Wind sprints and weight-lifting also help in a sport where balls can zip by at 100 miles an hour, spinning 3,500 revolutions a minute.

Weis was not quick enough to make the play and the ball zipped into left field allowing Norm Miller to score.

I always prided myself on my fielding ability, but there came a time when the ball would just zip by me up the middle.

As two hours wore on, bats clanked, balls zipped, gloves popped.

The Little Group was smacking it now, the balls zipping over the net and ricocheting off the far wall.

Morgan was surrounded by Terrell and James Hasty, but the ball zipped between them.

The ball zipped into left field, allowing Norm Miller to score.

A ball of light zipped through its bottom, leaving a shimmering hole.

A crimson ball zipped away from one wagon just like scores before it.

The sea steamed and crackling balls of lightning zipped across its surface like drops of water on a hotplate.