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Next year, they’ll likely get it done more often. There will be more moments for the Frank Herrmanns of the world—and yes, Frank Herrmann himself—to pen. There will be more moments for the Magers and Ronzs to live again. And the string of moments when the certainty of the clouds is defied will be, perhaps, a little more narrative-friendly...
...even within these constraints, ceilings that create a sense of reality and limitation, baseball games are events of infinite promise. That three-run homer could be Frank Herrmann off of Thomas Pauly...
...Herrmann moment provided a measure of clarity. The season was about the potential of the next at-bat, the next start, the next guy to get the call, about whether freshmen like Javier Castellanos and Morgan Brown could be thrown into the fire and pitch well in the most important innings of their young careers and about whether Klimkiewicz could bring home a couple of runs with two outs. Usually they did. Sometimes they didn’t. The result was a pretty good season. It’s nowhere near as incongruous as it seems...
...game that had begun shrouded in mystery—from the identity of Princeton’s game three starter to whether the rain would hold up long enough to squeeze the Ivy League Championship game in—wound up being as unambiguous as Thomas Pauly versus Frank Herrmann with two on and two out in the ninth. For the seldom-used Herrmann, a freshman and Harvard Coach Joe Walsh’s last pinch-hitting option on a thinning bench, and Pauly, arguably the conference’s most dominant pitcher, the moment was a collision of implausibility...
...dream did come true, but it wasn’t Herrmann’s or Harvard’s. Herrmann struck out swinging, sending Princeton’s players into a frenzied pile in the infield as they celebrated winning the Ivy League Championship Series two games to one on a 5-2 victory in Game Three at Princeton’s Clarke Field yesterday...