The one exception is that on a HBP, the ball is dead and any runners who were stealing on the play must return to their original base unless forced to the next base anyway.

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.

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 the ball has left the field along the sidelines, the referee must decide which team touched the ball last, and award a restart stroke to the opposing team, just like football's throw-in.

The skates, sticks and any tape on the stick must be of another colour than the ball.

Unlike six-wicket croquet, where each time a ball is roqueted a croquet shot must be taken, players have four options after roqueting another ball.

:# the striker ’ s ball after making a roquet must be placed in contact with the roqueted ball

must advance the ball at least ten yards towards the opponents ' goal line within three downs or forfeit the ball to their opponents.

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

An out-of-town writer came up to Paul Richards today and asked the Oriole manager if he thought his ball club would be improved this year.

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.

This occurred in spite of the rational awareness that the ball should be going downhill.

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.

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

Joe naturally ruled that a ball be dropped from alongside the spot where it had originally entered the stream.

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.

Everyone in the ball park seemed to be standing and shouting.

The contents of the Darnley urn are also problematic ; they were variously reported to be the remains of a stump, bail or the outer casing of a ball, but in 1998 Darnley's 82-year-old daughter-in-law said they were the remains of her mother-in-law's veil, casting a further layer of doubt on the matter.

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 ..."

It is used in ball games, where the play of the game follows the state of the ball as it is hit, kicked or thrown by players.

If a kicked ball goes out of bounds, or the kicking team scores a single or field goal as a result of the kick, the other team likewise gets possession.

; Field goal: Scored by a drop kick or place kick ( except on a kickoff ) when the ball, after being kicked and without again touching the ground, goes over the cross bar and between the goal posts ( or between lines extended from the top of the goal posts ) of the opponent's goal, worth three points.

; Single: Scored when the ball becomes dead in the possession of a team in its own goal area, or when the ball touches or crosses the dead-line, or side-line-in-goal, and touches the ground, a player, or some object beyond these lines as a result of the ball having been kicked from the field of play into the goal area by the scoring team.

* the ball was kicked off,

Drop kicks are mandatory from the centre spot to start a half ( a kick-off ), from the centre spot to restart the game after points have been scored, to restart play from the 22-metre line ( called a drop-out ) after the ball is touched down or made dead in the in-goal area by the defending team when the attacking team kicked or took the ball into the in-goal area, and to score a drop goal ( sometimes called a field goal ) in open play, which is worth three points.

During one game in the 1980s, Hamilton Tiger-Cats wide receiver Earl Winfield was unable to field a punt properly ; in frustration, he kicked the ball out of bounds.

The rules do not allow the person who kicked the ball to gain advantage from the kick, so the ball will automatically be passed on to the opposing team.

For example, a pronoun may play the role of subject (" I kicked the ball "), of object (" John kicked me "), or of possessor (" That ball is mine ").

Languages such as Ancient Greek, Latin, and Sanskrit had ways of altering or inflecting nouns to mark roles which are not specially marked in English, such as the ablative case (" John kicked the ball away from the house ") and the instrumental case (" John kicked the ball with his foot ").

He batted and kicked the ball into the end zone, where he fell on it for the game-tying touchdown as time ran out.

" I was trying to kill the ball, and I kicked it bad ," he said.

They ultimately changed the lyrics from " The ball is kicked " to " The ball is tipped ", and the song is now played at the end of the network's NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship coverage.

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.

Just six weeks after Dandy Brandon's arrival at the mansion, the little surgeon and his svelte young wife gave their annual open house and ball, to which only New Orleans' oldest and wealthiest families were invited.

Eddie Lee, Riverside's redheaded playing manager, ran after the ball but it rolled past him.

Formerly Longacre Square, Times Square was renamed in April 1904 after The New York Times moved its headquarters to the newly erected Times Building site of the annual ball drop on New Year's Eve.

* BABIP — Batting average on balls in play: frequency at which a batter reaches a base after putting the ball in the field of play.

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.

The sacrifice fly is one of two instances in baseball where a batter is not charged with a time at bat after putting a ball in play ; the other is the sacrifice hit ( also known as a sacrifice bunt ).

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.

Runners would specifically not be charged with being caught, if the player was put out after a wild pitch or passed ball.

His voice became a fixture of both Memorial Stadium and Camden Yards, and his expression " Give that fan a contract ", uttered whenever a fan caught a foul ball, was one of his trademarks – the other being his distinct " Thank Yooooou ..." following every announcement ( He was also known on occasion to say " Give that fan an error " after a dropped foul ball ).

* Ball in play: A ball after it has been played into the game, which is not a ball in hand or pegged out.

* Croquet stroke: A stroke taken after making a roquet, in which the striker's ball and the roqueted ball are placed together in contact.

Alou reacted angrily toward the stands, and after the game stated that he would have caught the ball.

McClelland educated the media and fans after the game as to the call: Padres catcher Michael Barrett blocked the plate before securing possession of the ball, resulting in an automatic ruling of safe and making Holliday's apparent failure to touch the plate irrelevant.

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.

* The clock stops after the offense completes a first down and begins again — assuming it is following a play in which the clock would not normally stop — once the referee declares the ball ready for play.

* In the 2006 season, the game clock was started when the ball was declared ready for play after the defensive team ( during a scrimmage down ) or the kick-receiving team ( during a free kick down ) was awarded a first down ( change of possession ), reducing the time of games.

The kicker may not be contacted after the kick but before his kicking leg returns to the ground ( this rule is not enforced upon a player who has blocked a kick ), and the quarterback, having already thrown the ball, may not be hit or tackled.