Struck the ball

Usage examples of batted.

The Wayne team batted and bunted a few balls, and then Homans led them to the bench.

Its claws and teeth locked onto the mesh and its wings batted fiercely.

Takan screamed and babbled, clearly more seriously affected as they both batted and clawed at themselves, as if trying to brush off Spitting The things were spitting.

He trotted closer and reached down for her arm, but she batted him off and snarled like an animal.

Along with all the usual data, these poorly paid people recorded play-by-play information about the games that had never before been systematically collected: the pitch count at the end of at bats, pitch types and locations, the direction and distance of batted balls.

More and more ambitious players crowded into the cage, until there were so many that batted balls rarely missed hitting some one.

His baseball fortune was at stake, and he worked himself in such a frenzy that if a ball had been batted in his direction he might not have seen it at all.

Another told him to play in close, and when the ball was batted to turn and run with it.

Of the few balls batted to Ken in practice he muffed only one, and he was just beginning to feel that he might acquit himself creditably when the coach called the team in.

Ken, after pitching to Dean for a while, batted to the infield and so had opportunity to see the improvement.

Place the lumbering Horton hit a twisting grounder to McCord, who batted it down with his mitt, jumped for it, turned and fell on the base, but too late to get his man.