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Harvard's starting pitcher Roz Brayton had been removed in the seventh inning for a pinch hitter, and Norm Walsh got credit for the victory with two scoreless innings of relief. Cornell got a lead-off single in the bottom of the ninth inning, but Walsh struck out the next batter. A double play ended the game...
Mackey, another sophomore, has been Harvard's first pinch hitter all season, but yesterday's triple was his first extra base hit of the season. "When you're a pinch hitter you don't have time to study the pitcher, so I was swinging at the first good pitch Dougherty gave me. It was a fastball, and I guess there was a lot of room behind the rightfielder," Mackey said...
Thomas bats fifth in the Crimson line-up, and of the team's four .300 hitters, he has the best power. Last year he collected 11 doubles to set a new Harvard record, but he tries not to think of himself as a power hitter. "Whenever I hit a home run, the next time up I'll be trying to pull the ball no matter where it's pitched. It's an unconscious thing, and it usually takes me a game or two before I get back into the groove," he said...
Thomas feels that the most important thing for him as a hitter is "waiting" on the ball and then hitting it to right field if the pitch is on the outside corner. Thomas is a natural "pull" hitter, which means that when he hits the ball his bat is well out in front of his body. This type of swing gives a hitter more power because the center of his weight is transferred to his front foot...
Hitting an outside pitch properly requires what Thomas calls an "inside out" swing, in which the hitter's wrists are in front of the barrel of the bat when contact with the ball is made. The ball is "slapped" to the opposite field, and only a hitter with very strong wrists can do this with power...