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...shifting fortunes of the Harvard baseball team changed as dramatically as the weather did Saturday, as the Crimson batsmen split a crucial doubleheader with Brown at Soldier's field, losing the first game, 7-4, and coming back to win the nightcap...
...though, the Crimson batsmen emerged with a welcome 9-7 victory over Tufts and an end to their three-game losing streak. Harvard left fielder Jim Peccerillo, who has batted .526 over the last five games, broke a 6-6 tie with two outs in the bottom of the eighth by knocking in Mike Stenhouse with his third double of the day. And when Charlie Santos-Buch rapped a two-run single to center on the first pitch offered by reliever John Casey, Harvard had its margin of victory...
Five times on the afternoon the Harvard batsmen failed to bring a runner home from third base, and on two occasions the Crimson went scoreless after putting men on second and third with none...
...batsmen's record stood at 3-10 midway through the 1879 season when, the night before a game against Yale, the captain and two other members of the team came over to Ernst's room and threatened to forfeit the game if he did not pitch. Naturally, Ernst consented and then Tyng too was persuaded to play. With the invincible battery of Ernst pitching and Tyng behind the plate, Harvard blanked the Elis 2-0 in that game played exactly 100 years...
...Harvard batsmen managed 14 hits over the seven-inning game, but they all came from the same people (Stenhouse 3-for-4, DH Jim Peccerillo 3-for-4, Charlie Santos-Buch 2-for-4. More importantly, they came at random, isolated moments...