Word: bunt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...exchange of beanballs resulted in two players from each team being thrown out of the game. Next night, the Giants rebounded long enough to take a 5-3 lead into the ninth inning. Then some more strange things, a broken-bat single, a blooper over second and a bunt, loaded the bases for the Dodgers. Then Leftfielder Manny Mota connected for a bases-clearing double and a 6-5 victory for Los Angeles...
...baseball. There were no 11-10 slugfests, no double headers that saw erratic 7-2, 2-7 splits. Except for a three-game slump in the middle of the season, Harvard played a cautious game; protecting one or two-run leads and scrambling to add another tally with a bunt here and a hit and run on the next play...
Harvard appeared well on its way to the championship in Omaha in the first game as the first four batters reached base safely. After Vince McGugan walked and Dave Ignacio pushed a bunt past the charging first baseman. Dan DeMichele delivered Harvard's only runs of the game with a slicing drive to left field that fooled the outfielder...
Harvard almost broke the game open in the eighth against relief pitcher Rob Nelson. Kelly started the charge with a single to left and advanced to third on a sacrifice bunt by McGugan, a single by Ignacio, and a sacrifice fly by DeMichele. After a talk with coach Ted Throen. Nelson walked Varney intentionally and got Bernard to ground out to first...
When Kelly singled in the seventh, Vince McGugan sacrificed him to scoring position with a bunt. This set the stage for Dan DeMichele to single him across for the tie-breaker. Then, in the eighth, Kelly helped his own cause with a two-run single scoring Hal Smith and Pete Bernhard and icing the Crimson's 12th win in 14 outings...