tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-112314762011-07-28T15:18:16.729-04:00mbnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4021100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11231476.post-84581116722128406422009-02-23T23:18:00.001-05:002009-02-23T23:19:48.522-05:00

John Wylde has passed away. He's one of the towering figures in Harvard baseball, and in amateur baseball. He will be missed.Although I've retired the blog, I wanted to acknowledge the passing of a wonderful man.

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This weekend's split with Yale is the bright light in what has been an extremely challenging season so far.Thoughts welcome here.

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Baseball America likes the Crimson. Nice, sure. But I'd think unexpected.Meanwhile, the season has started. Here's an open thread for those following the trip.

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Credit John Wolff. The Harvard baseball alum, who has doubtlessly had to deal with quite a bit in the wake of his book and the related news, acted quickly and sent us this note yesterday. I think no one should form an opinion of the man, his book and his sense of the program without reading his own words: I want to clarify something that has become a problem. In the book and in a Crimson article

mbnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11231476.post-32389282847957990012008-03-02T17:08:00.008-05:002008-03-10T22:49:47.179-04:00

Greetings all. As I indicated earlier, I won't be updating the blog anywhere near as much this year, but I figured it would be good to put a marker here so that fans of Harvard Baseball can maintain a discussion about the team in the comments section. I ask, as always, that you keep it fair and gentlemanly.Potential topics:* The major story: Sophomore ace Max Perlman will not throw a pitch for

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Hey gang,Sorry I haven't updated in a while. Life's been quite busy. Since I've last posted:* Steffan Wilson left Harvard after being drafted by the Brewers in the late rounds. An interesting choice--one wondered whether he might return for another year and improve his draft position after what had been, by any measure, something of a disappointing season for him. Anyway, Steffan Wilson is

mbnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11231476.post-41679370939390340772007-04-29T20:49:00.000-04:002007-04-29T21:25:06.056-04:00

A loss in Game One doomed any shot the Crimson had, although Brown took the one game they needed to sew things up in Providence as well. Harvard's season will end with its non-league game against Northeastern on Tuesday.Congratulations to Brown and Penn (Princeton nearly came all the way back to force a divisional playoff only to falter in 12 innings at Cornell). This is the first time in quite

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We are officially in trouble.After Max Perlman predictably shuts down the Big Green in game one, Brad Unger can't follow up after a line drive caroms off his right (pitching) shoulder two outs into the first. Just terrible, terrible luck.Although he battled characteristically, Unger could never really sette in after that and gave up eight runs. Harvard rallied late but couldn't make up the

mbnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11231476.post-13963177017212454922007-04-27T23:07:00.000-04:002008-12-11T01:28:21.258-05:00

Happy thoughts like......as one commenter pointed out, Boomer Eadington's tremendous relief appearance back in the spring break trip, one I overlooked (although it has been a while)......Adam Cole and the what could be......the ridiculousness that is Matt Vance......Ryan Lavarnway and Marc Sawyer......the fact that we've got arguably three of the top six starting pitchers in the league going this

mbnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11231476.post-85113421060964639882007-04-27T01:12:00.000-04:002007-04-27T01:27:11.908-04:00

That's a bit strong. But something strange is going on here. In an earlier post I laid out what I thought was a pretty logical way for the rotation to unfold this season--a rested Max Perlman Saturday, Brad Unger Saturday afternoon, Shawn Haviland Sunday and Boomer Eadington for as long as you can ride him in the second game.Not so, says Joe Walsh:While the Harvard skipper normally sends out

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I just realized I'd gone the season without yet crediting or thanking Jim Meehan, father of Taylor, from whom we get many of our fine photographs, and Kurt Svoboda, Harvard's tremendous SID, from whom we get quite a few others and is one of the best in the business. Thanks very, very much to both of you.

mbnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11231476.post-14059724008177087702007-04-25T20:48:00.000-04:002007-04-25T20:56:08.658-04:00

One game back of Brown going into four this weekend with Dartmouth.Brown plays Yale, a decent but underachieving team that needs to sweep Dartmouth to have a chance at the division championship.Harvard plays Dartmouth, a bad team with no hope of winning the division, but a proud program that always makes these games difficult for its archrival, no matter how insignificant they may be.Harvard

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Because the below post is comment-deficient somehow, here's a new one for the Yale games. Harvard won Game One behind ace Shawn Haviland's one-hit shutout, his finest performance of the year, 2-0. But Adam Cole, a surprise starter in Game Two, lost control after that and Harvard trails 6-0 with Jake Bruton on in relief.

