Stacey Nuveman started the eighth inning with a sacrifice bunt to push designated runner Amanda Freed to third base. |
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Jason dribbles an infield roller that shortstop Nomar Garciaparra handles with ease, tossing over to first base for the third out of the inning. |
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Derek Lee nearly took Pettitte out of the yard on the next at-bat, but Rivera ran down the ball at the warning track to end the inning. |
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He averages just under a strikeout per inning and should develop into a top power pitcher. |
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Each team has an equally allotted amount of turbo at the start of every inning. |
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At Miami, Carlos Delgado hit a pinch-hit grand slam to cap a six-run fifth inning for Florida to salvage a split in the four-game series. |
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Nicholson had hit three home runs in the opener and connected again in the seventh inning of the nightcap. |
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Amazingly, he took a shutout into the ninth inning before RHP Mike Williams got the final two outs in a 3-0 victory. |
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He gave up a pair of singles to Hank Blalock and Michael Young leading off the inning before he was relieved by Troy Percival. |
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In the ninth inning of a tie game, he was thrown out trying to steal third base with one out when he already was in scoring position. |
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The Sultans delivered a decisive blow in the second inning with seven runs and cruised to a lopsided victory. |
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Morales hit his spectacular home run in the third inning to the right field. |
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In one game against the St. Louis Cardinals, he took the mound in the first inning and went the rest of the way for a victory. |
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Then in the seventh inning, the center fielder singled home the go-ahead run. |
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The Red Sox loaded the bases in the ninth inning with nobody out, but they didn't score. |
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Casey, who grew up near Pittsburgh, says he thought a lot about batting in the first inning of the first game at a new stadium in his hometown. |
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Nicole Ronald then came on in relief in the third inning and silenced the Western bats for the remainder of the affair. |
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In the nightcap of the doubleheader, he hit a ninth inning homer off Hoyt Wilhelm to assure the Yankees of a 1-0 win. |
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Gaudin was forced to leave his start in the fifth inning after taking a comebacker off his right arm. |
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By the time he reached the fifth inning in one of his recent starts, he overthrew seriously with dropping arm speed and tanked quickly. |
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Adrian Beltre hit a three-run homer, his 45th home run of the season, in the third inning off Jason Marquis for a 5-4 Dodger lead. |
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Batting last allows the home team in the final inning to know precisely what to aim for. |
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Sometimes five wild pitches in one inning aren't enough to keep a team from a win. |
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The largest determination of how many runs are likely to be scored in an inning is whether or not the lead-off man reaches base. |
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The Mets had Jay Payton on first base in the second inning and one out, when Vance Wilson looped a fly ball to right field. |
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For an inning or two, he could be a fearsome opponent, but he had his ups and downs. |
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During the fifth inning though she was beaned by the ball while the opponent was at bat. |
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Somewhere between the first and last inning of a tight game, a baserunning play is going to decide it. |
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Augsburg rallied in the 7th inning, but the Scots held firm thanks to a save from Cormac Seely. |
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The Sox came up with one in the bottom of the inning and Passeau was still going strong when we came to the plate in the eleventh inning. |
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Starting in the 4th inning he pitches lefthanded whenever Baltimore's lefty hitters are at bat. |
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I suspect it was the latter, because more and more people left with each passing inning. |
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Instead, the result was a passed ball, the baserunners advanced, and the inning dragged on. |
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Brown also tried to barehand a hot smash in the sixth inning, a reckless habit he has had his entire career. |
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Chuck Finley struck out four batters in one inning three times, twice with the Angels and once with the Indians. |
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A steal from last June, the southpaw started the inning with a 93 mph fastball, the only velocity the pitch hit in four throws. |
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We almost got out of the inning on our own, but mercifully, the other team had batted through the lineup, which meant it was our turn to bat. |
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After the Yankees put two men on base to start their half of the sixth inning, Yogi Berra came strolling to the plate. |
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White set a modern major league record in scoring three runs in the 7th inning of that game. |
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I can't imagine what a pitcher is thinking in the eighth and ninth inning of a no-hitter. |
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Despite Robinson's misplays, the Orioles won the game, 3-2, on Frank Robinson's three-run homer in the ninth inning off reliever Rollie Fingers. |
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The deciding run, in the fourth inning, came as Crabtree tripled after Longacre fell trying to make the catch and Kurowski flew to right. |
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In the top of the third inning with two outs, the Padres' Gene Richards lofted a fly ball to left field. |
