These are usually preferred by defenders who like to hit the ball hard.
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"We're going up there looking to hit the ball hard, not thinking, 'Oh, we might swing and miss, '" second baseman Dan Uggla said.
But the ability to hit the ball hard the other way is what matters, and if he can perfect that skill, Teixeira knows he won't ever have to say the word "bunt" again.
Jennings, who did not speak to the media after the game, hit the ball so hard that after it ricocheted off Happ it went all the way into the bullpen in foul territory halfway down the right-field line for a two-run triple.
"I hit one ball hard at the wrong guy, a Gold Glover, " Davis said.
After the longtime .300 hitter saw his average fall into the .240's this past season, he spent the winter working hard in the batting cage and re-learning how to hit the ball to the opposite field.
The goal hit the Bluebirds hard, and they could have gone further behind but a goalmouth scramble ended with the ball being hacked clear by a frantic Barrow defence.
Meanwhile, a hard-hit ball by Moustakas leading off the seventh inning caromed off Pettitte's glove and right to Robinson Cano.
The more I analyzed my game, the more apparent it became that there was a negative correlation between how hard I swung and how far I hit the ball.
Before Morneau's homer his first this season Minnesota's only hard-hit ball came on Eduardo Escobar's lineout to first base in the third.
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