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...right that skipped past California outfielders Bubba Morton for three bases. Ace reliever Minnie Rojas, who had given up his third and fourth home runs of the season the night before to the Sox, struck out catcher Russ Gibson and got pinch hitter Jerry Adair to hit a grounder to third. Watching the potential winning run instead of the ball, infielder Paul Schaal let it go through his legs to end the game...
Both teams collected unearned runs in the second inning. Tom Thornton, the football quarterback and leftfielder who contributed a clutch error to the Harvard seventh-frame uprising, started things off by beating out a grounder on a close play at first. He stole second, moved to third on a passed ball by Crimson catcher Jeff Hall, and scored on a squeeze bunt...
Finally in the seventh, Harvard beamed in on Kiburz's stuff. With one out, scrappy Nelly Houston slapped a ground single to left -- a grounder was about the only way to get around M.I.T.'s brilliant leftfielder Jeff Weissmann -- and stole second...
...scored when Cobb ate a ground ball, but Peters quelled the rally on a grounder to first baseman Joe O'- Donnell. HARVARD ab r h rbi Smith 5 0 0 0 Cobb 3 2 1 0 Hoot'n 4 1 2 0 Lord 2 1 1 1 Hall 4 0 2 2 K'gn's 4 1 1 0 O'D'll 4 0 2 0 H'ston 3 0 0 0 M'C'lsh 3 0 1 0 Peters 0 0 0 0 Totals...
...Hootstein got the ball rolling -- very slowly to shortstop -- and beat the throw to first. Lord then unloaded his blast off the left-center field fence and scored Harvard's second run when the Bruin third baseman threw the ball into the dirt after fielding Pete Karegeannes's grounder...