There were stretches of brutal play: In the quarter, Stoudemire was called for two offensive fouls, Anthony was called for carrying the ball, Chandler was called for traveling.
To make sense of it all, Dunnhumby's analysts cooked up an algorithm called the rolling ball.
Sure enough, Cubs second baseman Johnny Evers called for the ball and tagged the base--Merkle was out and the winning run was voided.
After getting Michael Saunders to fly out to center field for his first out, he called for the ball and had catcher Chris Stewart throw it into the dugout.
But it all stopped after a sequence in which Crosby made a steal and her left-handed layup missed, Franklin rebounded and missed twice, the second called a jump ball.
With the bases clear and the Yankees two outs away from a loss, the situation called for a long ball.
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So I sat down with a cup of Starbucks coffee, called up The Crystal Ball and set to work.
Boozer got called for a loose ball foul on the play, and Blatche hit the second free throw to make it 93-90.
After Ben Zobrist took the full-count pitch, he started toward first base and even Nathan appeared to anticipate a ball being called.
Denis Burakov, 27, died after the ball - called a zorb - veered off course and fell into a deep gorge in the North Caucasus.
The first day of the crucial final Test was mired in controversy when opener Alastair Cook was given out lbw following a referral to a Morne Morkel delivery which England believed should have been called a no-ball.
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However, home plate umpire Hunter Wendelstedt called the pitch a ball and Berkman went on to hit a double that would score Jorge Posada from first base and give the Yankees a 3-2 lead at a pivotal point in the game.
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But the run ended abruptly when George hit a 3, Miami's Joel Anthony was called for a loose ball foul on the offensive end and David West grabbed an offensive rebound and scored on a dunk to extend the lead to 77-68.
After a couple of days, the newly nucleated cell should have divided to form a ball of cells called a blastocyst.
Titleist's latest ball was almost called the LSX, for lab speed extreme.
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Flintoff was unusually expensive with the ball, going for 66 runs in his nine overs although he was unlucky when he thought he had dismissed Katich only for a no-ball to be called.
Gambhir was fortunate to survive a certain lbw appeal when Mills was called for a no-ball with his first delivery of the day, but took advantage of his leg-off to bring up his 10th Test half century.
After the two cells fuse, the site goes on, they divide over and over again to create a ball of cells called an embryo that goes on to become a baby that grows inside the mother for nine months.
Not only did Guzan clear the ball, Zavala was called for a foul.
Williams then turned the ball over and the Nets called timeout with 2:30 left, but after Reggie Evans was whistled for a foul, Gordon missed another 3-point attempt that would have given the Bobcats the lead.
Leading up to this third Test of the series I hinted at the threat of the sleeping giant called Lara and, after chasing the ball to many parts of the magnificent Adelaide Oval, it is apparent my crystal ball was telling me the truth.
The pollution within baseball caused by performance enhancing drugs over the past two decades has unfortunately called into question every accomplishment achieved by any ball player, innocent or guilty alike.
In the first half Thursday, Anthony was booed nearly every time he touched the ball and cheered when he was called for fouls as fans reacted to the last meeting between the star forwards.
There were penalties called on the wrong players, spots of the ball that were a couple yards off, and inaccurate or misleading explanations to the public of penalty calls.
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The initial growth of the game around the world was led by thousands of British workers who, when called to work abroad, made sure that a ball and a set of rules went with them.
But Vogel called for time the next time his team got the ball, and the coach pulled his best defensive player, paint protector Roy Hibbert.
Collingwood, not called upon until the 33rd over, saw his first ball flicked for four by Umar Akmal, but revenge was almost instant, a caught and bowled accounting for the batsman two balls later.
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