Word: batting
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...undergraduates at Harvard and I have known nothing but repression and fear throughout our formative years. We have been living in the “Time of Bonds,” an era when pitchers cannot openly practice their craft for fear of reprisals from the tyrannical despotism of bat-borne power. It is a power wielded by those hitters who, like the gluttonous suitors of Penelope who prospered in the absence of Odysseus, have grown fat off of poor pitching and enlarged muscles...
Indeed, in the second game of Saturday’s doubleheader against Yale, it took one particular at-bat for Harvard’s captain to give empirical proof to a markedly unscientific scouting report...
Junior Josh Klimkiewicz’s end-of-the-bat flare with one out broke the scoreless tie, and Wilson’s rocket double down the left field line brought the rest of the runners home...
...first time all afternoon, the fans grew nervous. One swing of the bat could tie the game Herrmann had dominated so thoroughly for six innings...
...about the next hitter, Byrne—a guy who got pinch hit for in his first at-bat last weekend—driving in the go-ahead run with a single...