"ball" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The fouls balls eventually added up to a gopher ball.
- The gopher balls are as good a place to start as any.
- A game in which several home runs have been hit by both teams may also sometimes be described as "gopher ball."
- Dave Righetti now needs space, where an occasional gopher ball isn't the end, where there's time to erase a deficit and a victory is solid and good (not the upside-down reliever's kind).
- Angels' pitcher Ken McBride tees up the gopher ball in the 6th inning with one on.
- As Burke rounded the bases, the fans stood and roared for Martínez, probably the most appreciative cheer for a home-team gopher ball in Shea Stadium history.
- Branca did not express bitterness over the gopher ball, but began a friendship with Thomson that lasted into each man's old age, including many joint television appearances.
- Park, the Dodger pitcher, also deserves credit, though he undoubtedly wishes it had been someone else who served up the two gopher balls.
- QUESTION: In baseball, when a pitcher gives up a home run, why is the pitch called a "gopher ball?"
- In 2005, the Tainan native returned to Asheville, where he was 7-9 with a 5.65 ERA and surrendered 23 gopher balls, most in the South Atlantic League.
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