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The game went at 5 to 0 until the fourth. Wyndham was finding the
Greenville left-hander a tough proposition, but in the fourth two
singles together put Hurry Leland on second with one away and when
Raiford was safe on first on a close decision the bags were all
occupied. Talbott, however, failed to come through and made the second
out, second baseman to first, and it was up to Van Dyke. Van found
himself in the hole after three deliveries and then watched the fourth
go past for a second ball. He spoiled the next by fouling it into the
stand. Then he swung and hit cleanly into short right, scoring Hurry
and Pat Tyson. When, however, he started to steal second a moment
later the signals went wrong and a quick peg to third caught Raiford
flat-footed.
Greenville added two more runs to her score in the fifth, although the
one hit she made, a hard liner that Coles allowed to get through him,
came with two down. The runner made second without trouble and went to
third when Frost pitched his first delivery over Cobham’s head. Frosty
cracked badly then and passed the next batsman, who promptly stole to
second. When he had tossed three balls and no strikes to the following
player he was retired in favor of Erlingby. But Sam couldn’t keep the
bases from filling, and when Van Dyke failed to get a liner just inside
of first two runs crossed. Sam struck out the Greenville pitcher, and a
bad inning was over.
In the seventh Wyndham got two on after Cobham had fouled out and
Erlingby had fanned, but they died when Captain Leland proved an easy
out at first. Greenville added her eighth and last tally in her half of
the inning, and Wyndham tried desperately to stage a rally in the first
of the next chapter, and did get one lone run after Raiford had bunted,
Talbott had sacrificed and Van Dyke had hit a short fly back of third.
In the ninth, although Steve introduced a pinch hitter for Coles, who
had had no luck at all against the Greenville left-hand artist, not a
man reached first, and the Dark Blue went home tagged with her fourth
defeat.
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