Pictured: Marcus Way
NEW HAVEN, Conn. – Harvard and Yale split
a baseball doubleheader Saturday afternoon at Yale Field with
Harvard taking the opener, 7-4, before Yale scored early and often
in a 15-1 victory in the nightcap. The teams will resume their
series on Monday afternoon.
Harvard (14-22, 7-7 Ivy League) remains 2.0 games behind
Dartmouth and Brown, which split their twinbill on Saturday. Yale
sees its record go to 17-19-1, 4-10 in the league.
In the first game, Brent Suter threw six
strong innings and the Crimson downed Yale, 7-4.
Suter struck out five batters in his six innings, giving way to
Will Keuper
with two runners on base in the seventh with Harvard leading, 7-1.
Keuper surrendered runs by the two inherited runners as well as
another with Yale before loading the bases with two outs. Marcus
Way came on from designated hitter to close things out, getting
Andrew Kolmar swinging at a 2-2 pitch for the final out.
Offensively, Sam Franklin set the
tone early with a one-out triple in the first inning that saw him
score after a throwing error. Sean O'Hara later
followed with a run-scoring triple and double during a three-hit
day. Tyler
Albright also contributed a pair of hits and a successful
suicide squeeze while also stealing a base.
While starting as the DH, Way also had two hits and a stolen
base, which put him in position to score Harvard's seventh run in
the seventh inning when he took home on a designed
1st-and-3rd play from the bench.
In game two, Yale scored seven times in the first inning en
route to an easy victory as the Crimson pitching never got on
track.
The first three Yale batters reached base in a first inning that
saw two walks, a hit batsman and an infield single followed by a
double from number nine batter Matt Schmidt. Yale batted around in
the inning while adding runs in the second, third, fourth and
seventh innings.
Yale led 13-0 before Harvard got on the board in the seventh
with a Chris
Rouches RBI single to score Albright, who had walked to lead
off.
Trey Rallis and Schmidt led Yale's 16-hit attack with three
safeties each.
Way came on in relief in the seventh inning and was the only
Crimson hurler with a scoreless appearance, striking out two
batters in 1.1 innings.
