Word: battering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...third. Another wild pitch brought Smith hurtling in from third, but the catcher was there to meet him. When the dust cleared. Smith was out. Dorwart singled and again the runners advanced on a wild pitch. With two out and runners on second and third, Harvard's leading batter and shortstop, Jeff Grate, came to bat. He lined the second pitch into deep right field for a single, scoring two runs. Grate was thrown out trying for a double however, and the side was retired...
Harvard starter George Lalich got in trouble in the first inning when he walked the first two batter. Holy Cross first baseman Phil O'Neil then hit a grounder to Bill Cobb at third. Cobb made the play at third but overthrew first baseman John Ignacio and Holy Cross had its first run. A single to centerfield made it 2-0 before Lalich pitched...
Cleveland starter Sonny Siebert and reliever Hal Kurtz each hit one Boston batter, and Yastrzemski and Joe Foy were both sent sprawling...
...four-minute mile escaped Baker once again as he edged out teammate Roy Shaw in the time of 4:08.4, but he came back in the two-mile event to batter the stadium record by 6 seconds. Doug Hardin also finished under the old mark, only a second behind Baker...
...stand out there shaking off catcher's sign after sign while tension mounts; no longer will a reliever trudge in from the faraway bullpen like a matador with his warmup jacket slung over his pitching arm (he will now ride in a golf cart); no longer will a batter try to rattle the pitcher by demanding that the umpire examine the ball. What's left to relieve the boredom? The seventh-inning stretch...