Word: balled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...succeeded in slithering out of a bases-loaded, 3-and-1 count jam in the seventh, gave way to reliever Ron Stewart in the eighth. Steward likewise Houdinied from a sacks-filled situation in the ninth by tagging out shortstop Gary Masse on a not-so-passed passed ball, but not until after he had yielded Dartmouth's fourth run on a sacrifice...
Shortstop St. John, who has been cracking the ball at a .429 clip over the last ten games, had three doubles on Saturday. "I closed up my stance about two weeks ago and the pitches have been looking like grapefruits ever since," he said...
...Raffi took a triple-bogey six on the par three 6th. The Winchester native, clad in canary yellow from head to toe, crushed his six-iron from the tee, but it hit the embankment just short of the green and rolled back into Casco Bay. He played his lost ball shot from the ladies' tee and this time banked a nine-iron over the green...
Alexander was the victim of a freakish incident on the ninth hole. His seven-iron to the green flew long, landed on a cart path, and then bounced over the clubhouse roof in one gigantic hop. He located the ball in the course parking lot next to the Dartmouth team mobile trailer. After taking a drop. Alexander wanted to play a pitch-and-run to the green but his approach was blocked by the UMass team van. He therefore executed a perfect comme-il-faut wedge shot that landed on the putting surface. Alas, he missed...
After playing impressively down South. Crimson bats turned cold up north--the bottom third of the lineup simply died, and the only two consistent batters, Mark Bingham and Mike Stenhouse, had trouble hitting the long ball. By the time the entire lineup came alive collectively two weeks ago, though, the pitching staff had long since lost its early-season edge. Even the diamond god Brown turned out to be mortal...