Word: buntings
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...rosy. Engineer starter Mike Royal was breezing along with a one hitter. Only four Harvard batters reached base, two on walks and two on throwing errors by Mike (four errors in the game) Dziekan. Royal had a slim lead, 1-0, to work with, as Vince Maconi's bunt rolled past third baseman Jim Thomas (who is back in the line-up for the first time since April 30) for an RBI single in the fourth...
Leigh Hogan (2 hits, 2 RBIs) led off the inning with a bunt single, and one out later Dave St. Pierre (2 hits, 2 RBIs), Jim Thomas, Don Driscoll and Leon Goetz all singled, one after the other. Ed Durso also had a base hit one out after that, his second of three hits on the afternoon. Needless to say, Royal did not appear on the mound at the start of the seventh...
...winning run crossed the plate on a one-out suicide squeeze play that worked better than expected. Ric LaCivita strode to the plate with the bases loaded and laid down a well-placed bunt. Fran Cronin, who was sent in to run for Joe Mackey, got a good break from third and was crossing home with the tying run by the time Krentzman got to the ball...
McAuliffe, who ignited a four-run rally in the ninth inning with a leadoff walk, started the 10th with a walk off Cecil Upshaw and Upshaw then fielded Bob Montgomery's bunt and threw late and high to second...
With some tawdry bunting plastered on the mezzanine but only one successful bunt laid down in the diamond, the Boston Red Sox inaugurated their home campaign Thursday with an exciting, 7-6, loss to their top rival in the American League East, the Baltimore Orioles...