Word: pickoffs
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BATON ROUGE, La.--The pregame press notes provided by Cal State-Fullerton mentioned rather conspicuously that yesterday's starter, freshman lefthander Jon Smith, "has an excellent pickoff move...
...Green re-took the lead with two unearned runs in the fourth. With runners on first and second, junior Bart Brush, in relief of Kalyvas, botched an attempted pickoff, throwing it out of the reach of the diving Albers. One run scored, and the runner from first made it to third, from whence he later scored on a sacrifice...
UMass took the lead for good, 5-3, with two runs in the fifth. But Harvard continued to benefit from outstanding outfield play and poor UMass baserunning. Two outs in the two-run fifth came off a pickoff at first, and a two-out put-out at home when junior leftfielder Aaron Kessler threw out David Giglio trying to score form first on a Minutemen double...
...time was this more evident than in the first inning. With one out, Falcon Steve Patten drew a walk off of freshman Andrew Duffell--one of only three he allowed, though two of them scored. Patten moved to third when Duffell's pickoff throw got past senior first baseman Scott Parrot, and then Steve DeMartinis drove him in with a double just past a diving Levy in left...
...also didn't help when two Harvard runners were picked off in the first two innings. Freshman Hal Carey led off the game--and a 3-for-5 day--with a double down the left-field line, but took off for third on a pickoff move and was tagged out in the rundown. Ralph had a similar fate befall him at first base next inning...