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I already mentioned the peculiar Beanpot fate of UMass, an apparent innocent victim of the Ivy League's decision to reschedule the Yale doubleheader on the day of the Beanpot. Well, cry for them no more:While head coach Joe Walsh will usually opt for playing two games instead of one on any given day, this is one instance where that is not the case. Playing the Bulldogs on Wednesday means that

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Harvard split its series with Brown this weekend, meaning at the very least that the Dartmouth series next weekend will be meaningful. The Ivy League has moved the makeup games from a week ago to Wednesday instead of Tuesday--more on that in a second--but regardless of what Brown does at Dartmouth and Harvard does against Yale at home, there will be meaningful Rolfe Division baseball next

mbnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11231476.post-44657032925679929602007-04-21T11:31:00.000-04:002007-04-21T11:33:36.174-04:00

Live audio for the first game, and live stats for both, available here.

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Max Perlman threw 20 straight strikes against Yale.Max Perlman was named Ivy League Pitcher and Rookie of the Week.Max Perlman got some play from Baseball America in its weekend preview.Max Perlman's calendar goes straight from March 31 to April 2; no one fools Max Perlman.Got more Max Perlman facts? Hit the comments.

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Those of you who answered the poll in the upper right corner of this page: The answer turned out to be Brown. Just ask Dartmouth.Still, you have to like where Harvard's pitching is going into the weekend, with Shawn Haviland returning to his dominant form of late, Max Perlman teaming with him to form the most lights-out Saturday doubleheader combo since Ben Crockett and Marc Hordon prior to

mbnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11231476.post-87421375307848189312007-04-18T22:42:00.000-04:002007-04-18T23:10:15.353-04:00

Beanpot Thursday... Maybe. Postponed Holy Cross game? Postponed again. Makeup with Yale? Scheduled for Tuesday...Meanwhile, the Crimson ran an interesting story today about Adam Cole, the onetime ace-in-waiting who simply couldn't throw a strike this season, and his recent positive steps in relief.With Harvard up, 6-2, with two outs in the top of the ninth inning and the bases full of Tigers,

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Beanpot's been moved to Wednesday. Yale may be as late as next Monday, creating a three-day, six-game weekend. Stay tuned...

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...have been postponed, according to the online schedule (and common sense). I'm not sure whether they'll be able to get them in for Monday, since it's still supposed to rain that morning and this storm sounds vicious enough to do a number on the field.

mbnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11231476.post-66357089277670467682007-04-15T08:27:00.000-04:002008-12-11T01:28:21.840-05:00

Hey all,So I just checked in on the Princeton comments thread, and I figured it might be good to post about comments generally.The point of comments is to allow a place for viewpoints better placed than my own (i.e., people who actually get to see most of the games) and broaden the overall discussion by creating a forum for people who similarly care about this program. As a big fan of the

mbnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11231476.post-51182054071262666132007-04-14T18:36:00.000-04:002008-12-11T01:28:22.088-05:00

Perlman and Haviland shut down the Bulldogs. Were you there? Add some color in the comments.

