Word: woodcock
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...game yesterday resulted in a well earned victory for Brown. Woodcock pitched a fine game, striking out nine men and holding the Harvard team down to seven scattering hits. At the bat he knocked out a home run and two singles. Brown won because she bunched her hits, earning four of her six runs. Harvard's seven hits, on the other hand, were distributed through five innings. The only thing about our playing that seemed to puzzle Brown was the base running, yet this was not perfect. We might have had one more run as easily...
...Hovey and Trafford, a stolen base, and a wild throw by Thurston. In the third we scored on Mendenhall's bad muff of Hallowell's hit, a stolen base and a wild pitch. Brown went to work with a vim in this inning. Mendenhall hit safely and stole second. Woodcock lifted the ball well over the right field fence. Frothingham was slow to pick it up, and both men came in. Then Jones struck out. Tenney got a base on balls, stole second, and took third on Messer's scratch hit. Messer stole second. With two men on bases Magill...
...taken Bates' place in the seventh, gave him a base on balls. Thurston struck out for the third time. Two wild pitches in succession advanced Weeks to third. Steere hit safely and Weeks came in. Steere stole second, and Mendenhall's hit advanced him to third. Mendenhall stole second. Woodcock, who had already made a home run and a single, came to the bat. He was the third man in succession to hit safely, and Steere and Mendenhall came in. In the confusion Upton threw very wildly to second to cut off Woodcock. The ball went over Trafford's head...
...last inning the men on the benches began to shout every time Woodcock raised his arm and did their best to rattle him. It is to be hoped that this will not happen again...
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