type player; I don't hit the ball the farthest or throw it the hardest.
I have to hit the ball enough strong to don't allow him to do the things from good positions.
"When you play on hard court in Australia or U.S.A., you hit the ball up high," Toni Nadal said.
He hit the ball so pure on Friday that he missed five putts inside 7 feet and still shot 67.
The video goes into slow motion just in time for the club to hit the ball, highlighting her son's skills.
"It was a while from the last time I heard that sound when I hit the ball," Abreu told reporters.
CF Yoenis Cespedes went 216-for-230 with one strikeout and did not hit the ball out of the infield.
After one unsuccessful attempt to chip the ball out, McIlroy hit the ball into the water and fell to Thomas.
"I don't know how many times that kid has hit the ball that far, but he crushed it," Jones said.
The batter can hit the ball in any direction he or she pleases, and nowhere on the field is out.
Valencia, who went 1-for-2 and hit the ball hard twice, will be in the lineup Saturday, Melvin said.
"In the past I've gone to the plate and tried to get hits, not hit the ball (well)," Gomez said.
You can always tone that down; it's tougher to get someone to hit the ball than to slow it down.
For your first shot, you can hit the ball in any direction, not just forward as in traditional golf games.
"They are right: If he hit the ball a few times, he played the Davis Cup," he said of Pellandra.
"That's why we play where we play — he doesn't hit the ball over there, ever, until he does," Hinch said.
He can hit the ball 220 feet, play Gold Glove center field, score from first every time there's a double.
On the final point Thursday, Youzhny was so impaired that he hit the ball with the frame of his racket.
McIlroy, who teed off one stroke behind Koepka, hit the ball long and straight as he split fairway after fairway.
"We hit the ball hard a lot of times, we just hit it at people," Houston outfielder George Springer said.
Nadal hit the ball at his feet, but Thiem managed a half-volley that turned into an irretrievable drop shot.
"When I see a hitter trying to hit the ball as far as humanly possible, I like it," Morton said.
Judge's ability to hit the ball so hard also helps explain why he is hitting for such a high average, .
When you grow as a hitter, you'll see him hit the ball in the air a lot more with authority.
He said coaches told him to hit the ball to left field, which would perhaps lead to a higher average.
"The only thing I can control is with my own two hands: hit the ball, playing good defense," Alonso said.
We've seen and we know that he's a fighter, so to come back and make some good plays and hit the ball well and hit the ball out of the ballpark again, your game kind of surfaces again because of the fight that he has and certainly because of the ability that he has.
You've got to be mentally strong and try to minimize damage and make them hit the ball the sooner the better.
There, you stand with your hands behind your back, and wait for the player to hit the ball into the net.
You make coffee and contemplate the optimal breakfast to help you hit the ball straighter and calm those first-tee jitters.
They're going to hit the ball hard, but if they make an out, I don't care how they make the out.
"He's hit the ball hard, I think he has four lineouts (during those 12 at-bats)," Mariners manager Scott Servais said.
"I've scuffled of late, but it doesn't hurt my confidence because I know I'm going to hit the ball," Barnes said.
Cabrera also hit the ball that resulted in a three-base, three-run error by the Mets in the first inning.
I remember just always admiring his swing and the way he could hit the ball to all parts of the ballpark.
"They were hunting the fastball, trying to hit the ball hard, looking up in the zone," Rangers catcher Jonathan Lucroy said.
And after Heyward struck out, Baez laid down a perfect bunt just where Russell had hit the ball, loading the bases.
And obviously there's a fine line in there, especially against some of these hitters that can hit the ball really hard.
"You're going to see a lot of guys hit the ball a long way without a lot of club," Woods said.
"I hit the ball well enough to shoot a low score and I got off to a quick start," Woods said.
" A month later, in a similar image, he lamented, "Or why couldn't McCovey have hit the ball even two feet higher?
Too aggressive on his third shot, he hit the ball over the back of the green before registering his double bogey.
He told his friends he couldn't play — that he couldn't even get off the first tee or even hit the ball.
If you land a hit, the ball will roll back and forth three times before the word "Gotcha" signifies a successful catch.
At first he had thought it would be easy to hit the ball with a man more than 50 years his senior.
He had been a passionate golfer before his infection, but he found he now couldn't hit the ball out of his shadow.
I tried to hit the ball hard and fight for every ball and I think in the end that's why I won.
I'm just going to keep swinging it, keep putting good at-bats together, and just keep trying to hit the ball hard.
According to Bill Belichick, during a round of golf at Pebble Beach, Brady hit the ball onto the edge of a cliff.
" He added: "I think with the way the guys hit the ball today, it's a little easier than it needs to be.
Arnold Palmer and Bubba Watson learned golf from their fathers, who encouraged them to hit the ball as hard as they could.
"You've got to bring that ball up just a little bit, giving them a better opportunity to hit the ball," Lester said.
