After all, he induced more swing-and-misses last year than Kenley Jansen, who just set a major league record for K/9, and Papelbon is now moving from the American League East to the National League.
"Three more swings and we can go," she said.
I think that there are many more attempts, but there are also many more swings and misses.
Then he would watch me take a few more swings and he would tell me something else.
With Schilling and Johnson on the mound, Torre is also much less likely to follow his standard practice of running on 3-1 counts because there is likely to be more swings and misses, and perhaps more risk of having runners cut down.
A series that has already seen more swings and roundabouts than a Milton Keynes parks department lorry continues to enthral, undeterred by weather that has shifted from sun to rain and back to sun again and always with a brisk chill breeze.
The song's deranged synth chords and sloppy jazz-break drums evoke the early-eighties blend of rap and punk that the Beastie Boys perfected, but the Garden aspires to something less defined — shakier than rap's precise loops and more swinging and dynamic than punk's hammering movements.
I proceeded with more swings and more misses.
