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...baseball, a sport often reduced to sheer statistics, here was emotion. Here was Joe Walsh, sitting alone on the top bench of his dugout, arms crossed and head down...
Down big in both games, Walsh tried rallying the troops in his dugout. The previous weekend, the Crimson unleashed 14 runs on Dartmouth to break a 9-9 seventh-inning stalemate and win the Red Rolfe division title. Then on Wednesday, a huge ninth-inning rally downed Northeastern...
...that I had watched, with contentment, from immediately behind O’Donnell Field’s backstop, a steady stream of Ancient Eight hitters hang their heads and drag their bats back to the dugout after watching another deceptive curveball break over the heart of the plate for called strike three. Now that I knew my pubescent wrist wouldn’t shatter if I tried to snap one off. Now that I could be sure Trotman wouldn’t turn on a hanger...
...dugout before the game, utility man and sometimes reliever Max Warren showed me several of the most common curveball grips. He said I had to apply pressure with my middle finger and spin the ball off that digit. He advised me, though, to borrow a ball and see what grip suited me best...
...Klimkiewicz said. “We knew we had to win this game or our season was over. Everybody came out knowing we were going to do it. We were tied 9-9. Everybody here knew we were going to win. It was just that feeling in the dugout.” That attitude and swagger from the dugout demonstrate one of the reasons that the Crimson fares so well with the senior masher in the lineup. Besides his powerful bat--Klimkiewicz ranks fifth in the league with a .358 average and first in runs batted in with...