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* Harvard beat URI today, and freshman Dan Zailskas had a nice start. Matt Vance homered. They've asked him to do different things this season--hitting lower in a less powerful order, playing third (saw him make two incredible plays there at Columbia). His numbers won't be what they were last year, but he may be the most important player on this team.* Brad Unger is the new captain... of

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Read all about it. The boxscore makes it sound like Boomer Eadington was much more in control this week, and Tom Stack-Babich continues to crank out hits. Got observations? Comment away.Meanwhile: It's not too early to look up at the standings. Interestingly, the perenially surperior Rolfe Division has gone only 12-16 against the Gehrig Division this year (with makeup doubleheaders still to

mbnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11231476.post-51857212309407829252007-04-07T12:39:00.000-04:002007-04-07T12:40:45.096-04:00

It's the home opener today, so I figure some people at the games will have observations. Drop them in the comments section.

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Hmmmmmmmm...According to Kaplan, the Tigers are especially looking forward to facing the Crimson, given the teams' recent history. "We're definitely excited to go back to Harvard," Kaplan said. "Harvard is usually a pretty good team, and I'm sure that beating them at their place last year for the Ivy League championship is going to give them some motivation to beat us. They were pretty

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Brad Unger really settled down in the third inning of Sunday's second game. Here is that inning.

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Read all about it. Some thoughts...* People Who Impressed Me:1. Brad Unger, who undoubtedly deserves to be starting. A hard-luck loser today, Unger struggled early but settled in and consistently threw strikes. I'll put some video footage of him up later in the week if I get time.2. Jake Bruton. He'd been having a solid spring, but I hadn't put a lot into that until getting to see why today.

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There's nothing cool about being no-hit for 7 2/3 innings. Somehow, it might be even worse to scrape together three runs and keep the game close while being held hitless, only to still faulter in the end.Not the best of days for Shawn Haviland, as Harvard falls to Penn, 6-4. Not the best of days for the lineup, either. And that's all I've got. If you were at the game, you've got more to say

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CG (7 inn), 2 ER, 2 K, 4 H, 2 BB. Not a bad debut at all. Impressively, Perlman faced only two batters above the minimum, and induced ten (by my rushed count) ground ball outs, including several double plays.I'd imagine Shawn Haviland is next.

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The Ivy season starts at Penn today. Live stats here. GoCrimson preview here. The Daily Penn tells us that Penn fears our speed more than our power.A pre-Ivy summary:* Tom Stack-Babich: .326 BA, .465 SLG.* Brendan Byrne: .326 as well.* Brad Unger: Yes, it was Eckerd, but he's throwing strikes.* Matt Rogers: .286, seven steals, two doubles, two triples. Salsgiver II?* Boomer Eadington: 15 hits

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Harvard beat Barry today and, perhaps notably, Adam Cole only pitched an inning in relief (shaky relief at that, as his struggles finding the strikezone this March continue). I suspect that we may be looking at a Haviland, Perlman, Unger and perhaps Eadington rotation after all. We'll see this weekend, when Harvard plays its first Ivy games at Penn (Saturday) and Columbia (Sunday). I hope to

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Jason Brown is on in relief for Harvard right now, trying to keep Florida International at bay in a 4-4 game. Stack-Babich has two hits and an RBI so far to pace the Crimson.The bullpen didn't fare so well yesterday, coughing up another 9-7 lead in the ninth against Florida Atlantic. Harvard lost, 10-7.Other results from earlier this week:Monday: Harvard 5, Eckerd 1; Central Fla 7, Harvard

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In like a lion, out like ... Rick Ankiel.Harvard's relief corps, a bright spot for much of March, roared through six more solid innings of work Saturday before its command broke down in the ninth in a 10-9 loss to Northwestern. Jason Brown and Brad Unger combined to face six batters in the decisive final inning, but retired none and plunked two. The second hit batsman forced home the game-winner

Brianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09122370750900383461noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11231476.post-91227826440893437102007-03-24T05:41:00.000-04:002008-12-11T01:28:22.887-05:00

First, a disclaimer: Harvard's impressive victory over Notre Dame two weeks ago offered a window into what this year's Crimson edition is capable of, but always be mindful of the larger purpose of Joe Walsh's "take all comers" approach to non-conference scheduling. It is the 52-ounce bat you swing in the on-deck circle to get ready for the Ivy season. Adjust your expectations accordingly during

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Next time the pitch-count police starts calling Joe Walsh all sorts of names over the way he deploys his stud pitchers, maybe they should call him this:Sensei.In SI's baseball preview issue (on newsstands now), Tom Verducci's excellent cover story on Daisuke Matsuzaka predicts that the Red Sox import may introduce America to a new and improved philosophy on how to develop pitchers. The thinking

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Is up.

