Sentences with phrase «by catching the ball»

We can't forget hand - eye coordination that can be developed by catching the ball and fighting for the highest score.

Not exact matches

On Wednesday night against the Suns, Spencer Hawes got rejected by Gerald Green, caught the ball, and then...

But only seven pitches and five batters into the game, Atlanta led 3 - 0, and the fans seated in the Stick's outfield had caught as many of Swift's balls as had catcher Kirt Manwaring: two, courtesy of back - to - back home runs by McGriff and Justice.

It is not a catch if a fielder touches a fly ball which then hits a member of the offensive team or an umpire and then is caught by another defensive player.

I mean, the defending wasn't great by leaving the man unmarked at the far post, but Cech would have easily caught the ball without a second thought if he had just waited for the header back into the centre.

Simon Mignolet may have been caught off guard by the instinctive nature of the effort and the power behind it, but should be disappointed to have allowed the ball to squeeze under him.

I can't forget about Tolbert laying the ball on the ground twice (one recovered by Denver) and Cotchery dropping a pass he should have caught inside the 10 yard line in addition to the one he juggled and should have caught clean.

An open - court steal by former Maverick Devin Harris allowed Atlanta to hold off Dallas: up one with half a minute left, Harris caught up to a streaking OJ Mayo after a strip by Elton Brand to save a lead, then saved the ball from going out of bounds, allowing the Hawks to finish with free throws.

We desperately need to acquire some WRs who A: can catch the ball, B: can get open, and C: don't get crippled and out for the year by Week 4.

If a forward pass is caught simultaneously by opposing players inbounds, the ball becomes dead and belongs to the passing team.

Total touches (282 rushes, 26 catches) with only one fumble by Mike Hart, who didn't lose the ball the last 230 times he had it.

It is pass interference by either team when any act by a player more than one yard beyond the line of scrimmage significantly hinders an eligible player's opportunity to catch the ball.

Any forward pass is complete when caught by a player of the passing team who is inbounds, and the ball continues in play unless completed in the opponent's end zone or the pass has been caught simultaneously by opposing players.

Playing safety for Swarthmore, he waited under a Johns Hopkins punt, lifted his arm in the fair - catch signal, caught the ball and then, to his utter dismay, was slammed to the ground by an overenthusiastic Johns Hopkins end — one who was sporting a vividly remembered mustache.

He repaid them for their confidence by going out and catching 67 balls for 862 yards and five touchdowns.

He slumped briefly but recovered, and then he began to break Mac - Kay's heart by hitting back the big first serve — not with desperate little plops designed only to keep the ball in play but with incisively angled shots that sometimes passed MacKay, sometimes caught him halfway to the net, sometimes literally tangled him in his feet.

2 of the 3 goals scored against Arsenal this season have come when the opposition gathered the ball, seemingly harmlessly, about 20 - 25 yards out and simply caught the entire Arsenal team relaxed and napping for just a brief moment — enough to sneak it by.

I still remember that Carrick tackle on him when he should've released the ball 5 seconds before and got caught By Carrick and got his ankle broken.

Mohamed Sanu added five catches for 45 yards and a touchdown as a complement and Cincinnati gave Houston a taste of their own medicine by rushing the ball 43 times for 139 yards.

He was proficient with it, sweeping it back and forth over the Braves» bullpen, though the only ball he had come close to catching with his gear had been a batting - practice home run hit into the bullpen enclosure the year before by a catcher named Freddie Velazquez.

The ball was tipped at the line and caught inbounds by Chris Conley as time expired.

How Tyree caught the ball by sticking it to his head makes it a miracle.

Almost straight away, after UCLAN kicked off, the ball was caught and some great phases were carried out by MMU.

Unluckily for them they were caught on the counter attack by FC Bottle Job whose player managed to weave around the incoming tackles to place the ball into the centre of the goal.

Although he will no longer be catching balls from Tom Brady, it's not exactly like he downgraded by signing with Peyton Manning and the Denver Broncos.

There the ball is thrown high in the air and the runner who is to catch it is protected by several of his teammates, forming an interference for him.

Also, his command of the area and set pieces were shaky to say the least on multiple occassions, and was bailed out from a number of situations caught in no man's land by one of our players getting their head to the ball first.

If James really did lose control of the ball by letting it hit the ground before he possessed it, then this isn't a catch.

By the»88 season — with Zampese's system in place, with Everett's beginning to flower and with Dickerson's carrying the ball for the Indianapolis Colts — Ellard caught a team - record 86 passes.

By adding the threat of a running back who can not only block extremely well but catch the ball you are forcing other teams to game plan for Barkley.

Also: Sevilla's asst. coach who took over, caught a ball kicked out by LFC, tossed it to his guy on the touch line, who took a quick throw, resulting in an incisive attack and their second goal.

However, fans might have been worried by the team's defensive play, as Manning led his team effortlessly late, only coming up on the wrong end when Willis McGahee dropped an easy catch on fourth down and fumbled the ball in Patriots territory.

Foles threw a perfect pass over Rowe's outstretched arms (he turned to find the ball... perfectly), and a great catch by Julio... I mean Alshon... including hanging on while Rowe reached inside his arms to try to work the ball loose as they fell locked together.

Hummels and Philipp Lahm were caught out by Balotelli, who timed his run perfectly to stay onside and leave them in the dust as he ran onto Montolivo's long ball.

and he was catching passes from a guy that isn't in football anymore from plays call by an OC who's philosophy is to run the ball in 8 and 9 man boxes...

I guess the ball must have gone foul or the OF made a spectacular catch by leaping the fence or better yet standing on the fence and catching the ball.

AD failed to convert three lobs which I can't remember ever happening (which probably shows you how spoiled we've been by AD's ability to catch the ball anywhere near the basket and turn the catch into points).

Just two minutes later, however, it was France who struck, Benzema letting a direct ball from Matuidi drop over his shoulder, and after appearing to be merely holding the ball up, suddenly whacked a half - volley across goal which caught Cillessen by surprise and put France into the lead.

The goalkeeper spoke in an interview, about how his old coach was training him by throwing table tennis balls and Cech said that after catching small balls.

The front row of the upper deck in right overhangs the field by about 10 feet, catching fly balls and turning them into home runs.

Further to the above, do not compound the earlier error by advancing to meet another bouncing ball and shepherding it back into the area, before forgetting to, y» know, catch the flipping thing, with hilarious results;

In those two games, he only caught one ball when not trailing by at least two scores (and that was our first drive against the Redskins).

Later in the game, Gardner almost got him killed again by leading him into another hit, but Funchess was able to adjust his body while catching the ball so that he made the defender miss the knockout hit.

Cesc Fabregas delivered a ball into the box and while there was a melee in the area, Koscielny was seemingly caught with a boot to the face by Luiz, who was attempting an overhead kick.

Grbac won over his receivers by spreading the ball around — nine players caught passes against the Bears — and trusting each of them to do his job.

There are other small DBs that overcome their size with feisty play and phenomenal ball skills at the point of catch, but Ward truly does get bullied by average - sized receivers let alone the bigger guys he'd see in the pros.

And he still made tough catches, snatching the ball repeatedly, using his body to shield defenders, and his speed to go by them.

Michigan State's Matt McQuaid had his corner three blocked by Syracuse's koming koming, but he caught the rebound and chucked the ball up and into the basket just as time expired in the first half.

If a pass is caught simultaneously by two eligible opponents, and both players retain it, the ball belongs to the passers.

If a player goes to the ground in the act of catching a pass (with or without contact by an opponent), he must maintain control of the ball throughout the process of contacting the ground, whether in the field of play or the end zone.