Carom used in a sentence

Carom in a sentence as a noun

Can you explain what "scoring with carom" means?

" It's more like "hit at an awkward angle at carom into left field" ability.

"I saw him run over forty several times, and it was not unusual for him to put a string together of twenty or thirty"I wonder if thats 40 caroms in cowboy?

Carom in a sentence as a verb

The VC model requires you to strap yourself to an unguided missile that everyone hopes is aimed somewhere lucrative but is just as likely going to carom off a series of brick walls.

There aren't even 100 million paths to get to the CEO position, and while there is certainly some economic Darwinism at play in determining who gets on those paths, I suspect that it's overwhelmed by noise as people carom around the socio-economic network like the balls in a lottery machine.