Johns Hopkins University took advantage of eight...
Johns Hopkins University took advantage of eight Soviet errors to win, 15-2, in the first U.S.-Soviet Union baseball game ever played on Russian soil.
A team from the D.I. Mendeleyev Institute of Chemical Engineering didn’t have a baserunner until the fourth inning, when Sergei Volkov reached first on an error.
A crowd of about 300 people scattered throughout the Lenin Komsomol Automobile Factory stadium cheered both teams during the 7-inning game but also whistled in displeasure at the Soviet errors.
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