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Unger got the No. 9 hitter Jonny Weiss to chop what should have been an inning-ending grounder to third baseman Steffan Wilson, but Wilson’s throw skipped past junior Josh Klimkiewicz at first, scoring Flynn and advancing Weiss to second. A balk, a walk, a passed ball and a pair of hits later, it was 6-0 BC, and the Crimson could never recover...
...game—and successful opening Ivy weekend—promptly ended on a soft grounder to short...
Harvard’s first run came in the third inning. After Wallace singled to open the inning, an error by Cornell third baseman Jim Hyland on a Brendan Byrne grounder put runners on second and third. Wallace scored on a screaming line drive by Salsgiver, which was caught in centerfield for a sacrifice...
...Ramirez and Martinez. Ramirez plays left field, but that's more of an address than a position. On bad days, he fields fly balls like a Border collie, running left and right to herd the ball toward him. He can forget standard obligations: running to first base on a grounder, say. Last fall the Bosox offered him to any team that would eat the remainder of his $160 million contract--no takers. Lucky for Boston. Ramirez this year was calm and focused and hit a ton. "This team has a mentality that it will pick you up when things...
...After a soft grounder to short clinched it, the Americans hurled their gloves and piled up at the pitchers mound. But the sport's officials might not join the celebration. Softball has an America problem - Team USA hasn't lost in a year, and since only four countries (Australia, Japan, this year's bronze medallist, and China) are true competitors, the International Olympics Committee has threatened to drop the sport, though it's safe for Beijing in 2008. U.S. players don't understand the concerns. "I can't imagine being good at something as a bad thing," says catcher Stacey...