" He added: "I hit the ball well, kept the ball in play, made a few putts, controlled my ball in the wind.
A Padres batter hit the ball, which flew between home and first base into the stands just above the area protected by netting.
"It wasn't a good day to hit the ball in the air and I think we hit three balls really well," Counsell said.
"We'd be on a 400-yard hold and Ruth would hit the ball maybe 20 yards," Marty's law school classmate Arthur Miller recalls.
Your game was built on accuracy, but so many players now hit the ball so far that many courses are struggling to cope.
Collins kept Cespedes in the No. 3 spot and Cespedes hit the ball hard all game, with three singles in five at-bats.
"I hit the ball hard," said Cespedes after the game, taking only one question because he was not in the mood for talking.
When you hit the ball as hard as she does it's first-strike tennis and no one is better than her at that.
"She threw the racquet and hit the ball boy, no way was that accidental," the 25-year-old Broady complained to the umpire.
Long used statistics to show Murphy, a left-handed hitter, that he was more dangerous when he hit the ball to right field.
Guys are willing to take their punch-outs to hit the ball in the air, and swing hard in case they hit it.
I'm a guy who will perform, who will hit the ball when the skipper needs the starting catcher to take the day off.
A line judge called it out as Nishikori hit the ball down the line, and Carreno Busta was nowhere close to playing it.
Mari had phenomenal drive and balance — she even mastered the unicycle — and could hit the ball on the rise at an early age.
Unfortunately for Gardner, he hit the ball directly at Astros first baseman Yuli Gurriel, who stepped on the bag to double off Stanton.
"I hit the ball really well today," said the 18-year-old, who is already a 10-time winner on the LPGA Tour.
The shot hit the ball girl that was standing near the umpire's chair ... and Nadal rushed over to make sure she was okay.
"It was one of those games where you hit the ball straight to the fielders, but that's all," Texas second baseman Rougned Odor said.
"I wish I knew why I play well here but I did hit the ball very well today," said Matsuyama, speaking through an interpreter.
"It makes a bigger difference for the really good ball strikers to have no wind and can hit the ball so cleanly," he said.
As a batter hit the ball out of the field, the security guard — still seated in his chair — caught the ball hurtling toward him.
As news of his death hit the baseball world, many chimed in with tributes, including Wilson, who hit the ball that started it all.
With his slight stature, he does not naturally hit the ball as far as many of his peers, which has perhaps hindered his progress.
Spieth, meanwhile, pulled out his driver and mis-hit the ball, knocking it within 10 yards of water to set up a tough approach.
So I was ready for the first pitch, something over the plate, and (to) be able to hit the ball out of the infield.
Realmuto hit the ball over the fence in left-center field, but the homer was negated when he passed teammate Ozuna on the basepaths.
The Eagles (213-221) kept the pressure on, as Byrd hit the ball just as Morgan's arm was going forward, resulting in a fumble.
"I was just a little kid that liked to hit the ball and run around the bases," Christopher told WBNS-TV in Columbus, Ohio.
"A tricked-up hole would mean that no matter what kind of shot you hit, the ball won't stay on the green," Hanse added.
"Not much you can do other than tip your cap," said Evan Longoria, the longtime Yankees tormentor who hit the ball that Judge caught.
The game was similar to stickball, except there was no pitcher and you hit the ball with your fist, not with a broomstick bat.
In his absence, Tulowitzki, who has a proven ability to hit the ball all over the field, is expected to be his main replacement.
"I was just trying to hit the ball in the air and drive in a run and I ended up driving in four," Bregman said.
I got out there and really was struggling to hit the ball how I wanted to, and it's my fault for not being ready enough.
He would cease trying to hit the ball where it was pitched and pull everything; as McDougald told the story, this instantly ruined his hitting.
The "Buddy" (Because Unbelievable Dedication Deserves You) help the players hit the ball and navigate the bases while also socializing and forming long-lasting friendships.
He hit the ball well during his rehab stint with Triple-A Reno, going 11-for-18 with a double, triple, homer and six RBIs.
"I mean, I don't even know if I could hit the ball over the net more than three times with my left hand," McPeak said.
I think that's all: getting better pitches to hit, realizing when you hit the ball better, what pitch you hit, if you're chasing too much.
She hypothesized that deaf players' disadvantage in not being able to hear their opponents hit the ball can be compensated for by increased visual acuity.
When Merrifield hit the ball, Urshela stepped toward his right with his glove out, ready to snatch the ball and throw out the fast runner.
"When I was a kid, I could go to the club on a tricycle and hit the ball against the wall for hours," Patrick recalled.
When Judge arrived in the dugout after the home run, pitcher C. C. Sabathia gestured to him, pointing out where Judge had hit the ball.
"It's so hard to get used to and trust in your mind that that club is going to hit the ball that far," he said.
His sinker and slider were among the most unhittable pitches in baseball—when batters could make contact, they almost always hit the ball on the ground.
