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...wanted to learn how to throw a curveball. Uncle Charlie, the deuce, number two, the hook. It goes by many names but is singular in its appeal—the prettiest pitch in baseball, with its tantalizing slowness and sharp downward break...
Covering the baseball team this season, I realized I could hope for no better a local instructor than right-handed sophomore ace Shawn Haviland, who features a devastating curve as his out pitch. (The lefty curve is something slightly different, more sweeping.) So I gracefully invited myself to get a tutorial from Haviland, who, with Coach Joe Walsh’s blessing, politely obliged my wacky request...
...help the Crimson grab the Rolfe Division title in a 23-9 victory in the last game of the series. “Having Josh in the lineup is absolutely vital,” senior Matt Brunnig said. “It seems every time I pitch he hits a home run. I absolutely love having him in the lineup. He’s in the three to five hole, and every time he’s up, there’s people on base. Having his bat there makes all the difference in the world.” After...
...senior first baseman reached base all seven times he batted in the game, officially going 4-for-5 with two singles, a double, a home run—a towering solo drive in the sixth—four RBI, and five runs scored, and was hit by a pitch twice...
...fastball in yesterday’s penultimate inning.Klimkiewicz, the Crimson senior first baseman, entered the batter’s box in the eighth inning of a 10-9 do-or-die thriller. He ambled into second base, after shooting Dartmouth reliever Chris Lapointe’s pitch nearly 400 feet away into the centerfield gravel, in the midst of a 23-9 Big Green embarrassment.Klimkiewicz’s RBI double, the first of 13 insurance runs that followed sophomore Taylor Meehan’s go-ahead RBI single in the eighth (not to mention sophomore Matt Vance?...