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In the third inning, Betts fielded what could have been an inning-ending double play ball, but his relay from shortstop was wide of second baseman Tommy Edman.

“During that time we got know each other,” said Davis, who left home to play ball when he was teenager.

Many others online suggested that the content of the leaked messages—which included racist statements such as “I’d go to the zoo if I wanted to watch a monkey play ball” in response to a question about the NBA—was no different from that of their own chats.

She said on Monday that the UK could suspend visas from countries that do not "play ball" and comply with the return of migrants who have no right to stay in the UK.

That was definitely the sense from her first brief interview in the role on Monday, in which she repeatedly vowed to do "whatever it takes" to tackle illegal immigration, suggested she could withdraw visas from countries that do not "play ball" on migrant returns and embraced the potential introduction of ID cards - all in clear, plain language.