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There were two out in the last half of the third inning at Fitton Field, Worcester, Saturday afternoon when F. E. Nugent '30 fielded an easy grounder from the bat of Captain Frank Savage of Holy Cross and tossed the pellet 15 feet in the air over first base. And although no one noticed it then, the soaring horsehide carried the ball game with...
...mound for the winning team, pitched a fine game, allowing only seven hits. The Crimson twirler kept the opposing batters well under control, except for a brief lapse in the eighth, when a single and two walks filled the bases. J. P. Chase '28 mishandled a grounder and let Westcott trot across the plate to score Maine's lone tally...
...score" are from seven to fourteen columns of figures (depending on the detail with which the game is reported). The last column on the right is headed "E," which stands for "error." Here are recorded the players' single "mechanical mistakes"?the dropped fly, the fumbled grounder, the ball that should have been fielded and was not. The story of a baseball game is told largely in terms of hits by the attacking side and errors by the defense...
...ball struck the ground in front of him, bounced past, rolled toward the fence. Batter Gehrig reached third base on a hit normally good for only one base; fielder Paul Waner had started Pittsburgh on the road to ruin. In the third inning Second Baseman George Grantham kicked a grounder from Batter Koenig; Catcher Smith dropped a thrown ball from Third Baseman Traynor; the Yankees earned one run, had two more given them and won the game by a 4-3 score. But for the Grantham-Smith lapses, the result might well have been 3-2 in favor of Pittsburgh...
Another brace of Crimson counters came in the seventh, when Burns walked with one out, Jones filed out, and Zarakov singled. Lord walked, and then Armstrong, Penneylvania second sacker, kicked away Tobin's grounder, Zarakov following Burns across the rubber...