Collins and Hawkins insisted the ball hit the knob of the bat and not Phillips' hand.
Expect a lot of high school games where coaches ask the ump to check the bat.
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The problem for the plaintiffs was they never established that the bat was to blame.
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Once one ball hit the bat I thought 'OK, that's one out the way'.
Mr Galili subsequently worked with two well-known Israeli troupes, the Bat-Dor and Batsheva Dance companies.
In 2010, the state capital, Austin, adopted the bat as its official animal emblem.
Admitting that, in turn, reduces your expectation of getting it perfect right off the bat.
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Botham swung the bat and, with support from Graham Dilley, added 117 in 80 minutes.
With the bat, he was often hard to dislodge and enjoyed flaying the ball over gully.
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But in Punch Quest all the powers and skins are easily affordable right off the bat.
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"In the middle period with the bat we should have been a bit more clinical, " he said.
Watson has also dominated with the bat, leading all tournament players with 242 runs and 15 sixes.
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We still have the Bat-Pod, which looks like a motorbike crossed with a very angry praying mantis.
Captain Gordon Drummond conceded that Scotland's second innings efforts with the bat fell short of the mark.
It's immediately clear, right off the bat, that we're not dealing with your older sister's Furby here.
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The Bat Detective website needs people to help identify bat calls to help develop automated identification tools.
Selling expensive licenses brought in cash off the bat, but it also limited the pool of potential customers.
Collins and Hawkins appeared to insist the ball hit the knob of the bat and not Phillips' hand.
So right off the bat, 97 percent of all Americans would get tax relief on all their income.
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"He's a good fielder, as well as giving us a bit of firepower with the bat, " said White.
"It shows when they are all going out there with aggression and hitting the bat hard, " said Collingwood.
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"He showed a lot of talent and also impressed with the bat in the Twenty20 game, " added Strauss.
In every way except his mastery of the bat he seems to have been a fairly ordinary chap.
He said he felt comfortable swinging the bat in extended spring-training games in Florida and five Triple A games.
It's just a happy instrument and you make friends right off the bat when you carry one and play.
Stuck like a kid who gets up to recite "Casey at the Bat" in an auditorium and blanks out?
But no matter, off to 20th Century Fox Dreamworks has gone, which does two things right off the bat.
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India lost their remaining nine wickets in little more than a session, marking another disappointing performance with the bat.
The initial 2% is a management fee charged off the bat to cover the costs of operating the fund.
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