1.   The batter swung and missed.

2.   Another scout cautioned that batters should swing early in the count against Benitez.

3.   Batters would swing at more pitches, and the game would move along at a crisper clip.

4.   Lisa Fernandez can throw a rising softball that makes batters swing at pitches over their heads, and she can also hit the ball over fences.

5.   Sometimes pitchers get lucky and a batter will swing and miss a mistake pitch over the middle of the plate, a hanging curveball or a benign fastball.

6.   The batter swung and missed, and the ball bounced between the legs of catcher Scott Dangle and skipped to the backstop.

7.   There was that three-pitch inning, in which three straight Royals batters swung at the first pitch and made outs.

8.   This time, batters are swinging and missing, rather than ducking.

9.   Toledo batters swung just three times, all three of those by ex-Brave Luis Polonia.

10.   He winced as an overly eager batter swung, missed and tried to steal first base anyway.