Princeton baseball drops a wild one to Wagner

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With a two-team total of 28 hits and 27 runs, the Wagner-at-Princeton baseball game had plenty of action over 3 hours and 40 minutes of play. Wagner took an early lead, lost it, then reclaimed it to win 16-11.

I roamed the sidelines as I always do, but today was the first time I shot a few frames from inside the Princeton dugout. The coaches and players were gracious in letting me shoot from there, and I took advantage of the lower angle the dugout afforded me. I was also glad to be able to shoot the pitchers with the scoreboard behind them.

Pitcher James Beasley throws the ball toward home plate. The ball has just been released and covers the visitors' third inning run total space on the scoreboard in the background.
Princeton starter James Beasley hurls the ball toward the plate.

For as much hitting as there was, I got relatively few decent shots of batters swinging. Nor did I get much fielding action beyond first-base shots from behind and from across the diamond.

First baseman extends his glove with the ball in its pocket toward the umpire with hands on knees before signaling "out."
First baseman Tomas Cernius looks toward the umpire a split second before the ump called out the picked-off runner.

This was a non-conference game, so the loss didn’t sting quite as badly as it would have in an Ivy League game. But it still smarted. 🧢

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