In addition, Nationals Manager Dave Martinez said the team's analytics showed Cabrera hit the ball in the air against Greinke, as opposed to Kendrick's ground balls.
It landed in a sand trap by the green, but that didn't deter Bockerstette, who easily hit the ball out and within feet of the hole.
The motion controller, or the "brain," tells the machine how to hit the ball, advising it on timing and direction within a 1,000th of a second.
"It allows the players that don't hit the ball very far or carry the ball as far to run the golf ball out there," he said.
Keys hit the ball harder and harder but it would always come back and she needed a 19-shot rally to save her second match point.
He hit the ball just off the end of his bat, and it rolled slowly onto the outfield grass to put the Yankees ahead, 3-2.
Brett Gardner of the Yankees, who sometimes seems to hit the ball out of the catcher's glove with a late, defensive swing, might be an exception.
This is akin to a baseball player boasting about the number of pitches he swung at without saying how many times he actually hit the ball.
Blue Jays 24, Yankees 23 TORONTO — The Yankees' scouting report told them exactly where Toronto's Kendrys Morales would hit the ball if it were a grounder.
"It's disappointing that I didn't hit the ball well enough," Woods said after capping his final round 69 with a three-putt bogey at the 18th.
And yes, you can go to the other side of the court in volleyball — just don't touch the net or hit the ball inside the upright antennas.
"I was just trying to hit the ball hard and drive in the run, and it got over his head ... he kind of deked me," Descalso said.
The good part of it is, when he has hit the ball out of the ballpark, he hasn't shown up the next day trying to do that.
Seattle's Ketel Marte doubled into the right-field corner with one out, then Cano hit the ball to a similar spot to score Marte with two outs.
The speedy Koy hit the ball to third baseman Lew Riggs, but Riggs didn't think he could turn the double play and threw home for the force.
"He had hit the ball hard a couple times, and we were not going to give in there — move on to Pujols," Rangers manager Jeff Bannister said.
Not only did Osaka demonstrate a steely nerve in the face of daunting pressure, but she was quicker than Williams and hit the ball harder and cleaner.
It's better to double fault and make sure she knows you are going to hit the ball, then to dink it in and let her hit winners.
"I actually feel sorry for guys who hit the ball in Gio's direction, because they have no shot of getting it by him," said outfielder Clint Frazier.
They hit the ball out of the ballpark, but at the same time, if they're not, they can put pressure on you and steal a few bases.
"We can hit the ball out of the ballpark, which is better than it was last year, power-wise," said Dave Dombrowski, Boston's president of baseball operations.
"There's always that fear factor every time he steps into the box, that he can hit the ball out of the ballpark," third baseman Chase Headley said.
"There's a correlation between a guy who is big and strong, and being able to hit the ball hard," said P.J. Pilittere, the Yankees' assistant hitting coach.
"I've always been in awe of him, just the way he swung and how hard he hit the ball," said Howie Kendrick, the Phillies' veteran left fielder.
In the first round of the Australian Open, which begins Monday, the top-seeded Williams will face Camila Giorgi, an unrelenting see-the-ball, hit-the-ball basher.
Automatically, you say, The guy is going to get bigger, he's going to get stronger, the guy's going to throw harder, he's going to hit the ball farther.
But his back foot slipped substantially during his downswing, causing him to hit the ball fat, advancing it barely halfway to the hole and leaving it in rough.
He hit the ball 110 miles per hour after he turned around a 343-1 fastball of 96 miles-per-hour for his fourth homer of the year.
I hit the ball well, just didn't get the kicks or the bounces that I needed to, to make the putts and make more birdies and less bogeys.
"It's a great track, not the longest, but especially in the breeze, you need to hit the ball in the right spot on the greens," said leader Molinari.
"Just hit the ball as fast as you can, run as fast as you can and get in and chill out," he said when asked for playing tips.
But none of that matters if you don't hit the ball at the exact moment when your arm is at full reach and your body's in mid-swing.
In other words, with each new pitch, you as the batter have to change your timing and your swing to hit the ball, and sometimes you will miss.
Simmons said he knew Gregorius was a better hitter than he showed with the Diamondbacks because he had seen how hard he could hit the ball growing up.
Both men were taught the game by their fathers, who encouraged them to hit the ball as hard as they could, even if they sometimes lost their balance.
And the balls should be flying: The Twins may have hit more homers, but in 2019, no team hit the ball harder than the Yankees — not even close.
"Mouratoglou also shared a video of the encounter on his own Instagram, in which he encouraged Williams to "hit that punching bag like you wanna hit the ball!
If you hit the ball onto one of your opponents' tiles, you activate it, and then another hit will break it to create a hole you can score through.
But that was sufficient for England to emerge triumphant, since they had hit the ball to the boundary more times than New Zealand during the course of the day.
"If you think about it I hit the ball into three bushes and a water ball today, it could have been something really good," Woods told the Golf Channel.
