Word: changeup
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...Crimson captain Harry Douglas said. “That’s really what they proved.”Senior outfielder Tom Stack-Babich paced Harvard offensively, smashing a tape-measure three-run homer in the top of the fourth.“I flipped a changeup out onto the soccer field,” he said. “I hit it pretty hard.”JACKSONVILLE STATE 7, HARVARD 6After the Crimson let the Gamecocks come back from a seven-run deficit in the first game of Saturday’s doubleheader, Harvard almost returned the favor...
...excuses, the 6’6 righty welcomes each of the Bulldogs’ 3-4-5 hitters up to the plate and sends each of them back to the bench with—you guessed it—that changeup...
Zailskas, with his brim down to his eyes like Jonathan Papelbon, stayed ahead in counts and mixed his fastball and changeup effortlessly. He retired the first eight batters of the game and struck out three in the first three innings. Though SDSU’s Nick Romero took one deep in the fourth, Zailskas recovered quickly. In the sixth, the starter still looked unstoppable as he retired the first two batters of the inning...
...Berger. Berger pitched eight innings and held the Crimson to just two hits, while Zailskas threw seven strong innings relinquishing six hits and four runs.“Dan did a tremendous job out there,” Walsh said. “He used his changeup pretty effectively and that was the difference in his outing. The big thing is that he wasn’t walking guys.”A controversial play came in the sixth inning when it looked like Zailskas had struck out a batter on a 3-2 pitch with two outs. The umpire...
...Ancient Eight, Ryan Lavarnway, the winner of the last three Ivy League Player of the Week awards. With the count 0-2, Lavarnway’s eight home runs and 38 RBI meant nothing, as Perlman pulled the string and sat the powerful outfielder down with a wicked changeup. “That showed me a lot, especially for a freshman,” Crimson coach Joe Walsh said. “He was keeping them off balance with the changeup all day.” Yale’s No. 4 and No. 5 hitters suffered the same fate...