Sentence examples for bat effectively from inspiring English sources

Before Sunday, the previous time Girardi saw Rodriguez in the field was during last year's American League division series, when Rodriguez, still trying to find a way to hold his bat effectively with his sprained thumb, hit.111.

The Mets can use him — after starting the season with four victories, their offense looked feeble in two consecutive losses — but whether he can swing a bat effectively and make throws to first with an injured hand is what the Mets and Wright will determine before Friday night's game.

Ben Stokes wielding a bat effectively one-handed got us thinking about other incidences of sporting derring-do.

In the meantime, Dollery had continued to bat effectively, watching the ball closely onto his bat, and scoring three leg side boundaries from Johnston's bowling.

Batting effectively on a succession of early season rain-affected wickets, Hutton frequently top-scored for Yorkshire.

He batted effectively for the rest of the season, finishing with 713 runs for Lancashire at 54.85.

Hobbs returned to cricket in 1922 and batted effectively throughout the first months of the season, scoring 10 first-class centuries in total.

He top-scored in both England innings with 43 and 60 not out in the drawn first Test, and batted effectively for Yorkshire against the Australians.

Bats effectively 'see' in sound (although they can also see) and they navigate in the dark by 'talking to themselves'.

"Easy to be wise after the event," says Oliver Bevan, "but wasn't the decision to bat again effectively putting NZ on a hiding to nothing?

Both are also in the team for slightly curious reasons: Jones slotted in at 7 partly because he batted so effectively in support of his captain; Haddin is in as much to act as Sergeant-Major on and off the field.