Word: batting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...when the brides fly across the stage apparently effortlessly, a stunt which garnered audible gasps from those sitting around me. But I found the cleverest moment of the ballet to be when the brides ran across the stage, holding the top layer of their gowns up like bat's wings in a subtle and hauntingly beautiful mimicry of Dracula himself...
With two outs and a runner on first in the bottom of the ninth inning of the deciding game of the Ivy League baseball championship series last Sunday, Princeton freshman shortstop Pat Boran stepped to the plate representing the winning run. He had homered in his last at-bat, and another monster shot over the center field wall would give the Tigers a 6-5 victory and the Ivy championship...
Hits were so hard to come by for the Crimson that even when it scored, the bat rarely met the ball...
...bottom of the eighth while I was catching, I was thinking that this could be last game, and my last at-bat for Harvard," Keck said. "But then I blocked it out of mind. When I came up I just did the things at the plate that I always do--stay back and try to drive the ball up the middle...
Keck's third at-bat in the second game, which had already been interrupted from the fifth inning after Princeton sophomore catcher Casey Hildreth gunned down Woodfork trying to steal second, was put on hold again in the bottom of the sixth for a 25-minute rain delay. Both teams rushed out to cover the infield with a tarp as the Crimson clung to a narrow 3-2 lead. Almost miraculously, the rain, which had been falling for several innings before the umpires stopped the game, disappeared completely and the battle for the Ancient Eight crown resumed...