On balls that got away

Please minors, pardon the pun. Just two quick quotes from pitchers that drilled the opposing star hitters. Says Brad Hennessey of the Giants, who plunked Jeff Kent on the head in the seventh:

"It was a changeup — I was trying to get ahead. It came out
of my hand early; my release point got screwed up.
You could see with the rest of my pitches that inning —
everything was coming out early."

Later on, in the top of the eigth, Tim Hamulack retaliated hitting Barry Bonds on the right forearm:

"The catcher set up outside, the ball got away from me,"
Hamulack said after he was thrown out of the game.
"But after what happened with Kent,the umpire thought
I was doing it purposely."

How inconvenient that these two particular balls got away while being pitched to respective stars on both teams.