In baseball a cleanup hitter is the fourth man in the batting order, typically a slugger who is expected to clear the bases by driving other runners home to score runs.

# In certain game situations, typically a ball batted to the shortstop or third baseman with no runners on base, the catcher may be expected to back-up first base in case the first baseman misses or mishandles a throw.

In addition to the rake, tipping the dealers, chip runners, servers and other casino employees is almost universally expected, putting a further drain on a player's profits.

Despite being relegated in the County Championship, the team managed finish as runners up in the National League and were expected to be promoted back to the first division of first-class cricket in the 2005 season.

AaB was heavily underdogs and no one really expected AaB to stand in the way for the 1992 UEFA Champions League runners up.

When fielder drops a fly ball, runners that expected having to tag up must run immediately to avoid the incoming batsman, allowing an easy force play on them at third base or home plate.

Officials expected 500 runners for the event ( with 340 pre-registered ), but on race day an additional 600 to 700 runners registered.

Piggott produced Nijinsky in the straight to make his challenge on the wide outside and 150m from the finish he caught the front runners Miss Dan and Sassafras and took a slight lead.

He became skilled at negotiating balls hit off the high right-field wall at Ebbets Field, and after he led the NL in assists in both 1950 ( 18 ) and 1951 ( 24 ), opposing runners were increasingly reluctant to challenge his arm.

Elsewhere, the cars were consistent midfield runners and Barrichello was often in a position to challenge for points.

This same contrast can be made between track and ekiden ; only the runners in the first ekiden stage run as a group ; later stage runners must judge for themselves the appropriate pace and the decisions to challenge and pass other runners, whose abilities might be significantly different and whose position was determined by the efforts of preceding teammates.

Eddery restrained Dancing Brave in the early stages before switching him to the wide outside to challenge in the straight as the runners spread across the width of the course.

Wasatch began in its early years as a challenge for some local runners who were inspired by Western States, the first of modern-day western 100s.

Nurmi had won five gold medals in five events, but he left the Games embittered as the Finnish officials had allocated races between their star runners and prevented him from defending his title in the 10, 000 m, the distance that was dearest to him.

" Some contemporary Finns nicknamed him Suuri vaikenija ( The Great Silent One ), and Ron Clarke noted that Nurmi's persona remained a mystery even to Finnish runners and journalists: " Even to them, he was never quite real.

Four years earlier the Major took Stebbins to the finish of a Long Walk and now Stebbins feels that the Major has set him up to be " the rabbit ", motivating other runners to walk farther to prolong the race, just as rabbits are used in dog races.

In early 2008, Oscar Pistorius, the " Blade Runner " of South Africa, was briefly ruled ineligible to compete in the 2008 Summer Olympics because his prosthetic limbs were said to give him an unfair advantage over runners who had ankles.

Over his career, he threw out 57 % of the base runners who tried to steal a base on him, the highest by any catcher in major league history.

* face The god Osiris-Antinous, the justified, whose place this is ; he makes a sports arena in his place in Egypt, which is named after him, for the strong ones that are in this land, and for the rowing-teams and the runners of the whole land and for all men who belong to the place of the sacred writings where Thoth is present.

More likely to hit the ball sharply to the left side of the infield, placed in the order of the lineup so that he usually had runners on base ahead of him, and less likely to beat throws to first base, and having a very long career because he was a good hitter for average and power, this competent hitter grounded into an unusual number of double plays.

Like Ripken he was a power hitter usually batting in the middle of the batting order and often with runners on first base ; unlike Ripken he hit far fewer balls toward fielders who could turn double plays upon him and struck out far more often, his strikeouts making a GIDP impossible.

The pitcher who replaced him, Will Ohman, proceeded to allow two of the runners on base to score, giving the Reds a 6 – 5 lead.

Perhaps hoping to show the Tigers were wrong in casting him aside, Crawford exploded on the scene for the Angels, as he got two hits, stole a base and threw out two runners in his first game.

In interviews with Al Stump, Cobb told of studying Crawford ’ s base-stealing technique and of how Crawford would teach him about pursuing fly balls and throwing out base runners.

Munson threw out 44. 48 % of base runners who tried stealing a base on him, ranking him 11th on the all-time list.

Negative campaign ads attacking each other by the two front runners soured the voters on them, and a last minute decision by Kerry to put all his remaining money in Iowa swung voters towards him.

There was no jockeying for position in the race ; Bayi led from the beginning in a fast pace and was 20 metres ahead at 800 metres, the other runners strung out in a line behind him.

His coach, Zabierzowski, had initially tricked him in to trying an 800 race by convincing him the other runners need a pacemaker.

