Word: hit
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...base hits - Foster, Campbell, Willard (2), Henshaw, Linn. Three-base hit - Bingham. Passed balls - Henshaw, 3; Hubbard, 1. Wild pitches - Bingham, 5; Hunter, 3. First base on balls - Harvards, 6; Browns, 3. First base on errors - Harvards, 2; Browns, 8. Struck out - Browns, 9; Harvards, 8. Double play - Warren and Williams. Umpire - W. B. Chase, '85, Brown. Time...
...base-ball players. Cricketers are apt to despise what is called a full-pitched ball - that is, one which does not touch the ground before it reaches the bat. The cricketer can have but a poor eye, in fact, he must be but a poor player, who cannot hit such a ball; and though if he is careless about it, he may readily hit a catch, yet with a moderate amount of care he can hit a full-pitched ball not only easily, but safely. Now the English cricketers saw none but full-pitched balls thrown in the base-ball...
...they could judge the batting seemed very weak. "That is a compliment at any rate to the pitchers," they were told. "But to say the truth," one of them replied, "the bowling - or what you call 'pitching' - seemed weak too. Every ball was full pitched, and any one can hit a full-pitched ball; yet your fellows often missed them." A smile passed round among the base-ball players and their friends. "Any one can hit a full-pitched ball, can he? What do you say to that, Fothergill? Can any one hit one of your curves?" Fothergill rather thought...
...game was lost for Exeter by the inability of their pitcher to get any control over the ball. Although in the Beacon game, Dillon, the pitcher. proved himself a good player, keeping the Beacons down to four hits, he seemed utterly unable to do anything in the Andover game. He gave seventeen men bases on balls, several times when the bases were full, and let in many more runs by his wild pitches. Exeter played a good game at first, until the nine became thoroughly discouraged at the poor playing of their pitcher and lost all life. Andover evidently went...
Earned runs - Yales, 2. Three-base hit - McConkey. Passed balls - Dann, 3; Brownlee. First base on balls - Princetons, 3; Yales, 3. Struck out - King, 7; Stagg, 10. Double plays - Wagenhurst, Price and Duffield, Duffield, Larkin and Price, King, Wagenhurst and Larkin. Umpire - Fulmer. Time...