Word: bulldoggedly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Rounding out a week in which it played 12 games in nine days, the Crimson (18-12, 10-2 Ivy) roughed up Red Rolfe Division pretender Yale with a four-game sweep at O'Donnell Field, scoring 43 runs on 49 hits against a freshman-heavy Bulldog rotation...
...Jamieson crossed up a Bulldog order accustomed to the hard-throwing arms of Garett Vail and Ben Crockett by using a mix of offspeed stuff, including a very workable slider, to allow just three earned runs on nine hits. Jamieson struck out nine and walked...
...climbed the fence and reached into the pine trees to rob Bulldog third baseman Mike Kahney of a sure home run in the fifth and then snagged a sinking pop-up off the bat of center fielder Keith Reams in the eighth...
...After pitching a scoreless first inning, Birtwell did something that surprised all--he allowed an earned run. Bulldog catcher Todd Kasper's solo home run in the top of the second inning snapped Birtwell's streak of 17 consecutive scoreless innings, and gave Yale an early 1-0 lead. Birtwell had not surrendered an earned run in the state of Massachusetts before Saturday...
...Despite the home run, Birtwell remained poised, and was having his way with the Bulldog lineup in the early going...