Word: batted
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...some places the ground is bare and heavy, and in others rough and grassy. What is true about the pitcher's and batter's box of this diamond is true of all the others. The pitchers and batsmen flounder in hollows in their attempts to deliver and bat the ball. The wooden home plate is so far above the level of the ground that sliding is not to be thought...
Meanwhile Harvard had been piling up her runs. Dean, who was loudly applauded when he first came to the bat, took the first ball that was pitched and sent it beyond the right field fence for a home run. Hallowell followed with a clear hit to centre. He took second on a passed ball. Hovey hit to Boutelle, who threw wild to Thompson, and Hallowell came in. Hovey, who had taken second on the wild throw, got to third on Thompson's muff of Trafford's easy fly, and came home on Frothingham's hit to centre. Trafford was thrown...
...fifth inning Dartmouth for the first time sent four men to the bat. With one man out Boutelle reached first on Cook's fumble of his grounder, and there remained while Eaton and Thompson went out. Harvard earned another run in this inning on a scratch hit by Alward, and Cook's three-bagger to the fence...
...nothing in favor of the former. Bater and Upton were the battery and Soule took Dean's place at second; otherwise the team was unchanged. Clarence Smith '85 coached the team. The nine played a clean game in the field, but were not very effective at the bat. The nine's coaching was poor, several men being caught on bases. The team felt the absence of Captain Dean, and several times the men showed poor judgment in making plays...
...fourth Worcester failed to score. The first three Harvard men at the bat went out. In the fifth Howe took Bates' place in the box. Worcester made a run on a base on balls, a hit, a wild pitch and Howe's muff at the plate of Cobb's throw. Again Harvard's first three men went out, two of them at second base...