But Washington defensive back Vernon Dean deflected the ball and safety Mark Murphy made a one-handed interception at the 5-yard line as he was falling to the ground.

Then on third down, his 24-yard completion to receiver Mark Jackson advanced the ball to the New York 39-yard line.

On September 10, 1960, he hit a ball left-handed that cleared the right-field roof at Tiger Stadium in Detroit and, based on where it was found, was estimated years later by historian Mark Gallagher to have traveled 643 feet ( 196 m ).

* Tom Benson, standout linebacker for the LA Raiders, once intercepted a pass by Mark Rypien only to be hit so hard by T Jim Lachey that he fumbled and gave the ball back to Washington Redskins in a 1989 game.

The ball that Mark McGwire hit for home run number 62 in 1998, for example, was sold for over 1 million dollars.

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Elway completed a 29-yard pass and drove the ball downfield to the 35-yard line, where Mark Harmon kicked what appeared to be the winning field goal.

The New Zealanders bought back Mark Nicholls for his only Test of the series, and their captain Maurice Brownlie told the team a week before the Test that " Under no circumstances whatever is anyone of you so much as to touch a rugby ball until we play the Springboks in the last test.

In another incident, he was suspended six games and fined $ 3, 000 by Major League Baseball for arguing with umpire Mark Carlson and firing a ball into the outfield.

Howard is one of four players ( along with Harmon Killebrew, Cecil Fielder, and Mark McGwire ), to have hit a ball onto the left-field roof at Tiger Stadium.

Rugby union requires a player to signal a fair catch by catching the ball and shouting " Mark!

As the commentator Mark Nicholas said, ' Stephen Harmison, with a slower ball, one of the great balls.

The first dismissal " hit wicket " in international Twenty20 took place on 12 September 2007, in an ICC World Twenty20 match between Kenya and New Zealand, when New Zealand's Mark Gillespie pitched a ball just short of a length which swung back into Kenya's David Obuya from outside off stump and pushed him back into his crease, causing him to lose his balance and tread on his stumps.

Atlanta fielders Mark Lemke and David Justice miscommunicated and collided with one another as the ball fell from Lemke's glove and Gladden reached second on a two-base error.

As McGriff and Mark Lemke chased the ball from the infield, right fielder Dye came in and had the best chance to get the ball.

With Mark Lemke batting the Braves called for a sacrifice bunt, but Pettitte fielded the ball and threw out Smoltz at third.

Closer Mark Wohlers pitched the ninth inning, preserving the 1 – 0 shutout and Atlanta's coveted title when Carlos Baerga's fly ball landed in center fielder Marquis Grissom's glove.

Mark Langston's pitch was shown to be borderline and Garcia called it a ball.

He received game ball, along with ( Mark ) Tuinei, for helping hold the New Orleans Saints without a sack in a Monday night win in New Orleans on December 19.

Then on the opening kickoff of the second half, Miami returner Mike Williams fumbled the ball while being tackled by Mark Pike, and Buffalo's Carwell Gardner recovered it at the Dolphins 25-yard line.

San Francisco subsequently forced a punt, but returner Dana McLemore fumbled the ball and Washington's Mark Murphy recovered it.

Football League Two side Macclesfield Town provided the opposition at the Impact Arena and 2251 spectators saw Mark Sale bundle the ball over the line for a last minute equaliser that earned a replay in Cheshire.

When he was injured, he was in the 7th inning of a shutout game against the Indians, but he limped off the field after covering first base on a ground ball to Yankees first baseman Mark Teixeira.

And women were not expected to know that the pitcher was trying not to let the batter hit the ball.

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.

The two top talents of the time, Mickey Mantle and Willie Mays, have hit the ball harder and more successfully so far this early season than at any period in careers which, to be frank about it, never have quite reached expectations.

In trying to hit it out with a sand wedge Palmer bounced the ball over the green, past spectators and down the slope toward a TV tower.

Having hit one of the trees, the ball came to rest not more than 160 yards 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.

In the last of the sixth inning Mike Deegan got up to bat and hit a fast ball over the left fielder's head.

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.

" 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 ..."

In the first two cases above, " on an error " includes situations where the batter makes a clean hit ( or walks, is hit by pitch, reaches base on a fielder's choice in which no out is made, or reaches base on a wild pitch on a called or swinging third strike ), but should have been out earlier in his at bat on a foul fly ball which was dropped by a fielder for an error.

In the Major Leagues, the most recent example of a swing at an intentional ball resulting in a hit occurred during a June 22, 2006 game between the Florida Marlins and the Baltimore Orioles.

Noticing that the intentional ball came in too close to the plate, Cabrera swung at the ball, resulting in a base hit, and a run scored for Florida.

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.

To achieve a hit, the batter must reach first base before any fielder can either tag him with the ball, throw to another player protecting the base before the batter reaches it, or tag first base while carrying the ball.

If a batter reaches first base because of offensive interference by a preceding runner ( including if a preceding runner is hit by a batted ball ), he is also credited with a hit.

An " infield hit " is a hit where the ball does not leave the infield.

:( 2 ) the batter reaches first base safely on a fair ball hit with such force, or so slowly, that any fielder attempting to make a play with the ball has no opportunity to do so ;

He'll still be a top player, they concede, because he's got a great glove and the long ball going for him.

I know that I myself felt that it was a mortal shame for a man to be torn open by a British musket ball, as Isaac had been, yet I also felt relieved and lucky that it had been him and not myself.

'' Despite Company threats, duly carried through, to cut off supplies of powder, ball, and thread for fishing nets, about 350 persons stayed in the village.

Young men in school could look forward to playing ball for money in a dozen different places, even if they failed to make the major leagues.

) 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.

Babe Ruth, as he always did in the Stadium, played right field to avoid having the sun in his eyes, and Tommy Thevenow, a rather mediocre hitter who played shortstop for the St. Louis Cardinals, knocked a ball with all his might into the sharp angle formed by the permanent stands and the wooden bleachers, where Ruth could not reach it.

While women had always attended ball games in small numbers ( it was the part of a `` dead game sport '' in the early years of the twentieth century to be taken out to the ball park and to root, root, root for the home team ), they had often sat in patient martyrdom, unable even to read the scoreboard, which sometimes seemed to indicate that one team led another by a score of three hundred and eighty to one hundred and fifty-one.

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.

Gaines hammered the ball over the left fence for the third Indianapolis run in the ninth.

He scored a 4 for the embedded ball, a 3 with the provisional one.

Player then had the choice of punching the ball safely out of the woods to the 9th fairway and settling for a bogey 5, or gambling.

Given a small ball or marbles, he would invent games and play by himself for hours.

By the time the fielder got his hands on the ball Deegan was rounding third base and heading for home.

The first ball the hefty pitcher threw came in for Mike's head.

The pitcher wound up and the ball came in straight for Mike's head.

`` Listen, wise guy, if you think I'm gonna do all the fighting for this ball club you're crazy ''.

`` I didn't ask you to fight for the ball club '', Phil said slowly.

A common anemometer for basic use is constructed from a ping-pong ball attached to a string.

The term ' ballroom dancing ' is derived from the word ball, which in turn originates from the Latin word ballare which means ' to dance ' ( a ballroom being a large room specially designed for such dances ).

In baseball, an earned run is any run for which the pitcher is held accountable ( i. e., the run scored as a result of normal pitching, and not due to a fielding error or a passed ball ).