:;… when returning from a break in play: Batsmen must settle into a batting rhythm again when resuming play for a new session or after drinks, bad weather, or injury interrupt a session.

:;… when the pitch helps the bowler: A moist pitch helps fast bowlers get unpredictable seam-movement of the ball, while a dry, crumbling pitch helps spin bowlers get unpredictable spin and damp, overcast conditions help swing bowlers.

:;… when the batting team is under pressure: If the batting team is doing poorly or has low morale, increase the pressure by attacking with the field.

:;… when the batting side are playing for a draw: when a team is a long way behind in a first-class game and there is not much time left to play, it becomes more important to bowl out the side and finish the game than to control runs.

:;… when batsmen are settled in: It is difficult to get batsmen out when they have been batting for a long time and are comfortable with the bowling.

:;… when the batting team needs to score runs quickly: In situations where the batting team must score quickly in order to win or press an advantage ( because, for example, a limited-overs innings is ending soon ), slowing down the scoring becomes more important than trying to dismiss the batsmen.

:;… when the batting team is scoring quickly: If the batsmen are managing to score runs quickly, it is unlikely they are offering many chances to get them out, so reduce the run scoring rate.

:;… when using weak bowlers: If a relatively poor bowler must bowl for any reason, the best tactic is often to limit the potential damage by containing the free scoring of runs.

:;… with the new ball: Fast bowlers get the most swing and bounce with a newer ball, factors that make it harder to bat without making an error.

:;… with quality bowlers: A team's best bowlers tend to deliver the most difficult balls to hit, so they get the most benefit from the support of an attacking field.

:;… new batsmen: A batsman early in his innings is more likely to make a miscalculated or rash shot, so it pays to have catching fielders ready.

Jack walked off alone out the road in the searing midday sun, past Robert Allen's three-room, tarpapered house, toward the field where the other boys were playing ball, thinking of what he would do in order to make Miss Langford have him stay in after school -- because this was the day he had decided when he thought he saw the look in her eyes.

Dr. Lalaurie and I didn't even know he was in the house until the night of our ball when he came down the stairs ''.

He used it very effectively when he wanted to get his squad on the ball.

At one point in the game when the skinny old man in suspenders who was acting as umpire got in the way of a thrown ball and took it painfully in the kidneys, he lay there unattended while players and spectators wrangled over whether the ball was `` dead '' or the base runners were free to score.

) The sorry fact about this young man, who was barely of age when he broke into major-league baseball, was that he really was a better ball player than he was given credit for being -- never so good as he claimed, and always an irritant to his associates, but a good steady performer when he could fight down the temptation to orate on his skills or cut up in public.

Jim Gentile bounced a hard shot off Kunkel's glove and beat it out for a single, and when Lumpe grabbed the ball and threw it over first baseman Throneberry's head Brandt took third and Gentile second on the error.

His statistical record that year, when Texas won only one game and lost nine, was far from impressive: he carried the ball three times for a net gain of 10 yards, punted once for 39 yards and caught one pass for 13 yards.

The Texans made themselves a comforting break on the opening kickoff when Denver's Al Carmichael was jarred loose from the ball when Dave Grayson, the speedy halfback, hit him and Guard Al Reynolds claimed it for Dallas.

`` I know when my reflexes are gone and I'm not going to be any 25th man on the ball club ''.

Momentarily the Reds were back in the ball game, trailing only 6-3, but the drive fizzled when John Edwards fouled out with men on second and third and two out.

At the 4th tee Palmer chose to hit a one-iron when a three-wood was the proper club, so he put the ball in a bunker in front of the green.

He batted unconvincingly and reached 28 when he hit a ball to Jack Ikin ; England believed it was a catch, but Bradman stood his ground, believing it to be a bump ball.

* PB — Passed ball: charged to the catcher when the ball is dropped and one or more runners advance

" Number of times batted, except that no time at bat shall be charged when a player: ( 1 ) hits a sacrifice bunt or sacrifice fly ; ( 2 ) is awarded first base on four called balls ; ( 3 ) is hit by a pitched ball ; or ( 4 ) is awarded first base because of interference or obstruction ..."

A subset of the base on balls, an intentional base on balls ( IBB ) or intentional walk is when the pitcher deliberately pitches the ball away from the batter in order to issue a base on balls.

In baseball statistics, a hit ( denoted by H ), also called a base hit, is credited to a batter when the batter safely reaches first base after hitting the ball into fair territory, without the benefit of an error or a fielder's choice.