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Bummer. Would've been awful sweet to take it to Notre Dame again on the actual St. Patrick's Day, but such are the dangers of being a northeast school--even your road games in sunny climates are at risk in March.But we do have a little rain delay theater for you. First, this read about Ben Crockett '02, who has caught on with the Red Sox, albeit not in the way some of us once hoped. Injuries

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Thanks to everyone who checked in with observations from last weekend's games. We're happy to grant anonymity whenever we can (which is pretty much all the time), and with me no longer being in Cambridge, we're going to depend on SoBB readers as our eyes more than ever.We've got some comments, first this one on the overall state of the team. Highlights:Having seen all 4 games, I came away from

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Roth homers in a loss. The official story is here, and the Crimson has this story about the weekend.Can anybody who was there give us some details on what happened this weekend, particularly about the Notre Dame game and Perlman and Eadington? Let us know in the comments.

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Harvard beat Notre Dame today, 4-0. Freshmen pitchers Eric Eadington and Max Perlman combined for a five hit shutout.Eadington: 4 1/3 innings, 3 hits, 6 walks, 3ks.Perlman: 4 2/3 innings, 2 hits, 2 walks.Welcome to Harvard, fellas. I'm sure Jon Lehman and the gang at the Crimson will have some good stuff on this tomorrow, but Kurt Svoboda gets us going with some nice detail in the official

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1-1 after one day of the 2007 season. Biggest thing to come out of today: Tom Stack-Babich - 3-for-7 with two walks and two doubles. Stack-Babich had six extra base hits all of last season. Count this a very encouraging start.Cole, like Haviland, was a bit wild today, and no one should worry about either, at least not purely based on the boxscore.Notre Dame tomorrow at 3:15. Looking at who's

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Harvard is 1-0 after winning its 2007 debut, 4-3 over Quinnipiac in extra innings. Tom Stack-Babich, batting fifth, went 2-for-4 with a double and drove home the game winner, and what a huge event a Tom Stack-Babich (re?)surgence would be for the team this year.Shawn Haviland, from the boxscore, looks like he was awfully wild in his debut, but no one should worry. Nice to see Brad Unger jumping

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It all starts at 2:45 pm. Live stats are available here. If anyone happens to find a working online radio broadcast, let us know in the comments.

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My laptop broke. It is somewhere in Georgia, being fixed. My only other machine is at work, and I tend to do work there. More when my laptop comes back.

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Ages ago, SoBB promised you profiles of the '07 newcomers akin to our brief glimpse of Dan Zailskas. Time has lapsed and the team has official profiles upposted its own profiles, but eventually, I'll get around to tossing in some bonus Google results for the die-hards.But first: Something's gotta be said about this solid profile by Kurt Swoboda of Harvard (who needs some sort of nickname other

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Joe O'Donnell of O'Donnell Field fame visits the team under the bubble and gets this write-up at the official site. I have little to add here, except that money is an awful nice thing for a baseball team to have, and it's great having strong supporters.Update: Pic from Kurt.

