Word: knocks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bedford Field was fenceless. The diamond was part of the practice fields for football and soccer, and this meant that if a person was to hit a home run, he had to really knock it so that the outfielders couldn't chase it down. A smart outfield would make this doubly difficult by backing way out into the grass, for a dangerous hitter, sometimes so far that you couldn't even hear their between-pitch chatter...
...House should also--though with a good deal of difficulty--be able to knock off Dunster-Mather, a team which gave Q-World an unusual struggle. The size of its offensive and defensive lines gives Kirkland its advantage, with quarterback Mike Ryan usually having little trouble completing "la bomba" because his line has protected him so well...
Taking advantage of B.C.'s lack of composure, the booters fought a strong, gusty wind to knock the ball around, waiting for chances, but with no result on the scoreboard...
...with a 3-3-1 record and a 3-1-1 Ivy mark that Harvard looks toward what should be two breather weeks against William and Mary and Penn. With Yale beating Dartmouth, 24-3, Saturday, the Crimson has to hope somebody can knock off the Bulldogs and The Green or the Ivy title will be safely ensconsced in New Haven before The Game. Brown, incidentally, is now 1-6, and out of everything. The loss means coach John Anderson will suffer his first losing season since coming to Providence...
...every case, something beyond physical skills seems to have been involved. Not even Jackson could swing at the first deliveries by three different pitchers and knock all three balls out of the park, as he did against Los Angeles in the game that clinched the 1977 World Series for the New York Yankees, without suspecting that his own ability had been fortified with some special momentary magic. And what about those catches that Baltimore's Brooks Robinson made at third base against Cincinnati...