Base Ball is the American Game par excellence because its playing demands Brain and Brawn, and American manhood supplies these ingredients in quantity sufficient to spread over the entire continent.
He developed a unique dipping motion, where he nestles into a crouch before coming set, staring at the base runner, then rising and either delivering the ball to the plate or to first base.
Grant Smith's powerful shot was deflected into the striker's path, but Hunt's hooked effort drew a good save from Jeroen Lambers, who managed to push the ball against the base of his near post.
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Italy once again lost control of the ball at the base after Bergamasco had been sucked into a ruck and Haskell's flick saw Ellis scamper 20m to the line and dive over for an unconverted try.
Moments later the visitors again contributed to their own downfall when number eight Phil Dowson, starting his first England match after joining the tour as a replacement, lost control of the ball at the base of a scrum.
First Tagicakibau danced around two defenders for his first try just minutes after coming off the bench and then Stowers slammed the ball into the base of the post to score his as Irish appeared to kill off the contest and threatened to run riot.
Instead, the ball smacked into first base and popped straight into the air.
Sure enough, Cubs second baseman Johnny Evers called for the ball and tagged the base--Merkle was out and the winning run was voided.
But Quins responded with a wave of attacks which ended when scrum-half Danny Care, looking to regain his England starting spot from Ben Youngs, moved the ball quickly from the base of a ruck to put Brown over in the left corner.
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Wells began the ninth with a single off Betancourt (1-1) and was credited with a stolen base when shortstop Jonathan Herrera dropped the ball while applying the tag.
Wells began the ninth with a single off Rafael Betancourt (1-1) and was credited with a stolen base when shortstop Jonathan Herrera dropped the ball while applying the tag.
Ankiel was credited with a ground-rule double leading off the seventh on a ball down the third-base line that appeared to glance off an usher's leg before hitting a railing.
From the old school (home runs, batting average, runs batted in, wins, earned run average) to the money ball school (on-base percentage, slugging percentage, wins over replacement player), there's more to feed the stat geek's appetite than ever.
She was petrified when doctors found a golf-ball-size tumor near the base of her skull in June 2007.
Patterson hit the base of the post from a Carson through ball before smashing the ball past Chris Keenan.
And that was after Lake Highlands pulled its starters, and ran only one base at a time, like T-ball.
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After Ben Zobrist took the full-count pitch, he started toward first base and even Nathan appeared to anticipate a ball being called.
Scarlets scrum-half Martin Roberts was robbed as he went to pass from the base of a ruck and Perpignan spread the ball left towards Candelon, the wing kicking ahead and following up to gather and score.
Gardner's right shoulder slammed into the fence but he held onto the ball, denying Murphy a key extra-base hit for the second consecutive night.
The ball scooted past Duda and Gardner raced into third base with a triple.
Robinson, the catcher, held on to the ball in a collision with Garcia down the third-base line.
In that recess yard, the boys used to play a kind of baseball -- but with no bat: you'd just whack the ball with your hand and run like hell to first base, which was a basement doorway.
As the ball wandered into foul territory and Piazza began a perfunctory gait toward first base, Clemens picked up the barrel of Piazza's shattered bat and threw it at him.
However, home plate umpire Hunter Wendelstedt called the pitch a ball and Berkman went on to hit a double that would score Jorge Posada from first base and give the Yankees a 3-2 lead at a pivotal point in the game.
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Pitching for the Brooklyn Dodgers in a National League playoff against the rival New York Giants, Branca, who had just come in to relieve starter Don Newcombe with two men on base and the Dodgers holding a 4-2 lead, served up a ninth-inning home run ball to Bobby Thomson.
Casilla, thinking the ball was going to be caught by Cano, got trapped in a rundown between second and third base.
Alexi Casilla, thinking the ball was going to be caught by Cano, got caught in a rundown between second and third base.
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