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Future First Ballot Harvard SID Hall of Famer Kurt has generously sent over a couple of shots of team practices in the bubble. Behold, the advent of domeball:

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As of this past week, the Harvard stadium bubble is up and hosting offseason practices by spring teams. The pictures here aren't great; if anyone can take anything better, please e-mail it to bartbrush@gmail.com.Still, this looks even more awesome than the preliminary reports had indicated:The playing field is accessible through a revolving door located at the open end of Harvard Stadium. The

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The leading baseball authority and the only objective entity to bang out such predictions has Harvard beating Princeton in a rematch of last year's stunning sweep (or, put differently, a rematch of almost every Ivy League Championship Series of the past ten years). For a second straight year, Baseball America has named Steffan Wilson the preseason player of the year. GoCrimson.com lists Shawn

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...up on GoCrimson.com about the glorious throwback-ness of Brendan Byrne, two-sport athlete:Regardless of the outcome of the baseball season, Walsh is certain his captain will infuse the team with his signature confidence and work ethic, which he credits Byrne’s upbringing for.“He might have come out of Milton Academy,” says Walsh. “But I know he has some Dorchester in him. If the team takes

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While Princeton has arguably been best known for its pitchers over the years, between Chris Young and Ross Ohlendorf and Thomas Pauly, Brown has produced a number of the best hitters in the league over the past few years (I still shutter to think of what this guy used to do to against the Crimson, for example). Brown had quite a few of the elite mashers. Todd Iarussi was one of them, a two-time

mbnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11231476.post-34067685654257551632007-01-14T11:26:00.000-05:002008-12-11T01:28:26.973-05:00

The most prominent Ivy baseball alum in the news lately has been Ross Ohlendorf. Here with thoughts on Ohlendorf is our own Faiz Shakir '02:Former Princeton hurler Ross Ohlendorf's name has been in the news of late because he was a key part of a blockbuster trade between the New York Yankees and the Arizona Diamondbacks that sent LHP Randy Johnson back to team he helped lead to a world

mbnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11231476.post-62356684915277400592007-01-07T12:20:00.000-05:002008-12-11T01:28:27.119-05:00

Harvard Stadium is beautiful and historic. One thing it isn't is partially covered by a dome.It was supposed to be by now. Back in the fall, Joe Walsh spoke excitedly about the prospect of the Harvard athletic department's dome project being ready to house offseason workouts for other teams, including the Crimson. This photo was taken yesterday (thanks, PST). No dome.What's the holdup? The

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Happy 2007, gang. With another baseball season drawing near, I wanted to post to say a couple of quick things.First: There will be Sons of Bart Brush content this season. How much of it will be from me, I can't say. I'm working (a lot) and in New York now, and I've always done the lion's share of the posting around here, so the frequency of posts might not be what it once was. But my hope is

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Upgraded from serious to good condition:According to hospital policies, Beth Israel categorizes patients as “good,” “fair,” “serious,” and ”critical.” “Good condition” signifies that the patient’s vital signs are stable and within normal limits, that the patient is conscious and comfortable, and that indicators are excellent, according to hospital spokeswoman Bonnie Prescott. “Serious condition”

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It has come to our attention that the student injured in a fall from Leverett Towers was in fact Steve Snyder '04-'08, a former Harvard baseball player who was on the roster for at least one season (2003, the righty pitcher's sophomore year).Snyder has reportedly been improving since his fall Thursday, but is still hospitalized in serious condition. We wish Steve and his family the very

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The Crimson's series of articles by the former Harvard hurler continues with another interesting entry.

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And now, another couple of drips from the steady IV that was my brief e-mail exchange with Coach Walsh from a few weeks ago...* Farewell, Josh Klimkiewicz '06. First base is "up for grabs," with freshman Andrew Prince and Dan Zailskas as possibilities. We've already talked about Zailskas some. Here's a little taste of Andrew Prince, the hitter. In addition to being a clutch hitter, he also

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Hey, Harvard baseball fans. It's been an offseason of very few posts, but I'm hoping this one packs a punch that'll make up for some of that.I recently checked in with Coach Walsh about four practices into the fall, and he reports the following:* Matt Vance is swinging and lifting after his offseason surgery, and just beginning to throw. Best of luck to him as he recovers.* Matt Rogers--whom

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Some Crimson notes:* Brad Unger's summer in the New England Collegiate League ended with a 3-2 record over nine appearances (seven starts) with a 3.21 ERA. We're looking at a Haviland-Cole-Unger three-fourths of a rotation, and I can live with that.* Elsewhere in the NECBL, the intriguing and reputedly incredibly fast rising sophomore outfielder Matt Rogers hit .273 and succeeded on 9 of 10

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From GoCrimson.com. Well done. Far as I'm concerned, the big news here is Brad Unger. Should he come along as a strong third starter this year back of Haviland and Cole, it would be a tremendous boon. One wonders if there has been any thought to him becoming a one-sport man, although I don't know whether there would be a clear benefit...

