Word: homers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When you score 36 runs in a weekend, there are plenty of heroes, but Freshman Aron Allen outdid them all. The rookie third basemen went 10-for-12 on the weekend, including a grand slam, a solo homer and two triples, drove in 11 runs, and scored seven times...
Centerfielder Dan McConaghy had five hits and knocked in six runs. Co-Captain Frank Caprio scored seven runs and had six hits, including a homer against the Bruins that may still be rolling down...
Even the bottom of the order ate its Wheaties this weekend. Second baseman Casey Cobb clubbed a three-run homer against Brown and blasted a three-run double against Yale. And rightfielder Ted Decareau smashed a pair of doubles in the nightcap in Providence and blasted a two-run homer in the opener here...
...defeat spoiled the Crimson's perfect weekend as well as a five-run second inning Harvard produced against Yale starter Marc LaMagna with the help of Cobb's three-run double and Decareau's homer. Greg Ager came on to replace LaMagna and take the win, while Pablo Munoz earned his sixth save...
...final scene is an early-morning meeting at one of those places that caters to the new "power breakfast" crowd. Several businessmen, just off the 6 a.m. shuttle, gather around a table. Before they get started, one man says, "could you believe the game last night. That Winfield homer was about a mile outside the park." The other men look up from their coffee, the edge of caffeine and sports giving an automatic adrenelin rush. An hour later they leave the restaurant, the deal unclosed, but secure in the knowledge that the Yankees have tied up the pennant...