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Brow started each of the team’s first 34 games at shortstop, anchoring the infield with an impressive .958 fielding percentage, before missing the entirety of last weekend’s division-clinching series against Dartmouth with a virus...
Next, we moved on to infield drills where I got in line to take a pair of sharp ground balls. When my turn came, I smoothed the dirt with my sneakers and got my leather down in position. And bobbled the roller. In my haste to recover, I rushed the throw, sailing it high and beaning assistant coach Erica Morgenstein—innocently standing and chatting with a player—squarely in the back...
...bottom half of the inning, the Crimson started to show signs of life when senior Chris Mackey drew a one-out walk and Farkes barely beat out an infield single, extending his hitting streak to 10 games in the process...
There are plenty of things wrong with JV baseball. There’s just enough right about it, though, to make the experience worthwhile. It sounds clichéd, but JV baseball really teaches you crucial life lessons. Where else could one perfect the essential art of covering the infield? We may not have won a lot of games, but we sure got the best of that tarpaulin. Our grounds crew experience is perhaps the one edge we hold over the varsity in baseball-related activities. The speed with which we blanketed the dirt as the raindrops began to fall...
Most of the assortment of players that hurry across the river after class to take a few cuts and a few rounds of Sullivan’s multi-infield drill have long since given up any dreams of moving on to the varsity. In the absence of tryouts or the chance of stringing together enough at bats to showcase ability, the main motivator is simply the chance to play baseball, and have fun doing it. For while bat speed and command of the strike zone may have eroded, the ability to keep things light in the dugout can still...