COLLEGE PARK, Md. – The Maryland baseball team (19-20, 6-5 Big Ten) split a marathon doubleheader day Saturday. The Terps took game one 14-8 before the Buckeyes came back from a 7-2 deficit to win game two, 10-9, in 11 innings.
What to Know (Game One)
- Maryland scored 14 runs on 20 hits, its most since April 14, 2012 in a 21-2 win over Duke. AJ Lee, Randy Bednar and Taylor Wright, who all notched four-hit games and went a combined 12-for-16, led the Terps.
- The Terps plated a pair in the first after Lee and Wright scored on a pair of passed balls. After Ohio State scored in the second, Bednar's RBI double brought home a run in the second.
- After Ohio State responded to take the lead with five runs in the third, the Terps outscored the Buckeyes 11-2 for the remainder of the game.
- Bednar's two-run triple was the big hit of a three-run fourth that also saw Wright plate Bednar on a bunt single with two down.
- Freshman Josh Maguire led off the fifth with a double and came home on Justin Vought's single. Michael Pineiro's squeeze bunt scored Vought later in the inning.
- Maguire got in on the RBI party with a single to right field that plated Bednar in the sixth.
- The Terps blew the game open in a five-run seventh. Lee singled in a run before Wright plated Lee with a double. Maxwell Costes hit a three run shot to centerfield to make it 14-7.
- Ohio State's final two runs came in the sixth and the ninth.
- Senior Hunter Parsons started the game for Maryland and earned his seventh win of the season, tossing six innings. Sean Fisher earned his first career save, tossing the final three inning of the ballgame.
What to Know (Game 2)
- Maryland jumped out to a 7-2 lead, but Ohio State came back to tie it on two separate occasions before sending the game to extra innings and winning in the 11th.
- The Buckeyes hit a pair of solo homers in the first to open the scoring before Maryland responded with five in the second.
- Lee doubled down the left field line to score Tommy Gardiner before Wright double in Lee and Bednar. Costes hit his second homer of the day, a two-run shot to make it 5-2.
- The Terps added two more in the third on an RBI single from Lee and a run coming in on a wild pitch.
- Caleb Walls hit a solo homer in the fifth, but Ohio State began to inch back into the game, scoring solo runs in the fourth and sixth before exploding for four runs in the eighth to tie the game.
- The Terps retook the lead in the bottom half. Pineiro came in to score on a Wright infield single to make it 9-8. Ohio State then scored off Maryland closer John Murphy to send the game to extra innings.
- The Terps stranded the bases loaded in the bottom of the tenth before Ohio State's Brent Todys hit a solo homer that won the game for the Buckeyes.
Other Stuff
- Between the two games, Maryland had four four-hit games. Pineiro had a career day in game two, going 4-for-5 with a run scored. The Terps had 36 total hits for the two contests.
- AJ Lee and Justin Vought have both reached base in 14 consecutive games, tied for the team lead.
- Maxwell Costes has 10 multi-RBI games this season, the same amount his brother Marty had in his freshman campaign. That family can play some baseball.
- Current Toronto Blue Jays starting pitcher Marcus Stroman played third base for Duke in that game. The more you know!
- Shoutout to AJ Lee's family bringing that cowbell. That was electric.
Up Next
Maryland and Ohio State complete their series Sunday at 1 p.m. Maryland Baseball Network will have the coverage, via the MIXLR App. That's the MIXLR App, M-I-X-L-R.
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