Word: pitch
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Gallivan's grounder to Moran and scored on a passed ball. Gallivan and Howland also scored in this inning on a hit and several passed balls. Harvard did not do anything until the seventh, when Boyden led off with a clean hit to centre, took second on a wild pitch, third on Dean's sacrifice to Meade, and came home on an unsuccessful attempt by Cahill to catch him at third...
Stagg recently decided to take a four years' course in the Yale divinity school, consequently he will continue to pitch for victorious Yale nines for four years to come. Dann has decided to take a postgraduate course, and will therefore be on hand to take his old position behind the bat. This will be anything but pleasant information to the men of Harvard and Princeton.- Herald...
...power to develop a first-class nine, but now that the men have gotten down to work after a certain fashion, our prospects seem hardly so good as they did when it was only a matter of conjecture who would try for the team. Mercur, '88, will probably pitch, with King, '89, as change pitcher, though some think King will show up in better form than Mercur. Who will catch it is impossible to say, and Harvard is greatly envied in having two catchers such as Campbell and Henshaw. But of course it is much to early too make...
...whether base-ball or cricket is the more scientific so far as the relations of the batsman and the bowler or pitcher are concerned. I note that so far as the actual contest between ball and ball is concerned, the two games seem fairly equal. Though in base-ball pitching, a more difficult scientific problem is involved, it cannot be said that the play to meet the curving ball is more difficult than the play to meet the, varying pitch and break of well-bowled balls at cricket. In base-ball curves there is no room for chance to come...
Earned run - Williams. Two base hit - Dascomb. Three base hit - Dascomb. Passed balls - Johnson, 1; Clark, 1. Wild pitch - Scruton. First base on balls - Ranlett, Campbell (2). First base on errors - Dartmouths, 5; Williams, 4 Struck out - Ranlett (2), Brown, Campbell, Duryea, Scruton, Blackinton (2), Van Wormer. Umpire - R. C. Wallbridge. Time...