The final frame wasn’t without some oddities, however—with Brown down 4-1, the home team made a bid for a comeback with three straight walks to open the inning. After a sac fly and a double brought home two runs to make it 4-3, an error turned into a double play after the Bears runners were thrown out from right field. The final two outs, despite the error in right field, thus ended the game.
BROWN 7, HARVARD 3
Freshman second baseman Quinn Hoffman went 3-for-4 and Robinson hit his Ivy League-leading eighth homer of the season, but the Crimson offense couldn’t muster up a comeback after Brown put up six runs in the third inning, and the visitors ultimately fell in the Saturday nightcap, 7-3.
Robinson took a 1-1 pitch over the left-center field wall for a two-run blast in the first inning. The Melbourne, Fla. native also upped his RBI count to 32 on the season and still has a batting average over .400.
Junior righty Noah Zavolas and freshman reliever Grant Stone split duties on the mound, each pitching four frames, but two Harvard errors led to Brown’s game-defining crooked number in the third inning. In addition to the charity outs, the Bears got four straight hits off Zavolas at one point, and the big damage came on Brown senior Josh Huntley’s two run homer.
HARVARD 3, BROWN 2
Junior righty Ian Miller regained his early-season form with a complete-game, seven-strikeout performance over seven innings to lead the Crimson to a 3-2 win over Brown in the series opener. Miller tossed 109 pitches, with 71 of them coming for strikes.
The team did its part to support its starter, pushing across three runs in the second inning to spot Miller an early 3-0 lead. Harvard also committed no errors in the field.
McColl got the offense jumpstarted in the second with a double to right center off Bears starter Christian Taugner, and MacLean followed with an RBI single to right. McColl ultimately went 6-for-14 with three runs scored on the weekend.
Fellow sophomore Ben Skinner and captain Ellis followed with RBI singles to keep the runners moving and extend Harvard’s lead to three. The Crimson offense was also helped by a wild pitch, two passed balls, and a walk in the inning.
—Staff writer Bryan Hu can be reached at bryan.hu@thecrimson.com.