Word: plateful
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...Stoughton, Mass. native, a walk-on who has spent his time on the team catching bullpen sessions and warming up pitchers between innings. But Wortzman has taken advantage of his rare ventures out onto the field, and yesterday was no different. He went two-for-three at the plate with an RBI and a run scored and threw out a runner trying to steal second base in the top of the seventh.“He’s been one of those guys behind the scenes,” Walsh said of Wortzman. “It?...
...1980s, you never made a sandwich when Darryl Strawberry stepped up to the plate. You couldn't keep your eyes off that long, looping swing that sent many moon shots into the right field seats. He even once hit a ball that sailed so high, it struck the roof of Montreal's Olympic Stadium. Strawberry was a near-lock for the Hall of Fame...
...laid it in there.”Klees was relieved by his classmate Reynolds, who got through 4 2/3 innings of work but allowed seven runs, five of which were earned. Way came in with two outs in the sixth, letting two of his inherited runners cross the plate before giving up an earned run of his own.—Staff writer Loren Amor can be reached at lamor@fas.harvard.edu...
...second when a fielding error by a Dartmouth outfielder allowed freshman first baseman Whitney Shaw to reach second. Following a hit up the middle from junior outfielder Jen Francis and with Harvard coach Jenny Allard furiously winding her arm to indicate she should continue running, Shaw dove for home plate and was just narrowly tagged out to end the frame.The Big Green managed to score three more times—twice in the third inning and once in the sixth—to augment its lead. Brown pitched the final four innings for the Crimson, allowing just two hits...
...avoidance of the “big inning.”In game one, freshman starter Jonah Klees and classmate Jeff Reynolds were tagged with nine runs on seven hits in the second inning—including two home runs—as Dartmouth sent 12 hitters to the plate and effectively put the game out of reach before it began.“We’ve had some of these big innings that have crushed us,” Harvard coach Joe Walsh said. “I’ve been trying to say to guys...