Word: putout
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This time Robinson swerved to his left, dived for the ball and disappeared in a cloud of dust. The umpire's arm shot up, signaling the putout, as Robinson writhed on the ground, the wind knocked out of his body. Two innings later Robinson was a hero again. In the first half of the 14th, he connected with a fast ball, lifted it into the left field stands for the homer that won the game for Brooklyn, 9 to 8. Said Robinson afterward: "The minute I met it, I knew. I didn't even have to look...
...Coulson trotted toward first, catcher Bill Swiacki made the customary throw to third base. The heave sailed into left field, and Forte scored. Then, with one out, Len Lunder lofted a foul fly to left field which Bruce Gehrke unaccountably caught, allowing Fitz to score easily after the putout...
Harvard succeeded in holding the Indian onslaught with a double play in the third after West Was thrown out on a grounder near first base. Koslowski grounded out to third-baseman Whittemore, who pegged it to Tully for a putout at first. Tully returned the ball to Whitte-more, who caught Daniels trying for third and completed the double play...
...ninth, young Vander Meer walked three more Dodgers. A tense silence settled over the stands as Manager Bill McKechnie, a smart manager of pitchers, strode out to the box and whispered in Vander Meer's ear. Regaining control, Vander Meer made Ernie Koy hit a grounder for a putout...
...breaking the strike." Then the United Mine Workers called 40,000 miners to march on Johnstown. Declaring martial law, he sent in troops and shut the mill (TIME, June 28). So there was no violence of consequence in Johnstown. Where three others had fumbled, Governor Earle had made a putout. Last week he justified the Cambria shut-down by saying: "In this crisis the choice to be made was lives or dollars. I chose lives. . . ." Last week, the immediate danger to lives having disappeared, he was able without inconsistency to lift martial law and allow the mill to reopen...