Box Score SEWANEE, Tenn. –
Tyler Pinson posted three hits and
Charlie Teel and
Sebastian Leinberger added two apiece, but Maryville scored five combined runs in the third and fourth innings, two of those unearned, in a 5-2 victory over Sewanee in baseball action Tuesday in Maryville, Tenn.
The Tigers (16-12) stranded nine runners on base and bounced into a pair of doubleplays, failing to take advantage of nine hits as well as four walks and a pair of hit batters. Teel and Leinberger each drove in runs for Sewanee, who plated single runs in the third and fourth innings.
Ashton Whiteaker hit a two-run homer to get the Scots (22-8) on the board in the third inning. Maryville plated three more runs in the fourth via one hit, one walk and three hit batters as well as an error.
Maryville starter Kaden Wimsatt allowed two runs on five hits in 4.2 innings, walking two and striking out two. The Scots used five relievers, with Johnny Ruggiero, Jr. (1-0), picking up the win with one scoreless frame. Mitchell Grannan posted his third save with a scoreless inning in the ninth, though he walked a pair before getting Teel to ground out to end the game.
Eight Sewanee pitchers tossed one inning apiece in the contest.
Holden Phillips gave up the Whiteaker homer but the Tigers tied the game in the top of the next inning.
Henry Collins (1-1) allowed three runs, one earned, on one hit to take the loss.
The Scots threatened in the first inning after a one-out double from Colin Dunworth and a walk to Whiteaker, with the runners moving to second and third on a wild pitch.
Marshall Coley got a strikeout and a groundout to end the inning for the Tigers.
Sewanee got on the board in the third inning thanks to a leadoff walk by
Alden Wright, who moved to second on a sacrifice bunt from
Owen Andress. With two outs Teel singled through the rightside, plating Wright for a 1-0 edge.
Maryville answered in the bottom of the inning when Reece Jordan walked and stole second. With one out Whiteaker homered to left, his sixth of the season, giving the home team a 2-1 advantage.
The Tigers put together a two-out rally in the fourth inning to tie the game, with Pinson singling to left and taking second on a wild pitch. Leinberger then singled to left, scoring Pinson for a 2-2 contest.
The momentum was short-lived, with the Scots answering with three runs in the bottom of the frame.
Nick Curry was hit to leadoff and moved to second on a sac bunt from Zach Devries. Brayden Evans then walked and Matt Hall followed with an RBI single to left. The runners took second and third on the throw to the plate and Jordan then grounded to third, with Evans scoring on an errant throw home by Wright.
Whiteaker and Frank Derner were both hit, forcing in a run, before Hunter Thaxton's hard liner to deep leftcenter was tracked down by
Will Jennewein to keep the score, 5-2.
The Tigers got a pair of runners on base with two outs in the fifth after a walk to
Blake Pou and
Zach Fortman was hit, but reliever Xavier Resto induced a groundout by Jennewein to end the threat.
Sewanee grounded into doubleplays in the sixth and ninth innings and had two runners on base in the eighth as well, with
Blake Pou thrown out trying to steal second and Jennewein stranded after a two-out single.
The Tigers travel to Atlanta this weekend for a three-game series against Oglethorpe beginning with a 1 p.m. ET doubleheader Saturday.
