Word: bunt
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...bottom of the second, the Crusaders began to act as if they had a collective case of nikephobia. George Neville led off for Harvard with a walk, and Joe O'Donnell tried to move him to second with a sacrifice bunt. Knittel pounced on the ball and fired it to first. The second baseman, covering on the play, dropped the throw and O'Donnell was safe...
Harvard's most serious threat came in the fourth, when Neil Houston doubled and Tom Bilodeau followed with a walk. John Dockery's sacrifice bunt moved them to second and third. When O'Donnell grounded sharply to Fazen at second base, Houston tried to score and was thrown out by a step. Dan Hootstein then stroked a rising line drive to ward right field, but Fasen west high in the air to trap it and end the inning...
...resist telling TV fans in his cornpone drawl every last detail of what they could see for themselves. Moreover, with a journalist's eye for firsts and a statistician's mania for the minutiae of baseball, he was fond of confiding to his listeners that, say, the bunt that had just been witnessed was the first ever laid down by a left-handed rightfielder in an August night game with two men on base and one out. In the few moments when the 90 million known facets of the diamond happened to fail him, he always...
...Phil): "You could bunt and you could run-a good wheel, as they...
...wonder I couldn't bunt...