Word: bunt
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...Crimson got only five hits off Cushmore, but Princeton's output was particularly embarrassing in view of their 13-8 pasting of Brown the day before. The two hits--a line shot into right by Cushmore and a bunt by Biondi--came consecutively in the third, but McCandlish retired the side on a strikeout and a popup...
...field, the intermittent rain didn't prevent the Crimson defense from playing an errorless game. In the second inning, a spectacular barehand play by third baseman Jim Tobin on a Cornell bunt and a pickoff throw to second base by catcher Joe O'Donnell nullifield two singles, a balk, and a walk, killing the Ithacans' only potentially big rally. Box Score ab r h rbl Dockery, lf 4 1 1 0 Neville, cf 3 0 2 1 Grate, ss 4 0 0 0 Hootstein, rf 4 1 1 0 Tobin, 3b 2 0 0 0 Welz...
more like that. A neat bunt, please; a cloud-breaker...
...that his players might get dizzy from all that running around. Don Drysdale, the Dodger starter, was out so fast that he could have watched himself on instant replay. Minnesota Second Baseman Frank Quilici opened the third inning with a double, then Drysdale fell down trying to field a bunt, and by the time the Twins got bored, eleven men had batted and six had scored-three of them on Zoilo Versalles' 400-ft. homer into the leftfield bleachers. "I had bad command," Drysdale said afterward. But so, for that matter, did the Twins' Mudcat Grant. Each team...
Only four teams in history have won the series after being behind 2-0. But it never occurred to the Dodgers to worry. They were too busy being happy about going back to their own carefully tailored ballpark, with its concrete infield, bunt-favoring baselines and hard-to-reach fences. To celebrate that (and Owner Walter O'Malley's 62nd birthday), Pitcher Claude Osteen-an American League castoff whose lifetime record against Minnesota is 6-0-shut out the Twins on five hits. The Dodgers pounded a succession of Minnesota pitchers for ten-including five doubles. Los Angeles...