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Harvard coach Loyal Park has always prided his teams on their ability to bunt and come through with a clutch hit, and on their defense, especially the defensive infield. At times this spring, the squad looked as if it were handling a hot potato instead of a baseball...
Harvard traditionally plays a scrappy game. A hit, a bunt or steal and then another hit have been counted on to provide most of the runs scored over the years. But while the Crimson usually scored only a run or two per inning, it generally scored in five or six innings per game. This year the last hit, the one to bring the man home, did not come often enough. Against Northeastern on May 1, for example, Harvard left 13 men stranded on the basepaths...
...certainly one of the top five pitchers in the East." Park said, "But we had our chances to beat him. We'd have men on first and second in the first and third innings and miss the bunt. You know, things like that kept happening...
...inning later Marni made a second error, Joe Sciolla reached first and things looked rosy for the Crimson nine when Leon Goetz was hit by a pitch while trying to bunt, placing runners of, first and second with nobody out. But once again Walker responded to the pressure, and quelled Harvard's hopes by first inducing a force-out at third then striking out Barry Cronin on a called third strike, and finally getting Sandy Milley on a grounder...
...dashes nonchalantly down to first base, tagging out the unsuspecting Bulldog he finds there, and then steps on the bag. The batter who laid down the bunt heard round the world...