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...Crockett watched the Crimson simultaneously give up a 2-0 lead and the chance to clinch the Red Rolfe division title outright. Now Harvard will have to meet a menacing Brown squad in a one-game playoff on Wednesday. Harvard Coach Joe Walsh has already named his rubber-armed ace as his starter. He’ll pitch on three days’ rest...
...Salvador’s heroics were set up minutes earlier, when Harvard ace Ben Crockett struck out both Brown batters he faced in a rare relief appearance. Harvard Coach Joe Walsh called for the much-used Crockett with one out and the go-ahead run on second...
After using five different pitchers in the game, Walsh brought his ace in to get two big outs in the top of the ninth...
However, as sexy as strikeouts are, they aren’t as efficent as ground balls when it comes to getting batters out. Crockett didn’t retire a single batter on a ground ball, which is unusual for the ace and could explain why he was roughed up for 12 hits...
Take his use of captain Ben Crockett, the Crimson’s ace and former Boston Red Sox draftee. Crockett threw 140 pitches against Brown Saturday, re-entering the game in the fifth and sixth innings in a game that the Crimson was losing by three runs. He had thrown 148 the previous week against Yale, and regularly throws over 120. And while Crockett was up to the task—he only seemed to get more dominant with each inning—one wonders if the decision to leave Crockett wasn’t a bit risky...