PHILADELPHIA, Pa. – Pitching took center stage as the Bulldogs took a split of a doubleheader at Penn on Saturday.
Yale allowed one run in two games today. The Bulldogs won the first game 4-0, and dropped game two 1-0.
Reid Easterly tossed seven scoreless innings in game one to earn the victory.
AJ Gaich scored two runs including the first run of the game on a
Jimmy Chatfield double.
Team captain
Carson Swank doubled home
Alec Atkinson in the second.
Davis Hanson was involved in Yale's last two runs in the eighth.
Hanson executed a safety squeeze to score Gaich, who singled to lead off the inning. Later in the inning, Hanson was a part of a double steal in which he stole second and Chatfield advanced home.
The four runs held up. Easterly finished with five strikeouts, four hits allowed and three walks to earn his third victory in conference play.
Mark Capell got one out in the eight and
Josh Richardson pitched the final 1.2 innings to earn the save.
In game one,
Colton Shaw pitched eight scoreless innings and struck out five while only allowing two hits against the top hitting team in the conference. Shaw lowered his ERA against Ivy League teams to 1.93 in 37.1 innings.
Yale had its chances late in the game. The Bulldogs had runners on in the sixth, seventh and eighth.
In the sixth, Gaich dropped a bunt single and with two out Chatfield worked out a walk but the Bulldogs could not plate a run. Gaich had two of Yale's four hits in game two.
Penn scored the lone run of the game in the bottom of the ninth on a wild pitch. The two teams close out the series tomorrow with a single game beginning at 12 p.m.
