Word: pickoff
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With one out in the ninth Dan Demichele led off with a walk, stole second, and reached third when the catcher rifled the ball over the second baseman's head in an attempted pickoff. The Yardlings' big catcher, Pete Varney, drew an intentional walk bringing up Bernhard. As soon as he hit the ball and Demichele crossed the plate, the game was over. But Bernhard rounded the bases in sheer joy, sliding home on his face...
Jeff Grate singled in the sixth--Harvard's first hit of the game. He reached second on a pickoff error, went to third when Dick Manchester's fly was dropped in left field, and scored on John Ignacio's sacrifice...
Then in the third, Princeton scored the eventual winner on a wild pickoff throw and a Crimson passed ball...
Bless pro football. It almost makes up for all the intentional bases on balls, the endless fouls and hopeless pickoff attempts. If any doubt remained about what the U.S. national pastime really is, it was dispelled even before the pro-football season began last week. The National Football League's Baltimore Colts drew 31,000 paying customers to watch, of all things, a scrimmage, while baseball's Baltimore Orioles, the No. 1 team in the American League, could draw only 23,000 fans for an honest-to-goodness game against the second-place Detroit Tigers...
...ninth with an infield single, and first baseman Ken O'Connell lined a single to center, moving the runner to second. Both men advanced on Leo Laverdore's fly to center field. Dennis Horger walked to load the bases, and with Saba at the plate, the fatal pickoff throw ended the procedings...