It's as simple as ever to actually hit the ball It's a simple system, and the presentation is lighthearted, but the Hot Shots Golf has always had hidden depths.
On a recent weekday, Mr. Teodosio, dressed in a sweatshirt, khakis and sneakers, gave his "sweep the grass" instruction to show Mr. Pacelli how to hit the ball solidly.
At the end of the game we had won and I had hit the ball and I brought my teammates home but I had so much pressure on me.
Because he hit the ball hard yet at a low angle, LeMahieu said the Rockies suggested last season that he adjust his hitting angle to produce more home runs.
"Today I hit 235," Juan said on a recent afternoon at the learning center, referring to how many yards he hit the ball off a tee with his driver.
In this new rule, the referee takes a hike when favored players take the court, refusing to call them out even if they hit the ball into the stands.
Tebow, playing his first formal game since his junior year of high school, hit the homer off a lefty pitcher, and he hit the ball out to left-center.
Star first baseman Cody Bellinger hit the ball that struck the fan and said after the game that it would be a "smart decision" to further extend the netting.
The farther I stayed from the ball, the closer I stayed to the T, and the more correctly I hit the ball the faster I sprang back from it.
"I was always told these really good hitters hit the ball the other way in BP and I had never done it, and I wanted to try it," he said.
"I've hit the ball well from tee to green which is something I was struggling with the last couple of weeks so I'm more comfortable with my swing," McIlroy said.
After Flores' single, Nola, who was named to his first All-Star team on Sunday, retired the next 18 batters, only two of whom hit the ball into the outfield.
As the designated hitter on Friday, Rodriguez managed an infield single against Wright, but did not hit the ball out of the infield and popped up to end the game.
For one thing, it's a lot easier to hit a vertical pitch, and batters can have a high degree of control over where and how hard they hit the ball.
"In Argentina, you are going to have to hit the ball with shape and learn how to play full-court tennis," said Taylor Dent, a retired player and a coach.
"In Argentina, you are going to have to hit the ball with shape and learn how to play full-court tennis," Taylor Dent, a retired player and Donaldson's coach, said.
But if it's a quantum ball, the uncertainty principle kicks in: You can know how hard to hit the ball, or in which direction to hit it, but not both.
As on Friday night, the Yankees hit the ball hard a number of times, but too often into the teeth of the defense, which turned a pair of double plays.
Still, his showing here suggests that he might have inherited some of Yoenis's attributes, including quick hands, that strong arm and an ability to hit the ball the other way.
He's kind of a slasher at the plate who's going to hit the ball all over the yard, take competitive at-bats and be a real threat on the basepaths.
The only sensory inputs my brain actually received were the visuals and the sound of a sharp crack as my bat hit the ball, but my brain filled in the rest.
But Tomljanovic started to hit the ball harder and by the time Halep had started to figure out how to deal with her pace the Australian had taken the second set.
He just started playing and I'm hoping to learn soon too — I hit the ball around a little after the match since I'm still in my workout stuff, and it's fun!
Could you explain to me how Mark Philippoussis and you got the idea to hit the ball across the net with your head at the same time and hit each other?
The sample size of Facebook earnings-related drops is small since the company went public in 2012 and has generally hit the ball out of the park most quarters since then.
"Anytime you've got a guy that's hot and can hit the ball over the fence, if you try to nitpick with him you're going to get yourself in trouble," Swarzak said.
"You feel that you're in a pretty good spot when you're down three and you got some guys coming up that can hit the ball out of the ballpark," Girardi said.
After a first set in which Nadal seemed reluctant to hit the ball to del Potro's high-powered forehand, Nadal summoned his strategic acumen to change the course of the match.
Matthews was pitching during the game when offensive lineman Lucas Patrick hit the ball directly into the star defender's face, knocking him to the ground, according to The Green Bay Press Gazette .
Conforto snapped a 103-2111 tie when he clobbered a two-out slider from Shane Bieber (216-216) and hit the ball into the Mets' bullpen beyond the right-center-field fence.
Describing it as a game of miniature golf where you use cards to determine how you hit the ball should be roughly enough for you to understand how to play the game.
The Seattle Mariners continue to hit the ball over the fence, and they continued to beat up on the Los Angeles Angels with a 63-5 victory Saturday night in Anaheim, Calif.
When you swing it to the front, you twist mallet so the head is now parallel to the ground, so you have more area of the mallet available to hit the ball.
Cubs outfielder Albert Almora Jr., who hit the ball that struck the child, was seen visibly distraught, at one point dropping to his knees and crying as he was consoled by teammates.
"We only scored two runs (Thursday), but the truth is, this is the second day in a row — maybe even more so — we hit the ball hard," Tigers manager Brad Ausmus said.
The Yankees' hitting coach, Alan Cockrell, said before the game that while Rodriguez was leading the team with eight strikeouts, he had been making solid contact when he had hit the ball.
