Harvard responded with two runs each in the third and fourth, both times courtesy of Yale errors. In the third, Elkins dropped Crimson shortstop Ian Wallace’s pop fly, allowing Mann and senior Brian Lentz to come around with two outs. An inning later, the Bulldogs muffed the relay throw on a double-play ball, letting freshman Chris Mackey score. Hale, after stealing second and third base, added Harvard’s fourth run on a wild pitch.

Ronz, meanwhile, was cruising. After stranding men on second and third in the sixth, he let the first two Yale hitters reach in the seventh, but struck out C.J. Orrico and got Steven Duke on a flyout to center.

“Their 8 and 9 hitters had been struggling, so I was happy to see them up in that situation,” Ronz said.

Ronz retired the side on a 3-1 putout that featured a nice dig at first by freshman Mike Dukovich. The rookie entered the game when Hendricks aggravated a knee injury that has bothered him since the fall. Walsh said the team will be monitoring Hendricks’ situation this week.

Ahead 5-1 in the eighth, Harvard busted the game open even further with five runs. Hale and freshman Zak Farkes had back-to-back RBI triples, and Lentz, senior Nick Seminara and sophomore A.J. Solomine had run-scoring singles.

Harvard 8, Yale 4

Sophomore Mike Morgalis escaped a one-out, bases-loaded situation in the fifth and hung on to earn his second win with the Crimson.

Harvard knocked around Elias in this game, posting three runs in the first on an RBI double by Hendricks and an RBI single by Klimkiewicz. The Crimson then batted around in a four-run fourth that was highlighted by Lentz’s two-run double to the gap in right-center.

Morgalis (2-2) pitched six innings, giving up seven hits and walking three while striking out seven.

Working with a 7-2 lead in the fourth, he gave up a single and hit two batters to load the bases. Orrico then walked to give the Bulldogs their third run, but Morgalis struck out the next two batters to evade further damage.

Harvard added an insurance run on Klimkiewicz’s double down the left field line in the fourth that plated Hendricks.

Senior captain Barry Wahlberg, pitching with a wart on his throwing hand that limited his effectiveness a day earlier, closed out the game for Harvard.

Yale 9, Harvard 8 (11 inn.)

It was a clear double-steal situation when Yale had runners on the corners with one out in the 11th inning of Friday’s nightcap. The Harvard infield seemed to surmise as much, convening a conference on the mound.

But while the Crimson, Walsh later revealed, had decided to throw at the trail runner, Wallace somehow neglected to cover second base when the play developed. That allowed Mann’s throw to sail into center field and Randy Leonard trotted home from third to give Yale a one-run lead. The Bulldogs added one more run before the inning was over, and though Harvard got one back in the bottom of the 11th on an RBI single by Lance Salsgiver, Yale escaped with the win, 9-8.