Word: buntings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...turned out to be just one extra inning, though, as a series of lucky breaks gave Harvard its fifth run in the tenth. Karegeannes walked, and was sacrificed to second by O'Donnell, advanced to third when Manchester was hit by a pitch, and scored on a suicide squeeze bunt by Lincoln. HARVARD ab r h rbi Smith 4 1 1 1 C'n'gh'm 3 0 0 0 H't'st'n 5 0 1 1 Lord 5 0 1 0 Hall...
...with a small screen to compose on in the middle. But let us land on three of his gross blunders--one frequent. That one is the swerving track inward, which he uses as an illiterate uses exclamation points. It makes you feel like a lame third-baseman charging a bunt...
...suspended on strings. Then, in one bewildering blur, he sweeps forward to release the ball, often so violently that he staggers sideways off the mound. That lone flaw in Juan's motion-the awkwardness of his follow-through-is forever giving batters bright ideas. "Why not just bunt him to death?" Houston's young Centerfielder Jimmy Wynn asked an Astro coach when he first saw Marichal three years ago. Replied the coach: "Go ahead and bunt-if you can." Wynn soon learned his lesson: "Juan doesn't give you pitches you can bunt...
Harvard's three hits that inning were a misplayed bunt by Dockery, a liner by Neville that the center fielder played for a triple, and an opposite-field Texas Leaguer by Welz. A walk to Joe O'Donnell and three bad throws were the other key ingredients of the big inning...
Yale's leadoff batter hit a routine grounder, but Jim Tobin's had throw to first opened the floodgates. Three consecutive singles, a walk, a squeeze bunt, and finally a back-breaking two-run single by the number eight Eli hitter produced five Yale runs...