Word: inning
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Although he walked eight and failed to retire the side in any inning, his fastball-and-curve repertoire worked just well enough to win. The Engineers managed only three hits on the afternoon--a line shot to center and a couple of wobbly ducks that alit just past the infield...
...Harvard bats, which had been much too passive in the first two Northern contests (Crimson batters had struck out a total of 19 times against UMass and Princeton, but 11 of those fannings came on called third strikes), went berserk in the sixth inning, as the hitters turned Pearl Harbor on the Horsehide and scored six runs to dispatch Navy's 1-0 lead...
Brown had appeared unlucky at first (Navy's run came on a double that Santos-Buch caught, but which was inexcusably called a trap), but the sixth-inning outburst righted his confidence. Brownie gave up one hit and an unearned run in the last two frames, while three doubles (the Crimson had six two-baggers in the game) and a single gave the batsmen their two final runs...
Perhaps the most unfortunate aspect of the "Decline and Fall of the Umpire" tenth inning was that it saddled Stewart with the loss. The hard-throwing junior, who has been a mainstay on the Harvard staff for three years, had entered the game with two outs in the fifth and Princeton ahead...
...until the third when Princeton touched Harvard starter Rob Alevizos for three runs. A triple by Stenhouse and a double by DH Jim Peccerillo (2-for-5, 3 RBIs) put the batsmen ahead in the fifth 4-3, but the Tigers went crazy in their half of the inning, capping Alevizos and relief man Paul McOsker for a pair of talleys each, and so ushering in Stewart and the merry miscues of Charlie Fuchs...