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.

Slug the kid, grab his dough -- at least enough to get to Philadelphia -- and then have a rockin' ball with the doll.

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.

The pitcher then pitches the ball to that side several feet outside from home plate, usually outside the reach of the batter.

It is a violation to move without dribbling the ball ( travelling ), to carry it, or to hold the ball with both hands then resume dribbling ( double dribble ).

* Corollary If X is a Banach space, then X is reflexive if and only if X ′ is reflexive, which is the case if and only if its unit ball is compact in the weak topology.

From then on, the side which does not have the ball closest to the jack has a chance to bowl, up until one side or the other has used their four balls.

The aim is to carry the ball from the " Salting Pool " via the old A30, along Callywith Road, then through Castle Street, Church Square and Honey Street to finish at the Turret Clock in Fore Street.

The winner of the game is the team who completes the set circuit of six hoops ( and then back again the other way ), with both balls, and then strikes the centre peg ( making a total of 13 points per ball = 26 ).

* Hand / Foot Shot: The player may place his ball next to the ball he hit, place his hand or foot on top of his ball, then strike his own ball such that his opponent ball moves while his own ball remains in place.

) When the striker ’ s ball hits a ball that he is entitled to then take a croquet shot with.

* Triple peel ( TP ): To send a ball other than the striker ’ s ball through its last three hoops, and then peg it out.

For a distance penalty, if the yardage is greater than half the distance to the goal line, then the ball is advanced half the distance to the goal line, though only up to the one-yard line ( unlike American football, in Canadian football no scrimmage may start inside either one-yard line ).

The ball is then turned over to the receiving team ( who gained the two points ), by way of a kickoff from the 25 yard line or scrimmaging from the line on their side of the field.

The other team then scrimmages the ball at the same 35-yard line and has the same opportunity to score.

This is followed by a layer of wadding ( often nothing more than paper ), and then the cannon ball itself.

To fire the cannon, the fuse located in the vent is lit, quickly burning down to the gunpowder, which then explodes violently, propelling wadding and ball down the bore and out of the muzzle.

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 ..."

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 ).

For example, a runner on first base advances to second on a passed ball.

Since the runner would now have been at second anyway, the passed ball no longer has any impact on the earned / unearned calculation.

* A batter reaches first base on a passed ball ( but not a wild pitch ) and subsequently scores by any means.

* A batter reaches base on a fielder's choice which removes a baserunner who has reached base safely on an error or has remained on base as the result of an error, reaching first base on a passed ball on a called or swinging third strike, or remained on base on an error on a fielders ' choice play that should have retired him, and subsequently scores.

* A batter or runner advances one or more bases on an error or passed ball and scores on a play that would otherwise not have provided the opportunity to score.

For example, with two outs, a runner on third base scores on a passed ball.

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.

Further, any successful steal on a play resulting in a wild pitch, passed ball, or balk would no longer be credited as a steal, even if the runner had started to steal before the play.

The stolen base was specifically to be credited " to a runner whenever he advances one base unaided by a base hit, a putout, a forceout, a fielder's choice, a passed ball, a wild pitch, or a balk.

Runners would now be credited with stolen bases if they had begun the act of stealing, and the resulting pitch was wild, or a passed ball.

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

Statistically, it is recorded as a strikeout plus a passed ball or wild pitch, and a " stolen base " statistic does not accrue and neither is an out recorded for the strikeout.

A further change was soon made, so the ball merely passed through.

The person passing the ball must be a member of the offensive team, and the recipient of the forward pass must be an eligible receiver and must touch the passed ball before any ineligible player.

The New York Times called it " the prettiest play of the day ," as Wesleyan's quarterback " deftly passed the ball past the whole Yale team to his mate Van Tassel.

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.

Following Orta's single, the Cardinals dropped an easy popout and suffered a passed ball, before the Royals went on to win with a bloop base hit by seldom used pinch hitter Dane Iorg.

The game remains controversial to this day because of Stanford's contention that the Cal player's knee was down before he passed the ball during the second lateral and that the fifth lateral was an illegal forward pass.

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.

In the case of a set, one also speaks of a front or back set, meaning whether the ball is passed in the direction the setter is facing or behind the setter.