The term ball peen hammer first saw print in 1874, when a mechanic's dictionary referred to it as a "metal worker's hammer ...

Young people use their plastic hammers on each other while celebrating the Saint John feast by the the Douro river in Porto, northern Portugal, Monday night, June 23, 2025.

PORTO, Portugal (AP) — On Porto's steep streets, several thousands of people celebrated the summer in the way the city has been doing it for decades and centuries: by bonking friends and ...

And Law 37.4 backs that up if a batter uses hand or body to return the ball without consent. But it hinges on whether the ball was live – and in this case, the umpires deemed it was already dead.