Game 1: Ball State 2, EMU 1
Game 2: Ball State 6, EMU 4
MUNCIE, Ind. (EMUEagles.com) -- Despite leaving the yard three times in two games, the Eastern Michigan University baseball team was unable to find enough offense to upend Ball State University in either game of a Sunday doubleheader between the two Mid-American Conference institutions today, March 13. Game one was seven innings, while game two was a full nine.
How It Happened - Game 1
The Eagles put runs on the scoreboard first, starting the scoring in the second inning. Senior Gabe Denton (Clare, Mich.-Clare (North Iowa)) put Eastern Michigan on the board with a one-out solo home run off sophomore Tyler Schweitzer. The Eagles were unable to hold the lead, as Ball State scored two times in the fifth inning to take the lead, 2-1, an advantage it did not surrender.
Game Notes - Game 1
» Eastern Michigan pitchers limited Ball State to just 1-for-6 (.167) with runners in scoring position.
» Eastern Michigan pitchers faced 28 Ball State hitters in the game, allowing five ground balls and eight fly balls while striking out five.
» Denton lifted a home run over the left center field fence in game one of the doubleheader at Ball State. It was his team-leading fourth home run of the season and his third in his last three contests (2, at Morehead State, March 5). Last season, Denton needed 20 games to reach the four-homer mark; Denton hit the mark in just nine games with his blast today.
» Senior hurler Zach Fruit (Dundee, Mich.-Dundee (Lansing Community)) put together a career-best effort in game one of the Sunday doubleheader. The Dundee, Mich. native tossed a career-high 6.0 innings, including four consecutive scoreless innings to start the contest, a new career-best for both scoreless innings and consecutive scoreless innings. Additionally, Fruit struck out a career-high five hitters in today's contest, while allowing just two earned runs, which ties his season-low.
» Junior Matt Kirk (Milford, Ohio-Milford) recorded one of Eastern's two hits in the contest. Kirk has had a hot bat in his first season with the Eagles. He leads the team with 17 hits overall, and has recorded a knock in 8-of-10 games to begin his EMU career.
» Ball State mustered just five hits against Fruit. It marks the second time this season that EMU has given up five hits or fewer as a staff, after previously surrendering just three in a game at Winthrop, Feb. 20.
» Fruit tossed all six frames for Eastern Michigan in game one of today's contests. He is the first pitcher to go without relief in a game for the Eagles this season. Freshman Adam Falinski (Howell, Mich.-Detroit Catholic Central) owns EMU's long outing of the season; he tossed 7.0 innings against Winthrop, Feb. 20.
» EMU notched just two hits in the contest, marking the first time this season that the Green and White have recorded fewer than six hits in a game. It is the team's lowest hit total since recording the same number against Miami, April 3, 2021.
How it Happened - Game 2
Trailing 3-0, the Eagles first put runs on the board in the fourth inning. Eastern Michigan put up two runs in the inning, scoring once off of sophomore Ty Johnson on a solo home run from Denton.
The Eagles' deficit expanded to 5-2 before their offense got back on the scoreboard, cutting into that deficit in the eighth inning. Eastern Michigan scored twice on a Taylor Hopkins (Mason, Ohio-Archbishop Moeller) two-run homer, which tightened the Cardinals lead to 5-4. The Eagles were unable to get any closer, as Ball State added one run to their tally on the way to a 6-4 final.
Game Notes - Game 2
» Denton hit another home run, his fifth of the 2022 campaign and second of the day, in game two against the Cardinals. Denton needed 21 games to notch five homers a season ago. He has hit that number in 10 games this season.
» Kirk added another hit at the plate in game two against the Cardinals, including a double in the top half of the fourth inning. That knock was his sixth extra-base hit of the season, which is tied for the team lead (Denton). Kirk now has hits in nine of his 11 games as an Eagle.
» After going hitless in his first three games with the Green and White, freshman Coltrane Rubner (Livonia, Mich.-Livonia Stevenson) has been dialed in as of late. Including his hit in today's game against Ball State, Rubner has recorded hits in five of his last six games.
» Freshman Dom Anderson (Hagerstown, Ind.-Hagerstown) made his first collegiate start in today's contest against the Cardinals. The first-year Eagle went a career-high four innings on the mound.
» Hopkins hit his second home run of the season with his two-run shot in the eighth. The Mason, Ohio native is one of five Eagles with multiple home runs this season.
Up Next
EMU and Ball State will conclude their four-game series tomorrow, March 14, with a doubleheader beginning at 11 a.m. Game one will be seven innings, with game two set to include a full, nine-inning slate.
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