You often see batsmen driving the ball in the air with their feet nowhere near the pitch of the delivery.
Instead, he tossed his precious ball in the air every few steps, catching it with his glove as we walked toward Kenmore Square, on our way home.
From Henry's lay-off, Halford flicked the ball in the air and volleyed through a sea of players, but James pushed the ball wide and Ebanks-Blake smashed the rebound off target.
The former Reading keeper was beaten to the ball in the air by Varney, whose nod down was poked over the line by Harewood despite the best efforts of Jarvis on the goal-line.
Once more, Kentucky was elevated by its 6-foot, 10 inch freshman Anthony Davis, who had 18 points, 14 rebounds, five blocked shots and concluded the game by heaving the ball in the air, pointing to the court and exclaiming, Maximus-like, "This is my stage!"
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The Yankees did not hit the ball in the air against the sinkerballer until Brett Gardner blooped a single into left field with one out in the sixth eliciting a mock cheer from those that remained from the announced crowd of 34, 262 on a dank night.
But the wind was blowing in, hanging the ball up in the air just long enough for Baxter to extend with his left arm and grab it with his glove.
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More catches went down in the early stages of England's reply, Prior dropped by Tendulkar in the third over as the ball swerved in the air to him at slip.
The French forward let fly from fully 35 yards after cutting in from the left flank and Wiese made a terrible blunder, simply pushing the ball up in the air and into his own net to give the home fans an unexpected treat.
Paul McShane's cross from the right was headed back across goal by Jan Venegoor of Hesselink and, after Martin Skrtel could only flick the ball up in the air, Geovanni waited for it to drop on to his left foot and directed it into the corner from 10 yards.
While it was awkward for Strauss and Cook in the first hour as the ball nipped around in the air and off the pitch, there were too many poor deliveries which relieve the pressure.
When the ball goes up in the air, you're playing against each other.
This means your weight is leaning forward, rather than back, which is often when the ball travels dangerously in the air.
Just seconds after manager Rafa Benitez put on Fernando Torres as an extra attacking threat, Ba met a high bouncing ball in the area and turned in the air to slot the ball past the diving Pantilimon.
It stemmed from us not keeping the ball up front, them counter-attacking, a loose ball going up in the air and falling kindly, and a good finish.
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Earlier, there had been a stunned silence around the County Ground when Marcus Trescothick drove the first ball of the game from Kirtley in the air straight to Robin Martin-Jenkins at mid-off.
Their main difficulty was controlling the ball, so sharply was it deviating in the air, and their lines were often awry.
We're talking home-built missiles that can haul an 8-pound bowling ball 5, 000 feet in the air or lob a streamlined metal "dart" to the edge of the atmosphere 50 miles high.
Pernis had been beaten in midweek by a deflected Chris Humphrey goal for Motherwell, but the keeper avoided a similar fate when he got back to clutch the ball after Danny Invincibile's effort looped up in the air off a United defender.
There's the simple thrill of hitting a ball with a stick and watching it fly in the air.
On one interception in practice, big defensive lineman Damon Harrison pulled the ball out of the air near the line of scrimmage, causing Sanchez to shake his head in disgust.
In the 95th minute, with Brentford laying siege to the opposing goal, Jamie McCombe, Doncaster's 6-foot-5 centerback threw his lanky frame in the air, his flailing arm clearly deflecting the ball.
Hamilton had the best chance of the game thus far when a Stevenson header was won in the air by Simon Mensing, who knocked the ball onto Offiong, but the striker failed to keep his header under the bar.
"Clearly, Darren Fletcher's won the ball, Ashley Cole's never touched and has jumped up in the air, and then (Didier) Drogba's pulled Brown to the ground for the goal, " Ferguson told reporters.
Ergonomic experts say that overuse, combined with too much or not enough air in the ball, may contribute to lower back strain.
Hutton could only head a cross straight up in the air and the ball fell to Scott Morrison, who sent an overhead kick into the path of Simmons.
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Krejza, who conceded 67 from his first 11 overs, continued to give the ball air, despite being hit straight down the ground for six in the first over after lunch by Sehwag.
The digital athletes in NBA Jam performed such hoops-time high jinx as jumping from the half-court line, doing flips in the air and lighting the basket on fire as they dunked the ball.
It was his equalizer on 30 minutes which caught the eye, his ability to hang in the air and generate an unfathomable amount of power to head the ball into the net remains a joy to behold.
Bu the video referee judged that the ball had been knocked forward by the New Zealand winger as he challenged Carney in the air.
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