According to Major League rules, the ump starts the game with this single word, without "ball"
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Umpire (baseball) - Wikipedia  In baseball, the umpire is the person charged with officiating the game, including beginning ... On the Major League level, an umpiring crew generally rotates positions ... For example, the plate umpire in one game would umpire third base in the next. .... Once an umpire has gone to clinics and rules meetings they then start to...
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Balk - Wikipedia  In baseball, a pitcher can commit a number of illegal motions or actions that constitute a balk. Most of these violations involve a pitcher pretending to pitch when he has no intention of doing so. In games played under the Official Baseball Rules, a balk results in a dead ball ... The balk rule in Major League Baseball was introduced in 1898.
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Baseball - Wikipedia  Baseball is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of nine players each, who take ... Baseball has no game clock, although almost all games end in the ninth ... In the United States and Canada, professional Major League Baseball (MLB) .... The rules thus facilitated the use of a smaller, harder ball than had been...
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Official Rules | MLB.com  Major League Baseball 2016 Official Rules. A printable version of the 2016 Official Rules is now available in Adobe Acrobat format. Official Rules (PDF) Official...
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No-hitter - Wikipedia  In baseball, a no-hitter is a game in which a team was not able to record a single hit. Major League Baseball (MLB) officially defines a no-hitter as a completed .... According to the rules interpretation of the time, this was considered a no-hitter. .... Three pitchers have thrown a no-hitter in their first major league starts; two...
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Sports Superstitions - Fact Monster  Players and fans alike have their ways of avoiding bad luck. ... If a pitcher is throwing a perfect game or a no-hitter, never speak of it while it's going on.
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Search Results for "unassisted triple play" - National Pastime ...  Indians' Bill Wambsganss becomes the only player in World Series history to ... as he gathers in Frank Brower's line drive, tags Rube Lutzke coming from first, and ... Pirates' shortstop Glenn Wright catches Jim Bottomley's line drive, doubles up ... and tags Barry Bonds to complete an unassisted triple play in a 3-2 loss to the...
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In a first, World Series game suspended | MLB.com  Oct 28, 2008 ... There has never been a rain-shortened game in World Series ... Selig said that a meeting was held -- as it was before Game 3, which was .... policy, if any postseason game is officially rained out or postponed, .... One way or another, one of these two teams is going to end a .... Start times set for World Series.
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Unassisted Triple Play | The ARMory Power Pitching Academy  An unassisted triple play usually consists of a hard line drive hit directly at an infielder ... to have three players achieve the feat while on their roster: Ball, Bill Wambsganss .... Cleveland Indians, AL, 1st, Caught line drive, touched 2nd, tagged runner. .... October 10, 1920 World Series Game 5, Brooklyn Robins at Cleveland...
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Jeopary Questions page 840 - BASEBALL TERMS - TriviaBistro.com  BASEBALL TERMS: The "H" in the old Schaeffer sign in Ebbets Field lit up for a hit; an "E" was lit when one of these occurred  THE SCIENCE SECTION: (Sarah...
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Small ball (baseball) - Wikipedia  In the sport of baseball, small ball is an informal term for an offensive strategy in which the ... at all, instead using bases on balls, stolen bases, sacrifice bunt or sacrifice fly balls, .... Sometimes, the term may be used (also correctly, since it is an informal term) to refer to any of the parts of the broader strategy defined above.
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Major League Baseball - Wikipedia  Major League Baseball (MLB) is a professional baseball organization, the oldest of the four ... Home runs dominated the game during the 1990s, and media reports began to ... Today, MLB is composed of thirty teams: twenty-nine in the United States and ..... The league placed its emphasis on clubs rather than on players.
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Baseball - Wikipedia  Baseball is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of nine players each, who take ... The earliest known reference to baseball is in a 1744 British publication, .... Virtually all of the modern baseball rules were in place by 1893; the last major ... The two leagues, each with eight teams, were rivals that fought for the best...
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Ask Me A Trivia Question -- 2 -- - Discussion on Topix  Jul 15, 2012 ... Of boccie, bagatelle, & baccarat, the one that doesn't use balls. baccarat ... In gin rummy, a hand ends when one player calls "Gin" or does this.
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Steve O's Answers to Rules Questions - Steve O's Baseball Umpire ...  Batter hits popup directly over the 2nd base bag. ... He gets up and throws to the first baseman who catches the ball while on the base ... to return to third base in the belief that he had left the base before a caught fly ball. ... The batter bunts the ball in front of plate, runs out of the batters box and the bat lands in fair territory.
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The Greatest of Games | Articles | Bill James Online  Jun 21, 2012 ... If you had to pick, is that your most dominant game ever? .... That's like the Joe Oeschger game; it's a different era, and all kinds of weird .... list of top ten pitching performances of the last 60 years, I would include only .... of it, took a no-hitter into the ninth inning, having allowed no one on base after Williams.
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No-hitter - Wikipedia  In baseball, a no-hitter is a game in which a team was not able to record a single hit. .... His first two came exactly two months apart, while he was with the California ... Ryan's fifth no-hitter with the Houston Astros on September 26, 1981, broke ... Thirty-six pitchers have thrown more than one no-hitter, combined no-hitters not...
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Umpiring - definition of umpiring by The Free Dictionary  A person appointed to settle a dispute that mediators have been unable to... ... Noumpere comes from Old French nonper, made up of non, "not," and per, "equal. ... 4. to decide or settle (a dispute) as umpire; arbitrate. v.i. ... Middle English umpere, variant of noumpere < Old French nomper, nonper arbiter, i.e., one not equal].
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Seventh-inning stretch - Wikipedia  In baseball in the United States and Canada, the seventh-inning stretch is a tradition that takes place between the halves of the seventh inning of a game  in the middle of the seventh inning. Fans generally stand up and stretch out their arms and legs and sometimes ... In modern baseball, standing up and singing "Take Me Out to the Ball Game"...
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Baseball Rules: 8.00 The Pitcher - Baseball Almanac  The pitcher may have one foot, not the pivot foot, off the rubber and any distance he ... (d) If the pitcher makes an illegal pitch with the bases unoccupied, it shall be ... (a) Call the pitch a ball, warn the pitcher and have announced on the public .... an attempt to deceive the runner at first base, and in such a move it is practically...
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The Significance of Pitching a Perfect Game in Baseball | CoachUp  It is considered to be one of the most rare events in sports. ... A no-hitter can be achieved if the pitcher allows walks, hits the batter, or if the batter reaches base on ... In theory, a pitcher can throw a no-hitter and still lose the game, though this is rarer than a perfect ... It is a much more difficult feat to accomplish than a no-hitter.