It was too good a pitch, and Franco topped a nubber between third base and the mound.

Jackson walked, but Cherry struck out swinging and Maggin hit a little nubber to first.

Ruiz followed with a nubber down the line and third baseman Evan Longoria charged.

A base hit later, Jones misplayed Kevin Stocker's nubber between the mound and first.

Saunders did it again in the third inning, this time by striking out Morse and getting Danny Espinosa on a nubber to the mound.

Davis was hurt on a nubber by Boston Red Sox batter Jacoby Ellsbury.

In the fifth inning Saturday night, Payton stayed in the batter's box, thinking the nubber he had hit in front of the plate was foul.

A little nubber off the bat of Jason Bartlett resulted in an infield single, which followed Sean Rodriguez's single.

In the first inning, Pedroia hit a nubber back to pitcher Raul Valdes, who turned the bouncer into an inning-ending double play.

After Gardner advanced on defensive indifference, Cano hit a nubber in front of the plate and was thrown out at first by catcher Jeff Mathis.

Floyd hit a nubber to the left of the mound, and Suppan made a nimble pickup and throw to get Floyd as Wright took second.

Ellsbury had hit a nubber only a few feet in front of home plate, and Clevenger's throw hit Ellsbury on the left side of the back.

He reached that total in six efficient innings, retiring 13 in a row between Reyes’s leadoff single and Jason Bay’s 40-foot nubber with one out in the fifth.

And the only two runs he gave up probably wouldn't have scored had he made an accurate throw after fielding Ryan Braun's one-hop nubber back to the mound in the third inning.

And in the fifth, Erubiel Durazo would have been safe on a nubber past first base, except that he went into a patented Roberto Alomar time-killing slide and was out.

In that same inning, Todd Zeile didn't bother to run as his little nubber corkscrewed itself back into fair territory near third base, and he was out by more than he should have been.

Phil Dumatrait came in to pitch and Ortiz greeted him with a nubber in front of the plate that Dumatrait tried to bare-hand but couldn't, allowing Pedroia to score the go-ahead run.

The Dodgers went back up 9-8 in the seventh when Gordon walked, was sacrificed to second, stole third and made a terrific sweeping one-handed swipe of the plate to score on a Carl Crawford nubber.

Mesoraco singled against Rick VandenHurk (0-1) to lead off the 14th and advanced when catcher Michael McKenry picked up Brandon Phillips' nubber at the plate and threw to second too late for the out.

In an odd twist of events, the game featured two unexpected power surges from a pair of light hitters, and a nubber from the biggest man in the ballpark that proved to be the biggest hits in the game.

A night after losing on a 15-foot nubber, the Mets sprayed line drives from corner to corner and rounded the bases so quickly that Citizens Bank Park could have been mistaken for the tighter dimensions of a Little League field.

Then, with two outs in the bottom of the ninth, in the next-to-last game of the regular season, with the Cubs leading by 3-2 and the tying run on third base, Dave Clark of the Astros rolled a little nubber up the first base line.