Hughes deftly avoided any attempt to define what precisely constituted a "mild smack", for example.
KP serves up a pie for his first ball of the session and it's smacked for four.
9th over: Australia 81-0 (Watson 34, Warner 45) Harbhajan is smacked for successive sixes over mid-wicket by Warner!
With two out and one on in the sixth, Pettitte faced Vladimir Guerrero and said he made a mistake: an inside fastball that Guerrero smacked for a tying homer.
The last ball is a legside full stop and it's smacked for four to square leg, receiving the beating it deserved.
Mr. Boehner graduated in 1968 from Cincinnati's Moeller High School, where working-class boys in shirts and ties got a Catholic education, procured with a hard smack for infractions and a sense of great expectations.
It was not the pattern that made it unique: Mauresmo served and rushed the net, then hit a half volley, which Safina tracked down and smacked for a winner with a backhand passing shot down the line.
Manager Joe Girardi said it was up a bit, this fateful pitch that Ben Zobrist smacked for a two-run double in the fifth inning, a drive that was more than enough for the Tampa Bay Rays to beat the Yankees, 3-0, on Wednesday at Tropicana Field.
