Word: clincher
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...Dartmouth, turned in a three-hit shutout in the opener. In the second game, Sheffield—who had been a JV player, a midweek pitcher, a member of the right field platoon and finally a weekend starter—could call himself the winning pitcher in the series clincher...
Needing just a tie in its season finale against a struggling Brown squad, the Crimson appeared to have its first league title in six years wrapped up. Instead, the Bears pushed Harvard around for most of the 90 minutes in the would-be clincher, handing the Crimson its most lopsided loss of the year...
After failing to pull out what would have been the Red Rolfe Division clincher in its season finale against Dartmouth last weekend, Harvard will face Brown once more today with even more on the line than last time...
Should that scenario play out, Crockett would be in line to pitch the potential division clincher in Saturday’s nightcap. He will enter the contest just six strikeouts shy of the all-time Harvard record of 206, set by Paul De Rossi...
...with food wrappers, strategically equivalent to attacking a tank with a paper airplane. The Sox fan was annoyed enough to turn around and yell, “What’s wrong with you? Sitting down in the bottom of the ninth?” Then he adds the clincher, “No wonder you guys are in last place...