Word: inning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...instance: Until I became a sportswriter, I would not believe one could root against a Red Sox comeback in the bottom of the ninth. But when deadline looms and the Sox open the inning with back-to-back singles, I've prayed for the double play. The triple play, even better. The dramatic finish is the enemy, because it requires rewriting the first half of the story. The best baseball games are 6-2 snoozers with all of the scoring early, because one can write the entire story by the time the game is over...
...weekend, the yardling was 2-2, taking the decision in all of Harvard's games. But by no means was Cupp mediocre. She gave up only one earned run until the ninth inning of the last game, when her arm of steel could do no more, allowing six Providence batters to score to give the Lady Friars the ECAC Championship...
...Sunday, Harvard only needed to win one to take the championship, but fielding and baserunning woes doomed the Crimson. Cupp started one and relieved in the fourth inning of the other and maintained her brilliance until the last game's extra innings...
...Saturday's stellar outings weren't enough, Cupp returned to the mound yesterday and deserved another victory. The Lady Friars' first two runs scored with two outs after the Crimson committed two errors on plays that could have ended the fourth inning. The final two runs were also affected by Harvard miscues...
...ninth inning the Providence bats came to life against a fatigued Cupp and that was that. Six runs in the ninth gave Providence the ECAC championship, but the freshman out of Antioch, Calif. goes out of the 1995 season a winner in anyone's book...