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Do not throw pearls to swine; Do not teach your Grandmother to suck eggs; Do not throw the baby out with the bathwater; Do not try to walk before you can crawl; Do not upset the apple-cart; Do not wash your dirty linen in public; Do not sympathize with those who can not empathize; Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
In sports strategy, running out the clock (also known as running down the clock, stonewalling, killing the clock, chewing the clock, stalling, time-wasting (or timewasting) or eating clock [1]) is the practice of a winning team allowing the clock to expire through a series of preselected plays, either to preserve a lead or hasten the end of a one-sided contest.
To blow a pitch ("by" a batter) is to throw one so fast the batter is unable to keep up (with it). To blow a save is to lose a lead or the game after coming into the game in a "save situation". This has a technical meaning in baseball statistics. A hit, typically a home run: "Ortiz's Blow Seals Win."
"A slow sort of country!" said the Queen. "Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!" [1] The Red Queen's race is often used to illustrate similar situations:
Lions running back Jahmyr Gibbs is fast. Very fast. Very fast. Maybe not as fast as SpongeBob running to the mountain and back, but he's certainly quick enough to avoid defenders and any other ...
Although it is impossible for a human to throw a baseball fast enough and with enough backspin for the ball to actually rise, to the batter the pitch seems to rise due to the unexpected lack of natural drop on the pitch. Colloquially, a fastball pitcher is said to "throw heat" or "put cream on it", among many other variants. [2]
As McKneely stood at the free throw line, N.C. State arrived at the critical juncture of its postseason, the single point of potential fracture in this entire run.
The hit and run also has defensive qualities. In normal play the baserunner would start toward second base when the ball was hit. If the defensive players react fast enough, they may be able to throw the ball to second and first before either runner has reached their base, resulting in a double play. In the case of the hit and run, the ...