Word: inning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Under clear, late afternoon skies with the temperatures in the 70's, Harvard went ahead when left fielder Charlie Ravenel lined a fast ball over the left field wall, 291 feet away, in the second inning. Quantico came back with a run on another four-bagger, and the score remained tied until the seventh. Captain and catcher John Davis then poled a home run over the right field wall, and the Crimson got a third score the following inning. With Harvard ahead by two with one inning remaining, there seemed little doubt as to the outcome...
...first game with the University of Richmond on April 2, was postponed till the next day because of more rain, and on the third, Harvard and Richmond squared off in a double-header of two seven inning games...
Four of the Harvard scores came in the sixth inning on five hits, Davis' triple the most spectacular...
...back after two days of rest to lose a 1-0 heartbreaker, even though he allowed only three hits and walked nobody. The rain forced a day's postponement, and Inao's luck changed. He beat the Giants 6-4. Next day he relieved in the fourth inning, won his own game 4-3 with a tenth-inning homer. Inao got a two-day break as the teams switched cities, then he was back on the mound again. He hurled a three-hit 2-0 shutout to square the series, returned the next day to apply the clincher...
...that gave the Yankees a pair of unearned runs in the early going. Catcher Del Crandall failed twice at bat with the bases loaded. It hardly mattered that he struck a solo homer to tie the game in the sixth; pesky Elston Howard promptly untied it with an eighth-inning single, and the Yankees were home...