Jon Lester of the Chicago Cubs told The Times this season that he thought hitters were taking a different approach at the plate, looking to hit the ball out of the park.
He never hit the ball with the same panache as the second-seeded 37-year-old Swiss, he never had the crowd shaking its head in disbelief, but he was a wall.
"When they hit the ball out of the ballpark on a consistent basis, it's tough to beat them," said Cora, whose team has 107 wins and home-field advantage throughout the playoffs.
The idea, I guess, is that, if we keep doing back flips, sooner or later one of us will hit the ball forward with our feet or the back of our head.
Stanley, meanwhile, settled down after a slow start and proceeded to hit the ball like a metronome, hardly straying from the middle of the fairway but managing only a pedestrian even-par 72.
His father, a professional and greenskeeper at Latrobe who had set him up with a cut-down three-iron when he was four, told him to hit the ball hard, and he obeyed.
I know he likes to go play golf, but if he's riding around in a cart and getting out to hit the ball and then getting back in, that's not considered physical activity.
The Angels hit the ball hard from the outset, getting home runs from Cron, Mike Trout and Jefry Marte in the first three innings and grabbing a 9-2 lead after four innings.
At 43, Woods does not hit the ball as far as many of his current rivals, but has found a way to win without overpowering a course in the manner of his prime.
I went on television about 20 years ago, and I said to the commentator that we're going to have players hit the ball in the future 400 yards, which we've seen numerous times.
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"Announcer 2: "Let's watch him not hit the ball again, this time in slow motion, and then play it over and over again until everyone at home switches over to 'Wheel of Fortune.
"I mean we only got two hits and we didn't hit the ball hard off of him," Washington manager Dusty Baker said of Hendricks, who gave up just two hits in seven innings.
In Game 4 of Boston's series against the Astros, Houston's Jose Altuve hit the ball to the wall in the right field while the Sox's Mookie Betts went for the jump to catch it.
"People don't realize how much players rely on sound to judge the speed and where on the racket your opponent hit the ball," said Bethanie Mattek-Sands, winner of five women's doubles Grand Slams.
Conforto snapped a 2-2 tie when he clobbered a 1-2, two-out slider from Shane Bieber (983-6) and hit the ball into the Mets' bullpen beyond the right-center-field fence.
A lot of the strategy comes down to trying to hit the ball in a way that catches your opponent off guard while they try to line up a way to hit it back.
Roach: Now that I've played through highest levels of baseball and seen grown men hit the ball, I think back to what he was doing and that's when I realize how impressive he was.
Mauer, a left-handed batter, has not figured out how to beat shifts that position the shortstop toward the middle and outfielders around to left, taking away his favorite places to hit the ball.
She then asked her hitting partner, Jermaine Jenkins, to feed balls to me toward the corners, forcing me to run, hit the ball, run back to the center of the baseline and split-step.
When a player can simplify things like that, and truly see and hit the ball as if it were an easy thing to do, though, that makes life very hard for the opposing pitcher.
Earlier, an insight had came to Bellinger when he went out to take batting practice: His teammates Andre Ethier and Logan Forsythe regularly hit the ball the opposite way when taking their pregame swings.
The two not only hit the ball more in the air but harder over the past few seasons, and set career highs in home runs this year — Maybin with 11 and Gardner with 28.
"They're two guys that put really tough at-bats on you, they're two guys that get on base a lot, and they're two guys that hit the ball out of the ballpark," Girardi said.
The rules are similar to those of volleyball, except players can use any part of their bodies to hit the ball over the net, and they can jump and bounce and flip throughout the game.
He hit the ball with authority and for distance and ushered in an aggressive, hitch-up-your-trousers, go-for-broke, in-your-face power game rarely seen in the often stoic and staid sport.
In sixth grade, Kranish and Fisher reported, Trump was such a strong hitter that teams would shift their defensive positioning to left field, daring the young Trump to hit the ball to the opposite field.
Ortiz snapped an 213-for-20 spell when he singled home a run in the first inning and then hit the ball hard in RBI spots his second and third times up, coming up empty.
And one time I said something about an outfielder named Kal Daniels of the Los Angeles Dodgers who was a marvelously gifted hitter who couldn't have cared less what happened once he hit the ball.
His height allows him to hit the ball down into parts of the service box shorter players can't reach, opening up up wide angles of the court unavailable to those who lack a 7-foot wingspan.
It all starts with how GM Dan Duquette built the Orioles—to hit the ball hard enough, far enough, and often enough that nobody noticed that the guys in the rotation were stinking up the joint.
The next match features the eighth-seeded Juan Martín del Potro against the 10th-seeded Karen Khachanov, a meeting of two tall men who hit the ball very hard, if you're into that sort of thing.
Dunn says he "couldn't hit the ball with a paddle" as a player, but the Kansas City Royals drafted him in the 36th round of the 1970 draft and he spent two seasons in the minors.
