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Others are confined to vast reservations, and not only does the Australian government justifiably not wish them to be viewed as exhibits in a zoo, but on their reservations they are extremely fugitive, shunning camps, coming together only for corroborees at which their strange culture comes to its highest pitch -- which is very low indeed.
Quite other feelings are evidenced by this style: Af Note the drop to pitch 1 ( the lowest ) on mother with no rise at the end of the sentence ; ;
Rookie southpaw George Stepanovich relieved Hyde at the start of the ninth and gave up the A's fifth tally on a walk to second baseman Dick Howser, a wild pitch, and Frank Cipriani's single under Shortstop Jerry Adair's glove into center.
The parish's main Gaelic football pitch and two secondary schools are on the mainland at Poll Raithní.
After narrowly winning the Second Test at Lord's, dubbed " The Battle of the Ridge " because of a protrusion on the pitch that caused erratic bounce, Australia mounted a comeback on the final day of the Fourth Test at Old Trafford and sealed the series after a heavy collapse during the English runchase.
* OBP — On base percentage: times reached base ( H + BB + HBP ) divided by at bats plus walks plus hit by pitch plus sacrifice flies ( AB + BB + HBP + SF ).
* TA — Total average: total bases, plus walks, plus hit by pitch, plus steals, minus caught stealing divided by at bats, minus hits, plus caught stealing, plus grounded into double plays
* W — Win: number of games where pitcher was pitching while his team took the lead and went on to win, also the starter needs to pitch at least 5 innings of work ( also related: winning percentage )
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.
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.
* and he did not swing at the pitch.
* In The Simpsons episode " Homer at the Bat ", Homer Simpson is hit in the head by a pitch while playing for the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant softball team, rendering him unconscious, but forcing in the winning run.
This happens when a player has almost no walks or times hit by pitch, with a higher number of sacrifice flies ( e. g. if a player has 2 hits in 6 at bats plus a sacrifice fly, his batting average would be. 333, but his on-base percentage would be. 286 ).
Another popular strategy is for the runner to attempt a steal while the hitter is instructed to swing at the pitch if it is at all hittable.
Basically, " plate appearances " = at bats + some of the scenarios excluded from at bats such as base on balls, hit by pitch, sacrifice or catcher's interference which positively affect the offensive team.
Famous video footage of the ' battle of Boet Erasmus Stadium ' shows JPR Williams running over half of the pitch and launching himself at van Heerden after such a call.
Ramsey had already cleared out some of the older players who had been reliant on the loyalty of the committee for their continued selection – it was well known that decorum on the pitch at club level had been just as big a factor in playing for England as ability and form.
Beatmatching ( or Beatmaxing ) is a disc jockey technique of pitch shifting or timestretching a track to match its tempo to that of the currently playing track e. g. the kicks and snares in two house records hit at the same time when both records are played simultaneously.
Children were often placed at the front of this enclosure and the area had a distinctive white picket fence to keep fans off the pitch ( up until the 70's ).
To honor Thome, the Indians placed him at his original position, third base, for one pitch against the Minnesota Twins on September 25.
An infamous Keith Moreland-Ed Lynch fight erupted after Lynch hit Moreland with a pitch, perhaps forgetting Moreland was once a linebacker at the University of Texas.

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( Old systems which used cassettes changed the pitch by altering playback speed, but none are still on the market, and their commercial use is virtually nonexistent.
Whilst the Old Trafford pitch was not as suited to bodyline as the hard Australian wickets, Martindale did take 5 for 73, but Constantine only took 1 for 55.
The Taylors also built many instruments with higher pitch standards in mind, such as the Old Philharmonic pitch of A = 453 that was commonplace in late 19th century America.
It was only the second stand in the country, after one at Scunthorpe United's Old Showground, to be built with a cantilever roof and the first to run the full length of the pitch.
It was however the first in the country to run the entire length of the pitch ; the first cantilever stand in English football at Scunthorpe United's Old Show Ground only covered the centre of the pitch.
On 10 February 2008, at the derby match between Manchester United and Manchester City at Old Trafford, both teams were led onto the pitch by a lone piper playing " The Red Flag ", and the managers – Alex Ferguson and Sven-Göran Eriksson – each laid a wreath in the centre circle.
Devonport High School Old Boys RFC and The Stonehouse Sharks Youth Rugby Club play out of The Stonehouse Creek Community centre, built in 2003, DHSOB have had mixed success on the pitch in recent years, but were Lockie and ELlis Cup winners in 2005.
He dropped out after two years due to a lack of funds but was brought on to pitch for the Pickens, Mississippi, semiprofessional baseball team in the Old Tomato League summer circuit.
Robson moved to United for a British record transfer fee of £ 1. 5 million on 1 October 1981 and signed the contract on the Old Trafford pitch two days later.
He made an immediate impact ; in the fifth league game of the season in the Old Firm match at Celtic Park he scored a memorable goal running almost the length of the pitch.
Some other modern Indo-European languages have pitch accent systems, like Swedish and Norwegian, deriving from a stress-based system they inherited from Old Norse, and Punjabi, which developed tone distinctions that maintained lexical distinctions as consonants were conflated.
The pitch at Crimble is said to be one of the largest pitches in Lancashire, second only to Old Trafford.
Football pitches are located at Old Road and Glenpatrick Road although it appears only the grass pitch is open to local use, the " blaes " pitch out of use now the Stoddard factory has gone, and been replaced by a new grass pitch.
The 1970s saw the dramatic rise of football hooliganism in Britain, and a knife-throwing incident in 1971 forcing the club to erect the country's first perimeter fence, restricting fans from the Old Trafford pitch.
The Old Trafford pitch is surrounded by four covered all-seater stands, officially known as the Sir Alex Ferguson ( North ), East, South and West Stands.
Nicknamed Il Gioiello di Bari Vecchia (" the jewel of Old Bari "), he is known for his short temper as much as his ability on the pitch, which led to the coining of the neologism Cassanata by his former coach, Fabio Capello, in November 2002.
During this time, McGinnity developed a sidearm pitch he nicknamed " Old Sal ", described as a " slow curve ", which became a feature of his later success.
A notable example of such a foul was the 1998 tackle by Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, playing for Manchester United at Old Trafford, who ran from within the Newcastle penalty area almost the length of the pitch to run down and trip Newcastle United's Rob Lee-with a clear goalscoring opportunity one on one with United goalkeeper Raimond van der Gouw.
During the following Test at Old Trafford, which England lost by three wickets, while bowling 390 balls in the first innings in perfect batting conditions ( taking seven for 168 ), Richardson, was, when Australia were set 125 to win on a pitch showing no sign of wear, able to bowl 178 balls without a rest, take six for 76 and almost win England a seemingly lost game.
A cricket pitch lies within the grounds of the castle and is home to Old Eastonians Cricket Club.

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