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He led off the top of the ninth inning with a high fly down the left field line. |
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In the 19th inning of the marathon game, Conigliaro attempted to bunt with two strikes. |
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He drew his walk on a full count to start the fifth inning and Fairly bunted him to second. |
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The Red Sox were losing 6-3 in the bottom of the eighth inning when I pinch-hit for Roger Moret. |
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The Padres score the game's first run in the third inning on a handful of singles and a bunt. |
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His defense was so bad that when he caught a pedestrian pop fly in the fifth inning, the Pro Player Stadium crowd gave him a Bronx, cheer. |
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He tried to steal third base in the fifth inning, only to discover it was already occupied by a teammate. |
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After a second inning pop-out, Jeff drew the first unintentional walk of his career in the fourth inning. |
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I don't mind playing as a fielder though, you get to cotch for the whole inning. |
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In the top of the 8th inning, with one out, a Marlin batter hit a foul fly ball in the direction of the stands. |
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Most embarrassingly, Mussina tied a major-league record by allowing six doubles in one inning. |
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White Sox hitters were consistently late on the fastball, hitting four foul balls in the inning. |
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Henson made his major-league debut on Thursday, pinch-running for Bernie Williams in the 8th inning. |
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I watched the second inning of his last appearance, in which Jackson yielded the go-ahead run that would lead to his first loss of the season. |
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Ryan came out of the bullpen with two outs in the seventh inning to relieve Pat Hentgen and proceeded to pick off Omar Infante at first base. |
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In the first extra inning, Taiwan got the go-ahead run and a place in the final. |
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The 22-year-old already is in a tailspin, having failed to get out of the fifth inning in each of his last three June starts. |
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In international softball, when a game goes to extra innings, the team starts the eighth inning with a runner at second base. |
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There is no final score, but mentions that a sensational double play in the ninth inning stopped the Cardinals. |
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Freeman moved into scoring position on a wild pitch, but Hess beared down and got out of the inning without further damage. |
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In the fifth inning of a tied 1920 game, New York Yankee spitballer Carl Mays faced Cleveland shortstop Ray Chapman, who was crowding the plate. |
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Although the game was deadlocked at 4-4 after the fourth inning, Flaherty's sixth-inning blast put the Yankees firmly in the driving seat. |
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He hit No.4 as the leadoff batter in the top of the tenth inning, the ball sailing over the right field screen barely inside the foul pole. |
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He drew a walk in his final plate appearance Friday night before receiving five free passes Saturday and another in the first inning yesterday. |
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In each inning both teams bat, until three of the batters are declared out by either three strikes delivered by the pitcher, or a catch by a fielder. |
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There is his superstition about watching every Red Sox game but never the sixth inning. |
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The very first inning in the field, while I was safely drowsing in left field, fending off the midges, a long drive sailed over my head, heading for the outfield fence. |
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Estimates are that by the fourth inning of his second start the cost was covered. |
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In the 2001 ALDS, the Yankees led the Oakland Athletics 1-0 in the seventh inning. |
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Playing shortstop in the sixth inning, he chased down a Texas leaguer in short center field and threw home to catcher Joe Silver to get a runner tagging up. |
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Simply put, it is reconstructing an inning without errors or passed balls. |
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I say we've seen only the first inning of the Internet ball game. |
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Yogi Berra hit a two-run homer in the third inning off starter Bob Buhl. |
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At bat, Bogdan was the hero of the day with his solo shot in left field in the 4th inning for the game winning run. |
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In the 13th inning, a Red Sox batter popped one down left field line and Jeter went to get it. |
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Ichiro Suzuki of the Mariners rounds the bases after hitting a solo home run during the fourth inning against the Indians at Safeco Field in Seattle, on Saturday. |
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His fastball was clocked as high as 95 mph in the eighth inning. |
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If you fail in the first rack of the inning, the inning is over. |
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Two days later, in a doubleheader against the White Sox, he socked his 54th, a two-run shot in the fifth inning. |
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Jorge Posada led off the inning with a solo home run to left field. |
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Then, he caught a line drive by Bench in foul territory in the ninth inning of Game 5, seemingly knowing where the ball was headed before it was hit. |
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A pitcher retires the first two batters in the top of the first inning. |
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With Wakefield up in the pen yet again as Francona burned through his options, Curt Leskanic came in and got Williams to fly to center to end the inning. |
