"My curve was definitely the main thing," Vail said. "In the early innings, I was able to throw my fastball outside for strikes, and that set up the curve. Later in the game, I moved my fastball inside and got some ground balls that way."

Vail also struck out Yale's Tony Coyne, the defending Ivy League Player of the Year, three times.

"I pitched Coyne like anybody else," Vail said. "He wasn't picking up the curve that well, so I caught him swinging with it."

The Crimson made things ugly in the fourth, sending 13 men to the plate and working through three Bulldog pitchers to the tune of seven runs. Five batters collected RBI hits during the frame, and nine different players drove in runs on the day. Binkowski added a line-drive RBI single to right.

"I've been working on clearing my head after at-bats," said Binkowski, who struck out looking for the third out of the first inning. "I've been carrying at-bats too far, and I've got to start looking at things more one job at a time."

Keck was also 3-for-4 with two runs scored and an RBI.

The 20 runs marked a season high for the Crimson, and is the most it has tallied since a 22-4 win over Princeton in the deciding game of the 1997 Ivy League Championship Series.