Sentence:  Both have brilliant speed : Mantle was timed from home plate ( <WSD>batting</WSD> left-handed ) to first base in 3.1 seconds , faster than any other major leaguer ; Maris ran the 100 - yard dash in ten seconds in high school and once won a race against Luis Aparicio , the swift , base-stealing shortstop of the White Sox . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  strike with, or as if with a baseball bat