His hands snatched at an imaginary bucket, swooping down hard to grab it and coming away with equal snap like a ball that's been bounced hard.

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.

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.

Watching her, he felt like a spectator at a tennis game, with the ball being bounced back and forth.

Dallas Cowboys punter Mat McBriar attempted a maneuver similar to a drop kick during the 2010 Thanksgiving Classic after a botched punt attempt, but the ball bounced several times before the kick and the sequence of events is officially recorded as a fumble, followed by an illegal kick, with the fumble being recovered by the New Orleans Saints 29 yards downfield from the spot of the kick.

The ball beat the goalkeeper, hit the crossbar and bounced down before Wolfgang Weber, scorer of the Germans ' second goal, headed it out for a corner.

Bradman was seen to be uncomfortable facing deliveries which bounced higher than usual at a faster pace, being seen to step back out of the line of the ball.

Consequently on firing the ball bounced off the sides of the barrel when fired and the final direction on leaving the muzzle was unpredictable.

On the next play Griese threw to Warfield, who was open at the 2-yard line, but the ball was deflected by Green and bounced off Warfield's chest.

The ball bounced to Yepremian's right and he reached it before holder Earl Morrall.

On second down, he threw a pass intended for Howard in the end zone, but the ball bounced off Howard's shoulder, and a Hail Mary replay was not to be.

On the ensuing kickoff, video shows that Gerela slipped when trying to plant his foot, causing him to squib the ball, which bounced to Cowboy lineman Randy White at the 24-yard line.

A legal return consists of the player or team hitting the ball before it has bounced twice or hit any fixtures except the net, provided that it still falls in the server's court.

The half volley is made by hitting the ball on the rise just after it has bounced, once again generally in the vicinity of the net.

Dropping back into the end zone, quarterback Sammy Baugh threw to an open receiver, but the ball hit the goal post ( which at the time was on the goal line instead of at the back of the end zone ) and bounced back to the ground in the end zone.

With the scores level at 131 and very little time remaining, the ball was bounced in Essendon's forward pocket, tapped to the boundary line side, roved, and neatly handpassed by Marc Bullen to a goalward-running Hird, who, approximately thirty metres from goal, snapped from an acute angle for the game-winning goal.

Brett won the title when a fly ball dropped in front of Twins left fielder Steve Brye, bounced on the Royals Stadium AstroTurf and over Brye's head to the wall ; Brett circled the bases for an inside-the-park home run.

The ball bounced off the rim, onto the backboard, back onto the rim, and fell in.

After dribbling passed his defender, Weatherspoon pulled up for a jump shot, but the ball bounced off the backboard ; New York won the game by one point.

Consequently on firing the ball bounced off the sides of the barrel when fired and the final direction on leaving the muzzle was unpredictable.

* One hand, one bounce-a player is able to catch the batsman out with one hand as long as the ball has bounced only once, hence the name " one-hand, once bounce.

" A variation on this is that a player is out if caught one-handed after the ball has bounced off an obstacle ( not the ground ) such as a house, car, or window pane, etc.

* Two Bounce Headbutt-A fielding player is able to headbutt the ball after it has bounced on the ground twice to dismiss the batsman

At noontime, remembering what the teacher had said about maybe playing with the kids, Jack stayed close to the schoolhouse while all the other big boys, except Charles, went off out the road to play ball.

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.

'' 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.

The ball went off in a majestic arc, an out-of-bounds slice.

:: Rule 10. 05 ( a )( 2 ) Comment: The official scorer shall credit a hit if the fielder attempting to handle the ball cannot make a play, even if such fielder deflects the ball from or cuts off another fielder who could have put out a runner.

In 1887, the stolen base was given its own individual statistical column in the box score, and was defined for purposes of scoring: "... every base made after first base has been reached by a base runner, except for those made by reason of or with the aid of a battery error ( wild pitch or passed ball ), or by batting, balks or by being forced off.

A batter is not charged with a plate appearance if, while he was at bat, a preceding runner is put out on the basepaths for the third out in a way other than by the batter putting the ball into play ( i. e., picked off, caught stealing ).

In common terminology, the term " at bat " is sometimes used to mean " plate appearance " ( for example, " he fouled off the ball to keep the at bat alive ").

This makes it difficult to hit the ball freely and score runs, especially on the off side.

Wicket-keeper Bert Oldfield's skull was fractured by a ball hitting his head ( although the ball had first glanced off the bat and Larwood had an orthodox field ), almost precipitating a riot by the Australian crowd.

The only home run ball ever hit completely out of Memorial Stadium was slugged by Robinson on Mother's Day in 1966, off Cleveland Indians pitcher Luis Tiant.

: And Blake, the much despised, tore the cover off the ball ;

Several spectators attempted to catch a foul ball off the bat of Luis Castillo.

Rafael Betancourt was summoned once again, and induced a ground ball off Juan Uribe's bat.

Rockies second baseman Clint Barmes, playing in, made a miraculous over the shoulder diving catch after a long run, and doubled off Albert Pujols, who thought the ball would drop and was nearly at third base, to end the game.

During his tryout, Young impressed the scouts, recalling years later, " I almost tore the boards off the grandstand with my fast ball.

* the ball was kicked off,

The object is to find what angle the bank must have so the ball does not slide off the road.

Intuition tells us that on a flat curve with no banking at all, the ball will simply slide off the road ; while with a very steep banking, the ball will slide to the center unless it travels the curve rapidly.

It involves a player dropping the ball and then kicking it when it bounces off the ground.

In a rugby union kick-off, or drop out, the kicker usually aims to kick the ball high but not a great distance, and so usually strikes the ball after it has started to bounce off the ground, so the contact is made close to the bottom of the ball.