The next batter, Mike Stone, cleared the bases with a 0-2 double over the head of the left fielder Mackey and Yale came out of the inning with a 4-0 advantage.
Morgalis recovered from the rough inning to stay in the game till the sixth, when two consecutive hard hits combined with one of four outfield errors on the day took him out. Morgalis finished with six runs on nine hits in six-plus innings.
Meanwhile, the Crimson’s offense simply stagnated. What few runners reached were mostly thanks to walks, and even with the sacks full Harvard was unable to bring runners home.
The only offense the Crimson could scrounge up came in the top of the eight inning, when three straight base-on-balls loaded the bases. A sacrifice fly to deep centerfield by Mann and an infield hit by Salsgiver provided Harvard with its only two runs of the game. After a hit-batsman loaded the bases—and with Hendricks in the on-deck circle ready to pinch hit—Hordon popped out to end the threat.
YALE 4, HARVARD 1
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The Crimson had made only seven errors in its first eight Ivy League games.
It equaled that total Saturday, including four in the first game alone.
Those four bloopers were provided all the runs Yale needed as the Bulldogs scored all their runs in the first three innings, chasing starter Brunnig (1-4) with two outs into the third.
Brunnig was shaky, giving up seven hits and four runs—though only two earned—and never seemed to find his groove.
Yale took the lead on a fielder’s choice with runners at first and third in the bottom of the first inning, but Harvard promptly responded in the top of the second. After Mackey singled and Hordon launched a two-out ground rule double into right field, a wild pitch from Bulldog starter Alec Smith sent Mackey home and tied up the game at 1-1.
After that, however, Smith settled down, finishing with the seven-inning complete game win and allowing only four Harvard hits. No Crimson player had a hit after Farkes’s third-inning single.
—Staff writer Lisa J. Kennelly can be reached at kennell@fas.harvard.edu.