Prior to the start of this season, fifth year Harvard Coach Joe Walsh suggested that this year's baseball team would produce runs with more power, rather than its traditional nickel-and-dime approach to manufacturing runs.
Walsh's more balanced approach works in theory, provided that the hits are there.
This weekend, against the team with the worst record in the Ivy League, they weren't.
Harvard's bats slept for much of the weekend, and the team dropped two of its three games against the woeful Bulldogs of Yale (2-9, 10-23 Ivy). Yale's wins against on Saturday afternoon and Sunday were its first against Ivy League competition this year.
Harvard (14-16, 8-3 Ivy) was shut out for the first two games, and has been held scoreless on three occasions so far this season.
Yale captain Tony Coyne torched the Crimson this weekend, batting 6-for-8 with 3 RBIs. However, what hurt Harvard far more was its inability to get timely hitting throughout the weekend.
The weekend was originally supposed to feature four games, but the weather shut down Saturday's scheduled bottom half of the doubleheader. It will be made up tomorrow afternoon at 2 PM, giving the Crimson an extra day to solve its woes at the plate.
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