Word: hurler
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...video's minimalism makes way for Ellis' rich retelling of the story. The middling hurler - whose career record stands at 138-119 - claims he dropped acid not knowing it was a game day, and took the hill despite being "high as a Georgia pine." He tells viewers about imagining Jimi Hendrix in the batter's box, Richard Nixon calling balls and strikes and coping with a ball that constantly shifted in size. But despite these drug-induced hallucinations (and eight walks), Ellis stifled the Padres, striking out six. It may not be an achievement Major League Baseball is eager...
...seventh, but the double-play ball came to the rescue yet again. With no outs, an RBI double from senior Johnathon Santopadre pulled the Big Green to within one run, but a good throw from Rogers held the tying run at third. Walsh showed faith in his rookie hurler by leaving him in the game, and Hulse repaid his coach by getting a strikeout. He then intentionally walked the next batter to load the bases, before a big double play kept the Crimson lead intact.“Conner put us in a place to get a lot of ground...
...that outright record has to wait, as the rookie hurler was replaced in the fifth by classmate Julia Moore...
...well. It’s just frustrating.”The once-potent offense mustered only eight hits on the day, as Harvard’s bats appeared lost against the Bears’ starters.“[The Brown pitchers] were nothing special,” freshman hurler Conner Hulse lamented. “We’ve seen better pitching all year long, but I felt like we weren’t extremely disciplined at the plate, swinging at pitches we shouldn’t have.”The Crimson struck out 12 times...
...eager bats.“Brown’s got some good pitchers, but we were also swinging at a lot of bad pitches,” Douglas said.Other than an RBI double from Douglas in the top of the sixth, the Harvard offense did little to help rookie hurler Jonah Klees, who mirrored his afternoon counterpart by overcoming early struggles to pitch effectively.Despite walking the first two batters of the game on eight pitches and allowing a runner to reach in each of the first four innings, Klees held the Bears in check with well placed side-arm breaking...