This one was just a hot grounder that took a bad bounce.

Howard Johnson, stuck in neutral as he attempted to field Darrin Jackson's hot grounder, had the baseball bounce off his chest for an error.

Magadan, his eyes picking up the flight of the hot grounder at the last moment, flung himself to his left, the baseball suddenly lost in leather and dirt.

The difference between a "hot" grounder and a "slow" roller.

Fox dived to stop Manny Alexander's hot grounder and probably should have held onto the ball, but he threw wildly to first and Alexander took second.

But what Kelly really needed was to move to third base where Sax, perhaps psychologically, was uncomfortable with the longer throw and the reflex reaction that hot grounders require.

Tom's hands stabbed out like an infielder getting ready to handle a hot grounder.

He hit line drives and hot grounders, some of which were fielded cleanly by the Mexicans, while others were simply retrieved.

He is not a warden and not a baby-sitter, but a guardian of the hot corner in a system that tries to keep hot grounders from going for extra bases.

The following inning, shortstop José Reyes failed to flag a hot grounder that was about a foot away from him.