Senior Mike Morgalis threw 5 2/3 innings for the Crimson, allowing 7 hits and 7 runs, 6 earned, while walking 5 and striking out a season-high 10.
Hendricks, Farkes and Mann all hit homers for Harvard, with Mann’s three-run shot in the seventh giving the Crimson a 10-7 lead and appearing to strike a crippling blow.
Farkes’ shot was his 13th of the season and third of the day, tying him with Don Allard ’83 for the all-time school career record of 21.
HARVARD 20, DARTMOUTH 9
In the first game of Saturday’s doubleheader, Harvard gave Dartmouth, the Ivy League’s best hitting team, an offensive clinic.
Every Crimson starter got at least one hit and scored at least one run and the 1-4 spots in the Harvard batting order—sophomore right fielder Lance Salsgiver, Farkes, Hendricks and Mann—went ballistic, going 8-for-16 with five home runs and 16 RBIs.
The team roughed up Dartmouth starter Patrick Dowling for 12 runs and 12 hits in 2 1/3 innings.
“I thought we did a good job on battling [Dowling], who tries to keep it down low,” Walsh said. “We forced him to kind of bring it up a little bit, which was our game plan.”
With patience early in the count, Walsh said, the Crimson hitters neutralized the Dartmouth hurler’s low-ball effectiveness.
“He likes to work the knees a little bit,” he said. “We were able to lay off those balls and get a lot of 2-0, 3-1 healthy cuts.”
Farkes’ day was especially memorable. The sophomore from Boston broke Pete Varney’s 34-year-old single-season school home run record of 10—tied by three players since 1970—with an electrifying third-inning grand slam that gave Harvard a 12-2 lead.
Farkes added a two-run shot in the sixth, tattooing a towering drive to right-center.
Farkes finished the day 3-for-5 with two home runs, seven RBIs and four runs scored.
“What can I say,” Walsh said, astonished. “Every time the kid comes up to bat, I’m down at the third base box just saying, ‘Hey, what’s going to happen next?’”
Salsgiver, Mann and Hendricks added home runs for the Crimson, which extended its Ivy win streak to four. Herrmann (4-2) entered the game in the fifth inning and earned the win.
—Staff writer Alex McPhillips can be reached at rmcphill@fas.harvard.edu.