“Every inning, fans would press closer to try to see Dizzy,” recalled Newt Allen.43 The competition to grab balls hit into the crowd fair ones were called ground-rule doubles became fierce. ❋ Timothy M. Gay (2010)
After Bernie Williams singled him home and Hideki followed with a ground-rule double, was it a mere coincidence that Red Sox skipper Grady Little came to the mound, ignored his bullpen, and left a dead tired pitcher in the game? ❋ William Fredrick Cooper (2011)
After a ground-rule double by Daniel Murphy, a grounder to second and a single by Ruben Tejada, it's 2-2 in the bottom of the second. ❋ Unknown (2011)
LaRoche crushed a ground-rule double to center, giving the Nats a 2-0 lead. ❋ Unknown (2011)
End 8, 3:44: Severino just tied the game by giving up a pair of bombs -- a ground-rule double by Daniel Muprhy and a two-run homer by Cory Vaughn the son of former slugger Greg Vaughn. ❋ Unknown (2011)
It's a ground-rule double if a ball hits off "the most useless ladder on the face of the planet" and into the seats. ❋ Amara Grautski (2011)
Though he grounded out in the third, he hit a booming, ground-rule double off the centerfield warning track in the fifth; and with two out and the bases empty in the home half of the seventh, he again made Niemann pay for throwing a first-pitch fastball. ❋ William Fredrick Cooper (2011)
Leading off the fifth, second baseman Macier Izturis hit a ground-rule double off Yankees starter A.J. Burnett; then scored one out later when Erik Aybar grounded a single to center to make the score 2-1, Yankees. ❋ William Fredrick Cooper (2011)
Getty Images Yankees right fielder Nick Swisher fails to track down Justin Turner's ground-rule double that bounced into the right-field stands in the fourth inning. ❋ Daniel Barbarisi (2011)
The Rangers' Michael Young robbed Sabathia of the win when he bounced a run-scoring ground-rule double over the fence and tied the game. ❋ Joshua Robinson (2011)
With one out, David Ortiz put the Red Sox in position to win with a rocketed ground-rule double to right field, and the Yankees intentionally walked Carl Crawford to set up the double-play possibility for Reddick. ❋ Daniel Barbarisi (2011)
Swinging aggressively, Hideki Matsui ripped an RBI ground-rule double, breaking the 2-2 tie. ❋ William Fredrick Cooper (2011)
Bryce Harper's first career Arizona Fall League hit was a ground-rule double that came off the bat with the sound of thunder, or of 40,000 Duke basketball fans clapping in unison. ❋ Dan Steinberg (2010)
