Word: battering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fourth inning was all the Cardinals needed. Right Fielder Watkins made a homer and most of the line-up hit safely, bringing in seven runs. They got three more in the sixth. When the last Pittsburgh batter was out, the Cardinals slapped each other on the back as they tossed their gloves away, and started across the field to the dressing room. It was the last game they needed to make sure of the National League pennant, and the 10,000 fans who had turned out for them in the chilly weather were yelling and throwing out torn-up score...
National League. The batter dug his spikes into the dust beside the plate, pulled down his cap, swung back to wait for the first pitch. It was Woody English, wiry Chicago third-baseman, coming up in the tenth with one out and the score tied. At the crack of his clean single the record crowd, spreading down over the grandstand terraces into roped-off areas along the sidelines, began to stir and shout. Kiki Cuyler lined out to Hendrick but then Hack Wilson hit safely and Taylor smacked the ball into the overflow crowd at the right, bringing...
...score of 5 to 4 with the tying run on third base in the last frame, yesterday at Soldiers Field. MacHale pitched for the Crimson until he got in trouble in the ninth with two men out, and was relieved by Devens who struck out the last batter and clinched the victory...
After Rasmussen fied out Crane was walked and the bases were loaded: Then Nugent made his second error on a ball hit by Caulkins and the batter went to second while Harris and Silvonen tallied. Captain Freedman was the next man up and he hit a double scoring the two runners and tying the score. A moment later he brought in the winning run when Smith hit another double...
...Dean coach was forced to use two pitchers, Smith and Simpson, to quell the Harvard batsmen, and these main-stays of the Dean pitching staff successfully turned back all Crimson efforts R. S. Ogden '31 was the only Harvard batter to hit consistently, getting two singles and a triple out of three times...