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My dad caught a foul ball in the third inning, and my dad's friend later took my brother down to the Yankees' dugout and had the ball autographed by the team. |
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The ball was gloved far above his head and the inning was over. |
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In San Francisco, J.T. Snow matched his career high with four hits and drove in the go-ahead run in the eighth inning to lead San Francisco over San Diego. |
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On his next pitch, he grounded into a triple play to end the inning. |
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All subsequent out of the park home runs in that same half inning will be called a ground rule double. |
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He made his debut on May 20, 1916 pitching one inning and allowing one hit, one base on balls, and two earned runs. |
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The left-hander pitched to 102 batters without a walk before Larry Walker drew a base on balls with one out in the fourth inning. |
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Umpires can avoid this embarrassing situation and bizarre play by counting defensive players at the start of each half inning. |
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He will forever be a part of baseball lore because of his 11th inning walk-off shot, giving the Yankees a 6-5 win in Game 7 of the American League Championship Series. |
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The pitcher is ejected from the pitching position in the fourth inning after two defensive charged conferences. |
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No. A pitcher that returns to pitch in the same inning is not entitled to warm-up pitches. |
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Fielder leads off the inning by ripping a double down the rightfield line. |
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Every inning seemed to feature runners on base, full counts, pickoff throws, pitching changes, and breaks to go wake up spectators who may have dozed off. |
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Reyes scored three runs and stole two bases, and his triple in the seventh inning tied the score before Carlos Beltran singled him home with the go-ahead run. |
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At the time of the play, the umps were working with a three-man crew because plate umpire Bill Miller had left an inning earlier with an injured ankle. |
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Bet consists of prediction if one of teams scores a point or points in the first inning. |
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At the end of the inning, you all come back to the dugout to exchange thoughts and perspectives on the game. |
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Cain missed Darwin's comebacker to start the bottom half of the inning. |
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The visitors score two runs, to go ahead, in the top half of the sixth inning. |
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Kingston's third inning rally turned out to be their last, but brought in enough runs to stay in the lead. |
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A team member substitutes for a starting player in the third inning, without being announced to the plate umpire. |
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After the first inning, the pitcher has a choice of ball at the start of each inning. |
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The key would be retiring Robinson, the leadoff batter in the inning. |
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Interesting timing, because if you're going to cut the game short, it seems only fair to announce it before a full inning, so both sides have fair warning. |
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If he attempts to steal and is thrown out, however, this decreases not only his own chance of scoring but that of every player who will bat in the inning. |
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In the second inning Mets rightfielder Timo Perez misplayed Paul O'Neill's hit to the corner and overthrew his cutoff man, allowing O'Neill to reach third. |
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His two misplays in the ninth inning led to a loss for the Yankees. |
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Once again, the sinkerballer was doomed by one problematic inning. |
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Having a starter pitch into the eighth inning was a welcome relief for the bullpen. |
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Miguel Cairo singled to open the inning, Jeter bunted him over, and after A-Rod lined out, Gary Sheffield went to 3-before being intentionally walked. |
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With Curt Schilling carrying a perfect game with one out in the eighth inning, Davis had the audacity to drop down a bunt, which he beat out for a single. |
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The closest they came to a hit off the 35-year-old right-hander was actually on a check-swing tapper by Travis d'Arnaud in the second inning. |
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At the same time, a flurry of runs in the fourth and fifth inning showed Gagetown was able to capitalize on a badly thrown pitch with a base hit or a stolen base. |
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Still 0-0 in the 4th inning in New York, in case you were wondering. |
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A pitch in an inning is considered as an inning pitched. |
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The score reverts back to the last complete inning because the home team has not completed its turn at bat in the sixth inning and is behind in the score. |
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Tatis set a a major-league record April 23 at Dodger Stadium when he hit two grand slams in one inning against Park. |
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John Buck led off inning with a single and was followed by David DeJesus, who hit a grounder to Figgins. |
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John Buck led off the Royals sixth inning with a single and was followed by David DeJesus, who hit a grounder to Figgins. |
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After Janie Takeda was hit by Estela Pinon to load the bases, Oregon scored its second run of the inning when Pinon hit Lindvall. |
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Dylan Price reached base on a drag bunt single in the third inning and scored the Titans' only run on a single by Colin Schauermann. |
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His solo homer off a 2-2 pitch to left-center field in the seventh inning came after two long foul balls down the left-field line. |
