Word: battering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rightfielder answered to Arturo. A guy named Doc was behind the plate. The cleanup batter called himself Hector, and his claim to fame was that he once led the league in grounding into double plays. The whole squad was hitting .212. The program said they were the New York Yankees, winners of five straight American League pennants and 2-1 favorites to make it six in a row. Baltimore Coach Billy Hunter knew better; after all, he used to play shortstop for New York. "Yankees?" snorted Hunter. "They look like the Toledo Mud Hens...
Princeton's hitting is rather weak, however, and the only ultra-consistent Tiger batter is Jack Singer, an outfielder whose average is in the vicinity...
...Scott into another jam in the ninth. He walked Cornell catcher Tom Guise to start the inning and wild pitched him to second. After striking out first baseman Joe Piperato, Scott walked pinchhitter Mike Riff to put men on first and second with one out. But the next batter fouled to O'Donnell and Houston ended the game by going to his knees to snare left fielder Jim Purcell's windblown foul popup...
...bottom of the seventh, however, McCarthy began to show signs of weakness. He retired leadoff batter Jim Tobin, out only after Tobin had missed an extra base hit when a long blast was carried into foul territory by the wind. O'Donnell walked, and speedster Bobby Leo came...
With Leo only 90 feet away from a tie ball game, all the next batter had to do was bit the ball on the ground. Tom Bilo deau took a strike, bunted foul, and then fouled out to the first baseman. At this point B.U.'s ace pitcher Ron Girolimon entered the game and retired pinchhitter Dan Hootstein on a grounder to third, ending the threat. Girolimon mowed down the Crimson with little difficulty in the eighth and ninth innings...