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Carter—whose clutch, two-out single to right field tied the game in the top of the ninth—struggled mightily from the moment he took the mound to start the UMass half of the inning...
...produced, arguably, its best squad ever - the proud Tokyo Yomiuri Giants, who were then in the process of winning nine consecutive Japan Championships. The team was powered by Sadaharu Oh, the man who would go on to break Hank Aaron's lifetime home-run record, and its charismatic, clutch-hitting third baseman Shigeo Nagashima. Los Angeles Dodger owner Walter O'Malley was so impressed with Nagashima that he tried to buy his contract, but the Giants' aging founder Matsutaro Shoriki turned the offer down flat. The quality of Japanese baseball, once considered laughably bad, had advanced so much...
...runner in scoring position. Senior third baseman Brian Nickerson followed up with a laser-beam shot over second baseman Faiz Shakir's glove to tie the game at 2-2. Nickerson, who ended up with a double on the play, had proved himself on Saturday to be a clutch performer. With two-outs in the eighth inning, trailing 5-2 in Saturday's second game, Nickerson hit a three-run shot over the fence in left field to tie the ballgame. Coach Walsh knew that Nickerson was a dangerous hitter and talked with Birtwell after Mileusnic's double...
...make things worse, the fans started leaving once the Crimson was up 7-0 at the end of the third. As a result, they missed Crockett's masterpiece. Way to come through in the clutch, fans...
...Crimson's clutch performance kept it even in losses with Dartmouth (16-14, 9-3) and Cornell (29-14, 11-3). Harvard got help from Princeton, as the Tigers split with the Big Red and gave Cornell its all-important third Ivy defeat...