Word: slams
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...were going to come back, but I didn’t think it would take that long,” Walsh said. Albright’s clutch hit was payback for a highlight-reel-worthy play in the previous inning: Big Green left fielder Jason Blydell took a grand slam away from Crimson freshman Dillon O’Neill by grabbing a hard-hit ball from beyond the outfield fence, maintaining the shutout and bringing the many fans who had traveled from Hanover to their feet. Dartmouth lefty slugger Santomauro wasted no time getting the Big Green on the board...
...home runs with four and in RBI with 22. During Saturday’s nightcap, the squad was inches away from two more home runs. Rogers hit a warning track shot in the bottom of the ninth, and in the fifth inning, Blydell robbed a would-be-grand slam off the bat of freshman Dillon O’Neill.In the end, the long ball couldn’t win games for the Crimson. The Big Green’s balanced offense assault averaged seven runs per game. —Staff writer Jake I. Fisher can be reached at jifisher@fas.harvard.edu...
...start the sixth inning. With two on and no one out Allard sent Madick to the circle to replace sophomre Margaux Black in an effort to stop the momentum swing. Madick, though, walked the first batter she faced to load the bases. The next hitter blasted a grand slam over the fences to spoil the Crimson’s lead. “It was a rise ball that wasn’t out of the zone enough,” Allard said. “She got on top of it and hit it out. She was a very...
...violence across Iraq. The Americans appear eager to restore the truce, which has essentially broken down as U.S. troops back Iraqi forces fighting militiamen in Sadr City. But Sadr, whose bloc of political loyalists long ago boycotted the Iraqi government, sounded a note of defiance that seemed to slam the door on hopes of peaceful resolution...
...thought possible, has the more finely tuned short-range political ear of the two. In a late-December conference call following former Pakistani Prime Minster Benazir Bhutto's assassination, some Clinton policy aides argued for a soft line on President Pervez Musharraf. Holbrooke countered that Clinton should not just slam Musharraf for dictatorial tendencies but also attack George W. Bush for being gullible in trusting the Pakistani leader as much as he had. Holbrooke "was making the point that this was not only good policy but it was good politics," says a participant in the call...