Neither the use of a pinch-runner to replace a baserunner who represents an unearned run nor the use of a pinch-hitter to continue the turn at bat of a batter who would be out except for an error transforms a run scored by such a person or his successors on base from an unearned run to an earned run.

In baseball, hit by pitch ( HBP ), or hit batsman ( HB ), is a batter or his equipment ( other than his bat ) being hit in some part of his body by a pitch from the pitcher.

A batter is not charged with a plate appearance if, while he was at bat, the game ends as the winning run scores from third base on a balk.

The intent is usually clear from the context, although the term " official at bat " is sometimes used to explicitly refer to an at bat as distinguished from a plate appearance.

By the end of the game, the ball would be dark with grass, mud, and tobacco juice, and it would be misshapen and lumpy from contact with the bat.

This legend may have originated from the vampire bat, an animal endemic to the region.

If the team that batted second is substantially behind on first innings total, it may be required to bat again ( i. e., to immediately follow on from its first innings ) in the third innings of the match.

Some early sources say that this was the bat he received from Apollo, but others question the merits of this claim.

While very difficult to bowl accurately, good leg spin is considered one of the most threatening types of bowling to bat against, since the flight and sharp turn make the ball's movement extremely hard to read and the turn away from the batsman ( assuming he or she is right-handed ) is more dangerous than the turn into the batsman generated by an off spinner.

The Australians elected Dave Gregory from New South Wales as Australia ’ s first ever captain and on winning the toss he decided to bat.

During 1961 spring training, Clemente tried to modify his batting technique by using a heavier bat in order to slow the speed of his swing, following advice from Pirates ' batting coach George Sisler.

At this stage of his career, he had yet to perform consistently with bat and ball simultaneously, apart from his breakthrough series in the Caribbean.

On June 3, 2003, Sosa was ejected from a Chicago Cubs-Tampa Bay Devil Rays game in the first inning when umpires discovered he had been using a corked bat.

Williams struck out, and as he stepped from the batter's box swung his bat violently in anger.

The bat slipped from his hands, was launched into the stands and struck a 60 year-old woman — one who turned out to be the housekeeper of the Red Sox general manager Joe Cronin.

In an interview, he said that all of his children from his second marriage had bar or bat mitzvahs and that he is a more observant Jew now than when he was younger ; he also lamented that he is not fluent in Hebrew.

He picked up his famous nickname from his friend Bobby Hofman who said he resembled a Hindu yogi whenever he sat around with arms and legs crossed waiting to bat or while looking sad after a losing game.

The new altimeter used a series of high-pitched sounds like those made by a bat to measure the distance from the aircraft to the surface, which on return to the aircraft was converted to feet shown on a gauge inside the aircraft cockpit.

By doing so he avoided the possibility that the New Zealand batsman, Brian McKechnie, would score a six from the last ball to tie the match, as the bat would not be able to hit the ball high enough to score a six.

The musicians also resented Van Vliet for taking complete credit for composition and arranging when the musicians themselves pieced together most of the songs from taped fragments or impressionistic directions such as " Play it like a bat being dragged out of oil and it's trying to survive, but it's dying from asphyxiation.

He beats up Harry Doolin with a baseball bat, and moves away from Harwich with his mother, and is twice put in a juvenile detention facility.

Williams could not swing a bat again until four days later, one day before the World Series, when he reported the arm as " sore ".

After the Second World War, he adjusted to bat within the limitations set by his age, becoming a steady " accumulator " of runs.

His renowned 36 not out in the 1975 World Cup, carrying his bat through the full 60 overs against England, led Indian supporters to storm the field and confront him for scoring so slowly when India needed nearly a run a ball to win ; at the end of the game India had lost only three wickets but scored 200 runs less than England.

Boston star Ted Williams, playing with an injury, was largely ineffective at bat in his only World Series.

Dravid continued to bat at No. 3 in ODIs and was subsequently selected in the Indian team for the 7th World Cup ( 1999 ).

* Ginger Beaumont, first player to bat in the first World Series

More famously the " anti-tank dog " and " bat bomb " were developed during World War II.

Though Schmidt had just a career. 191 post-season batting average with no home runs and five RBIs, his bat came alive in the World Series, hitting two homers and driving in seven runs against the Kansas City Royals to earn him the World Series MVP Award.

Box Socials ( 1991 ), an evocation of life in rural Alberta during the Great Depression and World War II, features a growing boy as its protagonist and the adventure of a hometown baseball hero who gets to bat against the great pitcher legend Bob Feller.

In Major League Baseball, ( for interleague play and the World Series ), the home team is the determining factor, with the rules of the home team's league applying to both teams ; if the game is played in an American League park the designated hitter is in effect, however, in a National League park the pitcher must bat or be replaced with a pinch hitter.

In the first World Cricket Tsunami Appeal charity match, he was promoted to bat at number 6 ahead of specialist batsmen Stephen Fleming and Matthew Hayden, but was dismissed first ball trying to slog Muttiah Muralitharan.

One month later, Nash returned at Bound for Glory IV and in a swerve, struck Joe in the back with Sting's bat, helping Sting win the TNA World Heavyweight Championship.

He homered in his first World Series at bat, a two-run shot off Don Newcombe in the second inning of Game 1 in the 1955 Series against the Brooklyn Dodgers, which tied the game 2-2 ; the Yankees won 6-5, but it was Howard's ground ball out to Pee Wee Reese in Game 7 which ended the Series, the first time in six meetings that the Yankees lost to Brooklyn.

Similar nose-leaves are found in some other groups of bat, most notably the Old World leaf-nosed bats.

This species is the largest bat ( Chiroptera ) native to the New World and the largest carnivorous bat in the world.

In the 2007 World Twenty20, he performed poorly with the bat but brilliantly with the ball, earning the Man of the Series award, though he failed to take a wicket in the final and was out for a golden duck. But in the next ICC Twenty20 World Cup, held in 2009 Afridi performed brilliantly in the series scoring 50 runs in the semi-final and 54 in the final and leading his team to victory.

At the 1992 World Cup Semi Final, having won the toss, New Zealand chose to bat first and ended with a total of 262 runs.

At bat, Lewis was a renowned line-drive hitter who consistently finished in the top ten in most offensive categories despite a short career which was interrupted by World War I.

In the semi-final match of the 2009 World Twenty20 against Sri Lanka, he became the first international player to carry his bat through the entire innings in this format of the game as well.

Dykstra would bat. 304 in the 1986 NLCS and later hit. 296 in the World Series against the Boston Red Sox.

Since then, any World Series game in an American League park uses the DH ( previously, the DH was used in alternating World Series ), while pitchers bat in the NL parks.