Hendricks improved to 7-1 with the win.

HARVARD 10, BROWN 9

All of the clutch hits and big wins on yesterday would have meant nothing if it weren’t for Saturday.

Staring at a 9-3, eighth-inning deficit, the Crimson needed a miracle to keep its title hopes alive another day—and with a little help from Brown’s defense, that’s exactly what it got.

Harvard scored six runs in the eighth inning on three hits, a pair of walks and three Brown errors to tie the score at 9-9, then won the game in the ninth on a walk-off ground rule double by Hendricks. With the score knotted at 9-9 and one out, Hale and Farkes reached on back-to-back walks, putting the winning in run in scoring position. And Hendricks took care of the rest.

“I’ll tell you what,” Walsh said, “every time we play Brown, it is unbelievable.”

The comeback started when Jeff Friedman led off the eighth with a pinch-hit walk. A single by Brendan Byrne and a walk to Hale loaded the bases for Farkes, who drove in Friedman on a single to left. Hendricks then drove a sacrifice fly to right field to pull the score to 9-5.

Three errors—two on throws attempting to catch stealing runners—and a walk to Mann scored two more runs, and the third scored on a sacrifice fly by Hordon.

Salsgiver (1-0), who pitched a scoreless ninth inning of relief for the Crimson, earned the win.

Senior Mike Morgalis went the first three innings for Harvard, allowing six runs, only three of which were earned, before being relieved by sophomore Frank Herrmann in the fourth. Herrmann—usually a Sunday starter—allowed three earned runs over five innings of long relief.

Paul Christian went 2-for-5 with a homer and three RBI to pace the Bears, who rapped out 13 hits in the loss.

BROWN 9, HARVARD 6

The same sloppy defense that plagued the Crimson in three losses at Yale last weekend returned, as four infield errors led to six unearned runs in an ugly start to the weekend.

Harvard entered the fifth inning with a 3-1 lead and freshman Jake Bruton—impressing in his first league start—on the mound. But then trouble started.

With one out, Christian reached on an error by Farkes, and a single by Wiginton put runners on first and second. Bruton then got Deeb—the Bears’ No. 3 hitter and career hits leader—to chop a perfect double play ball to junior second baseman Ian Wallace. But Wallace fumbled the ball twice trying to pick it up, and never made a throw, loading the bases.