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...courtesy of Crimson baseball beat writer Pablo Torre.

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Mash, Steffan Wilson, mash. Through eight games, Stef is batting .394 with 9 RBIs to lead the Wareham Gatemen of the Cape Cod League. Meanwhile, Brad Unger has been lights out so far for the Sanford Mainers of the New England Collegiate League, allowing 3 earned runs in his first 17 2/3 innings in two starts and a relief appearance... Lance Salsgiver is playing Class-A Ball for the Salem-Keizer

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A number of Harvard students graduated last week without jobs lined up. Lance Salsgiver doesn't have that problem.Congratulations to Lance, taken in the 37th Round (1106 overall) of the 2006 MLB Amateur Draft last week. Good job by the Giants; the toolsy outfielder (or would they use him elsewhere?) seems a great late round pickup by Brian Sabean and crew. Meanwhile, John Birtwell '01 continues

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Those looking to keep tabs on their favorite Crimson players over the summer will be happy to see Harvard's listing of assignments for summer ball. Like last year, a lot of players come back with summer ball experience. Most notably, Steffan Wilson and (non-roster invitee) Shawn Haviland in the Cape League, and Adam Cole, Tom Stack-Babich, Brad Unger, Max Warren and Matt Rogers in the New England

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Sorry for the lack of updates lately. Life has been very busy here, despite (or perhaps because of) the end of school.News and Notes:* As an alert commenter noted, Morgan Brown was named academic All-Ivy for the spring. Meanwhile, Steffan Wilson and Josh Klimkiewicz started and played all of the New England College Baseball All-Star Game at Fenway, which turned out to be a low scoring affair.*

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Steffan Wilson (3B) and Josh Klimkiewicz (1B) were both named Second Team All-New England today.

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Just before signing off from the last Red Sox broadcast of the season, which comes in varying degrees of heartbreak depending on the year, longtime play-by-play announcer--and frequent Harvard football pressbox visitor--Joe Castiglione reads a famous passage from the sport's most literary commissioner ever, Bart Giamatti. It goes like this:"It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart

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The 2006 season has ended, but the site lives on. Next year, Martin will be in New York working full time, and Brian could be pretty much anywhere after he helps the good guys take back the Senate. Faiz, wherever he is, will be working as well. This means that we won't have anyone on the ground here in Cambridge, and that my job likely will prevent me from posting as often as I am used to doing.

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Congratulations to Morgan Brown, an ESPN The Magazine District 1 All-Academic First Team Selection. Rock in the infield, Rockefeller off it.

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Congratulations to Shawn Haviland, the Ivy League Pitcher of the Year as a sophomore. Haviland beat out the only other real contender, Dartmouth's Josh Faiola, in a vote that became pretty clear on Harvard-Dartmouth weekend. Meanwhile, the other half of the Saturday starting duo, Adam Cole, was named Co-Rookie of the Year along with Brown's Stephen Daniels.Yale first baseman Josh Sawyer took

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From left: Chris Mackey, Lance Salsgiver, Morgan Brown, Josh Klimkiewicz, Matt Brunnig, Javier Castellanos, Mike Dukovich.

