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Strasburg represents an elite breed of college pitcher, with a fastball topping out at an eye-popping 103mph to go along with a nasty 93-94mph slider and devastating curveball. The 20-year old stud might have helped lower Harvard's ERA, considering the former Olympian posted a 1.57 ERA last season and has continued to dominate, going 9-0 so far this year with a 1.54 ERA and 135 strikeouts in just 70.1 innings. Compare that to the Crimson's entire 2009 staff, which logged 211 K's in 332.0 innings. Kids like this make FlyBy...
...we’ve been all year, coming back from behind.”The Crimson had been doomed by the “big inning” throughout the season, and when Northeastern put seven runs on the board in the first frame off senior starting pitcher Adam Cole, it appeared Harvard’s day was done just as it had started.But down, 9-4, in the bottom of the seventh, the Crimson revealed that it had been saving up a big inning of its own all along. The squad exploded for 10 runs in the frame, coming...
DIED One person referred to Detroit Tigers pitcher Mark Fidrych, 54, as having a "lunch-pail mentality" because of his simple, workaday approach to his job. The 1976 American League Rookie of the Year was nicknamed "the Bird" because of his quirky antics (talking to the baseball) and a curly blond mane that resembled that of Sesame Street's big yellow Muppet...
...Crimson’s two-year reign atop the North Division. The defeat came after a 4-0 shutout loss to Dartmouth earlier in the afternoon.“In the second game, we started making a comeback in the later innings,” freshman pitcher Rachel Brown said. “I really thought we were going to pull it out, and we’re obviously disappointed that we didn’t.”Brown, who started Game 1 and pitched in relief in the second, finished the day with 11 strikeouts. Her season total...
...half of a crucial home-and-home series to decide the Ivy League North title. In front of a raucous Big Green crowd at Sachem Field, Harvard swept the twinbill, mounting a sixth-inning rally in each game to win by scores of 7-3 and 6-3, respectively.Freshman pitcher Rachel Brown anchored the Crimson once more, hurling a complete game in the first contest before coming in to save the nightcap. “We went to Dartmouth with a goal to put ourselves in a really good position for [Sunday], and that’s exactly what...