Word: starter
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Allard's second blast came with one out in the seventh inning and Harvard losing, 6-5. With Brad Bauer perched on second. Allard waited for a fastball from B.C.'s starter Dave Prokopchak. It came, and it went--over the right-center field fence for a 7-6 Crimson lead...
Smerczynski and starter Jim Curtin combined to limit the Judges to just three hits, but walked eight batters and hit two more. What kept Harvard in the ballgame--which was tied, 4-4, until Donnie Allard poked a long home run in the sixth--were three Brad Bauer-to-Gaylord Lyman-to-Chuck Marshall double plays which took the sting out of the bases on balls...
Actually, they were for a moment, because Crimson starter Bill Larson forced leadoff bitter Dan Costello to chop to third for one up, one down. Things fell apart just about then, however: a walk, single and walk loaded the bases, a two-base error brought two runs home and Yale was off and running. Then single, single, walk, single, double, single, two-base error, single and three-base error, and it was 11-0, with reliever Billy Doyle coming and going along...
...ensuing contest with Princeton, a Pat Horne grand slam put the Crimson up 5-4 in the top of the fifth, but in the bottom of the frame. Barb Mahon came on to relieve starter Karen Pelletier and yielded six runs and the ballgame to the Tigers...
...arcane art of throwing a screwball when the Dodgers called him up from the Mexican League to prop up a bullpen crumbling under injuries. Valenzuela pitched ten times, often with the game on the line, and did not give up a single earned run in 17.2 innings. Now a starter, he shut out the Astros on opening day last week, allowing them only five hits...