Word: batterer
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...series of singles and doubles. McAteer was relieved by sophomore Amanda Watkins after two innings of work. But even the pitching change failed to halt the Eagle onslaught. Boston College quickly doubled the score on a two-bagger. Watkins then prompted a groundball to shortstop to retire the first batter of the inning. The Eagles touched home one more time before junior Julia Kidder started an impressive tag-em-out, throw-em-out double play. Watkins returned for a 1-2-3 fourth, helped by the second of three double plays on the day. Watkins again faced trouble...
...home, lacking a catcher, a live batter, and the rudiments of curveball expertise, I chucked a few yakkers off a brick wall outside the Kennedy School, chasing that feeling...
Starting pitcher Matt Brunnig began the seventh, but was chased without retiring a batter. Brad Unger stepped in but struggled, allowing two inherited runners and one of his own to score, and was bailed out only by a critical double play ball—the Crimson infield’s third crucial turn of the game. All told, Brunnig allowed eleven hits and eight runs (six earned) in his six-plus innings of work, striking out two and walking one. Although he did not have his sharpest stuff on the mound, Brunnig had his best-ever day at the plate...
...Green pushed across four unearned runs on two hits against an uncharacteristically wild Cole, who walked four before being relieved by Jason Brown in the top of the first. The junior submariner then struck out his first batter swinging on the way to 5 and two thirds gutsy, bullpen-saving innings...
...Harvard’s answer—freshman starter Adam Cole (2-3)—was lifted before recording a third out. But Faiola—the Ivy League’s putative Pitcher of the Year—gave up eight runs, six earned, as the Crimson battered him for 14 hits and two walks.“Scoring eight off of Faiola, that’s their guy,” head coach Joe Walsh said. “I feel real good coming into tomorrow. I feel confident we’re swinging pretty good...