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Bobby Zmarzlak
4
Winner Maryland UMD 30-7
3
Towson University TOWSON 9-27
Winner
Maryland UMD
30-7
4
Final
3
Towson University TOWSON
9-27
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 R H E
Maryland UMD 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 1 4 5 0
Towson University TOWSON 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 3 7 2

W: Falco Jr., David (3-0) L: MAROSE,Doug (1-1)

Game Recap: Baseball |

No. 21 Terps Win 30th Game Of Season, 4-3 At Towson

TOWSON, MD — The No. 21 Maryland Baseball team won its 30th game of the season on a chilly Tuesday afternoon at Towson, beating the Tigers, 4-3, at Schuerholz Park in 10 innings.

Reigning Big Ten Player of the Week Bobby Zmarzlak hit a game-winning home run in the 10th inning after the Tigers tied the game in the bottom of the ninth inning. It was Zmarzlak's second game-winning homer in the Terps' last four games and his third homer in four games.

Luke Shliger also homered earlier and that coupled with a strong combined effort by the Terps' pitching staff helped the Terps move to 30-7 on the season. 

Freshman Andrew Johnson started on the mound for Maryland, making his first collegiate start, pitching two innings of shutout baseball with a strikeout. Logan Ott followed with 3 ⅔ scoreless innings, allowing just two hits. Then freshman Ryan Van Buren came on to throw 1 2/3 innings, allowing one run and one hit and striking out three. David Falco pitched the final two innings to earn his third win of the season. He retired Towson 1-2-3 in the bottom of the 10th. 

After Towson had tied the game in the bottom of the ninth on a home run by Chandler Castleberry.

30 Wins!
  • Maryland continues the best start to a season in its program history in moving to 30-7 through 37 games. 
  • Maryland has now won 30 games in a season for the 10th time in its 131 seasons of baseball.
  • All 10 seasons of 30-plus wins have come in the last 20 years with the first coming in 2002 with 34 wins. 
  • Maryland won exactly 30 games last season, finishing 30-18, advancing to the NCAA Regionals. 
  • Winning 30 games in the first 37 games of the season, set a new record for the Terps earning 30 wins at the earliest point in a season. The previous earliest game was the 43rd game, done twice in 2015 and 2017, when the Terps improved to 30-13 each season. 
  • This is also the earliest date in the history of program to have the Terps win 30 games. The previous earliest date came in the 2015 season on April 26. 

Breaking Down The Action
  • Keister opened the scoring with an RBI single in the fifth, scoring Troy Schreffler Jr. after the right fielder reached on an error and advanced to second on a passed ball. 
  • Shliger followed that up with a two-run home run just two batters later, extending the Maryland lead to 3-0.
  • Towson scored two runs in the eighth inning, with both runs coming with two outs. Elijah Dickerson doubled in Jack McLaughlin, who had singled in Danny Becerra to break the shutout for Towson. Heine escaped the eighth inducing a groundout to send the game to the ninth.  
  • The Tigers tied the game at 3-3 in the bottom of the ninth with a first-pitch home run by Chandler Castleberry. 
  • Zmarzlak once again played with the hero in the top of the 10th inning.
Notable Numbers
  • 1: Andrew Johnson made his first college start in the game, he threw two scoreless innings, allowing just one hit.
  • 4: With Maryland's 30th win, they are now one of four teams in the country to have 30 wins.  
  • 5: Shliger hit his fifth home run of the season and his second in three games.  
  • 9: Ott retired nine straight batters between the third and sixth innings. 
  • 14: Schreffler saw his 14-game hit streak come to an end.
  • 15: Shaw also saw his 15-game hit streak end.
  • 17: Shliger now has 17 multi-hit games this season.
  • 57: Maxwell Costes has been hit by 57 pitches in his career, good for second all-time in Maryland baseball history. Costes now trails Kyle Convissar's 67 hit by pitch mark, set between 2011-14.  

Up Next
  • The Terps travel to Champaign, Illinois, where they'll take on the Fighting Illini for a weekend series starting on Friday, April 22, at 9 p.m. ET. 
  • Friday and Saturday's matchups air live on Big Ten Network, with Sunday's game airing live on B1G+. Maryland Baseball Network will have coverage of all three games. 
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