Sentence examples for hit a softball from inspiring English sources

It's easier to hit a softball.

Some of us can remember the bad old days in the '50s, when we would discover in casual schoolyard play that a girl could outrun most of us, or hold her own in basketball, or hit a softball — but there were no teams, no coaches, for girls.

And while it is certainly easier to hit a softball lobbed over the plate by an amiable amateur, most players fail even to get a hit most times at bat. (I myself got out of the game when I was unable to hit fifth-grade pitching).

It's like trying to hit a barn door with a softball.

This spring, Rodriguez hit a team-high.485 in softball to help the Hawks set a team record for victories and win a spot in the Division III tournament for the second consecutive year.

A team that had been invincible and a streak that had seemed unbreakable both hit a wall today as the United States softball team lost to Japan, 2-1, in a tense duel that played out over 11 innings in the Olympic Softball Stadium in Sydney, Australia.

Softball: Maddy McIntyre hit a two-run walk-off home run to center field in the seventh inning to give Ohio State (17-7 Big Ten, 2-0) a 4-3 victoverover Maryland (7-22, 0-2).

In an exhibition softball game at Madison Square Garden, she hit a home run that went 260 feet.

Stacy May-Johnson hit a grand slam in a 10-run fourth inning, and the United States advanced to the World Cup of Softball championship game by beating Britain, 10-0.

Andrea Duran hit a two-run homer in the fifth and the United States defeated Japan, 7-0, on the mercy rule in Caracas, Venezuela, to win the world softball championship for the seventh year in a row.

Gary Lundgren's debut feature, "Calvin Marshall," aspires to that league but doesn't rise above Class A. There are scenes in "Calvin Marshall," which Mr. Lundgren wrote and directed, that capture the way a timely hit in a softball game or a small gesture in a local bar becomes an indelible, fixed point in our memories.