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Herrmann came to face a fate that seemed as inevitable as the thunderstorms at the hands of Princeton’s Thomas Pauly, who had already struck out nine batters and wound up dispatching Herrmann with a perhaps predictable ease. Herrmann’s at-bat was only his 16th of the season, and he had scarcely even made contact in his few Ivy League appearances...
...sent [Herrmann] up there to swing the bat,” Harvard coach Joe Walsh said. “He’s got a lot of power. If he could get a hold of one and hit it out of the shortest part of the park…We were looking for a dream come true up there...
Consider that you could, right now, draw up a list of every conceivable play that could ever happen in an at-bat. Every situation. 6-4-3, happens twice a game or so. Grounder to first, 3 unassisted. Single. Homer. Strikeout. There is nothing that can be done that has not been thought...
...Herrmann moment provided a measure of clarity. The season was about the potential of the next at-bat, the next start, the next guy to get the call, about whether freshmen like Javier Castellanos and Morgan Brown could be thrown into the fire and pitch well in the most important innings of their young careers and about whether Klimkiewicz could bring home a couple of runs with two outs. Usually they did. Sometimes they didn’t. The result was a pretty good season. It’s nowhere near as incongruous as it seems...
With the Crimson trailing 2-0 in the bottom of the seventh, Whitton led off the inning with what would be the final at-bat of her career. She went out in style with a single up the middle to start a rally, though the comeback bid fell just short...