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...defensive action came early on, as MIT's leadoff batter laid down a bunt between the mound and first. Rubin snagged the dribbler and threw the ball to second-baseman Mary Baldauf, who was covering first on the play...
...game opened inauspiciously, as Crimson pitcher Gerri Rubin hit the first batter, walked the third, and then gave up a windblown triple to right to the Terriers cleanup batter, Lori Legoff...
Baldauf, the Crimson's leadoff batter, reached second when the Terrier third baseman threw the ball wide of first. Mary MacKinnon grounded out to short, but B.U. first baseman Kerri Smith attempted to make a snap throw to third to catch an advancing Baldauf--and threw the ball away, allowing the run to score...
Rubin was boiled out of a tricky situation in the third, as Hayes and Baldauf turned a sharp 6-4-3 doubleplay to crease a batter who had reached on a walk...
...baseball. The game, he reveals, is not always an ennobling or enlightening muse. Walt Whitman covered some contests for the Brooklyn Eagle and in old age asked a friend if it was true that "the fellow who pitches the ball aims to pitch it in such a way the batter cannot hit it?" Marianne Moore, the doyenne of 20th century American poets, was reduced to doggerel when she contemplated the old Dodgers: "Ralph Branca has Preacher Roe's number: recall?/ and there's Don Bessent, he can really fire the ball...