:( 4 ) the batter reaches first base safely on a fair ball that has not been touched by a fielder and that is in fair territory when the ball reaches the outfield, unless in the scorer's judgment the ball could have been handled with ordinary effort ;

A safe course for the official scorer to follow is to score a hit when exceptionally good fielding of a ball fails to result in a putout.

The Orioles got a run in the first inning when Breeding, along with Robinson, the two Birds who got a pair of hits, doubled to right center, moved to third on Russ Snyder's single to right and crossed on Kunkel's wild pitch into the dirt in front of the plate.

`` Behind that Charlie Chaplin moustache and that truant lock of hair that always covered his forehead, behind the tirades and the sulky silences, the passionate orations and the occasional dull evasive stare, behind the prejudices, the cynicism, the total amorality of behavior, behind even the tendency to great strategic mistakes, there lay a statesman of no mean qualities: Shrewd, calculating, in many ways realistic, endowed -- like Stalin -- with considerable powers of dissimulation, capable of playing his cards very close to his chest when he so desired, yet bold and resolute in his decisions, and possessing one gift Stalin did not possess: The ability to rouse men to fever pitch of personal devotion and enthusiasm by the power of the spoken word ''.

That she was out for a touch was certain, but when did she get to the pitch??

* WP — Wild pitches: charged when a pitch is too high, low, or wide of home plate for the catcher to field, thereby allowing one or more runners to advance or score

It is possible, however, to suffer serious injuries as a result of being hit by a pitch, even when wearing a helmet.

This happens when a player has almost no walks or times hit by pitch, with a higher number of sacrifice flies ( e. g. if a player has 2 hits in 6 at bats plus a sacrifice fly, his batting average would be. 333, but his on-base percentage would be. 286 ).

A player completes a turn batting when: he strikes out or is declared out before reaching first base ; or he reaches first base safely or is awarded first base ( by a base on balls, hit by pitch, or catcher's interference ); or he hits a fair ball which causes a preceding runner to be put out for the third out before he himself is put out or reaches first base safely ( see also left on base, fielder's choice, force play )

Beatmatching ( or Beatmaxing ) is a disc jockey technique of pitch shifting or timestretching a track to match its tempo to that of the currently playing track e. g. the kicks and snares in two house records hit at the same time when both records are played simultaneously.

In any case, Chapman did not move reflexively when Mays ' pitch came his way.

An animation illustrating how the Doppler effect causes a car engine or siren to sound higher in pitch when it is approaching than when it is receding.

He confirmed that the sound's pitch was higher than the emitted frequency when the sound source approached him, and lower than the emitted frequency when the sound source receded from him.

Prior to the mid-20th century, double bass strings were usually made of gut, but since that time, steel strings have largely replaced gut strings, because steel strings hold their pitch better and yield more volume when played with the bow.

The lowest note of a double bass is an E < sub > 1 </ sub > ( on standard four-string basses ) at approximately 41 Hz or a B0 ( when five strings are used ) at approximately 31 Hz, within about an octave above the lowest frequency that the average human ear can perceive as a distinctive pitch.

Morris's pitch went, " The great bank-robbery sprees always take place at a time when something is going wrong in the country.

Most fugues open with a short main theme, the subject, which then sounds successively in each voice ( after the first voice is finished stating the subject, a second voice repeats the subject at a different pitch, and other voices repeat in the same way ); when each voice has entered, the exposition is complete.

Brown nearly had the perfect game, but he hit the Giants ' Marvin Benard with a pitch in the 8th inning when Benard attempted to bunt.

The bending stress on the neck is considerable, particularly when heavier gauge strings are used ( see Tuning ), and the ability of the neck to resist bending ( see Truss rod ) is important to the guitar's ability to hold a constant pitch during tuning or when strings are fretted.

The 1984 season started off badly when shortstop Dickie Thon was hit in the head by a pitch and was lost for the season.

The one-year deal included unique conditions, such as the option for Clemens to stay home in Houston on select road trips when he wasn't scheduled to pitch.

Folk harps with levers installed have a lever close to the top of each string ; when it is engaged, it shortens the string so its pitch is raised a semitone, resulting in a sharped note if the string was a natural, or a natural note if the string was a flat.

The mitt allowed Bench to tuck his throwing arm safely to the side when receiving the pitch.

The pitch, p, typically changes when the temperature is altered or when other molecules are added to the LC host ( an achiral LC host material will form a chiral phase if doped with a chiral material ), allowing the pitch of a given material to be tuned accordingly.