** Ripley himself has been caught off base — head, throat, chest, and all.
But Kazuo Matsui failed on two attempts to bunt him to third, and when he swung away and hit a line drive right at second baseman Placido Polanco, Reyes was caught off base to end the threat.
One notable difference from baseball was that, in rounders, when a ball hit on the ground was fielded, the fielder put the runner out by hitting him with the thrown ball; the same was true with a runner caught off base.
If the regulators choose to chop them into tidbits and throw 'em to the mob, I'm caught off base.
That was the first time that General Powell was caught off base with Bush who said he wouldn't do this.
If Nick Punto had not run past third base in the eighth inning of Game 3 and Carlos Gomez had not been caught off second base in the fourth inning of Game 2, probably costing the Twins at least a run each time, would the Yankees have still won both games?
For all the scouting reports and the empirical observation of Andy Pettitte's move to first base, Mike Piazza found himself shambling in the wrong direction in the fourth inning and was promptly caught off first base.
Updated at 3.59am GMT 3.55am GMT Boston Red Sox tie World Series at 2-2! Carlos Beltran is on the plate as the tying run and Kolten Wong, in the game as a pinch-runner for Allen Craig, gets caught off of first base to end the game.
Coaches at first and third base can be caught off guard by hard-hit balls because their duties often require them to keep an eye on base runners and fielders even as a pitch is being thrown.
His account was based on two specimens caught off the Cape of Good Hope, South Africa.
He based his description on a specimen caught off Madeira in the eastern Atlantic Ocean.
