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Blue Raiders Fall in Offensive Battle
4/8/2022 3:27:00 PM | Baseball
HUNTINGTON, W.Va – Middle Tennessee baseball dropped the first game of its weekend series to Marshall, 7-11 Friday afternoon.
As inclement weather conditions picked up late in the game, the Blue Raiders (13-15, 5-5 C-USA) collected 14 hits but could not hold off the Thundering Heard (14-16-1, 4-6 C-USA).
Mason Speirs hit his sixth home run of the season on a two-run shot to get the Blue Raiders started.
MT added one more in the third but the Herd offense came alive, scoring eight unanswered runs over the next two innings to take control at the end of the third.
The Blue Raiders nearly erased the deficit after Luke Vinson hit his first career home run in the fourth and Brett Coker drove in two more on an RBI single in the fifth to make it a 7-8 game.
Marshall, however, responded with three runs in the bottom of the sixth to score the game's final runs.
Vinson set a new career high in RBI by driving in a team-high three runs.
Coker and Fausto Lopez each finished with three hits to lead the MT offense while Speirs and Jackson Galloway recorded two hits apiece. Lopez recorded his fourth, three-hit game of the season and his ninth multi-hit game of 2022.
After 2.2 shutout innings today, including two strikeouts, James Sells extended his scoreless inning streak to 14.1.
Up Next
Middle Tennessee looks to bounce back in game two of the series Saturday. First pitch is scheduled for 12 p.m. EDT / 11 a.m. CDT
As inclement weather conditions picked up late in the game, the Blue Raiders (13-15, 5-5 C-USA) collected 14 hits but could not hold off the Thundering Heard (14-16-1, 4-6 C-USA).
Mason Speirs hit his sixth home run of the season on a two-run shot to get the Blue Raiders started.
MT added one more in the third but the Herd offense came alive, scoring eight unanswered runs over the next two innings to take control at the end of the third.
The Blue Raiders nearly erased the deficit after Luke Vinson hit his first career home run in the fourth and Brett Coker drove in two more on an RBI single in the fifth to make it a 7-8 game.
Marshall, however, responded with three runs in the bottom of the sixth to score the game's final runs.
Vinson set a new career high in RBI by driving in a team-high three runs.
Coker and Fausto Lopez each finished with three hits to lead the MT offense while Speirs and Jackson Galloway recorded two hits apiece. Lopez recorded his fourth, three-hit game of the season and his ninth multi-hit game of 2022.
After 2.2 shutout innings today, including two strikeouts, James Sells extended his scoreless inning streak to 14.1.
Up Next
Middle Tennessee looks to bounce back in game two of the series Saturday. First pitch is scheduled for 12 p.m. EDT / 11 a.m. CDT
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