After reserve catcher Andrew Casey and Wallace singled to start off the inning, Brown reached third on a two-run error by Bulldog third baseman Matt Stone. Vance, the leadoff hitter, followed with an infield single to drive in Brown and cut Yale’s lead to two.

But no more runs scored as the heart of the Harvard order—Farkes, Salsgiver, and Klimkiewicz—failed to deliver a base hit.

“Some of the hitters are coming out of it a little bit and some of the other guys are picking other guys up,” Walsh said. “We’re still not putting it together with the hitting, the pitching and the defense.”

HARVARD 6, YALE 5

In the eighth inning of Saturday’s Game 2, Schuyler Mann obliterated a low fastball from Yale reliever Brett Rosenthal, sending a dramatic, game-tying grand slam into the bushes beyond left-centerfield.

With it went the last remnants of Mann’s prolonged, early-season slump.

“It’s been a struggle for him,” Morgalis, who started the game, said. “He’s been getting a lot of good at-bats, but hasn’t gotten a lot of results.”

It was only fitting, then, after right fielder Lance Salsgiver’s single drove in the prospective game-winning run at the end of the inning—which yielded Harvard a 5-4 eighth-inning edge—that Mann give himself the chance to bat again.

With two outs in the top of the ninth, Mann frittered away the team’s one-run lead with a passed ball on a low changeup from closer Steffan Wilson.

And so in the bottom of the frame, with the score tied 5-5, Mann stepped up to the plate with freshman Taylor Meehan on first.

On a 1-0 pitch, Mann hammered a low fastball 410 feet to deep center and over the outfielder’s head for a walk-off RBI double, completing a “roller-coaster of emotions,” according to the captain. Teammates celebrated on the field.

“Schuyler crushed the ball,” Walsh said. “It would have been a fitting end had that ball left the yard. I still don’t know how it didn’t. I was talking to it the whole time.”

Wilson (1-0) earned the win in relief, his first career collegiate victory.

HARVARD 4, YALE 0

Junior Frank Herrmann bullied Yale with seven shutout innings of two hit ball, and in the process gave the Crimson an easy 4-0 victory in Game 1 on Saturday.