Word: innings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jets and the Sharksbattling for Eastern League turf in high stirrups. The war clubs came out and the ball never rested. The war clubs let loose and the Soldiers Field basepaths never settled. And when time and the fates finally called a halt to this nine-inning diamond joust, 28 hits had fallen, 20 runs had scored, and Harvard had beaten Penn yesterday, 11-9, with a final inning choreographed by Jerome Robbins and written by Horatio Alger...
...signs of mediocrity were everywhere. The bottom third of the lineup continued to hit atrociously. Spot starter Ron Stewart looked awful and had to leave after 21/3 innings of the first game. Perhaps worst of all. All-American slugger Mike Stenhouse has become just another guy in the lineup: Sten went onefor-five on the twinbill, and he flew out to right with the bases loaded and two outs in the sixth inning of the "nightcap...
...Huskies matched three of those four runs, though, capitalizing on Stewart's inability to locate home plate. The junior righthander yielded only one hit, but he hit one batter and walked six others before coach Alex Nahigian yanked him in favor of southpaw Paul McOsker midway through the third inning...
...game, but he also fanned seven and held the visitors to just two hits. Firstbaseman Bingham (two-for-four on the day, raising his average to a fearsome .459) once again was the batting star for Harvard, driving in Marshall with a single up the middle in the third inning for the only Crimson...
...Crimson waited until the fourth to crack the scoreboard against the varied offerings of righthander Denny Works. Mike Stenhouse led off the inning with a drive to deep center that on any normal baseball day would have cleared the snow fence in center but was only a long out. "I thought that one was out for sure," Nahigian said. "The air was just dead out there and nothing carries...