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...Boston Red Sox and Fernando Valenzuels kept their streaks alive yesterday. The Sox lost their seventh consecutive ball game. 3-1, to the Minnesota Twins. that's the longest losing streak in four years, and the latest was a four-hitter for Pete Redfern and Dough Corbett. "I've been around baseball for a long time, but I've never seen anything like this." Ralph Houk said. "It's almost unbelievable, incredible. Everything that could go wrong...
...play of the day, however, belonged to Weller. With two out and nobody on in the sixth, and Brown's no hitter still a reality, the fleet flychaser ran halfway to Connecticut to flag down a Doucette liner to dead center. The ball probably traveled 400 feet, and Weller didn't get a great jump but ran and ran and finally caught up with it not far from the wall...
Leading the Crimson's awesome offensive attack is third baseman Pat Horne; batting, 640 with three home runs. Cleanup hitter Elaine Holpuch is right behind Horne with a .560 mark and four rountrippers. Even shortstop and co-captain Lisa "Mouse" Bernstein (.571), whom Coach Kit Morris says "could deliver the Boylston lecture on bunting" has provided some power. In the past week. Bernstein cracked the first two home runs of her career...
...which puts a good deal of pressure on Greg Brown, a young man with no worse credentials than a no-hitter in his last start. Brown will face Darling in today's opener, with Jim Curtin battling Joe Impagliazzo in the nightcap. Not only does Brown have to worry about matching Darling, who simply might not allow a run, but he also must face Darling the hitter--along with Rich Diana, Yale's hottest...
...continued for the next three innings. Betty 'she's so hot, you'll melt if you stand near her" Ippolito collected two hits--a single and a double--and two RBI's. Elaine Holpuch cracked her fourth homer of the season, and, in the bottom of the third, designated hitter Sarah LeBlond scored the 16th run of the game when three consecutive Smith errors let her circle the bases...