Word: inning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...unique," he said. "And we're not really worried about the NBC suit." Then he added a japish threat: "We have invested $1 billion in baseball over the last four years, which NBC is going to get now. And we feel we have a proprietary right to the nine-inning baseball game...
...getting the familiar little realities of life right. When they don't bother to do that, it feels like an act of contempt. Our attention starts to wander and our temper grows short, the way they do when the home team is down 10-zip in a late inning with the bottom of the order coming up. "Do you believe this?" somebody says. "Nah, let's go," somebody else replies...
...first game north of the Mason-Dixon line this year, junior Dave Morgan hit a two-run homer with two outs in the top of the seventh to tie Columbia, only to see the Lions score the winning run on a wild pitch in the bottom of the inning...
Wednesday's game against Massachusetts at Soldiers Field also featured a mammoth Harvard comeback--eight runs in the final two innings, but once again the opposition won in the next inning on a Harvard miscue...
Senior catcher Phil Andriola then singled Weissman to third, but freshman Scott Parrot--who got his first varsity hit earlier in the game--grounded out to new pitcher Greg Dowd, ending the remarkable inning...