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Despite the loss, the Crimson's performance shouldn't hurt them in the New England Coaches' Poll, where they are locked in a three-way dogfight for the fourth spot and final playoff berth with BU and Dartmouth...
...taken from one of the two fields to be used that day. The day ended, however, on a higher pitch as Tufts and Harvard--two teams which had tied one another, 1-1, in a 50-minute contest earlier in the afternoon--played an enthralling scoreless 30 minute playoff, emerging at the end as co-champions of the four-team round robin event...
...pressure lay squarely on the Dodgers. They waltzed their way through the season, playing less than .500 ball after the all-star break. They then made the Phillies look like soft vendors in a playoff series that lasted only four games. Meanwhile, 3000 milvs to the East, New York was staging a three-team Texas Death Match in the American League East that went to the next-to-last day of the season, only to go on to win its second consecutive toss-up series with Kansas City to earn the right to play the bullying Dodgers...
Their five-game playoff series, beginning in L.A. tonight, is a dead-even tossup, but if the Phillies can put together their diverse talents, they should win. Maybe...
...small things will probably determine the playoff winner. L.A. second baseman Dave Lopes' ex- plosive baserunning, well-executed cutoff throws, timely double plays--these are the rarely noted but critically important factors that are the stuff of championship teams...