Word: one-run
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Sure, they couldn't hit. So what? They could hit just enough to scratch and claw and steal a run to win. Literally, a run. At one point, in games decided by one run, they won 12 straight. And then it came. A complete July collapse, followed by an August swoon, a zombie death march. Thirteen straight one-run losses...
...which esoteric statistics guide decisions, Robinson doesn't know OPS (on-base percentage plus slugging, Moneyball's sacred stat) from UPS. "I don't like the computer," he says. "I go with instincts and gut feelings and heart." Entering last weekend, the Nats had won an NL-high 17 one-run games, in which a manager's chess moves have the most impact...
...lost a pair of one-run pitchers’ duels to Harvard on April 9 to fall to 1-5 in the league, but rebounded to squeak past nine-time defending champion Princeton to take the division by a single game...
With a cascade of home runs and heroics of all kinds, Harvard had surged back from large deficits in both halves of the doubleheader, taking a pair of one-run victories—and from Dartmouth, no less...
With two outs in the top of the ninth, Mann frittered away the team’s one-run lead with a passed ball on a low changeup from closer Steffan Wilson...