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...Harvard baseball team dropped the second game of its double-header against Princeton 3-2 in 13 innings yesterday...
...double-header was originally scheduled for last Sunday, but rain forced the games to be postponed until yesterday...
With an emphasis on improving the team's defense (Harvard made six errors against Rhode Island), the Crimson responded against Cornell in the weekend opener. Unfortunately, it was offense, rather than defense, that stood in the path of a Crimson victory. Though the first game of a double header usually lasts only seven innings, Harvard and Cornell decided to play nine...
Harvard finally got over the hump in the afternoon, scoring a big 17-5 win to split the two-game series with Cornell. The win snapped a three-game losing streak for Harvard. It also marked the third consecutive occasion Harvard split a weekend double-header with an Ivy League opponent...
...days, four games. It is how the game was meant to be played, back before players' unions and owners' concerns over gate receipts made the double-header an endangered species, at least on the major league level...