Hendricks’ poke chased Brown starter Jamie Grillo from the game. His replacement, righthander Dan Springer, got off to a shaky start when he walked Mann with no outs, but the Crimson failed to advance him past first base.

The scene would be repeated in the ninth, as sophomore centerfielder Bryan Hale drew a leadoff walk, but was stranded at first. Mager fanned to end the game and snap the Crimson’s five-game Ivy winning streak.

Crockett had an up-and-down afternoon. In between his strikeouts, he surrendered 12 hits, two walks and a hit batsman. Brown touched him up for one run in the second and two more in the third, but the most exhausting stretch for Crockett came in the sixth.

In that inning, Brown sent eight men to the plate and three of them scored. The first, catcher Greg Metzger, was forced home when Crockett plunked pinch hitter James Lowe with the bases loaded. The other two scored on a two-run single up the middle by Lynn.

Crockett bounced back to work a relatively easy, 14-pitch seventh, recording all his outs on punch-outs. The last of those pushed Crockett’s whiff total up to 17, besting the 34-year-old Harvard record by one.

“We had some success painting the outside corner with the fastball,” Mann said of Crockett’s success in the seventh. “They couldn’t catch up with it.”

Crockett was lifted after facing two batters in the eighth. Senior Mike Dryden relieved him and induced back-to-back pop outs to end the inning.

Crockett threw 140 pitches on the afternoon.

“He’s definitely a horse for us,” Wahlberg said. “If we’re going to have success, he’s going to have to throw a lot of innings for us. He’s conditioned to throw probably 10 innings. He’s just out there pitching until he’s tired. I don’t think a pitch count necessarily came into play.”

Grillo (4-2) received the win for Brown. He struggled early on, but escaped a two-on, one-out jam in the first when Mann grounded into a 5-4-3 double play.

Harvard scored two runs off Grillo in the third when senior second baseman Faiz Shakir hit a gap shot to left-center with the bases full. Hale and sophomore Marc Hordon scored with ease, but the inning ended abruptly when the Bears gunned down senior Javy Lopez, who had been waved around from first by Harvard Coach Joe Walsh.

It was the third time Harvard has had a runner cut down at the plate in the past week.

Harvard 4, Brown 2

Two weeks ago against Penn, Walsh couldn’t find a reliever who could keep the ball in the ballpark. Last Saturday, the bullpen provided everything he could ask for and more.