Northeastern starter Jason Gillespie threw a complete game, pitching just well enough to earn his first win of the season. He allowed only seven hits and struck out seven, but he just barely escaped blowing Northeastern's lead in the ninth.
After retiring the Crimson's first two batters, Gillespie allowed Lentz and junior shortstop Mark Mager to reach safely, setting the stage for Lopez's at-bat.
Having just watched Gillespie work to the two batters ahead of him, Lopez had a pretty good idea what was coming on the first pitch.
"He had started Lentz and Mager off with fastballs before me, and he was working me away all game," Lopez said. "It was a clutch situation and I was just trying to make something happen."
Lopez-who went 2-for-4 on the day-guessed right on Gillespie's offering, but came up just shy of putting Harvard back in the lead.
"Right when I hit it, I thought it had a chance [of going out]," he said. "But the right fielder made a great play. It was kind of a heartbreaker."
The Crimson, who saw its three-game winning streak come to a halt with yesterday's loss, will play its second cross-town rival in as many days when it faces Boston College in Chestnut Hill this afternoon.