swinging, slamming, bouncing, knocking, whacking, falling, crashing, pounding, smashing, smacking, throwing, shot, dropping, tumbling, jumping, catching, slugging, sliding, skidding, punching, climbing, banging, beating, nailing, reaching, chasing, leaping, swang, ripping, rebounding, clobbered, scoring, pummeling, blasting, playing, slapping, breaking, snapping, kicking, chipping, rocketing, battering, hammering, pushing, spiking, ricocheting, touching, flinging, thwacked, bumping, clouting, putting, hustling, belting, swatting, puncturing, attacking, retreating, slipping, flipping, batting, pulling, peppering, notching, firing, drove, ramming, rattling, beaning, fouling, colliding, tomahawked, barreling, approaching, thudded, lobbing, rolling, tomahawking, wobbled, struck, snagging, landed, circling, sinking, streakier, balling, swerving, chucking, stopping, grabbing, scorching, hurting, sagged, tossing, stroking, clubbing, biting, forehanded, sprinting, backhands, slumping, mashing, crafted, trenchant, libelous, polemical, tendentious, defamatory, denunciatory, scathing, winning, incisive, investigative, provocative, scurrilous, slanderous, upbeat, vituperative, alarmist, forgettable, informative, wellwritten

bunt, collision, crash, fly, fly ball, grounder, ground ball, header, liner, line drive, plunk, plunker, smash

., address, babe ruth, bat, belt, blackjack, bull's eye, bunt, carom, cathode-ray tube, clapper, clenched fist, collector, cosh, croquet, crt, david, drive, driver, driving, fist, follow through, george herman ruth, glance, golf shot, golf stroke, ground out, ground stroke, half volley, hard-hitting, header, hit, knock, long iron, mashie niblick, masse, masse shot, number one wood, overhead, paddle, pay dirt, plunk, plunker, putt, putting, rap, refrain, ruth, sacrifice fly, sap, sclaff, seven iron, short iron, smash, star drill, sultan of swat, swing, teeoff, tennis shot, tennis stroke, tongue, triple crown, volley, whack, whang

touch, touching

hit, striking