The dirt ball passed through unharmed, to land and break up several yards beyond.

泥团完好无损地穿过能量墙，在外面几码的地方落地、碎裂。

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Pitchers were forbidden to give the ball an artificial spin or trajectory by, for instance, nicking it or spitting on it and from discolouring the ball with dirt or tobacco juice or hair grease.

投手则被禁止发人为旋转或轨线的球，例如给球切口或在球上戳刺，也禁止投手用污垢、烟草汁、头油让球变色。

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When astronaut Alan Shepard took his first swing at a golf ball on the moon, he hit more dirt than ball.

当宇航员艾伦·谢泼德在月球上打出第一杆高尔夫球时，他扬起的更多是的沙尘。

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Then he would fall down on the floor again like a ball of dirt and start rubbing the side of his head with his back foot as if he had no idea he had been doing any more than any frog might do.

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Valdespino and her partner Vance McCoy took begonias out of their pots, wrapped the dirt in moss and then wrapped string around the ball of dirt.

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Mr. Kazmar had his glove on the dirt even before the ball was hit.

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But he got some help when Buck made a tough, backhand pickup of a breaking ball in the dirt and threw out Span trying to scamper to second.

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