Brunnig said he wasn’t used to pitching in those conditions, but it wasn’t hard making adjustments.
“In Florida, you don’t see many games below 65 or so. I think I pitched one down there around 55,” Brunnig said. “My control was off a little. But you throw your fastball, change speeds, try and hit your spots. It’s fun trying to adjust.”
Klimkiewicz, playing on a swollen knee, stoked the offense with a grand slam in the fourth inning. After Hendricks and Mann singled and Wallace reached on a fielder’s choice error, Klimkiewicz jacked the first pitch he saw from Yale’s Josh Sowers (4-2) over the fence.
“I just wanted to hit the ball in the air to the outfield, [score] the guy on third, get a run,” Klimkiewicz said. “I just got a good pitch.”
Hale scored Harvard’s first run in the third on a wild pitch. He had led off the inning with a double.
In the sixth, Hale singled in two more runs to account for the rest of Harvard’s scoring.
—Staff writer Brian E. Fallon can be reached at bfallon@fas.harvard.edu.