Word: hitting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...innings yesterday afternoon Harvard defeated the Matthews by a score of 14 to 1. The game was too one-sided to be interesting, but from the point of view of a Harvard supporter it was most encouraging, owing to the way in which our men hit the ball and ran bases. Nineteen hits with a total of twenty-nine bases in six innings is pretty good batting, even off as poor a pitcher as Smith, and yesterday the hits came in at just the right time, and eleven out of the fourteen runs were earned. In the third inning three...
...first and two men had flied out, one to centre and one to left. In the last of the second, however, he wrenched his knee slightly, in trying to get back to first, and Bates came in to take his place. Bates proved a complete puzzle, but one hit being made off him, and five men striking out in the next four innings...
Earned runs, '92, 2; '95, 1. Two-base hit, Phelan. Stolen bases, Wood (2), Allen (2), Curtis (2), Lake, Hollis (2), McAdams, Dreyfus. First base on balls, Wood, Rankin. First base on errors, '92, (6); '95, (3). Struck sut, Brown, Cassatt, Dreyfus (2), Whiting, Reed (2). Double play, Cassatt and Whiting. Wild pitch, Reed. Time, 1 hr. 40 min. Umpire, Mr. Mullen...
...freshmen Whittemore and Whiting did good work, though the former fumbled once, and the latter made a screeching wild throw over first when there was no chance of getting his man. Cassatt, at second, made the star plays of the game however, catching an apparently safe hit off Spaulding's bat in short right field, and then making the assist in an easy double play. Rogers played his usual good game at first base, having sixteen put-outs without an error...
...feature of the game was the batting of Wood, Allen, Curtis and Brown for '92, Allen and Curtis each making a hit that brought in an earned run, and Brown making three pretty sacrifices. Phelan and Wadsworth were the only men on the freshman nine that hit the ball with any certainty...