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...second game and kept the hits coming against the Owls. Harvard opened the game up in the third inning, scoring four runs—two off a broken Temple play. Junior co-captain Julia Kidder hit a single. Lauren Brown, who is also a junior, attempted a sacrifice bunt but the Owl defense was able to snatch up the ball and throw it to first. The ball was overthrown, however, and went all the way down the right field line, allowing Brown to circle two bases, scoring herself and Kidder. The other two Crimson runs in the third were scored...
...Hartford, a place that, entirely due to Berry, had assumed a hallowed significance in BLOHARDS legend. Berry, who as a Connecticut lad could have gone either way (Sox or Yanks), had, as he says, ?grown up under the spell of Sox radio announcer Fred Hoey.? Berry?s grandfather Bunts Berry, the first man in the history of Hartford to bunt, having laid one down in 1878. ?The Ballad of Bunts Berry? used to be dutifully recited each April as the bus passed the old East Hartford cutoff. The year I traveled with the BLOHARDS, Berry himself delivered the rendition...
...Which of the following never hit a home run in a crucial Yankee-Red Sox game? A) Bucky Dent B) Johnny Lindell C) Roy White D) Jim Rice. The last bunt at Fenway Park: A) rolled foul B) was not scored as a sacrifice C) occurred during the father-son game D) was called a ?waste of time? by Don Zimmer. The Fenway ?bleacher bums? are: A) now attending Boston College hockey games B) credited with inventing the ?wine cooler? C) opposed to baseball?s drug rules D) seldom invited to Mark Clear?s house. The American League hitter most...
...scene straight from The Monty Stratton Story, Toronto immediately tested Leonard's leg with a bunt, and might have kept it up if bulky First Baseman Steve Balboni had not dived to the bag in such a heroic frenzy that Second Baseman Frank White laughed out loud. "There are times," White says, "when a whole team reaches down for something that's even better than winning. I know it sounds impossible." On the subject of impossibilities, consider three hits, 18 men retired in a row and a 1-0 victory that ended on a strikeout. "When I struck Rance Mulliniks...
...Harvard converted an out on Fullerton shortstop Blake Davis’ third-inning leadoff bunt, which became a two-base hit after an errant throw hit the dugout, or made the play on Titans second baseman Justin Turner’s grounder to third, Dorn might not have batted in the third...