hit the ball

I was able to foul it off and see another pitch, and thankfully I hit the ball up the middle.”

“When he hit the ball, we knew it was leaving the park, but we had no idea we were going to catch it.”

“Not many people hit the ball as hard as he does, and he just top-spinned one like crazy. But it was good to get that one out of the way and make a couple of good plays after that.”

“He likes the ball in and can cover up. So I would go down and away, show him up, show him in, try to get him to hit the ball off the end of the bat, get him leaking down and away.”

Social media has been rife with exaggerations about the physicality of the transgender player and how hard they hit the ball, Kress said, and his players have received hate mail.