[jtur88]

Yes, but you'd have still outrun the cheetah. Unless the cheetah has you for lunch, or Taveras does not catch the ball, in which cases the outrunning has not occurred.

I think the announcer meant that if the batter normally does not end the swing with the bat in one hand, doing so is an indicator that he has been fooled. Which is probably true ofetn enough to render it a useful generalization.