I ' ve got a better one <| sep |> His eyes and covered smile in the last panel are freaking me out for some reason ! <| sep |> Yeah , sometimes I get some silly hope that one of them will turn out to be a billionaire or someshit and i ' ll get rich , but I remind myself that I ' m not nor shouldn ' t be doing it for a reward . I suppose it ' s balanced out by all my regulars promising to split their lottery tickets big if they ever actually win . Not that I really think that ' ll happen . <| sep |> 1 A ball is a pitch thrown out of the strike zone . If a pitcher throws 4 of these , the batter advances to first base . The strike zone is an imaginary square defined by the sides of home plate , a horizontal line extending out from the batters knees , and a horizontal line extending from the midpoint of the batters torso midway between the top of his shoulders and the top of his pants . 2 exactly hat . The batter gets a free first base , and any forced runners advance . Nonforced runners do not advance . A forced runner is a runner who must move in a play . It ' s a runner on first , or a runner where the base behind him is occupied second and first base , or all three .