He stayed in the game during an early wild stretch and then hit the ball so purely that he reached every green until the 18th and only once had a birdie putt longer than 173 feet.
He missed a half-dozen putts from 267 feet or closer, and while it looked as though he hit the ball well enough to go low at Quail Hollow, he was not the least bit frustrated.
Blue Jays right-hander Drew Storen (1-2), who pitched a perfect top of the 5.143th to earn the win, was impressed that Encarnacion was able to hit the ball so hard to the opposite field.
One of those pitches can go astray, or possibly be close enough to the strike zone to allow a batter to swing — and hit the ball to an unprepared second baseman or left fielder or whomever.
We've got the exit velocity thing at our ballpark, and usually, if I hit the ball hard with two strikes, I almost never get too much above 20143 or 102 miles an hour off the bat.
He hardly missed any volleys — until the one on match point and even that nearly got over — hit a lot of drop shots and hit the ball very flat and that made it very hard for me.
These attention-grabbing black irons look amazing, but they also deliver some excellent design features that will help you hit the ball farther, which is more likely to intimidate your foursome partners than the occasional fist pump.
Conversely, if the pitcher kept throwing the same pitch each and every time, then you will hit the ball a lot more often, but you won't figure out if you can hit a different kind of pitch.
You know those things that are like a soccer ball with a bungee cord attached to it, and you hold the bungee when you hit the ball so it flies out and then comes back at you?
Once I get that run of seeing putts going in, the hole looks massive and I see this perfect track going and all I have to do is make sure I hit the ball the right speed.
Brett Gardner hit the ball sharply to Jose Altuve at second, who was unable to field the ball cleanly, and as it shot out of his glove to his right, LeMahieu rounded third and tried to score.
O'Meara, whose career overlapped with that of both Nicklaus and Woods, said the two had several traits in common, not least that they hit the ball further in their prime than pretty much all of their rivals.
While left fielder Jeff McNeil continued to hit the ball well, catcher Wilson Ramos beat out an infield single and Rosario drew a timely walk, it was clear that the most effective Met on Saturday was Alonso.
In 20153, ESPN's Peter Gammons unveiled Nash, a middle-school dropout from rural Louisiana who wore size 18 shoes, could hit the ball 400 feet from both sides of the plate and throw 95 from the pitcher's mound.
Santana continued to hit the ball well on Sundays by blasting two homers and driving in three runs to lead the Milwaukee Brewers to a series win over the Washington Nationals with a 23-225 victory Sunday afternoon.
"Guys tried to hit the ball off the fence too much, and I'd get 'em on a ground ball to short or a fly ball to center, and that's how I survived — Edgar didn't do that," Mussina said.
"I'm starting to hit the ball more like what I normally do because at the beginning of the year when I was in Asia, I was hitting the ball all over and I almost lost myself," Feng said.
Hicks, who was activated when Clint Frazier (oblique) was put on the disabled list, was hitless in five at-bats, failing to hit the ball out of the infield and having his bat shattered by Estrada's final pitch.
"I hit the ball very well and made few mistakes," Larrazabal told Reuters in an interview after a six-under 66 gave him a two-under aggregate of 286 on an ideal day for scoring played under cloudless skies.
"I hit the ball a little bit better than I did yesterday, which is nice, and I had the speed of the greens again," said Woods, making his return to competition two months after undergoing arthroscopic left knee surgery.
There are lots of differences, from how the ball is thrown (underhand) to the bases (poles, not bags), but probably the biggest difference is the fact that you can hit the ball anywhere and in any direction and still score.
The 25-year-old model, who recently wed baseball player Justin Verlander, plays tennis throughout the entire 90-second clip, making backhand and front hand hits, and even going in for a few dives in order to hit the ball.
An unidentified woman was struck by a tee shot on Wednesday at the Edgewood Tahoe Golf Course in Stateline, Nevada after someone in Timberlake's group accidentally hit the ball to the right of the 17th hole and into the crowd.
Randy Arozarena of the Springfield Cardinals—the AA Texas League affiliate of the St. Louis Cardinals—did not hit the ball much past the pitcher's mound in Thursday night's game against the Midland RockHounds, but wound up on third base anyway.
Budzinski said Mejia, who was signed out of the Dominican Republic at 16, reminded him of a young switch-hitting Vladimir Guerrero, without the power, because of his ability to hit the ball so effectively out of the strike zone.
Everyone was quiet and they were all staring at me and just were telling me that I could do it but I just felt really pressured because if I didn't hit the ball we were going to lose the game.
Gauff also gave his daughter some more specific advice, telling her to hit the ball to her opponent's backhand side, but the pep talk certainly seemed to help calm Coco Gauff enough to allow her to finish out the victory.
"Go back a decade and almost every hitting coach was telling you to hit the ball hard on the ground, hard on top," said San Diego Padres Manager Andy Green, a utility player in the majors from 2004 to 2009.
