" 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 order to count as an intentional ball, the ball must be legally pitched, i. e., the pitcher's foot must be on the pitcher's rubber, the catcher must be in the catcher's box, and the batter must be in the batter's box appearing ready to take a pitch at the time the ball is thrown.

* is touched by a pitched ball outside of the strike zone,

Modern steal rules were fully implemented in 1898, and steals are now only credited when a runner successfully takes an extra base while the ball is being pitched, but not already hit.

# is hit by a pitched ball

Chapman died the next day, becoming the only player to sustain a fatal injury from a pitched ball.

Since 1881, pitchers had pitched within a " box " whose front line was from home base, and since 1887 they had been compelled to toe the back line of the box when delivering the ball.

The receiver pitched the ball backward, with a sequence of additional backward passes as players were in danger of being tackled.

A bodyline delivery was one where the cricket ball was pitched short so as to rise towards the body of the batsman on the line of the leg stump, in the hope of creating leg-side deflections that could be caught by one of several fielders in the quadrant of the field behind square leg.

Ironically, Bradman was bowled shortly thereafter at a memorial match by Grimmett, who produced a perfectly pitched stock ball that turned just enough to remove Bradman's off bail.

On the next play, the Cowboys scored on a 29-yard halfback option play: Staubach pitched the ball to fullback Robert Newhouse, who ran left as if it were a normal run play, but then Newhouse passed the ball to Cowboys receiver Golden Richards for a touchdown.

Riggins took a pitch from Theismann, ran up to the line of scrimmage, and then pitched the ball back to Theismann who then attempted to pass it.

On third down, Elway pitched the ball to Winder, who tried to score on a run to the outside, but linebacker Carl Banks tackled him for a 4-yard loss.

Simms handed off to Morris, but before he crossed the line of scrimmage Morris pitched the ball back to Simms.

In baseball, a catcher is charged with a passed ball when he fails to hold or control a legally pitched ball that, with ordinary effort, should have been maintained under his control.

In very early iterations of the rules during the 19th century, it took up to 9 balls for a batter to earn a walk ; however, to make up for this, the batter could request the ball to be pitched high, low, or medium.

Ryan pitched hitless ball the rest of the way.

Two major differences are that the ball must be pitched underhand — from 46 ft. ( 14 m ) for men or 43 ft. ( 12 m ) for women as compared with 60. 5 ft. ( 18. 4 m ) in baseball — and that seven innings instead of nine constitute a regulation game.

Although players usually use their sticks to move the ball around, they may use any part of their bodies other than their heads, hands or arms and may use their skates in a limited manner.

A reverse type of spin serve is hit in a manner that spins the ball opposite the natural spin of the server, the spin direction depending upon right-or left-handedness.

The game continues in this manner, rallying back and forth, until the ball touches the court within the boundaries or until an error is made.

A six scored by hitting the ball over the boundary is signalled by the umpire raising both hands above his head, often in a celebratory manner.

This ball rolled across without doing any harm to two women and a young man who were here ; but on getting into an adjoining stable it exploded and killed a pig which happened to be shut up there, and which, knowing nothing about the wonders of thunder and lightning, dared to smell it in the most rude and unbecoming manner.

Tweeners ( a term derived from " in-between ") are bowlers that deliver the ball in a manner that falls somewhere in between stroking and cranking.

Those advocating a more supernatural account have argued that the fact that the soudarion and the other grave clothes were set apart merely reflects the distance of the neck as it is situated between the head and the body, or that it simply means that the cloth was curled in a ball rather than lying flat, i. e. that it was lying in a different manner to the others.

In short, any play in which a player legally carries the ball across the goal line scores a touchdown, the manner in which he gained possession is inconsequential.

In baseball, a sacrifice bunt ( also called a sacrifice hit ) is a batter's act of deliberately bunting the ball in a manner that allows a runner on base to advance to another base.

In baseball statistics, an error is the act, in the judgment of the official scorer, of a fielder misplaying a ball in a manner that allows a batter or baserunner to reach one or more additional bases, when such an advance would have been prevented given ordinary effort by the fielder.

In this manner, he may or may not have been applying a foreign substance to the ball on any particular pitch.

This maneuver is often difficult, and its difficulty depends largely on how fast the ball is traveling, where it first hits the ground, the firmness of the ground it hits, and the manner in which it is spinning.

Thus, it is often played in an indirect manner ; that is, the player plays somewhat away from the target and then allows contours to direct the golf ball to its final resting point.

He was accused of " jerking " the ball and so delivering it in an unfair and improper manner.

* Throwing the cricket ball at a player, umpire or official in a dangerous manner.

The cricket ball is the principal manner through which the batsman scores runs, by manipulating the ball into a position where it would be safe to take a run, or by directing the ball through the boundary.

Amateur cricketers often have to use old balls, or cheap substitutes, in which case the changes in the condition of the ball may not be experienced in the same manner as that which occurs during an innings of professional cricket.

The pattern continues in this manner with each hand in turn throwing one ball and catching another.

As a " bonus ", the manner in which he had to grip the ball ( see photo ) resulted in an unusual amount of spin.

Conversely, the bouncer can be a very productive ball for the batsman, if he plays it in an attacking manner.

He's hitting the ball hard, in the batting cage, and his whole attitude is improved over this time last year.

I was the first to get my squad on the ball, and anybody thinkin it was easy is pretty damn dumb.

Spahn not only is a superior pitcher but a gentlemanly fine fellow, a ball player's ball player, as they say in the trade.

One example is the Banach – Tarski paradox which says that it is possible to decompose (" carve up ") the 3-dimensional solid unit ball into finitely many pieces and, using only rotations and translations, reassemble the pieces into two solid balls each with the same volume as the original.

For example, the Banach – Tarski paradox is neither provable nor disprovable from ZF alone: it is impossible to construct the required decomposition of the unit ball in ZF, but also impossible to prove there is no such decomposition.

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

Alexandria is home to what is lauded by the Guinness Book of World Records as the world's largest ball of paint.

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 ).

Off-loom beadweaving is a family of beadwork techniques in which seed beads are woven together into a flat fabric or a three-dimensional object such as a ball, clasp, box, or a piece of jewelry.

* SB — Stolen base: number of bases advanced by the runner while the ball is in the possession of the defense.

* A — Assists: number of outs recorded on a play where a fielder touched the ball, except if such touching is the putout

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

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 ).

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.