Word: eighth
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Melrose team visited Cambridge yesterday and were victorious over the home nine by a score of 9 to 7. The visitors played an exceedingly good game, but they went to pieces in the fourth and eighth, giving Harvard four runs. The game was marked by the heavy batting of both teams, Melrose batting Bates out of the box in the third. Melrose blanked Harvard easily in the first. For the visitors, Grant led off with a clean hit, stole second and scored on Farren's single. Chase made a two-bagger, which was quickly fielded by Linn to Willard...
Harvard bunched three hits in the fourth, and, aided by two errors, made two runs. Another run was added in the fifth by Campbell's hit, Westcott's fumble in centre, a stolen base and Knowlton's hit. Harvard tried hard to tie the score in the eighth, but failed...
...Eighth Inning.- Howland hit to Stewart and was thrown out at first. Bates hit a grounder to McBride. Campbell made a safe hit to right field. Dann had a passed ball and Campbell went to second. Quackenboss hit to McConkey and went out at first...
...bells and acting about as childishly as boys in their kindergartens might be expected to do. During the game the spectators applauded and yelled with delight at every error Harvard made. As for the umpire, that individual so far lost his head when the score was tied in the eighth inning as to toss his hat high in the air, and did not recover his equanimity until one of the spectators, more impartially disposed than the rest, reminded him of the office he was supposed to fill. For his sake, we should also like to hint mildly that an umpire...
...freshmen met the sophomores yesterday on Jarvis, and met with their first defeat, Ninety-one's change battery was put in and did fairly well, but the game was lost by the weak batting of the freshmen. Ninety led until the eighth inning when Ninety-one made three runs on two hits and several bases on balls. At the beginning of the ninth, things looked dark for the sophomores, but they managed to bunch several hits and, by the aid of Babbit's excusable passed balls, brought their score up to seven. The freshmen were shut out in the ninth...