Word: battering
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Harvard baseball captain David Forst had 26 career RBI entering this season. He was your typical "good-field, no-hit" short-stop, a nine-hole hitter you could count on to eat up a routine grounder. But God forbid he step into the batter's box with a couple of ducks on the pond...
With two on and two out and his team losing by three runs to a national powerhouse, senior center fielder Brian Ralph stepped into the batter...
...Metropolitan Opera soprano Dorothy Kirsten and baritone Robert Merrill for pointers on technique. "He knew they knew...how to maintain the equipment," Sinatra's longtime conductor, Vincent Falcone, told writer Will Friedwald. That stuff in the whiskey tumbler he used onstage was often tea. Booze, he knew, could batter the throat...
...miscue was one of the many things that went wrong yesterday for the Crimson and was symbolic of an afternoon of uncharacteristic tentativeness on the basepath and of squandered opportunities in the batter's box. Combined with tough outings from four Harvard pitchers, it meant the Crimson's worst defeat of the 1998 campaign, as Harvard surrendered season highs in runs and hits--16 and 20, respectively...
Despite the pickoff, Carey was the lonehorseman in the batter's box for Harvard, goingthree-for-three and scoring its only run in thetop of the eighth. Ralph plated him with an RBIsingle, his 33rd RBI on the year...