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Harvard centerfielder Dan McConaghy--the squad's leading hitter at .410--matched O'Connell's three-hit performance, as the Crimson (now 12-3) banged out 13 hits overall...
Freshman hurler Baxter, who entered Sunday's first game against Columbia with a 0.00 ERA in 19-1/3 innings, flirted with a no-hitter for 5-2/3 innings before giving up a single...
...left-hander ended up throwing a complete-game two-hitter in Harvard's 2-0 victory, raising his record to 4-0 and keeping...
Just Jim Gantner, Paul Molitor, Cecil Cooper and Robin Yount remain from the glory year, 1982. Now the designated hitter, Cooper has yielded first base to ex-Dodger Greg Brock, no longer required to be Steve Garvey. Yount has lost the arm for shortstop but was center fielder enough to preserve the no-hitter with a diving catch for the final out. He was quick to say, "Paciorek's catch in the second inning meant just as much." Left Fielder Jim Paciorek, subbing for the young home-run champion Rob Deer, said not to forget the infield. And Nieves thanked...
...When everyone tackled me afterward," said Nieves, 22, "I thought, 'What's going on?' " If it is hard to believe him when he says that winning the game occupied him more than pitching the no-hitter, consider the eight straight decisions Nieves lost at the end of last year. "I felt so pumped up, I was trying to throw the ball through the catcher and the backstop." The left-handed sophomore from Santurce, Puerto Rico, is the youngest major leaguer in 15 years to pitch a no-hitter, the second Latin after Juan Marichal and the first Brewer in history...