Wilpon was so well regarded that he was invited to pitch batting practice to the major leaguers.
Yankees reliever Boone Logan (sore elbow) is scheduled to throw batting practice for the first time Saturday.
Santana was scheduled to throw batting practice Tuesday, but pitching coach Dan Warthen said Saturday that the session had been canceled.
Some of our young guys got to take batting practice and take ground balls with some of the greatest players in the world, and that can really help them.
Signed in the offseason to fill in for Rodriguez, who is not expected back until the All-Star after having left hip surgery on Jan. 16, Youkilis plans to take batting practice Thursday and could play by this weekend.
Alam retired out during the interval to give other players batting practice but Kamran Akmal made only two before he edged to slip.
Instead, if you whiff, it will serve as the impetus to spend extra time in the batting cage, practice your swing, and attend to the need to keep your eye on the ball.
Travis Hafner (sore right shoulder) took batting practice and hopes to be able to play Friday.
Left-hander Butt hit a six and 13 fours before retiring to give team-mates a chance of some batting practice.
Stewart was in the original lineup posted at Yankee Stadium on Sunday, but Girardi said he would let the catcher go through batting practice before deciding if he needed to make a change.
Bernando LaPallo, who says at 111 that he's the oldest Yankees fan, was on the dirt near the dugout during batting practice and injured star Derek Jeter came over to greet him.
He paid people to pitch to him and others to shag balls for long stretches of early-morning and postgame batting practice.
Samuels's century was greeted by a cacophony of noise from the vocal crowd but he ran all the way to the dressing room as soon as he reached three figures to give 19-year-old team-mate Pollard some batting practice.
At Great American Ball Park in Cincinnati, President Barack Obama's remarks to the nation were shown on the video board while the Phillies were taking batting practice.
Bresnan, who faced 103 balls for his 35, was unable to achieve the fluency of his partner, but nevertheless got in some important batting practice before the impending one-day series.
Baseball's career saves leader was hurt while shagging fly balls during batting practice in Kansas City on May and had surgery June 12 to repair a torn anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee.
For example, when the one game he went to see Ellsbury was rained out, they watched him lift weights, had a batting practice session with him, and for good measure, watched him dunk a basketball.
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He keeps his eyes trained on baseballs, taking anywhere from 40 to 80 swings as Brad Andress, the team's strength and conditioning coordinator, throws batting practice.
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Flakes continued to fall throughout the night after tapering off from the snow-globe-like flurries that brightened up batting practice.
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