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Photo by: Ben Solomon/Rutgers Athletics
Baseball Loses Game Two at UNCG
Mar 04 | Baseball
GREENSBORO, N.C. – Rutgers baseball dropped the second game of its series at UNC Greensboro, falling by a score of 8-5 on Saturday afternoon.
Despite the Scarlet Knights (3-6) leading 5-2 in the seventh inning, the Spartans (6-5) scored 6 unanswered runs across the next two frames to secure the game and the series.
RU got out to a 1-0 lead on a Hugh Pinkney RBI single in the third, but UNCG answered right back in the fourth, scoring on a passed ball and RBI double to take a 2-1 lead.
In the top of the seventh, the Rutgers bats came alive, with Evan Sleight tying the game with his first home run of the season. The Spartans committed a costly two-out error, allowing Trevor Cohen to score and give RU a 3-2 lead. Pinkney then drove in his second and third runs of the game on a single to make it 5-2.
UNCG hit a solo home run in the seventh to get back a run, then exploded for 5 in the bottom of the eighth to pull away.
The series finale between Rutgers and UNC Greensboro is set for 1 p.m. on Sunday afternoon.
Despite the Scarlet Knights (3-6) leading 5-2 in the seventh inning, the Spartans (6-5) scored 6 unanswered runs across the next two frames to secure the game and the series.
RU got out to a 1-0 lead on a Hugh Pinkney RBI single in the third, but UNCG answered right back in the fourth, scoring on a passed ball and RBI double to take a 2-1 lead.
In the top of the seventh, the Rutgers bats came alive, with Evan Sleight tying the game with his first home run of the season. The Spartans committed a costly two-out error, allowing Trevor Cohen to score and give RU a 3-2 lead. Pinkney then drove in his second and third runs of the game on a single to make it 5-2.
UNCG hit a solo home run in the seventh to get back a run, then exploded for 5 in the bottom of the eighth to pull away.
The series finale between Rutgers and UNC Greensboro is set for 1 p.m. on Sunday afternoon.
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Team Stats
Pitching:
W: J. Peissel (1-0)
L: Bello, Sam (1-1)
Batting:
HR: Sleight, Evan 1
RBI: Pinkney, Hugh 3 ; Sleight, Evan 1
SH: Love, Cameron 1 ; Sweeney, Jordan 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Sleight, Evan 1 ; Cohen, Trevor 2 ; Sweeney, Jordan 1 ; Melnick, Danny 1
CS: Kuroda-Grauer, Josh 1
HBP: Brito, Chris 1 ; Kuroda-Grauer, Josh 1 ; Axelson, Andy 1
Batting:
2B: G. Jarman 1 ; D. Callahan 1
HR: K. Jones 1
RBI: K. Jones 1 ; Z. Budzik 1 ; D. Jonas 1 ; M. Smith 1 ; D. Callahan 2 ; C. Cozart 1
SH: L. Jenkins 1
SF: M. Smith 1
Base Running:
RUNS: D. Cerda 1 ; K. Jones 3 ; M. Smith 1 ; G. Jarman 1 ; J. Budzik 1 ; L. Holland 1
HBP: D. Cerda 1 ; K. Jones 2 ; Je. Wolf 1
PO: D. Cerda 1
Game Leaders
AB
5
R
0
H
2
RBI
3
AB
4
R
2
H
2
RBI
0
AB
4
R
1
H
1
RBI
1
AB
3
R
0
H
1
RBI
0
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