Word: hitting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...second inning Bent's grounder was poorly handled by Wrenn, the runner reaching first. Cassatt made a safe hit, but both men were left as Bacon flied out to Paine. The juniors were more fortunate, Ames and Selfridge were given bases on balls, and both scored on two sacrifices and O'Malley's hit. The latter also tried to come in on Brown's fumble of McCarthy's grounder, but was put out at the plate...
...sixth Brown hit safely and stole second, but was thrown out in trying to steal third. The juniors made another run in their half of the inning, Whittemore reached first on errors, and got to third on a very wild pitch. He tried to score on Hoppin's infield hit and was safe as Bacon muffed the throw to the plate...
...seventh with one man out, Paine made a single and stole second and third bases. O'Malley was presented with a base on balls, and McCarthy reached first on Adam's fumble, Paine scoring. Griffin hit a short fly which Bigelow caught on the run and then easily fielded O'Malley out at the plate...
...seniors went out in order in the ninth, when Dodge made their only run on his hit and steal of second base, followed by clever sacrifices by Brown and Adams...
...Middletown students celebrated their victory by ringing the college bell and in other ways expressing their joy. Wesleyan's team work was excellent, only two errors being made and but for these the Brown men who made all their runs in the third inning would not have scored. Brown hit Beeman for ten singles, but the hits were all scattered. For the visitors Donovan excelled. Brown's errors were costly and Green's fumbles on first were responsible for several of Wesleyan's runs...