beanball

The increase has made people across the game sit up and take notice, if for no other reason than because batters getting drilled frequently sparks confrontations, beanball wars and brawls.

soon dies being hit by a beanball in a third consecutive roll of triple

Accurate numbers aren't readily available for all years, but Keefe had developed a reputation as a beanball artist.

lest you get smacked by a legal beanball tossed by the occasional rouge.

Especially intriguing is Wendel's frank and frightening examination of the beanball which uncovers a taboo subject in a game dominated by macho athletes: fear.

It was the equivalent of a self-induced beanball war in the first inning.

For example, a baseball pitcher who pitches inside, misses the target, strikes the batter, and whose conduct is ruled an intentional "beanball" could be liable for criminal assault.

Indeed, when the output-based rule does not apply, the shift is typically not to negligence, but to some form of intentional harm--the beanball in baseball, the flagrant foul in basketball--that elicits some criminal-like responses.

The sports world is in an uproar over reports that Major League Baseball has thrown a beanball at cable TV, turning down its offer to renew Extra Innings, the league's out-of-market package of regular-season games.

It is "so accepted by custom that a pitch intentionally thrown at a batter has it's own terminology: 'brushback,' 'beanball,' 'chin music.'"

Consider the pitcher who retaliates for a beanball thrown at one of his teammates by throwing at the next batter he faces.