PHILADELPHIA – Owen Coady turned in another dominant outing on the mound for the University of Pennsylvania baseball team Friday afternoon in their Ivy League opener, but two late go-ahead home runs from Harvard were the difference in a 3-2, 10-inning win for the Crimson.
QUAKER NOTEMEAL
* Coady went seven scoreless innings, striking out seven, lowering his season ERA more than three-quarters of a run.
* Two-time reigning Ivy League Rookie of the Week
Davis Baker went 2-for-3 with an RBI and a walk, pushing his team-leading batting average to .383
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Ben Miller went 3-for-5, extending his hitting streak to 12 games. Miller has increased his batting average 199 points since the start of the streak, currently sitting second on the team behind Baker at .329.
HOW IT HAPPENED
Coady worked his way into, then out of, trouble in the first, walking the game's first two batters before stranding both men on the bases.
Cole Palis drew a one-out walk in the first to get things started for the Quakers. Miller followed with a double, sending Palis to third, and Baker followed with a sac fly, scoring Palis
Coady worked his way out of another two-on, no-out situation in the second, striking out a batter looking to end the inning with runners in second and third.
The southpaw dodged trouble yet again in the third after conceding three straight two-out singles, striking out another Crimson hitter looking; Harvard left seven men on base across the first three innings.
Neither team put another runner past first base until the top of the fifth, when Coady stranded another runner in scoring position, keeping Penn in front. The Quakers put runners on first and second with one out in the sixth, but could not push an insurance run across.
In the eighth, after Coady exited, Harvard's Jake Berger greeted reliever
David Shoemaker with a two-run shot to right, sling-shotting the Crimson in front 2-1.
Penn answered back in the bottom of the inning, with a Miller and Baker double putting two in scoring position with one out.
Wyatt Henseler drove home Miller with a groundout to knot things at two.
Neither side pushed a run across in the ninth, sending the game to extras.
Carson Ozmer took over for Shoemaker and was greeted unkindly with a home run to right-center by Logan Bravo.
Miller singled and Baker walked to open the Penn 10, but a pair of strikeouts and a groundout ended the game.
Up Next
Inclement weather in the forecast has pushed back Saturday's scheduled series-concluding doubleheader to Sunday, with first pitch of Game 1 scheduled for 11:30 AM.
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