That was confirmed by the fact that former runners who met him in his later years said that he looked badly overweight.

Equipoise's dam Swinging was a descendant of the Epsom Oaks winner Miami, placing him in the same Thoroughbred family as the 1897 English Triple Crown winner Galtee More and the 1902 Epsom Derby winner Ard Patrick as well as some well-known American runners, such as Intentionally and Seabiscuit.

However, unknown to Barbossa, Jack made a deal with rum runners to take him off the island after three days, swore to use the pistol's single shot to kill Barbossa, and spent the next 10 years seeking revenge.

Harper is depicted as a biker who buys drugs in order to get friendly with schoolgirl Hayley Fitzpatrick ( aka Harley Quinn ), but a terrifying ordeal with drug runners leads him to alert the police after being helped by Batman and Black Canary.

In the Olympic final, Ereng was fourth as they entered the straight, but he then surged past the three runners in front of him to win the gold medal.

In the 10 000 m final, a tightly bunched group of nine runners were traveling at sub-world record pace just before the 4600 m mark, when Lasse Virén from Finland suddenly stumbled and fell over, causing Gammoudi to tumble over the top of him.

At one point in the game when the skinny old man in suspenders who was acting as umpire got in the way of a thrown ball and took it painfully in the kidneys, he lay there unattended while players and spectators wrangled over whether the ball was `` dead '' or the base runners were free to score.

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.

Finally, for 1950 only, runners would be credited with a stolen base if they were " well advanced " toward the base they were attempting to steal ", and the pitcher is charged with a balk, with the further exception of a player attempting to steal, who would otherwise have been forced to advance on the balk by a runner behind them.

Thus, if the score was 3 – 2 with the bases loaded in the bottom of the ninth, and the batter smacked an " over the fence home run ", the game would end at 4 – 3, with the batter only allowed a double, and the runners officially stopped on 2nd and 3rd ( since they were not needed to win the game ).

Both runners were now in scoring position and Casey represented the potential winning run.

In the five years immediately after the war, Essendon won 3 premierships ( 1946, 1949, 1950 ) and were runners up twice ( 1947, 1948 ).

In their narcotics interdiction role, they were a nightmare for illegal drug runners, as they were very fast and had the ability to stop anything they could not catch, as well as the ability to call in air support.

However in the past far larger numbers were allowed-the largest field ever raced was a staggering 39 runners in 1890.

The Chennai Super Kings were the runners up in the inaugural edition of the IPL, losing to the Rajasthan Royals in the final.

Though traditionally depicted as ungainly and awkward when on the ground, the anatomy of at least some pterosaurs ( particularly pterodactyloids ) suggests that they were competent walkers and runners.

The Apostle Paul, writing in the first century to Christians in the city of Corinth where the Isthmian Games were held, reflects this in his writings when he says, " Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one gets the prize?

The theory proposed considered to be the most likely evolution of running is of early humans ' developing as endurance runners from the practice of persistence hunting of animals, the activity of following and chasing until a prey is too exhausted to flee, succumbing to " chase myopathy " ( Sears 2001 ), and that human features such as the nuchal ligament, abundant sweat glands, the Achilles tendons, big knee joints and muscular glutei maximi, were changes caused by this type of activity ( Bramble & Lieberman 2004, et al .).

Among the participants were numerous representatives of both the Mid-Pacific Road Runners and the Waikiki Swim Club, whose members had long been debating which athletes were more fit: runners or swimmers.

The findings were that the performers metabolic rates matched those of marathon runners halfway through a marathon, while the heart rate was more along the lines of someone who was running a " 400 or 800 meter dash.

The same runners were on base on both home runs — Dave McNally on third, Don Buford on second and Paul Blair on first.

Sloops in their modern form were developed by the French Navy as blockade runners to circumvent Royal Navy blockades.

In 1999 Benjamin Ridgley and Gail Ridgley organized a group of Northern Arapaho runners to run from Limon, Colorado to Ethete, Wyoming in memory of their ancestors who were forced to run for their lives after being attacked and pursued by Colonel Chivington and his battalion.

Using PET scans combined with recently available chemicals that reveal endorphins in the brain, they were able to compare runners ’ brains before and after a run.

Show runners Bill Oakley and Josh Weinstein were fans of Phil Hartman, and wished to make an episode entirely about McClure in order to give Hartman as much to do as possible.

The people of Naftali were famous for being great runners.

At the time of the 1948 Summer Olympics, held in London, a relay of runners carried the Olympic Flame from Wembley Stadium, where the Games were based, to the sailing centre at Torbay via Slough, Basingstoke, Salisbury, and Exeter.