Sentence examples for ball fair from inspiring English sources
Is the ball fair or foul?
"It wasn't the swing I usually put when I hit the ball fair".
But Shulock, in his first series at Pro Player Stadium, called the ball fair.
That would have been a tough call to call that ball fair or foul".
But the first base umpire Mark Hirschbeck ruled the ball fair, and replays showed that he was correct.
He pointed the ball fair and it responded, landing on the metal roof atop the right-field wall, only 309 feet from home plate.
"You hit him in the balls, fair game".
He left the wide-volleys (which a well-balanced batsman would have driven for four), blocked or left the stock balls (some of which a well-balanced batsman could've pushed into the vacant mid-off and straight cover regions for a single) and generally tried to get out of the way of the throat balls (fair enough).
Unlike in modern games, during Clement's time games only had one umpire, who stood behind the pitcher and was responsible for calling strikes and balls, whether balls were fair or foul, and whether runners reached bases safely.
That ball fell fair and stayed there.
