How to Use bat out in a Sentence

bat out

verb
  • Rushing has spread his good at-bats out alright.
    — Bill Plunkett, Oc Register, 19 Apr. 2026
  • The ball got batted out to Arellano, who kicked the ball on the ground and into the goal.
    — Lou Ponsi, Oc Register, 8 Mar. 2026
  • But the league will take the bat out of voters’ hands to decide if James misses just two more games.
    — John Hollinger, New York Times, 6 Jan. 2026
  • The Yankees have been giving him off days, but taking a stellar bat out of the lineup is less than ideal.
    — Aaliyan Mohammed, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Aug. 2025
  • Seeing his shots batted out of the air by Virginia's Ugonna Onyenso.
    — ABC News, 15 Mar. 2026
  • So, there was no way the Dodgers could send Ohtani to the minor leagues this year for rehab starts and take his potent bat out of the lineup.
    — John Perrotto, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Ohtani's pitch never came close to the strike zone, but despite the pitch getting way away from him, Altuve stuck his bat out and did not come close to making contact.
    — Mark Harris Outkick, FOXNews.com, 6 May 2026
  • Luis Arraez was subsequently picked off second base, taking the bat out of Casey Schmitt’s hands.
    — Andrew Baggarly, New York Times, 29 May 2026
  • How Texas Tech got here Texas Tech brought its bats out to the Lubbock Regional and went off for 34 runs in three wins.
    — Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 3 June 2026
  • So far this year, testing by the University of Wyoming has found only two rabies-positive bats out of 259 tested.
    — Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 13 Aug. 2025
  • Lost in the 18 innings, Ohtani had authored a dominant, record-setting offensive performance that forced the Toronto Blue Jays to take the bat out of his hands entirely.
    — Fabian Ardaya, New York Times, 28 Oct. 2025
  • Oh, and both basepath outs — the Giants’ 18th and 19th of the season — took the bat out of the hands of Casey Schmitt, the only guy in orange actually hitting the baseball right now.
    — Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 27 May 2026
  • Counsell naturally was skewered on social media, despite Crow-Armstrong’s recent slump and overall numbers against lefties, for taking the bat out of the hands of his Most Valuable Player candidate.
    — Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 12 Aug. 2025
  • After that, the Blue Jays took the bat out of his hand, intentionally walking him three times with no one on base, once with a runner on third (in the 13th inning) and once more unintentionally (on four pitches nowhere near the strike zone in the 17th inning).
    — Bill Plunkett, Oc Register, 28 Oct. 2025

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