Word: one-run
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Both Harvard and Northeastern had played doubleheaders Saturday with division titles on the line. While Dartmouth was eking out a pair of one-run victories over Harvard, the University of New Hampshire was sweeping Northeastern for the ECAC crown...
...five uneventful seasons with the Mariners. He got into the game in the fifth inning only because regular Centerfielder Tony Armas went lame. Reaching for a Grich liner just below the top of the fence in the sixth, Henderson unwittingly boosted it over the wall to give California a one-run lead that became three by the ninth. Twenty-five-year Manager Gene Mauch, 60, the longest and saddest presider in the game, appeared to be on the brink of a smile. "My emotions have calluses on them," he said, "this...
...One of the basic premises of James and his fellow sabermetricians (from the acronym for the Society for American Baseball Research) is that one-run strategies (including sacrifice bunts and stolen bases) are usually pointless. A corollary of this premise is that major league managers, with the exception of Earl Weaver and a few others, do not know what they are doing, a fact that makes anti-James feeling somewhat understandable. Baseball research is in its infancy, and much of it is slapdash. But the numbers suggest that the sabermetricians are on the right track and that baseball faces...
...result, the Eagles (now 12-19) walked off the field with their second one-run decision over the Crimson batswomen (12-6) this season. Two and a half weeks ago, B.C. edged Harvard in a nine-inning heartbreaker...
...that moment came in the bottom of the sixth, with two down and the shell-shocked Crimson trying desperately to rally from a one-run deficit...