SPRINGFIELD, Mass. -- The Amherst College baseball team rallied from a 4-1 deficit Wednesday, scoring three times in the seventh inning to steal a game from Springfield College, 6-4.
With the victory, the Mammoths now sit a 9-14-1. They are at Middlebury for a three-game series this weekend beginning Friday with a single game starting at 4 p.m. Springfield slipped to 14-16 overall this season.
GAME HIGHLIGHTS:
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Ryan McIntyre singled to right to get the Amherst seventh inning started. He was erased on a fielder's choice, but
Jackson Reydel was hit by a pitch to put runners on first and second with one down. An error loaded the bases for
Jack Dove, who drew a bases-loaded walk to tie the game, 4-4.
Daniel Qin ripped an RBI-single to right t score Reydel with the tie-breaking run, and
Chris Murphy's sacrifice fly scored
Luke Padian to make it 6-4.
* In the bottom of the ninth, two walks put Pride runners on first and second with one out and Nick Giatinno replaced
Sam Robin on the bump for the Mammoths. Giattino, who tossed a no-hitter in his last appearance Saturday vs. Trinity, induced a game-ending double play on a fly ball to left field that ended the game. Dove threw out the runner at first to end the game.
BY THE NUMBERS:
* The Mammoths had eight hits in the win. McIntyre was 2 for 4 with 2 runs scored while
Jack McDermott was 2 for 5 with a triple and 2 runs scored. Done was 0 for 4 but had 2 RBIs.
* Amherst used 5 pitchers in the game, getting six combined shutout innings of relief from
Ian Donahue,
Tyson Luna,
Sam Robin and Giattino. Luna evened his record at 2-2 with 2 2/3 innings of one-hit relief, walking no one and striking out one.
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