Word: balk
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Unger got the No. 9 hitter Jonny Weiss to chop what should have been an inning-ending grounder to third baseman Steffan Wilson, but Wilson’s throw skipped past junior Josh Klimkiewicz at first, scoring Flynn and advancing Weiss to second. A balk, a walk, a passed ball and a pair of hits later, it was 6-0 BC, and the Crimson could never recover...
...seven-inning game lasted just 1:20...The Crimson had two runners picked off of first base in Game 1, something Walsh said was partly due to Hamilton’s questionable pickoff move. “I asked their coach after the game if it was a balk,” Walsh said. “And he said, ‘yeah, but he’s a senior so you won’t see him again.’”...Cornell didn’t get a running game going, either, perhaps...
...Josh Balk is Outreach Coordinator of the Factory Farming Campaign for the Humane Society of the United States...
...other states balk at the Oklahoma model, they may find themselves in the position of next-door Kansas, which saw a rash of meth cooks cross the state line after Oklahoma passed its law. "Any state in the Midwest that doesn't pass the bill this year has the opportunity to become the meth capital of the region," says Corporal Jason Grellner, the Franklin County, Mo., deputy who organized the St. Louis meeting. "And believe me, nobody wants that." Texas is considering going even further, requiring a prescription for any drug--such as some Sudafed products--whose sole active ingredient...
...theaters subsist on weekday performances for school groups. But getting schools to commit to a field trip to the theater--instead of, say, a day of preparing for standardized tests--is becoming tougher in the age of No Child Left Behind. Then there are the morals monitors, who sometimes balk at more adventuresome children's material. When the Dallas Children's Theater three years ago staged Laurie Brooks' Deadly Weapons, a play about teen violence, the Fort Worth school district stayed away because a knife was brandished on stage, violating its zero-tolerance policy on weapons...