11.   For him to try to hit a baseball would have been extremely dangerous.

12.   Hansen is swinging a bat but has yet to actually hit a baseball.

13.   He can hit a baseball a long way.

14.   He is, after all, the lone Mets regular who is consistently hitting the baseball as if he has seen one before.

15.   He needs to hit a baseball to earn his living.

16.   He thought about the mechanics of hitting a baseball, of the components of a perfect swing.

17.   He said hitting a baseball was the hardest thing to do in sports.

18.   He stretches, hits a baseball off a tee into a net in the runway behind the dugout.

19.   He was a star athlete, a champion swimmer, and he could hit a baseball a country mile.

20.   He will hit baseballs, catch them, throw them, though he will not be game ready for at least two weeks, if ever.