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Each of the next two times he batted the Braves had two runners on base, but Pat Mahomes struck him out in the fifth inning and Eric Cammack dittoed that in the sixth. |
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As the Mets parted ways with back-slapping hugs, they also left behind a controversy after Collins removed his star Jose Reyes in the first inning of Miguel Batista's closeout, 3-0, victoverover the Reds. |
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For many players, a defensive inning could be standing in the field with no ball hit in their area, and then sitting on the bench waiting for a turn at bat. |
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In five starts, he has yet to pitch into the sixth inning. |
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Scoring a carom also entitles the player to another shot, and his turn, or inning, continues until he misses, when it becomes his opponent's turn. |
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Polanco ripped a single to lead off the ninth inning. |
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As a pinch hitter in the ninth inning, Delgado walked. |
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Drew suffered the injury when reaching for a low line drive in the fourth inning. |
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Heineman reached first on a throwing error by Lacey and scored on a sacrifice fly by Ryon Healy in the fifth inning. |
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Agoura's other big hitter of the night was right fielder Matt Prater, who went 2 for 3, including a leadoff triple in the seventh inning. |
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Meanwhile, the Orioles-Yankees play-off game started an hour and a half before this debate tonight, and is still going, tied 1-1 athehe top of the 12th inning. |
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The same pitcher returns to pitch in the sixth inning. |
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If the tie still persists, the placement of teams will be dictated by the ratio of number of runs against per defensive inning for games between or among the original tied teams. |
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Back-to-back home runs in the bottom of the sixth inning secured the Ontario region's men's softball team's 15 to 9 win over the Atlantic region in the final game of the 2002 CF National Championship. |
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If R3 is the third out of the inning then the batter's run does not count. |
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Ryan Lormand finally recorded a hit off Latos when he led off the fifth inning with a check swing single. |
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Blake's ejection came in the eighth inning after he showed displeasure with being called out on a check swing for the second time in the game. |
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Ryan struck out 16 as he allowed only Ron Kittle's check-swing single in the second inning. |
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Taylor Zander's two-run single, followed by Sandler's errant pickoff throw helped Newbury Park rebound to tie the score 3-3 the next inning. |
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Mired in both offensive and defensive slumps, Figgins didn't enter the game until the seventh inning as a pinch runner for Robb Quinlan. |
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Reynolds, the Rams' pitcher, got out of a bases-loaded, no-out jam in the third inning on a force out at home, an infield fly and a strikeout. |
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Navarro left the game in the second inning after he was hit by a foul tip on the right wrist. |
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The Yankees got their comeuppance in Milwaukee when the Braves piled up a record score for the first inning of a World Series game. |
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Philadelphia first baseman Ryan Howard left in the ninth inning after he appeared to injure his left leg diving for a groundball. |
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When the inning ended, Ted leaped into the air and delivered the classic one-finger salute to the booing crowd. |
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Pedro singled in the bottom of the eighth inning, which, if converted to a run, would put the team back into contention. |
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Francisco Rodriguez, who has struggled recently, came on for a scoreless, sweatless ninth inning to get his 26th save. |
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Barillas was struck in the face by a comebacker in the first inning of Burbank's 6-1 win. |
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He also set an AL record with four wild pitches in one inning, on July 25 at Seattle. |
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He gave up a two-run homer to Alex Rodriguez in the first inning and a solo homer to Jason Giambi in the third, both on knuckleballs. |
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Both were caught in rundowns and the Highlanders escaped with their first shutout inning. |
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Aftering scoring on Danny Champiuex's sacrific fly in the first inning, Highland didn't get a runner past first until threatening in the seventh. |
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Even Marc Palacios got in on the fun, dropping a picture-perfect sacrifice bunt to score Feig in the bottom of the sixth inning. |
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He misplayed a slow bouncer with the bases loaded in the fifth inning, a play that gave the Rockies their second run. |
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Greg Modica added a scoreless inning, and Gabe Ribas pitched a perfect ninth for his third save. |
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He was assisted by centerfielder Andrew McCutcheon whose third inning triple drove in two runs. |
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Jed Capouch homered in the fourth to give Glide a 2-0 lead, but Sutherlin answered with two in the bottom of the inning to tie it. |
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Greg O'Donnell's check-swing single to right field in the first inning scored Ben O'Donnell, who had doubled. |
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Darvish played his one inning March 5 against the Kansas City Royals, but left with what was first described as tightness in the triceps muscle. |
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Against Twin Falls Jax Arnold hit a two-run home run in a five-run first inning and Josh Vitus pitched three scoreless innings. |
