Word: batting
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...batting was on the whole very promising, although the pitchers have had scarcely ten days' practice with curves. Pounds had the best record, with two two-base hits and one three-bagger out of a total of five times at bat. Briggs, Simons and Currier each had two hits to their credit...
...baseball team lost the second and deciding game of the Yale series, played at New Haven on June 26, by a score of 3 to 2. Castle pitched effectively and kept Yale's hits well scattered, but his work could not compensate for the team's weakness at the bat. The Harvard players made but four hits against their opponents' eight. In spite of the poor hitting ten innings were required to decide the game, for Stephenson's drive in the seventh inning with two men on bases brought in two runs and tied the score. Jackson won the game...
...five-inning practice game with the second team by a score of 3 to 0. The play was frequently interrupted by coaching, and replacing men on bases, which, however, did not affect the outcome of the game. Throughout the second team was outclassed, and was weak at bat and erratic in the field. The University team made nine hits, all scattered singles, with the exception of a three-base hit by Pounds...
...University nine did not hit as well as on Saturday, and only once succeeded in bunching hits. The new line-up was a marked success. Stephenson and Simons accepted all their chances in the outfield, and Currier was fast and wide awake behind the bat. He held Greene well and threw accurately to the bases...
...against them, the Harvard players again tied the score in the sixth inning. McCall singled and took second on Dennie's error. Simons reached second on an error by Elrod on which McCall scored. Harvey was safe on an error by the same man, and with Greene at bat, he and Simons worked a reckless double steal...