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

" 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 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.

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.

The result was a misshapen, earth-colored ball that traveled through the air erratically, tended to soften in the later innings, and as it came over the plate, was very hard to see.

The St. Louis university players shoot the ball hard and accurately to the man who is to receive it ...

Players are permitted to play the ball with the flat of the ' face side ' and with the edges of the head and handle of the field hockey stick with the exception that, for reasons of safety, the ball may not be struck ' hard ' with a forehand edge stroke, because of the difficulty of controlling the height and direction of the ball from that stroke.

The ' hard ' forehand edge hit was banned after similar concerns were expressed about the ability of players to direct the ball accurately, but the reverse edge hit does appear to be more predictable and controllable than its counterpart.

He leapt hard at the ball above England right back Tommy Wright and thundered a harsh, pacy downward header towards Banks ' near post corner.

Field hockey is played on gravel, natural grass, sand-based or water-based artificial turf, with a small, hard ball.

The head of the lacrosse stick is strung with loose mesh designed to catch and hold the lacrosse ball and can also be strung with hard mesh.

Since taking over the franchise, Attanasio has worked hard to build bridges with Milwaukee baseball fans, including giving away every seat to the final home game of 2005 free of charge and bringing back the classic " ball and glove " logo of the club's glory days on " Retro Friday " home games, during which they also wear versions of the team's old pinstriped uniforms.

This was especially the case when he was a young man, when Clemens " threw two pitches: a 98-mph fastball and a hard breaking ball.

The band could slip out of the slot it rested in, and the hard ball in the tube resulted in cases of blindness and broken teeth.

O ' Brien says he was " on automatic " and was so calm and concentrating so hard that he didn't hear anything and saw only the ball.

His ball was always moving, hard, sinking, fast-breaking.

* Tool / Wipe / Block-abuse: the player does not try to make a hard spike, but hits the ball so that it touches the opponent's block and then bounces off-court.

* Off-speed hit: the player does not hit the ball hard, reducing its speed and thus confusing the opponent's defense.

Gate, globe, and check valves are usually hard seated while butterfly, ball, plug, and diaphragm valves are usually soft seated.

To hit a " Z " shot one hits the side wall hard and up high causing the ball to hit the front then the other side wall then back to the original side wall.

The ball is slightly larger than a golf ball, leather-coated and hard.

Avoiding steel-based alloys ( which were too hard and rust-prone ) they developed an alloy based on aluminum and bronze, and ( in 1923 ) patented a metal ball made ​ of two welded-together hemispheres.

The firearm was loaded through the muzzle with gunpowder, optionally some wadding and then a bullet ( usually a solid lead ball, but musketeers could shoot stones when they ran out of bullets ).

A common aiming system is to alternate solid (" ball ") rounds and tracer ammunition rounds ( usually one tracer round for every four ball rounds ), so shooters can see the trajectory and " walk " the fire into the target, and direct the fire of other soldiers.

Field polo is played with a solid plastic ball, which has replaced the wooden ball in much of the sport.

The most familiar examples are those that arise as the boundaries of solid objects in ordinary three-dimensional Euclidean space R < sup > 3 </ sup > — for example, the surface of a ball.

The goal is to hit the ball so that it lands as close as possible to the back wall, giving the opponent very little room to hit a solid return.

The game was played with a ball of solid rubber, called an olli, whence derives the Spanish word for rubber, hule.

* The projectile, most typically a solid lead ball, loose shot, a Minié ball or a jacketed modern bullet in a plastic sabot.

Consider the solid ball in R < sup > 3 </ sup > of radius π ( that is, all points of R < sup > 3 </ sup > of distance π or less from the origin ).

Grey was a solid hitter and an excellent pitcher who relied on a sharply dropping curve ball.

For example, a solid disk or solid ball is homotopy equivalent to a point, and

A morula ( Latin, morus: mulberry ) is an embryo at an early stage of embryonic development, consisting of cells ( called blastomeres ) in a solid ball contained within the zona pellucida.

The object of the game is to use a long handled racket, known as a lacrosse stick, to catch, carry, and pass the ball in an effort to score by ultimately hurling a solid rubber lacrosse ball into an opponent's goal.

These caravans were built like short railway carriages, about 6. 1 metres ( 20 feet ) long ; but had wooden wheels with solid rubber tyres and ball bearings.

Although a biological joint can resemble a man-made joint in being a hinge or a ball and socket, the engineering problems that nature must solve are very different because the joint works within an almost completely solid structure, with no wheels or nuts and bolts.

A reasonably powerful right-handed hitter who frequently hit near the middle of the batting order and did not strike out at a high rate, he frequently came to the plate with runners on base, and usually made solid contact ( as opposed to bunting ) to usually put the ball in play.

Spall are flakes of a material that are broken off a larger solid body and can be produced by a variety of mechanisms, including as a result of projectile impact, corrosion, weathering, cavitation, or excessive rolling pressure ( as in a ball bearing ).