Word: bunting
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Mager laid down a bunt to plate...
When the Dodgers and Giants were alternating National League pennants in the '40s and '50s, they had actual role players. Everyone in Brooklyn knew Jackie Robinson could play first or second, bunt his way on base and steal home whenever he wanted. Manhattan could always count on Bobby Thomson to come through in the clutch. Willie Mays and Duke Snider roamed the outfields of the Polo Grounds and Ebbets Field like a mayor struts around City Hall...
...ideal Harvard rally featured two bunt singles, a double steal, a Texas-Leaguer and a suicide squeeze. The Crimson is still the only team I've ever seen that lines up outside its dugout to congratulate somebody who moved a runner from second to third with a 4-3 groundout. Sophomore catcher and All-Ivy First-Teamer Brian Lentz went 9-for-16 on the first weekend of league play this year, and Walsh told me he was happiest that Lentz slid hard into second to break up a double play when down nine runs in the ninth...
...game, 4-4, she put the Crimson back up 6-4 with a two-run double in the top of the fifth. Springer started the inning with a well-earned walked, and Thoke, who had relieved Whitton on the mound in the third, followed with a well-placed pop-bunt single. Amberg, the next hitter, fouled off five pitches before finally getting the ball in play. Northwestern booted the ball, and that set up Whitton...
Harvard swung their bats aggressively against Big 12 pitcher Lana Moran, but the Crimson managed just two hits. Springer's bunt single to lead off the fourth and McKendry's double deep off of the left-center fence were the only hits Harvard could manage...