Of the few balls batted to Ken in practice he muffed only one, and he was just beginning to feel that he might acquit himself creditably when the coach called the team in.
They had hit him but seldom, and one run was due to a muffed ball by the centre fielder.
They certainly laced into me for further orders when I muffed a ball.
Joe did, though it was more through an error on the part of the second baseman, who muffed the fly, than any ability on Joe's part, that the Jersey twin got to first.
He never would have reached it, but for an error on the part of the right fielder who muffed the ball, amid the groans of his fellows.
Wake muffed his first jump, and we gave ourselves up for gone 'coons.
He muffed his first jump, and we all thought the game was up.
The creature almost grat himself blind, when he heard of our having seen it roasting in a string by the legs before the fire, and found its bonny muffed head in a corner.
They can play ball all right, and better than some of us,” declared a centre fielder who had muffed a ball, letting in a run.
Honus rushed over, made a beautiful pick up with one hand and a perfect throw to Ross ten feet ahead of the runner, and Ross muffed the ball.
Again Ross muffed the ball, and before he had recovered it the batter was safe and Clymer who had received the base on balls originally was perched on third.
The fielder muffed the ball and Ross ran like the wind to second, Everson reaching first easily.
Yerkes batted a line drive to Fletcher, and had the New York shortstop held the ball, which was not difficult to catch, Hooper could easily have been doubled at second, but Fletcher muffed it.
Suddenly the well-muffed knuckle of the waiter was applied to the door, which presently gave way to his exhibition, even as a glorious trophy, of the card of a visitor.
He may reach his base by an error of some fielder, which may be either a muffed fly, a failure to stop and field a ground ball, a muffed thrown ball or a bad throw.
Stolen Bases shall be scored as follows: Any attempt to steal a base must go to the credit of the Base Runner, whether the ball is thrown wild or muffed by the fielder, but any manifest error is to be charged to the fielder making the same.
As he disappeared at the corner, Boyne choked a sob into a muffed bellow, and was able to meet the astonished eyes of his father and sister in this degree of triumph.
Kenton was about to open the door, when there came the formless noise of what seemed a struggle, and Ellen's voice rose in a muffed cry: "Oh!
He caught a couple of punts with his one good arm and every other punt he attempted to catch and muffed he saved the ball from the other side by falling on it.
The second batter sent a fly to shortstop, who muffed it.
He tried to catch the ball in his bare right hand and muffed it, Hanley got to second on the play while the audience roared.
Tim didn't do so badly, since out of three chances he got two flies and only muffed the third because the crowd hooted so loudly.
And he might have kept his feet, at that, for poor Caspar, seeing the game slipping away, muffed the throw.
The lads all tried hard and Joe knocked a pretty one that was muffed by the second baseman.
Sam grew wild, allowed bases on balls, struck one man and muffed an easy fly.
Rus" was never known to have muffed anything in his life!
Either one of our boys ought to have downed the ball on Madison's eight yard line but both of 'em muffed it.
In some unaccountable manner the right fielder muffed the ball and there were groans of anguish.
The Boxer right fielder had muffed the ball, but made a quick recovery and threw to first.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "muffed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