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The Yankees were actually slayed by two former Yankees because Rich Gossage pitched one scoreless inning in relief of Eckersley to notch his first victory. |
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Pedroia was hit by a pitch from Brian Tallet in the top of that inning. |
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Each batting team's inning continues until three outs are made. |
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We are in just the second inning of our quest to enter this new market. |
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Moorpark's Blake Barnes singled and scored on Alex Nelson's sacrifice fly in the first inning a run, and Jesse Peredes walked and scored on Broc Hass' grounder in the sixth. |
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But he started Friday's game by retiring the first six batters he faced, with three groundballs in the first inning and three strikeouts in the second. |
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By grounding to the shortstop, the twin killing ended the inning. |
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The Braves retaliated by plunking Harper in the next inning. |
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The pitcher gave up the go-ahead run in the top of the ninth inning. |
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In the last inning, a home run can make you the hero, and a strikeout can make you the goat. |
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Mohammad Omar, the 16-year-old opener, anchored their inning with an unbeaten 60 after Hamza Quraishi, Geet Sahani and Udara Perera had restricted West Life to 118 for nine. |
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Casey Kotchman, who hit a long foul ball down the right-field line in the fourth inning, nearly connected on a three-run home run off Garcia in the sixth. |
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Someone told me in the middle of the game that I was throwing a perfect game, and the next inning I messed up,'' said Rocco, who has two perfect games this season. |
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Chin-lung Hu, who had led off the inning by beating out a nubber that traveled all of about 45 feet in the general direction of third base, scored on the play. |
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The Tigers had baserunners in every inning and were hitless in nine previous at-bats with runners in scoring position when Gonzalez singled with two outs in the seventh. |
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Eugene teed off on Tri-City starter Alex Constanza, who gave up six earned runs, two hits, three walks and three wild pitches in just one-third of an inning. |
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An inning later, the Bruins had runners on the corners with one out but a strikeout by Casey Haerther and groundout by Cody Decker derailed the potential rally. |
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Stotts, also headed for CSUN, entered the game in the seventh inning and went 0 for 2 and had one ball hit hit his way, but he dove and missed the grounder up the middle. |
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Starting pitcher John Lackey, pitching on three-days' rest, was replaced by Scot Shields with two outs in the sixth, and Shields got out of the inning. |
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His solo shot in the seventh inning ended up winning the game. |
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Buck's night ended, to a standing ovation from the sold-out crowd of 2,132, after Chris Jensen led off the UCLA eighth inning with a homer off the scoreboard in right field. |
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Montgomery didn't allow a hit until the fourth inning, but the Eagles took advantage of four hits, a wild pitch and two sacrifice flies in that inning to score three runs. |
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It remains to be seen if the seventh inning stretch will turn into the seventh inning e-mail download, but River Cats fans and management are pleased with the new service. |
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Adam Kennedy caught a low line drive off the bat of Michael Young for the first out of the 11th inning and Mark Teixeira followed with a tricky popup. |
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At the June 9 game, security attempted to confiscate the flag from Lee Fraser of Pembroke, Ontario, after Fraser waved it during the seventh inning stretch. |
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It was the equivalent of a self-induced beanball war in the first inning. |
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Jones is leading off an inning for the third time in the game. |
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Fernando Rodney, the goat in Sunday's 10th inning loss to Tampa Bay, threw three nearly perfect innings in relief on Tuesday after being demoted from the closer role. |
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Everett got a solo home run from Patrick Kivlehan in the second inning and led the rest of the way until the ninth inning, when the Ems rallied for two runs off Brandon Plotz. |
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Holden French's two-run single in the seventh broke a 2-2 tie, a half inning after pinch hitter Tyler Anderson's two-run single gave Devlin a 2-1 lead. |
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He gave up a leadoff double to Todd Linden in the first inning that led to a run on Lance Niekro's groundout and a solo homer to Niekro leading off the fourth. |
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In the sixth, Oregon's Paul Eshleman scored on one of two ETSU errors in the inning, and Peterson scored on Danny Pulfer's perfectly executed safety squeeze. |
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The Anteaters took a 2-1 lead in the fifth inning on Ben Orloff's two-out grounder that went between the legs of UCLA third baseman Jermaine Curtis. |
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However, in the top of the seventh inning, someone behind the scenes has ruled that the Redbirds must forfeit the game because they have no coach. |
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He appeared to re-injure his his left wrist when he banged it into the left shinguard of A's catcher Kurt Suzuki while scoring in the first inning. |
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With runners at second and third and two outs in the sixth inning of a 9-5 game, Simon saved two runs with a shoestring catch on Kendry Morales' line drive. |
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The manager decided to change pitchers in the eighth inning. |
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In a game at Tropicana Field last season between the Twins and Devil Rays, three Devil Ray base runners were picked off in one inning! |
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