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Show ONE-BASE HITS By JACK SIMPSON. .: -a Throwing Glove at Ball. It frequently happens that a player, during an exciting part of a game, will forget himself and hit a batted ball with the glove he lias removed from his hand. The penalty for such an offense of-fense is three bases being awarded if a batted ball and two bases for a thrown ball. The glove or cap must actually hit the ball in order that the bases be awarded, but if the glove or cap misses the ball, no penalty is drawn. While the practice of throwing the glove at the ball is not considered "heady ball playing," still the writer saw two cases where it helped the team. The first occasion happened in a game in Chicago, score tied in the eighth inning with the home club at bat. The batter hit a terrific line drive to right field that was on its way to clear the screen net and drop into the bleachers for a home run. The right fielder saw he had no chance to catch it and deliberately threw his glove at the ball and hit it, but it continued con-tinued on over the fence and landed in the bleachers. The umpire awarded the batter three bases and quite a howl was set up by the home team who argued the ball even after it was hit by the glove cleared the playing field and the batter bat-ter therefore should be entitled to a home run. The fact that the glove hit the batted bah gave the batter three bases regardless of where it landed after it was hit. The baserun-iut baserun-iut was left on third base and failed to score. The game went into extra innings in-nings and the visiting team finally won. The otlier play was a glove thrown by the catcher at a wild return to the plate. A baserunner on second attempted at-tempted to score on a short single to left field. The return throw was ten feet wide of the plate and would have rested in the box seats. The catcher luckily hit the ball with his glove and it fell into the playing field. The batter bat-ter was awarded third base as he had crossed first when the offense was committed. If the catcher had not stopped that wild throw it would have left the playing field and the batter could have scored. In both of the above cases the player play-er committing the offense was favored by the penalty they drew. |