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...perhaps the first time all season, Harvard clicked on all cylinders against the Huskies, as the pitching, hitting and defense were all outstanding. The Crimson pounded out 11 base knocks. Forst had four hits--including two doubles off the Green Monster--senior Brian Ralph added a couple of hits and a couple of RBI and senior Brett Vankoski drove in three...
...Ralph is the Crimson's answer to Jerry McCall of computer Hardball fame--he hits, he runs, he catches, and lately he's been doing it out of the leadoff spot. Ralph, the reigning Ivy Player of the Year, has been hailed by some as one of the best defensive centerfielders in collegiate baseball. Combine such an accolade with his .410 batting average and .692 slugging percentage--plus the team lead in home runs despite missing over half of Harvard's games with a broken hand--and you get the Crimson's best draft prospect in years...
Gammons may have come to see Pena and Ralph strut their stuff, but what he got was a clinic by the Harvard baseball team. Captain David Forst--known early in his career as a "good field, no hit" shortstop, continued his offensive emergence, going 4-for-4 and rocketing a couple of doubles off of Fenway's vaunted Green Monster...
Meanwhile Pena, probably the best player in either dugout, was 0-for-4 with a strikeout. And while Ralph went the way of his team, going 2-for-4 with two runs scored and a couple of RBI, he hit a weak grounder to second with the bases loaded and one out in the seventh. The game was essentially over, but Gammons was conspicuously observing the at-bat from the third base stands, likely unbeknownst to Ralph...
Jarrett T. Barrios '90, Dennis Benzan, David A. Hoicka, Ralph Lopez and incumbent and part-time Pforzheimer House security guard Alvin E. Thompson have tossed their hats into the ring on the Democratic side...