Word: lead-off
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Harvard's starting pitcher Roz Brayton had been removed in the seventh inning for a pinch hitter, and Norm Walsh got credit for the victory with two scoreless innings of relief. Cornell got a lead-off single in the bottom of the ninth inning, but Walsh struck out the next batter. A double play ended the game...
With last year's heavy hitters gone, Harvard has had to rely on an aggressive hit-and-run type offense to get its runs, and as lead-off hitter, McGugan has set the pace throughout the season. Leading the team with a 330 average, McGugan has stolen 27 bases in 31 games. He has two home runs, and is third in runs batted in with...
...lead-off hitter I give the opposing players their first impression of our team. If I can get on base, then steal a base, their pitcher is in trouble immediately. He'll start to worry about other things, and lose his concentration," McGugan said. Last Saturday he led off both games against Yale with base hits...
...even in the seventh, and once again aggressive baserunning was the key factor. With one out, Bilodeau singled and continued to second when the leftfielder bobbled the ball. A wild pitch and a walk to pinch hitter Jim Stoeckel batting for Weissant put men on first and third for lead-off batter Vince McGugan...
...lead-off speakers, Professor Alexander Mitscherlich of Frankfurt, agreed. "Nobody is going to take us seriously if we continue to suggest that war happens because fathers hate their sons and want to kill them," he declared. "This congress treats its main topic as if aggression were limited to relations between two individuals, as if we were not faced constantly with war and mass murder." Then Mitscherlich made a heretical suggestion: analysts should get out of the couch-lined offices where they treat only one patient at a time, and join the action alongside the social sciences. "What...