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The season has ended. Harvard lost the second game 8-2 and the Ivy League Championship series, 2-0. Congratulations to Princeton, league champion and winner of an NCAA regional berth.Adam Cole mixed fastball and slider brilliantly for five innings, but unraveled some in the 6th after a hit batsman and two errors, including a ball he threw high past first. Ultimately, Princeton got seven runs out

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Shawn Haviland's fastball got hit hard pretty consistently in the early innings. He seemed to be leaving it up quite a bit, and only several innings in did he really settle down. He'll have many more great starts, but this was an unfortunate time for his most troublesome start in the Ivy season.Game Two starts in minutes. I'm headed back out there with an umbrella and a jacket, as the

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It's 65 degrees, Friends of Harvard Baseball promises BBQ and we're two games away from a repeat Ivy championship. Let's get ready to rumble...* Live Gametracker will absolutely, positively work today.* Assuming WHRB is out there, the broadcast likely will be available here.I'll be at the games and won't have an update for you until day's end. Go Harvard.

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Well, we still don't have awards to tell you about, but here is Julie Fogarty's preview in The Crimson. Yes, Shawn Haviland's Ivy League ERA is 0.73.UPDATE: Supplement your pre-game reading with this very good official Harvard preview by Kurt Swoboda and this pretty-good-once-you-get-past-the-lede preview in the Daily Princetonian. Scott Bradley says this is a different team than Harvard faced

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Jonathan Lehman has a recap of yesterday's comeback win downtown. Princeton, for its part, was sloppy in a loss to Rider. Interesting read: From a couple days ago, this piece about pitching in the Prince, which in addition to being unusual and informative (if poorly titled), offers this amusing nugget:With many different pitches in their repertoire, Tiger pitchers favor certain pitches in

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7-5 comeback win includes an inside-the-park home run by Steffan Wilson.

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Here. Things haven't gone as swimmingly for Hampton Foushee this time. Also, we've got a Morgan Brown article from a recent Manchester Union-Leader, and more of Frank Herrmann's minor league diary in the Crimson.

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A breakdown of the Ivy season stats uncovers more evidence for why the Crimson's reigning Athlete of the Week not only deserves First Team honors at first base, but also should be the favorite for Player of the Year (POY). For starters, here are the top POY candidates' numbers in Red Rolfe Division play ONLY. This is where it counted the most (click for an enlarged view):In the league's toughest

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Rescheduled for Wednesday.

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SoBB brings you what the Ivy office doesn't: league-only stats from the 20-game conference season. Below are the Ivy-only stats for our top three contenders for First Team All-Ivy honors at first base. (Click the graphic for a larger view. Category leaders are highlighted in gold.)It does seem to be a very close contest between Klim and Sawyer. No one had more overall hits than Sawyer in 2006,

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Alex McPhillips dedicates his notebook to some awards campaigning:“I absolutely love having him in the lineup,” said senior starting pitcher Matt Brunnig. “He’s in the three-to-five hole, and every time he’s up, there’s people on base. Having his bat there makes all the difference in the world.” Klimkiewicz has never been named to the Ivy League’s first or second team. The senior may soon cash in

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After Dartmouth scored four runs in the bottom of the seventh, chasing Matt Brunnig, erasing what had once been a five-run deficit and tying the game at 9-9, Matt Vance stepped up and stroked a leadoff triple that sparked a five-run rally, exciting a Harvard bench you could hear over Dartmouth radio for the rest of the game.What followed was a remarkable display of hitting by Harvard and a

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Harvard has lost the first game, 4-0. Javy Castellanos actually pitched reasonably well. The big concern is hitting: Vance, Salsgiver and Wilson were a combined 1-for-10, and no one hit for any power.As demoralizing as this is, there's no time to dwell on it. The biggest game of the season looms. Destiny, meet Matt Brunnig. Matt Brunnig, destiny.In his last start, Yale slapped Chase Carpenter

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Dartmouth Gametracker is working. Which is great, because the radio link doesn't seem to be getting us baseball.UPDATE: They just switched over. Several minutes into the game, too. Not very professional, but then, that's Dartmouth radio.UPDATE: I should correct myself. This actually turned out to be a not-horrible broadcast, as college stations go.

