If everybody does it, and even the batters don't mind, then why is it against the rules?
The man fell over backward and lay still for a moment or two, and my mother said, "Oh, God — he's done it!" The batter recovered, he and my father shook hands, and the game went on, but the moment, like its predecessor, stayed with me.
Does it go best with beef, or does batter make any meal better?
They did it by battering Penn State, 66-49, to win the N.C.A.A. tournament's East Regional.
After Wagner's Series-ending strikeout, no batter would do it again until 1925, when Goose Goslin, the Hall of Fame left fielder of the Washington Senators, failed to take his bat off his shoulder against the Pittsburgh Pirates, becoming the last player to end a World Series that way until Cabrera on Sunday night.
"And they're using me as the battering ram to do it".
Don't mix the batter on high - do it slowly!
It does give the batter a hint of flavor, though.
And it didn't batter you over the head with statistics.
Besides the really dreadful damage done to trees, it battered and bruised such herbaceous plants as were high enough to offer any resistance - flag irises, in particular, were snapped off to an extraordinary extent, and the leaves of tulips were torn and wilted.
