Word: putout
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...pitcher (and captain) beckons to a lanky redhead on the bench to take over first base so that he can win his letter. Yale's last batter grounds out. The captain asks the sub for the winning ball, but he refuses to hand it over. "I made the putout, didn't I?" snaps Joseph P. Kennedy...
...military finally awoke--just late enough so that Gilmor was safe and just before they made the putout on Bilodeau, who advanced to second on the play at the plate...
...Yankees had not conspired so efficiently to beat themselves. Hank Bauer led off the first inning with a single, got ignominiously picked off base moments later. In the eighth inning, the same Bauer backed up for a routine line drive, overjumped it to make a double of a sure putout. With this help, Spahn took heart, got stronger and stronger (he retired 14 batters in a row), and the Braves won 4-3 in ten innings...
...wicked pitch that no hardball batter ever has to face: the rise ball. Sailing up from a few inches off the dirt, the rise ball can be made to break either way across the strike zone. The best batters are prone to pop it up for an easy putout. Good softball pitchers have been known to barnstorm the country and win most of their games with only a catcher and two fielders to fill out their teams...
...Left Fielder Sandy Amoros. But their best defense was Podres' zipping fast ball, carefully assorted with well-disciplined slow curves that kept the Yankees swinging off balance throughout the afternoon's siege. Finally, a gentle grounder rolled to Dodger Captain Pee Wee Reese for the last putout...