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When Mantle came to bat in the eighth inning with McLain and the Tigers holding a 6-1 lead, McLain intentionally threw a soft pitch directly over home plate.
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When Mickey Charles Mantle, the New York Yankees' man of muscle, drives a home run 450 feet into the bleachers, his feat touches upon the sublime.
When Mantle was four years old, the family moved to the nearby town of Commerce, Oklahoma, where his father worked in lead and zinc mines.
When Mantle finally fell short, finishing with 52, there seemed to be a collective sigh of relief from the New York traditionalists.
When he retired, Mantle was third on the all-time home run list with 536.
When Mantle played for the Yankees, the distance to the right-field foul pole stood at a mere 296 feet ( 90 m ), with markers in the power alleys of 344 and 407, while the left-field power alley ranged from 402 to 457 feet ( 139 m ) from the plate.
When Stewart was ten years old, she worked as the occasional babysitter for the children of Mickey Mantle, Yogi Berra, and Gil McDougald, all athletes for New York Yankees.
" ( When Mickey Mantle saw the A's ' green-and-gold uniforms, he jeered, " They should have come out of the dugout on tippy-toes, holding hands and singing ," according to Baseball Digest.
When and came
When his head came down, Curt grabbed him by the hair and catapulted him head first into the wall.
`` When I came up, damnit, I thought I was going down.
When he came back to the schoolhouse, his mind was made up.
When Beckett's name came into the discussion, the priest grew loud and told me that Beckett `` hates life ''.
When fame came it changed Sandburg only slightly.
When May came the Caravan had already crossed the Equator.
When their levies came shambling into camp, they were all elbows, hair, and beard.
When he came home from his office at the end of the afternoon, Breasted never knew what gathering he should expect to find, but there almost always was one.
When I first came across Samuel Johnson's pronouncement, `` the remedy for the ills of life is palliative rather than radical '', it seemed to me to sum up the profoundest of political and social truths.
When he came to Baltimore, he was leaving a team which was supposed to win the National League pennant, and he was joining what seemed to be a second division American League club.
When the sun came out, Stevie strode proudly into Orange Square, smiling like a landlord on industrious tenants.
When he felt the side of his head, his fingers came away covered with blood.
When his arm came up I ducked away but it caught me on the side of the neck, watering my eyes, and I backed off to cough.
When he was bent over behind the wheel of the station wagon, feeling in his trouser cuffs for the ignition key which he had dropped a moment before, she came out of the house with an enormous Rumanian shawl over her head, which she had bought in that country during one of their trips abroad, and handed him a clean handkerchief through the window.
When they came to Mr. Jack's photograph, twenty by twelve inches in a curly silver frame, Miss Ada said, `` By rights I ought to leave that, seeing he won't take my clotheshorse ''.
When radio came in, it continued the misplaced modifier in its routines as a standard device.
When the therapist came to feel on sufficiently sure ground with him to ask him, `` What is that, Bill -- hello or farewell ''??
When the chance came, they first eliminated cold cereal once a week, then gradually converted to hot fresh-ground cereal every day.
When a second quake came, they dashed back to the beach, fearing that they might be buried under landslides.
When a cow came out of a corral in a crouchin' run she was said to `` come out a-stoopin' ''.
When he came to the movies -- more or less by accident -- they were still cheap entertainment capable of enthralling the unthinking for an idle few minutes.
When he snatched it up the voice that came to him was quick and urgent.
When the verdict came in against his young neighbor, Hengesbach said:
When Dr. W. A. Swim celebrated his 75th birthday at the Wilshire Country Club, guests came by chartered plane from all over the country.
`` When you came up to the majors, did you seek out Williams for advice ''??
When and bat
* SVO — Save opportunity: When a pitcher 1 ) enters the game with a lead of three or fewer runs and pitches at least one inning, 2 ) enters the game with the potential tying run on base, at bat, or on deck, or 3 ) pitches three or more innings with a lead and is credited with a save by the official scorer
When he came to bat he spit in the direction of fans near the dugout.
When Gyro is forced to pitch for the Northside, pitting an " unhittable " baseball against another of his inventions, an " unmissable " baseball bat made for the Southside team, the result is total chaos.
When he was a child, a near-fatal accident prompted his father to make him a primitive bat, and the child took to cricket with great enthusiasm.
When he returned, Fosse tore a ligament in his left hand during an at bat against Denny McLain, forcing him to miss the 1971 All-Star Game.
When one of the players manages to knock the hockey puck past the opponent's bat, the player scores.
When he came out to bat in the second, in the face of a large Australian first-innings lead, Hobbs was given an ovation by the crowd and the Australian fielders gave him three cheers.
When Kahless slew evil Molor dead ... And after he used it to kill the tyrant Molor he gave it a name: bat ' leth, " the sword of honor ".
When the DH spot next came up to bat in the 8th inning, Eric Chavez pinch-hit for Joba Chamberlain before Cody Eppley took the mound in the 9th inning.
When the decision to remove a pitcher is made, the manager may also elect to double switch, delaying the new pitcher's turn at bat.
When Lakha comes on to bat, he is hit by a bouncer on his head, and he falls on to his stumps.
When first purchased, most bats are not ready for immediate use and require knocking-in in order to allow the soft fibres to strike a hard new cricket ball without causing damage to the bat, and allowing full power to be transferred to the shot.
When a batsman gets dismissed, however, five runs are deducted from their total and they continue to bat.
When McCovey came to bat, typically those bleachers would empty as the fans positioned themselves on the flat ground hoping to catch a McCovey home run ball – anticipating the gathering of boats in McCovey Cove, a generation later, when Barry Bonds would bat.
When he returned to the field, he continued to produce with the bat, but his years as a shortstop ended after 1987.
When Canham came to bat the following inning, Midland pitcher Carlos Hernandez threw a pitch that came close to Canham ’ s head, clearing the benches again and nearly provoking a fight between the teams.
When a team goes out to bat, the best players bat first.
When Hobbs was dismissed, Jardine came in to bat.
When the cut fastball is working correctly, mainly against opposite-handed batters ( e. g., a right-handed pitcher facing a left-handed hitter ), the pitch can crack and split a hitter's bat, hence the pitch's occasional nickname of " the buzzsaw.
When the teams took to the field for the deciding Test, Woodfull won the toss and elected to bat.
When India started the second innings late in the final day, he was sent in to open, thus becoming one of the few batsmen to bat on all five days of a Test.
When Slater came out to bat, Warne and Berry began saying " tick ... tock ... tick ... tock " alternately.
0.191 seconds.