Sentence examples for great batters from inspiring English sources

"That's the key for us: getting on base and allowing our great batters in our lineup to get up," the leadoff hitter, Jacoby Ellsbury, said.

Great batters know exactly what they are doing as they do it.

Mixed with water, gram (or chickpea) flour makes a great batter to fry with the green beans into these thin, crisp pancakes.

That's where the gram flour came in – made from ground chickpeas and mixed with water, it makes a great batter to fry or bake into thin, crispy pancakes.

When you are aware of all your intentions, you are like a great batter who is conscious of every muscle as he moves his body toward the ball.

The greatest batter and the greatest pitcher — a pair of boldface asterisks for the record book.

Arguably the greatest batter and the greatest pitcher who ever played baseball both went on trial for perjury in 2011.

Many of the communities that voted most decisively for leave were the same communities that have suffered the greatest battering under successive governments.

And athletics' reputation is likely to suffer an even greater battering next Thursday when Dick Pound publishes a follow-up report into IAAF corruption, which he says will contain "a wow factor".

Last year, when I set out to write about the Bonds case, prosecutors had trained their sights on three of the biggest sports icons of the past generation: the greatest batter and pitcher of the modern era, if not all-time; and the greatest cyclist, Lance Armstrong.

For instance, if Stan Musial is regarded as the greatest living batter, then who is remembered for pitching him the toughest?