Word: pickoff
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...wild pickoff throw to third base in the bottom of the ninth handed the freshman nine a windy win yesterday at home against Springfield. The 7-6 decision upped the freshman record...
...field, the intermittent rain didn't prevent the Crimson defense from playing an errorless game. In the second inning, a spectacular barehand play by third baseman Jim Tobin on a Cornell bunt and a pickoff throw to second base by catcher Joe O'Donnell nullifield two singles, a balk, and a walk, killing the Ithacans' only potentially big rally. Box Score ab r h rbl Dockery, lf 4 1 1 0 Neville, cf 3 0 2 1 Grate, ss 4 0 0 0 Hootstein, rf 4 1 1 0 Tobin, 3b 2 0 0 0 Welz...
...Grate walked and Dan Hootstein, who seems to drool when there are men on base, knocked him in with a double to left field. Bob Welz scored the Crimson's other run in the seventh when he walked, took second on a sacrifice, and scored when McRobbie blew a pickoff attempt...
Only one Harvard runner got as far as third base, and that was a sad story in itself. In the fifth, Bob Welz singled, and went all the way to third when B.C. bungled a pickoff attempt. Coach Norm Shepard called for a suicide squeeze, but Joe O'Donnell missed the ball completely and Welz, halfway down the line, found out what they mean by suicide...
...fourth the Crimson finally broke through. Dockery walked for the second time. Bohaboy, knowing what was up by now, threw five pickoff throws to first, trying to hold the speedy sophomore close to the bag. When he finally threw to the plate, Riley dropped the ball. Dockery zipped down to second and scored on Bobby St. George's single a moment later...