Word: inning
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This funny game we call baseball has played mind games with Harvard's players before. The first time Harvard and Princeton met this season, the Crimson was one strike away from a 6-0 victory...and lost. Princeton scored eight runs in the last inning...
...when the Crimson took a 3-1 lead in the third inning of Game Two, only to load the bases with Tigers to start the fourth, thoughts of hexes, letdowns, and any other conceivable mental barriers danced through the heads of Harvard's players...
Until the bases were loaded with no outs in that fourth inning...
Harvard starter Frank Hogan got senior Michael Keck to pop out to third, then got senior Gino Barbera to bounce into a 6-4-3 inning-ending double play. Hogan ran off the mound pumping his first and shouting into the Princeton dugout...
...didn't want to leave any doubt," said captain Peter Albers, whose second-inning grand slam put the game out of reach. "From the first inning we wanted to show the other team that they shouldn't even be in the ballgame...