Another risk of the hit-and-run is that a caught line drive could result in an easy double play, although this is offset by the lower likelihood of a ground ball double play.

As a consequence, home runs were rare, and the " inside game " dominated — singles, bunts, stolen bases, the hit-and-run play, and other tactics dominated the strategies of the time.

The hit-and-run play requires that the batter hit the ball, lest the baserunner be caught stealing on a throw from the catcher to the shortstop or second baseman covering second base and makes a pick-off of a baserunner more likely.

The play features a middle-aged middle-class couple living in a North London suburb whose life has been catastrophically affected by a hit-and-run accident which has left their beautiful undergraduate daughter totally dependent upon them, but their lives are dramatically changed by the arrival of a mysterious young stranger.

Managers will sometimes simultaneously send a runner and require the batter to swing ( a hit-and-run play ) in an attempt to advance runners.

On a hit-and-run play the batter will often try to hit to the opposite field ( the opposite of the natural tendency for the right-handed hitter to pull the ball to left field and vice versa ).

This can be done by bunting the ball, hitting a fly ball far enough in the air that a baserunner can advance after the catch, or simply making contact with the ball on a hit-and-run play.

On a hit-and-run play, Lazzeri singled to right field.

Once on base, a runner would often steal or be bunted over to second base and move to third base or score on a hit-and-run play.

Selkies are the speediest of the races, and can take enemies down with a hit-and-run tactic.

A leech is extremely fast and can regenerate while stationary, making it efficient for hit-and-run tactics.

Often the precise circumstance to call for a hit-and-run occurs with a two balls, one strike count on a hitter, as this situation may meet all of the above criteria, depending on who is at bat and who is on base, but it can occur at other times.

But if the hitter fails to hit the ball, the hit-and-run becomes a pure steal attempt, and the runner may be thrown out.

The hit-and-run has the best chance to be successful when the batter is someone who does not frequently swing and miss, at a time when the count won't disadvantage a hitter if he takes a bad swing, with a runner fast enough to take second base even if the batter does swing and miss.

And a variant of the hit-and-run is the run-and-hit, in which the runner takes off on a steal attempt of second and the batter has the option of whether or not to swing at the pitch.

He was also a good hit-and-run man, and one of the best bunters in the league.

His wife and children are killed in a hit-and-run incident at the start of series nine.

Mr. Seo had wanted to take over the Lee textile business at a very low price, so he arranged a hit-and-run accident that would cause Mr. Lee to stay in the hospital for a few days until the bidding ended ( but Mr. Lee ended up dying from his wounds ).

The colonies were unable to mount an effective resistance to the hit-and-run tactics of the Indians, though the destruction of Shingas's base of operations in the Kittanning Expedition in 1756 surprised the Delawares and compelled them to move further west, settling in what is present-day Ohio.

On first base when was saw a hit-and-run sign and ran for second, heard the bat, and saw the shortstop move over to cover the bag.

An alert offense, in turn, understands the probability of a forthcoming pitchout, and use the hit-and-run opportunity as a decoy, causing the pitchout to become another ball in the count in the hitter's favor, increasing his chances of reaching base by walk or hit.

For the most part of the years of the Fifth Coalition, British military operations on land apart from in the Iberian Peninsula remained restricted to hit-and-run operations executed by the Royal Navy, which dominated the sea after having beaten down almost all substantial naval opposition from France and its allies and blockading what remained of France's naval forces in heavily fortified French-controlled ports.

It appeared hundreds of rebels were using the cover of darkness and their knowledge of the maze of small streets and alleys around Tombland to launch hit-and-run attacks on Royal troops.

The meaning of military tactics has changed over time from the deployment and manoeuvreing of entire land armies on the fields of ancient battles, and galley fleets, to modern use of small unit ambushes, encirclements, bomb and bombardment attacks, frontal assaults, air assaults, hit-and-run tactics used mainly by guerrilla forces and, in some cases, suicide attacks on land and at sea.

Young had been arrested on suspicion of committing a hit-and-run.

He continued his hit-and-run attacks on forts in the upper Missouri area throughout the late 1860s and early 1870s.

The German bombers suffered heavy losses for minimal damage inflicted, and the Axis ' need for reinforcements in North Africa and Russian Front meant further operations were restricted to hit-and-run raids on coastal towns by a few Focke-Wulf Fw 190 fighter-bombers.

They developed a unique style of warfare where horse archery and hit-and-run tactics proved very effective against the slower contemporary Japanese imperial army that mostly relied on heavy infantry.

Serving as commander, Carrier Division 2 aboard his flagship Enterprise, Halsey led a series of hit-and-run raids against the Japanese, striking the Gilbert and Marshall islands in February, Wake Island in March, and carrying out the Doolittle Raid in April against targets on the Japanese homeland.

The Google Bomb has been used for tactical media as a way of performing a ' hit-and-run ' media attack on popular topics.

" Even some other civil rights lawyers regarded Kunstler as a " publicity hound and a hit-and-run lawyer " who " brings cases on Page 1 and the N. A. A. C. P.

Wilson's drunkenness also led to a scandal in 1980 when an eyewitness reported that Wilson's Lincoln Continental hit a Mazda in a hit-and-run accident on the Washington DC's Key Bridge the night before his first trip to Pakistan.

involved in a hit-and-run accident of a pedestrian in Yomitan Village on Okinawa.

The hit-and-run occurred near Ventura, California while Murphy was on vacation.

With incidents of passengers falling into tracks and being hit-and-run by trains, the government announced plans to install half-height platform screen doors in a speech on 25 January 2008, citing lower costs due to it becoming a more common feature worldwide but once rejected.

With incidents of passengers falling into tracks and being hit-and-run by trains, the government announced plans to install half-height platform screen doors ( HHPSDs ) in a speech on 25 January 2008, citing lower costs due to its becoming a more common feature worldwide but once rejected.

The next day, after Fung Sei's pleas for Wong Hoi fall on deaf ears, Ah Jong does a hit-and-run on Wong Hoi's car, wounding the Triad leader and killing his driver and bodyguard.

The Minbari strategy of leaving a system after destroying its defenders allowed EarthForce to initially have success in hit-and-run raids on smaller Minbari warships and supply vessels ; on the planetary surface of Earth colonies, human forces used guerilla warfare tactics to pin down Minbari troops.

Ultimately she was charged with DUI, hit-and-run, battery on a police officer and resisting a police officer.

Isadore From referred to some of Fritz ' brief workshops as " hit-and-run " therapy, because of Perls ' alleged emphasis on showmanship with little or no follow-through.

Simcor Beddle's Ironhead movement stages a hit-and-run attack on a plantation near Settlertown, and they crop up once or twice more as the story progresses.