STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. – Rutgers baseball put together a complete team effort to cruise to an 18-3 victory over Wagner on Tuesday afternoon in Staten Island.
Ryan Lasko set the tone early, blasting a home run off the batter's eye in center field on the very first pitch of the game.
Getting the ball as the starting pitcher,
Justin Sinibaldi controlled the game on the mound in a career effort. He threw 5.0 innings, allowed just 1 unearned run, yielded three hits, walked one and struck out a career high seven batters to earn the win.
He was relieved by
Andrew Goldan, who tossed 2.0 innings and allowed 2 runs.
Matt Rowe saw his first action of the season, finishing the game with 2.0 scoreless innings and a strikeout.
Offensively, the Scarlet Knights were firing on all cylinders, highlighted by a 9-run top of the fourth inning.
Evan Sleight had the first RBI of the inning with an infield single to score
Josh Kuroda-Grauer and make it 3-1. Sleight would add another run-scoring hit in the same inning, driving in Kuroda-Grauer once again with an RBI double to make it 11-1.
In between Sleight's two RBI hits, Lasko,
Trevor Cohen and Kuroda-Grauer all drove in runs of their own to help the cause.
Pablo Santos drove in the first run of his career in the fifth, lifting a sac fly to center to score Cohen.
Jordan Sweeney cleared the bases with a 3-run double in the seventh and
Andy Axelson had the exclamation point with a 3-run home run in the eighth, the first of his career.
Rutgers is back in action this weekend when it travels down to Statesboro to take on Georgia Southern in a three-game series.
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