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Example sentences for: merkle

How can you use “merkle” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

And if you're going to hold people to the letter of the law, that seems like the way to do it, because it'd be hard to have any sympathy for Fred Merkle if before that September game the umpires had told both teams to make sure they touched all the bases in the ninth inning.
According to the rules of baseball, the game wasn't actually over until Merkle touched second base.
A week or so later, it was, and this time the Cubs won, sending themselves to the Series and consigning Merkle to permanent notoriety.
After much discussion, the umpires called Merkle out and declared the game a tie that would have to be replayed.
In suddenly invoking the letter of the law, then, the umpires were requiring Merkle to act in a way that he had no reason to believe he was supposed to act.