Word: pinching
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...pitcher Shelly Madick said. “There aren’t many words to describe the game she had today.” Trailing the Eagles [10-23, 2-12 ACC] 9-8 entering the final inning, sophomore catcher Hayley Bock led off with a walk and was pinch run for by sophomore Bailey Vertovez. After freshman third baseman Melissa Schellberg popped to catcher, freshman right fielder Jennifer Francis doubled to center. Next up was senior left fielder Susie Winkeller, who tied the game with a single to left. Freshman pinch hitter Jessica Pledger then singled to right...
...third inning of Saturday’s second game. Byrne reached safely as Vance was forced at second, but the captain pulled up a few steps before the first-base bag, in noticeable pain. After watching Byrne try to walk off the injury, Walsh made the quick move for pinch runner Griff Jenkins. Now, Byrne, junior Tom Stack-Babich and Max Warren and freshman Andrew Prince are all suffering from leg injuries—a trend Walsh attributes to the recent cold weather. Prince started each of the weekend’s four games as the Crimson?...
...Timothy Leary: A Biography, the term psychedelic was coined by a British psychiatrist, Humphry Osmond, who had ingested mescaline in 1951. "To fathom Hell or soar angelic, just take a pinch of psychedelic," he quipped, setting the expansive tone regarding the drugs that Leary would later popularize...
...knew we needed to come and win all four games to set ourselves up for next weekend,” freshman pitcher Dana Roberts said.HARVARD 6, BROWN 1Freshman Jennifer Francis hit the first two home runs of her collegiate career as Harvard completed the sweep on Senior Day.Francis, pinch-hitting for freshman designated hitter Lauren Murphy in the fifth, hit a solo shot to center and added another to left in her next at-bat. Senior Susie Winkeller hit a solo home run of her own in the fifth, her fourth of the year.The pitching easily made the lead hold...
...news for baseball purists, who for years have griped that the DH rule, which was instituted in 1973 to spark sagging American League offenses, takes much of the strategy out of the national pastime. The usual complaint has been that with the DH, managers didn't have to pick pinch hitters, or pull off slick double switches. For years it was the home of all-or-nothing strikeout kings too bulky to play the field - think Greg "The Bull" Luzinski, the DH for the Chicago White Sox in the early 1980s, or Reggie Jackson late in his career...