Green followed with a fly ball to left field, and Ruggiano scored easily from third.
Vernon Wells, another late-March acquisition, hit a long fly ball that Jones ranged back for.
"We couldn't put the ball in play and we couldn't hit a fly ball, " Braves manager Fredi Gonzalez said.
Their far-flungedness title surfaced in "Flip Flop Fly Ball, " a book of baseball trivia and history by Craig Robinson published last year.
David Wright then stole second, but David DeJesus hauled in Lucas Duda's fly ball to deep left-center at the wall to end the inning.
After a walk and an inning-ending fly ball, Hernandez was pulled.
Duda misjudged Brantly's fly ball to left field in the fourth.
Will parents turn in a coach to be tested because they figure he had to be on drugs to send that runner from third on that fly ball?
With the flags atop the stadium stiffly pointing toward right, Buck lofted an opposite-field fly ball that landed in the netting just beyond the right field fence to make it 4-0.
The Yankees tied it at 1 on Vernon Wells' RBI single in the fourth, but Price avoided further damage by getting a fly ball from Ben Francisco and Lyle Overbay's double-play grounder.
Connor Gillaspie hit a long fly ball that left fielder that Shane Victorino couldn't catch over his shoulder at the warning track, and it bounced over the wall for a run-scoring ground-rule double.
Edwin Encarnacion tagged up at third on Lawrie's fly ball to right fielder Ichiro Suzuki, and was safe at the plate when catcher Chris Stewart dropped the ball while making the tag for an error.
Rivera, the career saves leader, missed most of last season after tearing the anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee while tracking down a fly ball during batting practice in Kansas City on May 3.
Rivera pitched in nine games last year, his season ending when he tore the anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee while tracking down a fly ball during batting practice in Kansas City on May 3.
Newly signed Mets center fielder Rick Ankiel appeared to get a late jump on Kozma's apparent routine fly ball and couldn't make a diving catch for an RBI double that put the Cardinals in front in the second.
The Yankees tied it at 1 on Wells' RBI single in the fourth, but Price avoided further damage by getting a fly ball from Ben Francisco and Overbay's double-play grounder with runners on first and second with no outs.
The visitors' lacklustre play was epitomised when a well-worked free-kick saw Nani play in Evra on the left only for his low whipped ball to fly across the Villa goalmouth without a team-mate showing a desire to get to it.
The centre won the jump for the ball and, sucking in Scottish defenders, recycled the ball to his fly-half.
With the ball set to fly for six, long-on fielder Voges made the catch on the boundary, but his body's momentum took him over the rope.
Stephen Jones put in a try-saving tackle on his rival fly-half but the ball rebounded off the Scarlets man into touch and the Ospreys had a five-metre attacking line-out.
The Aussies elected to run their next penalty from only five metres out, and their adventure was rewarded when, after working the ball wide, fly-half Cooper went over for the lead.
Jones failed to convert another penalty but the visitors began to take a grip on affairs and the fly-half fired the ball between the posts in the 58th minute to make it 16-9.
The fly-half overshot the ball slightly and opted to pop it up to his support rather than try to gather for himself, only for prop Geoff Cross to spill the pass with the line at his mercy.
Presumably believing time was up, the Ulster fly-half casually kicked the ball to the closest part of the touchline and thereby gifted the hosts an attacking line-out.
Montgomery's conversion made it 17-6, and South Africa took an 18-point lead when No. 8 Danie Rossouw crossed the try line in support after Francois Steyn snaffled the ball following an error by fly-half Juan Martin Hernandez just before half-time.
Byrd threw on the fly to catcher John Buck, and the ball beat Barney by about 15 feet.
Marlon Byrd threw on the fly to catcher John Buck, and the ball beat Barney by about 15 feet.
There's the simple thrill of hitting a ball with a stick and watching it fly in the air.
O'Gara cut the gap with a fourth penalty with 12 minutes to go and the Ireland fly-half's trusty boot put the ball on a plate for Tuitupou in the final seconds.
They needed a quick score in the second half and got one thanks to some sloppy work from Nick Williams, who failed to deal with a Humphreys kick to the left corner which allowed the Ulster fly-half to run up and touch the ball down.
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