Kemp drove a 2-0 fastball, clocked at 95 mph, toward the right-field corner where a security guard stationed at the foul pole tried to catch the ball just behind the wall.

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At the edge of the yard, two little girls are slapping a bright-yellow ball around a silver pole.

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To loosen up before starts, Bauer drifts back toward the right-field foul pole, where after taking a crow-hop, he sends the ball sailing across the grass to a teammate standing within a few feet of the left-field foul pole.

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Gary Wilson battled to 19 but played for an off-spinner from Harbhajan Singh when instead the ball held its line and uprooted the off pole.

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Our sports culture has a way of remembering champions and forgetting the rest, the only exceptions coming from those teams that have offered up dramatic moments in defeat (Ralph Branca serving up a home run ball to Bobby Thomson, Carlton Fisk pounding a homer off the foul pole to keep his team alive for one more day, and Bill Buckner booting a grounder).

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An excellent slower ball deceived Naeem Islam and hit the middle stump, and three balls later he hit the middle pole again when Razzak walked across his stumps.

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