Word: catching
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...went to pieces at critical moments and failed to pull together at all. Rand and Burgess were the only men who seemed to know how to play ball. The former played a good all-round game, while the latter, although making one error, which was excusable, made some beautiful catches in center field. Hayes in right let a hit go through his legs and then made such a poor throw that the base runner reached home. He was replaced in the sixth inning by Selfridge, who had no chances. Stevenson was a little unsteady on first. Wrenn accepted his three...
...features of the game were a running catch by Goodridge close to the foul line and home runs by Scannell and Rand...
Scott began the fourth by knocking a high fly which Cozzens caught. Fox hit to near the foul line in right field, allowing Chandler to make a very difficult catch. Anderson was unfortunate in having Brown catch a long foul off his bat. After Edmunds got a base on balls he foolishly started for second on Goodridge's pop fly, thereby allowing Perry and Fox to make a double play. Walker also got a base on balls, and stole second, but Cozzens left him there by hitting to Beale...
...however, it was a fine game. Capt. Gregory of Amherst, pitched cleverly, half the hits scored against him being either scratches or due to his fielders' poor judgment. Sullivan and Montague, of Amherst, also did well, double play by Kellogg and Montague being especially brilliant. Redington's long running catch was Yale's best play...
...this inning timely batting netted Harvard three earned runs. Burgess hit safely and went to third on Stevenson's single. The ball was fielded to third in order to catch Burgess, and Stevenson went to second. Both men advanced a base on Paine's long fly to centre. Dean then flied out. Stevenson scored on Rand's single, the latter stole second and came home on Whittemore's three-bagger. Hayes made the third out leaving Whittemore on third...