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BOSTON—With one of its biggest bats missing from the lineup, the Harvard baseball team still turned in one of its most clutch performances in its Beanpot history...
...Hendricks watching from the sidelines with a knee injury, the Crimson scored four runs in the ninth inning to overcome a two-run deficit, defeating UMass 8-7 yesterday afternoon at Fenway Park. Harvard (13-17, 6-6 Ivy) will play Boston College today at 5 p.m. for the Beanpot championship. B.C. beat Northeastern 13-7 in yesterday’s second game, and the Crimson is still stinging from a 24-6 loss at the hands of the Eagles last week...
...Crimson entered the top of the ninth inning of yesterday’s Beanpot opener trailing the Minutemen 6-4, with UMass closer Scott Ratliff on the mound. Although Ratliff entered the game with a 1.69 ERA, each of the first three hitters in Harvard’s lineup reached base, bringing the cleanup hitter to the plate. But instead of Hendricks—the normal cleanup hitter and team-leader in batting average, home runs and runs batted in—sophomore catcher Schuyler Mann stepped into the box with no outs and the bases loaded...
When the comic book-sounding “Sky Mann” was announced at the Beanpot tournament last year, it was oddly appropriate. The man at the plate was in the midst of a downright heroic freshman season...
Sure, there were some great games among the eight. The Beanpot semifinal against BU was an instant classic and has helped to build the gladiator-like image of Terrier goaltender Sean Fields, after his now-famous “toe save” on sophomore defenseman Noah Welch...