Word: pinches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Trailing by two runs in the eighth, the University offense made a strong bid for victory in both of the last two innings, but could not furnish the necessary drive in the final frame, when Sanford struck out two pinch hitters in succession with men on bases. In the eighth inning Jones walked, went to second on Zarakov's single, and scored when Captain Todd marked up his second hit of the day on a hard drive through the Pennsylvania infield. The University third sacker was caught at third, however, when he tried to advance two bases on the Crimson...
...rest of the Harvard line-up will be unchanged. Ullman probably will start, no matter whom the Red and Blue sends to the rubber, but should Captain Long, a right hander toil for Penn, Chase who bats from the port side of the plate may get in as a pinch hitter. Though Long is one of the best slabsmen in the college ranks, Kruez, stellar fullback on the U. of P. eleven, may be sent in to baffle the Crimson stickmen, as the Cambridge boys have shown in the past that portside twirling is distasteful to them...
...Crimson hurlers, but last year his control was none too good. In his one start this year, he showed a complete reversal of form, and held the C. U. hitters to four hits in the eight innings that he toiled. He was removed for a pinch hitter at that time, and not because of the pressure of the opposing stickmen, though he lost the decision, 1 to 0. His removal in favor of a pinch hitter brings to mind an incident in Puffer's career last spring as a Second team twirler. Up to the time of the Yale Second...
Barbee in the meantime was breezing along in great shape. He allowed single scratch hits in the third, fourth, and fifth, but after that he retired the side in order. He fanned nine men, two of them-pinch-hitters, and did not issue a free trip to first. Behind him, Captain Todd played a great game in left field, and in spite of the tricky air currents, he took care of the five flies that came his way flawlessly...
None the less, the fact of baseball's decline was clearly shown. Instances were cited of major league Solons offering their co-operation to amateur agencies for reviving the sport, of professionalism feeling the pinch of a player famine. And dislike of professionalism was evident in the refusals with which these offers...