Word: baseman
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...April 9, 1912, that Dana Wingate ’14, the third baseman for the Harvard baseball team, stepped into the batter’s box to lead off an exhibition game against the Boston Red Sox. With this game, the Red Sox christened their new facility, a still-unfinished structure called Fenway Park. Wingate became Fenway’s first batter, and the full significance of this was probably lost on him—Wingate died...
...Crimson inning came off Daveola (1-4) in the fourth. With freshman Schuyler Mann on first, senior shortstop Mark Mager lined one just to the right of the first baseman to give the Crimson second and third with one out. Enter Hale, whose moonshot was the first of his season and fifth of his career. It was also the first home run the Crimson had hit at home all weekend after its opponents had hit eight on the weekend...
...Wahlberg promptly allowed a leadoff homer to light-hitting Fernando Perez. Wahlberg walked the next batter he faced, hit second baseman Billy Hess and give up a two-run double to Matt Buckmiller before Walsh pulled him in favor of sophomore Jason Brown. Brown was only able to get the Crimson out of the inning after two more runs on a triple by Derek Johnson and a Keith Palmieri sacrifice fly to put the game out of reach...
...Crimson kept chipping away in the fifth thanks to two Columbia errors and its own hustle. Mager ran out a grounder to third and was rewarded when Steve Compton’s throw pulled first baseman Keith Palmieri off the bag. Hale knocked a pitch off Palmieri’s leg on the next at-bat and beat the flip to first. After senior Nick Carter hit into a fielder’s choice to give the Crimson first and third with one out, Mager raced home on a wild pitch...
...mound, sophomore Kara Brotemarkle tossed a complete game. Her only moments of difficulty occurred in the sixth, when the Crimson defense stumbled. Errors from the second baseman Williamson and first baseman Whitton led to two Quaker unearned runs...