He smashed his racket on set point and having received a warning when he earlier hit the ball into the adjoining Auckland Domain he simply walked off and sat down as the umpire awarded Hurkacz a penalty point and the set.
Each hole has a specific set of cards that act as the only ways you can hit the ball, and so figuring out how and when to use what cards becomes the crux of what you are trying to solve.
KO SHARES THE LEAD Lydia Ko hit the ball only 22 times in a span of 11 hours before ending a long day in the same place she started: with a share of the lead at the Coates Golf Championship in Ocala, Fla.
After receiving a well-timed cross in the box from Raul Lopez, the 20-year-old from Mexico City controlled the pass with his chest, let it bounce once, then hit the ball with an immense amount of power toward the opposition's net.
Heisey hit the ball out, making the score 4-3, but manager Dave Roberts, working through some strange visions of his own, turned his pitching staff into a yogurt with fruit on the bottom, finishing with starter Clayton Kershaw, and won the game.
"All these guys can hit the ball in the wind and control their distances pretty well in the wind but the putting, the short game, is going to be extremely hard," the 1994 British Open champion explained as strong breezes ruffled his hair.
Inbox Golf Swing Evolves Into a Pain In the Back To the Sports Editor: Re "Golfers of All Ages Face an Old Issue: Back Injuries," April 8: The modern swing is designed to hit the ball very far, achieved by clubhead speed.
"I feel like other teams I've been on, we've had more historic power hitters than this team as a whole, but we do have the ability and guys who can drive the baseball and hit the ball out of the ballpark," Granderson said.
Mickelson, who is well out of contention for victory, said he knew the action would bring a two-shot penalty, and that he had hit the ball to prevent it from rolling all the way off the green and behind a bunker.
She was referring to women's golf in general and, in particular, a group of millennials, led by the 22-year-old Jutanugarn, whom Stanford calls the "baby boomers" because of how far they hit the ball and their fearlessness in attacking courses.
But somehow she did, and even though it seemed like it was going to rocket off into the stands—or the net—Mladenovic managed to hit the ball with a grace note, sending it back across the court into an impossible position. Point.
Luhnow acknowledged that extreme infield shifts spring directly from data, which — quite logically — encourages fielders to play in spots where batters are most likely to hit the ball, and thus encourages batters to hit balls over the shift and into the seats.
I've been able to hit the ball out front a lot more, which I think has led to — I don't want to say more fly balls, but there's not a lot of hits on the ground here, especially for a guy like me.
They simply hit the ball where the Cubs could not reach it — spraying one after another down the foul lines during a five-run first inning and a couple of others over the ivy-covered walls of Wrigley Field for good measure.
In the seventh inning, Teixeira again uncharacteristically hit the ball to the opposite field, this time lining a three-run homer over the left-field wall to break a 03-20 tie, and the Yankees held on for an 29-212 win.
He doesn't hit the ball long — 78th in driving distance on the PGA Tour in 2015 — and for all the talk about his putting, he is not a very good close to the hole — 103th in 2015 on putts from 4 to 8 feet.
Gary Sanchez 2016 average exit velocity: 20173 MPH (8th in MLB) This may come as a surprise, but the kid who last season became the fastest player in Major League history to reach 20 home runs showed a tendency to hit the ball hard.
"After dropping serve in the third game of the third set, Denis Shapovalov hit the ball very hard, unintentionally striking chair umpire Arnaud Gabas in the left eye, causing him to need medical attention," the International Tennis Federation said in a statement on Monday.
When it comes to trade, though, the president is in the uncomfortable position of having to play small ball, a baseball term referring to moving runners around the bases in a slow, deliberate manner instead of trying to hit the ball out of the park.
To help him focus on his strengths, Roessler sent Conforto a text message over the winter with a heat map that showed the areas of the strike zone in which Conforto had hit the ball the hardest, measured by the exit velocity off his bat.
"They have a tough lefty on the mound, and Nolan is leading the league in RBIs," said Gonzalez, who hit the ball hard with nothing to show for it Sunday while going 0-for-5, leaving him with five hits in his past 46 at-bats.
The biggest may be that "players who throw right-handed and bat left-handed enjoy an additional biomechanical advantage, with the dominant (throwing) hand being placed further from the hitting end of the bat, providing a longer lever with which to hit the ball," they said.
"I was always told these really good hitters hit the ball the other way in B.P., and I had never done it and I wanted to try it," said the left-handed hitting Bellinger, who proceeded to hit every ball to left field during the practice session.
"Whether it's during a weekend in Vegas with your friends, or on the March Madness pool, or on the golf green betting you 100 bucks I can hit the ball 100 yards away," when an opportunity to make money arises, "a lot of people will be interested."
"Andrés didn't hit the ball with a lot of spin, like many Spanish players do now, but he had an aggressive, flat forehand, and a backhand that was more of a slice most of the time," Stan Smith, a frequent opponent of Gimeno's, said by phone.
