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...phenomenal strickout string. (He whiffed 12 during the game.) After getting the first two men in the eighth, he walked Combs and Tom Bilodeau and hit Terry Bartolet with a pitch. Tom Stephenson, a strikeout victim on three previous occasions, came through with a single to score two runs. Pinch hitter Gary Miller walked, and when Bartolet scored on a wild pitch, Branson left the game...
Behind by two runs in the top of the eighth, coach Norm Shepard was forced to pull Guzzetti for a pinch hitter. In the bottom of the eighth, Dick Garibaldi came in for the visiting nine and promptly allowed three runs on three hits, putting the Bruins out of reach
...ninth, however, the roof blew off Kindlestick Park. Needing three runs to tie the score and four to win. Harvard's chances seemed dim when Diehl flied to center, Miller singled and Sargent advanced him to second by grounding out to the first baseman. But Jim Mullen, pinch hitting for pitcher Dick Garibaldi, drove a deep single to right center, scoring Miller. Curly Combs followed this with a double to right, leaving men on second and third. When B.U.'s third baseman bobbled Bilodeau's hot grounder and threw wide to first, both of these men came in, tying...
Europeans like to pat, pinch and pry before they buy, and find the prospect of haggling with a mail-order catalogue distressing. Yet lower prices, at-home convenience and prompt deliveries have won them over to U.S.-style mail-order retailing to a degree that seemed impossible only a few years ago. Largely responsible for this change of heart is West Germany's pioneering Die Quelle, a household word in Germany and Europe's biggest mailorder firm...
This proved to be the case in the eighth inning. Harvard had a 3-2 advantage going into the top of the eighth, but it was in this inning that the Quakers scored their two winning runs. Timely hits by pinch hitters, two good bunts in a row--one of which caused Harvard pitcher Dick Garibaldi to throw wide--a base on balls, and a long sacrifice fly pushed the runs across...