Word: homerized
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Llanes' homer began a streak of eight straight Harvard hitters to reach base. After Carter was hit by a pitch following the Llanes bomb to left, six consecutive players singled for the Crimson, driving in five runs...
...game out of Harvard's reach. Four straight Dartmouth singles forced Harvard starting pitcher Kenon Ronz out of the game with the Crimson down 4-1. Sophomore Barry Wahlberg could not stop the bleeding, allowing the next six men to reach base safely, including a 3-run homer by Klentak. When the damage was done, Harvard trailed by ten runs...
...game was nine innings long, Harvard may have pulled out an improbable win. However, with only two more innings remaining in the game, the Crimson did not have enough. Carter homered in the top of the seventh, cutting the lead to two. The homer forced Dartmouth starter Lawrence Fay out of the game after allowing nine runs and thirteen hits in six innings. Jeffrey Dutremble entered in his place and shut the door on Harvard, getting Lopez to fly out to left to end Harvard's comeback attempt...
...Hopps' guesswork paid off handsomely, as he crushed Reedy's outside fastball for his third homer of the year...
...That one felt a lot better coming off the bat than the first [homer]," Hopps said...