Batting

Wiffleball Rubric Student Name: ______________________________________ Objective Cues Unsatisfactory Needs Improvement Satisfactory Commendable Excellent Earned Points Competency in hitting Square stance with knees bend and rear elbow down, watch the ball, stride when you hit, hold the bat correctly, follow through…

An invention that really was real cool is Softball. Its real cool and real fun.It's cool how they have a certain way you can get out.It's real fun to,but also it can be very dangerous.You could easily get hurt..for instance. It is fun and cool how you could slide on base,but you can get hurt by trying to slide your legs are first you could break an ankle,or arm or you could even get a head injury,but don't think of what bad things could happen. There are a lot of great things that can happen in…

Sixty miles per hour is the speed at which the average softball player throws the ball; so I guess you could say I was in the wrong place at the wrong time, but I believe I was exactly where I was supposed to be. You know how some people say there was a certain moment that changed their life completely? Well, this was that moment for me, and it all was caused by a miscommunication. Miscommunications happen all of the time, but with a softball that isn't actually soft, and someone standing only…

Everybody has an Uncle Leroy. My Uncle Leroy shows up at Thanksgiving and touches on the drumstick before the turkey makes it to the table. He prefers the drumstick on the right side as the creature faces to the south with cornbread stuffing packed firmly between its legs. In general, you try not to look at my uncle’s face and big belly when he grins or laughs. His eyebrows are uncontrolled, bushy and seem to have a life of their own. Once you look, you stare and find yourself stuck as he…

There are many different types of golfers walking the courses. I hope that you do not recognize yourself in one of the following stereotypes. First, there is the borrower. This is the type of person that comes totally unprepared to the course. Every hole they ask you, “can I borrow a tee?”. Of course you say yes because you can part with a tee. Next, they ask you on about the fifth hole, “can I borrow a ball? I just hit my last one in the water.” After you loan them all your equipment you start…

In 1991, women’s fast pitch softball was added to the roster of the 1996 Summer Olympics – a landmark many people recognize as the ultimate success of a sport. Although softball was later dropped from the 2012 Summer Olympics line-up, the game is still one of the most popular participant sports in the United States and 113 countries have officially joined the International Softball Federation since the organization’s formation in 1952. According to the official rules developed early in the…

Before the start of a cricket match, the captains of the two teams under the supervision of the umpire, along with the two team caption tosses a coin to decide which team will bat first. who gets to bat first. The winner of thise toss decides whether to bat or ball first. Can we What are thecalculate chancesthe chances of each captain of winning the toss? Yes. Can we calculate the chances? The chance of each captain winning the toss is his or her probability. Probability is the chance of an…

“Good eye, Matt! I would hear from beyond the dugout as I took the first pitch at bat. The pitcher wound-up and threw in the second pitch and I swung. I missed terribly, and my coaches thought so, too. “C’mon Matt, that was practically in the dirt, what are you swinging at?” I thought back to the first pitch and the chants that followed it, “Good eye, Matt” and “Way to watch the ball come in, Matty Boy.” I couldn’t help but think of all the irony surrounding these comments. The fact of the…

Every night, before you go to sleep, you hear the chirping of hundreds of crickets. From mole crickets to a cricket literally called the cooloola monster, every male cricket can chirp. Now, what if I told you that crickets don’t chirp at random, but the speed of the chirps depends on the temperature outside. If I have a male house cricket and put it in a temperature controlled room and turn up the heat. Since crickets like all other insects, cold-blooded, they take on the temperature of their…

In my sophomore year my baseball team qualified to the state championship game. In high school sports that is the highest stage you can reach. It was the dream of a lifetime to play the championship game at Volcano Stadium. I was so nervous, but I was able to keep my cool during warm ups. The game did not start the way we wanted it, we played terrible the first four innings, making many errors and mental mistakes that cost runs. The game was starting to favor the other team by a staggering…