All too often you pitch the ball short.

你投球老是距离不够。

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Pitch: An office worker shakes a crystal ball, says it predicts free Doritos, and hurls the ball at a vending machine so co-workers can grab all the Doritos they want.

情节：一名公司职员摇着一个水晶球，说这个球可以预测免费的多力多滋，并把球抛向了一个自动贩卖机，以便让同事们想拿多少就拿多少多力多滋。

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AS a nation, Australians tend to get more excited at the prospect of slugging a ball around a cricket pitch than playing in the big leagues of international finance.

作为一个民族，澳大利亚人倾向于从板球被猛击出球场这样的情景中获得兴奋而不是参与到国际金融的大联盟中。

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Offspinners are less likely to pitch the ball way outside off stump and spin it back in, England's Graeme Swann notwithstanding, and leg-spinners and left-armers are less likely to pitch the ball outside the batsman's leg stump, rendering an LBW decision impossible.

WSJ: Why Test Cricket Is All In a Spin

Only two deliveries had been sent down after the re-start when bad light stopped play but Sidebottom's first ball after the resumption knocked back Tim Southee's middle stump - the 19-year-old playing across the line to a full-pitch ball that swung back at him a touch.

BBC: Sidebottom puts England in charge

To a youth sports parent, this sounds like the same pitch travel ball programs make.

FORBES: Rebecca Black, and the lessons for sports parents