"You don't have to hit the ball out of the park all of the time in the early years, but over time the money will grow and that's the key," said Avani Ramnani, director of financial planning and wealth management at Francis Financial in New York.
And the walks were by design, as Hamels pitched around Sanchez with a runner on base in the fourth and the sixth, and took his chances with Didi Gregorius and Tyler Austin, who did not hit the ball out of the infield in those at-bats.
As you know, no one can talk to a horse, of course, that is, of course, unless the horse is the famous Mr. Ed. There was a famous scene during the run when Ed took batting practice against legendary Dodgers pitcher Sandy Koufax and actually hit the ball.
On Baseball After a young girl was hurt by a line drive Wednesday night in Houston, leaving the batter who hit the ball into the stands — Albert Almora Jr. of the Chicago Cubs — on his knees in horror, a tiny corner of the social media world lit up.
Tennis's most notorious choking incident—when Jana Novotna seemingly lost the ability to hit the ball against Steffi Graf in the 1993 Wimbledon final, after serving for game point at 4-1 in the deciding set—looks unremarkable when compared to Ms Williams' downfall, with a peak win probability of 95.6%.
Mickelson said his misses in the second round had been "minuscule" and that he planned to use the same driver at Hazeltine National outside Minneapolis next week because it is longer and will allow him to hit the ball farther on what is expected to be a very lengthy layout.
All these years later, that home run endures as one of the more remarkable ones Piazza ever clobbered — because of the ferocity with which he hit the ball and because it came against the Yankees, the opponents who, more than any other, came to define his tenure in New York.
On Earth, his darting back and forth the cabin to hit the ball drew giggles from the studio audience — head coach of the national table tennis team Liu Guoliang, Rio Olympics gold medallist Ma Long, and silver medallist Zhang Ji Ke. "He moves even faster than Ma and Zhang," said the coach.
Relatively short and tight by modern standards, Riviera did not suit a long-hitting young Woods but he might find it more to his liking now as a 42-year-old with a fused spine, still able to hit the ball a long way, but no further than many of his peers.
Jamie Collins forced the ball out of the hands of New York running back Jon Hilliman on the third-down pass play, and Van Voy picked it up and ran down the left side and hit the ball with the pylon to make it 28-13 as Jones tried to make the tackle.
" I just try to go up there with a good approach and just hit the ball hard and after that first one kind of squibbed through, baseball kind of works like that sometimes and kind of gets you going," said Benintendi, who had an RBI single in the second inning to start his big night.
The incident on May 29, and the horrified reaction of the player who hit the ball, Chicago Cubs outfielder Albert Almora Jr., prompted players and safety advocates to urge M.L.B. to do more to protect its fans in an era when pitchers are throwing balls harder and batters are hitting them harder than ever.
In particular, three ideas to lower prescription drug prices — revoking patent rights on the most expensive drugs, government-run manufacturing of generic drugs when there isn't much competition in the market, and a big boost in government funding for pharmaceutical R&D — all hit the ball out of the park in terms of popularity.
It did not seem to matter to the crowd of 163,064 in Perth Arena, the highest single-session attendance in the event's 31-year history, and Williams and Federer clearly delighted in the chance to hit the ball around with each other a couple of weeks before more serious play occurs at the Australian Open.
As footage uploaded to the PGA Tour's Twitter account shows, the 43-year-old golfer had to bend down to his knees and aim the club the wrong way to hit the ball from the shrubbery, and, despite the difficulty of it all, Woods still managed to get the ball just four feet from the hole.
Ivan Rodriguez, a Hall of Fame catcher who played against Jones, noticed the same thing, and he described Jones's impact as similar to that of a shutdown cornerback in the N.F.L. "He's a guy that when you're at the plate, the last thing you want to do is hit the ball to center field," Rodriguez said.
"So I think if I combined the exit velocity with a little bit more lift to the ball — just hit the ball a little more on a line and have my misses be a little more in the air than on the ground — I think my numbers could get back to what they have been my whole career."
"I was a little chubby kid and hit the ball really far," he tells CNBC Make It. Scouts at the College of Saint Rose in Albany, New York offered him a scholarship to play baseball, and he was all but guaranteed a shot at the big leagues when three MLB teams lined up workouts for him.
Whenever he got into slumps and wasn't hitting the ball the way he wanted to, he emphasized hitting the ball out in front — because if you're on time, the correct bat angle is important, and if you hit the ball out front with a good angle, you're more likely to do damage than hit line-drive singles or ground balls through the hole.
Much has been made of García's defeatist attitude (during his news conference, he blamed the "golf gods" for being against him), but Rotella offered the most telling example of how Harrington's positive attitude may have been the bigger difference after he had wasted his lead in the tournament when he hit the ball in the water on the 72nd hole, not once but twice.

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