Actually, Maureen, singles hitters tend not to whiff so much

Is Barry whiffing?  (The New York Times, 4/29/2014)

The use of the word "chatterers".  Well, at least she got one thing right.  A singles hitter doesn’t scare anybody.

Meet Joe Sewell.

And Pete Rose hit more than 3,000 singles and struck out an average of 52 times per season.