Word: pinching
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...portable cabinet for infants' bottles, nipples, etc.; it can also be used, in a pinch, as a utility camp stove...
...best defensive maneuver of the day cost Harvard a possible trying run in the tenth. Jack Wallace opened the inning with a pinch-hit single to right, and with Jack Forte at the plate in an obvious sacrifice situation, Bill Gibson, Terrier catcher, called for a pitchout and picked Wallace off first with a fine throw to second-baseman Falloni...
...foul line, stole third base, and tallied on Espanet's fly to Walt Coulson. The Varsity, which had all kinds of trouble with Snow's slow, left-handed offerings, tied the count in the seventh on singles by Bill Barron, Bill Hamlen, and Lenny Lunder, the last named a pinch hitter for John Coppinger...
Wholly unlike Durocher, grey-haired Burt Shotton had been thrown out of only two games in 39 years of playing, coaching and managing. Once before, with the Browns, he had pinch-hit as Rickey's "Sunday manager" (the day the boss stays home). Shotton would manage the Dodgers on faith, without a written contract. There was no official word on salary, but everybody knew that it was far less than the $60,000 Durocher would have drawn for the job. And there was little doubt that Shotton would step aside once Durocher was back in grace...
Tellefson was removed, for a pinch-hitter in the seventh, and the scoreless Lions sent Dick Lorenzen to the mound. Dick had trouble. He walked five batters, committed an error, gave up a two-run single to Coulson with the bases loaded, and before Bob Rosencrans could restore order for the Blue, eight Varsity runs were across...