Word: pitcherful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Penn threatened in the last half of the tenth, filling the bases on three Crimson errors, but were checked by Joel Bernstein, the winning pitcher. Sloppy fielding hampered the varsity today, as it committed six errors in all, five in the last two innings...
While the varsity was on more successful than the Eagles at bringing in runs, B.C. pitcher George Giersch was in serious trouble several times, notably in the last innings...
...local pitcher put them away in order in the third, then got himself into mild trouble in the fourth inning. He walked the first batter, who was subse-quently retired at second on a fielder's choice. But when the third batter laid a soft grounder on the first base side of the mound Repetto cut it off and his throw to second went wild, advancing runners to second and third...
Stubbornly skeptical, old Catcher Tebbetts protested so loudly that League President Giles went back to the rule book once more. The good book, Giles discovered, prohibits a pitcher from spitting on his glove or on the ball; it prevents him from rubbing the ball on his clothing or defacing it in any way. But there is no edict against spitting on the fingers and then drying them off. Pontificated Giles: "Burdette was using smart psychology." He kept right on using it against the Redlegs last week while he beat them, 5 to 4, for the ninth straight time. Whenever...
...buck to the umpires, who are used to such chores. On top of everything else this season, they have had to start acting like stop watches. Anxious to speed up the game, the rule writers had a winter meeting and decreed that whenever the bases are empty a pitcher must pitch within 20 seconds after receiving the ball. What is more, a batter may not leave the batter's box after the pitcher is ready to throw...