Word: balle
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University nine started fast and played smooth ball until Booth got in a hole in the seventh, when errors in judgment allowed the visitors to chase over their first counter. The Crimson batters touched the Rhode Island pitcher for 12 hits while Booth was holding the losing artillery to seven blows, six of which were bunched in the last two sessions...
...leading by three runs in the last of the fifth, Captain Todd opened the inning with a solid triple over the head of the left fielder. The hit could have been stretched to a circuit blow but the Crimson leader was held at third. Lord hit a hard ground ball and when the short stop juggled it, Todd scored and the University first sacker was safe at first. Lord scored on Sullivan's scratch hit through the infield. In the sixth, three hits, a base on balls and two errors gave the winners four tallies. Zarakov walked, Ellison sacrificed...
...losers counted in the next session when Lamont was passed and LaChapelle and mcKenxic hit safely. In the first of the eighth the Rhode Island ball tossers scored another run on hits by Draghetti and Stevens...
Boston University's all-round play proved superior to the brand of ball offered by the University nine on Soldiers Field Saturday, and the Crimson diamond schedule started with an 8 to 6 verdict for the invaders. Six errors largely off set the fair hurling of Barbee, 1928 mound ace, who officiated for eight innings, and held the Terriers to seven safe blows. Only seven hits were made by the Crimson artillery, and these were supplemented by only two B. U. miscues...
...Todd dropped Higginbotham's Texas leaguer after a long run. Moulton walked after DeRham's muff of a foul had given him a life; Barbee, after handling Jenkins carefully, made the mistake of grooving what was to have been the third strike, and the Terrier backstop promptly plastered the ball along the left-field foul line for two bases...