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Hale’s great performance not only raised his batting average more than 70 points. It bumped him up eight spots in the lineup as well. For the series’ final game—having tormented Yale pitching for 23 innings—Hale assumed the leadoff role. Fewer fastballs? No problem...
Walsh doesn’t know if Hale will stay at the top of the lineup. Hale replaced freshman Lance Salsgiver, who had been two for his last 14 batting leadoff. But Walsh said Saturday that he just wanted to move Salsgiver down to give him the chance to see better pitches. Salsgiver—who is a team-best 8-for-8 on stolen bases—went 3-for-5 from the No. 7 spot Saturday...
...bottom of the inning started with fielding mistakes. BC shortstop Ryan Leahy led off with a bunt, which went right to first baseman Trey Hendricks. But Harvard freshman reliever Wes Cosgriff was slow getting to the bag to cover, and Leahy beat him to notch a leadoff single...
However, fielding problems derailed the Crimson cause in the bottom of the finning. Wallace made the first of his six errors to allow BC leadoff man Ryan Leahy to reach base. Two batters later, Wallace was unable to cleanly come up with a hard hit ground ball off the bat of No. 3 hitter Drew Locke, putting men on first and third for the Eagles with only one out. Boston College then pushed across two unearned runs with a sacrifice fly and a ground-rule double, leaving the score tied at 2-2 after one inning...
Quillian handcuffed the Crimson for six strong innings as the Tigers took the opener. After giving up a leadoff single to Salsgiver to start the game, Quillian (3-3) gave up only three more hits before giving way to Pauly...