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The silver lining:“Scoring eight off of Faiola, that’s their guy,” head coach Joe Walsh said. “I feel real good coming into tomorrow. I feel confident we’re swinging pretty good. And if I’m their three or four guy, and I saw us pepper Faiola around…they might be thinking a little bit.” Good job by Pablo getting this recap up fast. Expecting Javy C. and Brunnig today, he adds.

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Very tough loss, letting the game get away earlier on a day when Faiola proved hittable. Harvard missed an opportunity. Now, the Crimson has to win one on the road in Hanover to advance.Expect to see Jeff Wilkerson against Javy Castellanos in the seven-inning game and Chase Carpenter against either Matt Brunnig or Lance Salsgiver or perhaps Brad Unger tomorrow. Neither Carpenter nor Wilkerson has

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Adam Cole struggled mightily in his start. He just wasn't able to throw strikes. In 2/3 of an inning, he walked four, including two with the bases loaded, gave up two hits and allowed four unearned runs (after an error by Taylor Meehan). Harvard's down 4-0 after one, facing quite the uphill battle against Faiola.Figure on Cole joining the list of potential relievers tomorrow. Jay Brown is in

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Hit game winning singles. Harvard has won the first game, 2-1, in 10 innings. Morgan Brown hit a bases loaded single off sophomore reliever Kyle Zeis to score Lance Salsgiver, silence the loud Dartmouth contingent and give the Crimson a huge win. Shawn Haviland went all ten in his greatest pitching performance yet.This was the one the Crimson absolutely had to have, with Faiola coming up later

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I'm trying to figure that out myself. WHRB doesn't seem to be streaming the game, and GoCrimson.com Gametracker hasn't started yet... But maybe there just hasn't been anything to report there. We'll keep checking.UPDATE: The game has apparently started. It's 1-0 Dartmouth, bot 2nd. Color me disappointed that you can't follow the game remotely...

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Proving once again that the classiest, most tradition-rich baseball program in the Ivy League resides in Allston, it looks like the Friends of Harvard Baseball ponied up to commission a new trophy, to be awarded from now on to the Ivy League baseball champion. The new hardware will be dedicated tomorrow before the Harvard-Dartmouth doubleheader, and is named for William C. Matthews, Harvard class

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...with a road sweep of Cornell. Princeton will host the Dartmouth-Harvard winner next week. Somewhere, Brian celebrates.

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Brown beat Yale in the second game, 8-3. That wraps it up for the Bulldogs. No more Rolfe Division scoreboard watching, and no more prospect of a one-game playoff next Wednesday. If Harvard splits this weekend, it's the division title. If Dartmouth wins 3 of 4, they win the division.

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I can't wait. Harvard-Dartmouth weekend with the division at stake is Ivy League baseball's answer to Christmas morning--just as exciting and just as predictable.Kurt the Harvard SID tells me that you will be able to follow this weekend's games on the live Gamecast at GoCrimson.com. They've been working hard through some real IT difficulties to get it going again, and I really appreciate their

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Here. Coach Walsh remains quiet about Josh Klimkiewicz and his availability, and is upset with the team's play generally. Tom Stack-Babich homers and doubles, and if he can get as hot as we thought he'd be all season, we'd sure welcome it for this weekend. Current Boston forecast calls for sun all weekend, which I'd have to think we want, since Dartmouth's weekend guys had to pitch "for real" on

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Harvard is playing URI right now, but events of greater consequence happened in Hanover, NH today.Dartmouth won its first game against Yale but got thumped in the second, meaning that Harvard (12-4) is a game up on Dartmouth (11-5) heading into this week's pivotal four-game set in Cambridge and Hanover. Yale is now 10-6 and continues to lurk. Brown, at 9-7, has been eliminated from

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Moments ago, I deleted a comment on the board that contained false information about a player's health status. The test of any internet enterprise as open as ours is how far you're willing to let it stay open until people start doing jerky things. We've have very few unfortunate incidents through the year+ we've been doing the site, and we have the tremendous Harvard baseball community to thank

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