Word: streak
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...fifth inning the score stood 7 to 5 in Ninety-five's favor. In the sixth Ninety-four took a batting streak and made three singles, which, aided by good stealing and errors, raised her score to 9. Gale now took Mackie's place in the box and struck out the first man that came to the bat. The second was given a base on balls, but was thrown out prettily in trying to steal second, and the third man met the same fate. In the seventh Ninety-four failed to score. Ninety-five added one and with three...
...game. The nine will make every effort to win the last game and to break the tantalizing succession of small victories for the Boston team. On the other hand, the credit of the league team is involved in winning the game. The Bostons have struck a strong batting streak lately, and it will be interesting to see what they can do with Harvard's best pitcher. Our battery will be Bates and Upton or Cobb. The batting order will be: Dean, Hallowell, Hovey, Frothingham, Alward, Cook, Cobb or Upton or Cobb, Bates. The Boston pitchers will be Staley...
...field, and their batting was far steadier than Harvard's. Harvard played well in the field, but up to her last inning batted very weakly. The men did not become discouraged by Yale's lead, but played to win straight through. The combination, however, of a batting streak, and Yale's errors in the eighth inning was hardly anything more than a pure piece of good luck for Harvard. Harvard's infielders had very little to do, but Soule distinguished himself by making several fine stops and preventing safe hits from going to the outfield. His batting was very timely...
...time, and during the first inning he was very unsteady. He went to pieces again in the fourth inning and Dartmouth got a good lead. The batting by Harvard was erratic; the men bunched their hits well, however, especially in the seventh inning, when they developed a batting streak and knocked out nine runs, thus winning the game...
Yale came dangerously near being defeated by the University of Pennsylvania Wednesday. A batting streak, which brought in four runs in the ninth inning and made the score 6 to 5 in Yale's favor was all that saved her. Stagg and Poole were Yale's battery...