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Boston broke up a pitchers' duel in the top of the sixth, scoring a pair of runs with a walk and three singles. George Scott smacked his 1700th career hit to drive in Carly Yastrzemski with the first run, and clutch-hitting Butch Hobson drove in Carlton Fisk with a single just minutes later...
...certainly bears no resemblance to the Big Red Machine that cruised by the Yankees in four straight games last October for the team's second straight World Series victory. Five weeks into the season the Reds were blowing leads, big and small, failing to produce in the clutch, surrendering runs in bunches, falling down in the base paths and sputtering along under .500. "This has been a real team effort," observes two-time MVP Joe Morgan sarcastically. The kind that put the Reds at one point as many as 11½ games behind their traditional rivals in the National...
...Harvard tennis team rode the wave of momentum produced by several clutch tie-breaker victories in singles competition to gut out a 6-3 win over Columbia in their home opener at the Palmer-Dixon courts yesterday...
Trailing 2-4 in the third set and returning Molen's strong serve, iceman Lundy bore down to break service, then held on to force the tiebreaker at six-all. A couple of clutch shots later he took the tiebreaker, 5-2 and with it the match...
...been tamed, and the only task left for the team was to get a little R and R before today's match against Penn. And perhaps for the crowd, there remained a quick trip to the medicine cabinet for something to calm the ulcers produced by Harvard's clutch victory in yesterday's home opener...