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Though Harvard has received much of its batting power from sophomore slugger Whitney Shaw—who has a team-high 10 home runs—it has used a team-wide offensive effort to score at least one run in the squad’s last nine games...
...those strikes in the third. Following a pair of singles, Squires bounced back from his baserunning blunder with a two-run triple and scored on a single by junior Andy Megee. Yale then posted another four runs in the fourth inning, closing the gap to six. When slugger Trygg Larsson-Danforth followed a Megee single with a two-run bomb to open the fifth, Walsh called for junior Eric Eadington to preserve the Crimson’s suddenly precarious four-run lead. But Eadington yielded four consecutive singles, finally stopping the onslaught with a double-play ball and a strikeout...
...sophomore slugger gave Harvard some insurance with one out in the seventh, drilling a solo homer to center...
...Mary Chapin Carpenter sings, “Sometimes you’re the Louisville Slugger. Sometimes you’re the ball...
...testing was mandated. Fans and officials largely turned a blind eye, even as players' bodies swelled along with their achievements. In 1999, even after McGwire had copped to taking androstenedione - or "andro," an over-the-counter precursor to testosterone later banned by the FDA - Senator Edward Kennedy called the slugger and his rival Sosa the "home-run kings for working families in America." A year later, the suggestion in the New York Times that up to 40% of major league players had taken steroids was largely met with crickets...