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Despite Peccerillo's heroics and the three-run lead, Harvard was not yet out of the game. Freshman John Sorich--who had relieved Crimson starter Paul McOsker in the eighth--allowed one Tufts runner to score and two more to reach base with just one out in the ninth...
...Crimson threatened to erase the three-run deficit in the bottom of the tenth, as Mike Stenhouse, Mark Bingham and Peccerillo walked to load the bases with none out. But pinch-hitter Rick Pearce struck out looking, and designated hitter Dave Knoll ripped a line drive right at third baseman Neil Solomon, who doubled off a helpless Stenhouse...
Bingham missed a second roundtripper in the three-run eighth when he drove one to the base of the fence in center for a triple. This one scored Pearce, who had singled, and Stenhouse, who hit one that Shemp tried to tango with, only to miss connections with his intended partner...
Jackson was the Yankee hitting hero of the second game as well, driving in all three Yankee runs. But Los Angeles Third Baseman Ron Cey, who came up to stay from Albuquerque in 1972, did him exactly one better. Cey is dubbed "the Penguin" by his teammates, and he runs as though he were wearing bedroom slippers. No matter; he could have walked the bases after crunching a Catfish Hunter pitch for a three-run homer. Counting an ear lier RBI, the final score was the Penguin 4, the Yankees...
...After a three-inning dry spell for both clubs, the Yankees sent Dodger starter Don Sutton to the showers with a three-run rally in the seventh...