Principal English Translation:
in the ball game
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 6 -- Rhetoric and Moral Philosophy, No. 14, Part 7, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1961), 64.
Attestations from sources in English:
in vncan oonquetzaloc in patolco, in tlachco: ca oontlatlalililoc in maiehoatl in queceoatl, in nelpilonj = when he hath been placed there in the patolli game, in the ball game; for the glove, the leather hip-guard, the girdle have been placed on (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 6 -- Rhetoric and Moral Philosophy, No. 14, Part 7, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1961), 64.