Word: pitch
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...freshman game on Holmes was intensely exciting, especially after the fourth inning, when Yale began to do the heavy hitting which tied the score in the sixth inning. Both teams batted hard and fielded loosely. For the the first four innings Yale could do little with Palmer's pitching and failed to score, while our freshmen batted well and by costly errors of their opponents succeeded in scoring seven runs. In the fifth inning Palmer was batted all over the field, and five runs were made for the blue; in that inning one run was added to Harvard's score...
...second, reached third on a wild throw by Nichols, and came home on Marble's put out. Willard scored a run for Harvard by making a tremendous drive to right field for three bases. The next three men at the bat struck out, but Willard scored on a wild pitch. Neither nine scored in the third inning, though flarris sent a hot liner to centre field, which was caught in fine form by Jones; while, for Harvard, Winslow made a clean hit, only to be left on second. Amherst got two men on bases in the fourth inning, but they...
...beautiful fiy to right field, on which he reached third. Smith made a clean two base hit, and came in on Kimball's error. Jones got his first on missed three strikes and a muff by Kimball, reached third on a passed, ball, and came home on a wild pitch. Edgerly struck out, and Winslow fouled out, thus ending the inning, with the score 10 to 1 in Harvard's favor...
...more runs to her score. Allen hit to Tirrel, who fumbled the ball and allowed him to reach first, but he was caught napping at second. Willard got his base on balls, and was sent to third by Smith's two-base hit. Both came in on a wild pitch. Jones hit for two bases, reached third, and came home on wild pitches. Edgerly went out, Marble to Kimball, and Winslow hit safely, but was left on base by Beaman striking...
...events that followed, there are many and conflicting accounts. Some say, that an amicable compromise was effected; others, among them Crimsonius, a well-known historian of that time, relate that upon the Facultas refusing to accede to the Board's demands, two partisan factions arose, and to such a pitch of animosity were they driven, that in umpty eighty-five, a fierce and desperate conflict took place, in which the Boardists were ignominously routed...