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With the score 3-2 in the eighth, Crimson receiver Vinnie Martelli laced a double to center, and advanced to third on a groundout. What followed can only be described as bizarre: as Smith came in with the pitch, batter Danny Skaff squared around to bunt, and Martelli raced home on the attempted suicide squeeze...
First baseman Mayock fielded the bunt, and flipped to Chuck Mitchell in an attempt to retire Skaff, but Mitchell didn't get to the base on time and the rightfielder slid under his swooping tag to beat...
...third and fourth runs were similar combinations of walks and errors, and pinchrunner Danny Bowles scored the eventual gamewinner in the ninth when Joe Wark's sacrifice fly followed a walk, sacrifice bunt and infield error to put Harvard's fourth unearned run on the scoreboard...
...chose Lowenstein to win me the ballgame," Baltimore manager Earl Weaver said after the ballgame, explaining why he didn't call for a sacrifice bunt in that situation. "I figured it was as good a shot as we were going to get all night...
...Weaver does not win games fighting with umpires. He wins with his own distinctive style of managing. He does not believe inflexibly in the sacrifice bunt, the hit-and-run or, for that matter, the supposedly hallowed rule that left-handed hitters hit better against right-handed pitchers, and vice versa. He does believe-in The Stats. The Stats, those mysterious denizens of a huge, battered filing cabinet in Weaver's Baltimore office, show every Oriole hitter's performance-lifetime, seasonal and last week-against every American League pitcher. Boston Manager Don Zimmer will start the same...