Finding itself down two runs entering the final inning of a seven-inning game and not having threatened in the first six frames, the Crimson took advantage of three errors from the Bears to score a pair of runs and force extra innings.

After Harvard tagged out the potential game-winning run at the plate in the bottom of the ninth, the team took the lead for good in the next inning. A bases-loaded single from Kregel plated the team’s third run of the game, and the fourth followed two batters later after sophomore infielder Nick Saathoff earned an RBI walk.

Sophomore pitcher Tanner Anderson went the distance on the mound, throwing 138 pitches in all ten innings without surrendering a single earned run on six hits.

“He’s a bulldog; he’s going to go out there and compete,” Kregel said. “For him to go out and go ten innings on the mound and in the second game play second base, that just shows a lot about the player he is in general. His mindset is such a competitive mindset, it’s just unbelievable.”

Brown scored its only runs of the game in the bottom of the third. With two outs and runners on second and third, an error in the Crimson infield allowed the batter to reach and both runners to score.

Neither team pushed across any additional runs until the top of the seventh, when Harvard tied the game without registering any hits. A walk and two errors allowed Saathoff to score the first run of the inning, and a third error a batter later brought home freshman infielder Mitch Klug to force extras.

—Staff writer David Steinbach can be reached at dsteinbach@college.harvard.edu.