With Harvard leading 1-0, Brendan Byrne singled to open the inning and was replaced on first when Salsgiver hit into a fielder’s choice. After Farkes flied out, Josh Klimkiewicz drove home Salsgiver on a double down the left field line. Mann then singled to score Klimkiewicz and give the Crimson a 3-0 lead.

Harvard’s first run came in the third inning. After Wallace singled to open the inning, an error by Cornell third baseman Jim Hyland on a Brendan Byrne grounder put runners on second and third. Wallace scored on a screaming line drive by Salsgiver, which was caught in centerfield for a sacrifice fly.

Blake Hamilton, who pitched all six innings for the Big Red, took the loss to fall to 0-2.

Klimkiewicz and Mann led the Crimson with two hits apiece.

SHORT HOPS

Game 1 was the shortest Ivy contest in recent memory. The seven-inning game lasted just 1:20...The Crimson had two runners picked off of first base in Game 1, something Walsh said was partly due to Hamilton’s questionable pickoff move. “I asked their coach after the game if it was a balk,” Walsh said. “And he said, ‘yeah, but he’s a senior so you won’t see him again.’”...Cornell didn’t get a running game going, either, perhaps due to Mann, who showed off his arm in the second inning of Game 2, picking Miller off second base.

—Staff writer Lande A. Spottswood can be reached at spottsw@fas.harvard.edu.