right off the bat

“I might as well tell you this right off the bat,” he began.

I mean, his track record speaks for itself, he’s somebody who you can trust right off the bat, just because of all the things they’ve done in the past.

“The average American sees a $600 or $800 annual fee and just says, ‘No’ right off the bat, but that’s not who these cards are for,” said Matt Schulz, chief credit analyst at LendingTree, a personal-finance site.

It plans to build a 1-million-qubit fault-tolerant machine right off the bat.

These may seem unexpected responses to a film that, right off the bat, showcases brutal, bloody mixed martial arts fighting.