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Example sentences for: merkle

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According to the rules of baseball, the game wasn't actually over until Merkle touched second base.
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.
What Merkle did, then, was what the community expected him to do.
Merkle, who was digging hard for second base, swerved away (he never touched second) and started running for the Giants' locker room in center field as soon as he saw McCormick touch the plate.
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.