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Kristin Lueke, the next batter, tripled to right field and Kristin Del Calvo walked, putting Whitton in a first-and-third, one-out jam with Princeton clean-up hitter Kim Veenstra at the plate. Lueke scored on a wild pitch and freshman catcher Laura Miller threw the ball away on the play, allowing Del Calvo’s pinch runner to advance all the way to third. She scored on a deep Veenstra sacrifice...
...strike pitch, Galicinao drilled Koppel in the stomach with a two-strike pitch, seemingly her second hit batter in a row, which would have loaded the bases for sophomore second baseman Sara Williamson...
Koppel was turning in to avoid Galicinao’s inside pitch, but from the umpire’s point of view, Koppel’s hands were moving towards the ball, which meant strike three instead of a hit-by-pitch...
...flexed nervously around the handle of the bat and my stomach churned over the words of a lonely, scary thought: it’s all riding on you. I swallowed once and then once more, and for a second I felt like a real athlete again. But then the pitch came in underhand, and very, very slow, and the spirit ran out of me. I realized, with a sigh, that you can only get so excited about intramural softball, and then I swung?...
Summers’ instrumental role in recruiting Lagemann demonstrates well his skill in drawing the best administrative candidates to Harvard. Lagemann describes Summers’ aggressive pitch as central to her acceptance, saying, “Summers first argued me into thinking about becoming dean, and then bowled me over with his ideas for the school and his unprecedented promises to help.” It is, of course, crucial that Summers continue his personal role in attracting the best people to top posts...