No. 25 OSU Rallies Past No. 7 Virginia
Earlier on Monday, OSU had beaten
“The only thing we asked our club to do today was to play with everything they had,” OSU head coach Pat Casey said. “Obviously, our backs were pinned to the wall and we had to come out and play two games today, and you just want them to play hard.”
Said OSU first baseman Jordan Lennerton: “Playing two games always takes a toll on you. Mentally, we were there. No matter what we were going to have to go through, we were determined to win ... it’s what you have to do on the road to
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On Monday evening, OSU trailed 3-1 going into the eighth inning, Chris Hopkins’ solo homer started a three-run eighth inning that put the Beavers in the lead; Jason Ogata and John Wallace added run-scoring singles in the frame.
“We have nine innings in the game for a reason,” Lennerton said. “We always have it in the back of our head that late in the game, if we’re down, we can come back, that we’re capable of doing it.”
Joe Paterson, who pitched six innings to earn the win against
“When I came in, I was ready to go,”
The Beavers took Turpen off the hook when they went in front 4-3 with a trio of runs in the top of the eighth inning against Cavalier relievers Jake Rule and Michael Schwimer.
“It didn’t even cross my mind,” Casey said of the possibility of
Said Lennerton: “That was a big lift. It came from a guy who doesn’t hit many home runs, and it just gave us that lift and motivation to keep going ... in our dugout, we heard the volume increase and in the stadium, we heard it decrease. That was the deciding factor right there, the play of the game.”
Joey Wong poked a single down the leftfield line to knock Rule from the game. Darwin Barney greeted Schwimer with a single down the rightfield line that sent Wong to second, then Mike Lissman sacrificed the runners to second and third. Ogata grounded an infield single to the left side that scored Wong and moved Barney to third to tie the game, then John Wallace lined a single to right-center that drove in Barney to give the Beavers the lead.
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“I honestly think that was the best defensive play I’ve ever seen in college baseball in the 20 years I’ve been coaching,” Casey said. “I really do, because of the way it happened and where it was. Nobody could see the ball, and how far it went – it was phenomenal.”
OSU extended its lead to 5-3 in the top of the ninth inning as Lennerton homered to left-centerfield, his seventh homer of the year. To that point, Lennerton had been 0-for-6 on the day with four strikeouts and a pair of errors.
“The strikeouts and the errors and letting my team down , and time after time they kept picking me up,” Lennerton said. “I wasn’t doing anything to contribute, so it felt great to hit the ball out of the park and give us a little insurance.”
Player AB R H BI Player AB R H BI
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Chris Hopkins cf........... 5 1 2 1 Tim Henry rf............... 3 0 1 0
Joey Wong 2b............... 4 1 1 0 Tyler Cannon ss............ 4 0 1 1
Darwin Barney ss........... 5 2 3 0 Sean Doolittle 1b.......... 4 0 0 0
Mike Lissman lf............ 3 0 0 0 David Adams 2b............. 2 0 0 0
Koa Kahalehoe rf.......... 0 0 0 0 John Scaglione lf.......... 4 0 0 0
Jason Ogata dh............. 4 0 1 1 Beau Seabury c............. 3 1 1 0
Braden Wells rf............ 2 0 1 0 Jeremy Farrell dh.......... 4 1 1 0
John Wallace ph/rf........ 2 0 1 1 Patrick Wingfield 3b....... 3 0 0 0
Lonnie Lechelt 3b.......... 4 0 1 0 Mike Mitchell cf........... 3 1 1 2
Erik Ammon c............... 1 0 0 0 Pat McAnaney p............. 0 0 0 0
Mitch Canham ph/c......... 2 0 0 0 Jake Rule p............... 0 0 0 0
Jordan Lennerton 1b........ 3 1 1 1 Michael Schwimer p........ 0 0 0 0
Daniel Turpen p............ 0 0 0 0
Blake Keitzman p.......... 0 0 0 0
Mark Grbavac p............ 0 0 0 0
Joe Paterson p............ 0 0 0 0
Totals..................... 35 5 11 4 Totals..................... 30 3 5 3
Score by Innings R H E
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Virginia............ 000 030 000 - 3 5 4
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E - Turpen; Cannon; Adams; Wingfield 2. DP - Virginia 2. LOB -
Lissman; Ammon; Wingfield. CS - Wells.
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Daniel Turpen ............. 4.1 4 3 3 2 5
Blake Keitzman ............ 0.2 1 0 0 0 0
Mark Grbavac .............. 0.1 0 0 0 2 1
Joe Paterson W,9-6........ 3.2 0 0 0 0 5
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Pat McAnaney .............. 5.0 5 1 0 1 4
Jake Rule ................. 2.0 2 2 2 0 1
Michael Schwimer L,3-1.... 2.0 4 2 2 0 3
HBP - by McAnaney (Wong).
Umpires - HP: Mark Chapman 1B: Marc Lewis 2B: Steve Corvi 3B: Scott Cline
Start: 5:59 pm Time: 3:08 Attendance: 3212
McAnaney faced 2 batters in the 6th.
Rule faced 2 batters in the 8th.
