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Baseball Suffers First Ivy Losses vs. Yale, Will Return Sunday At Brown
April 08, 2016 | Baseball
BOX SCORES: Yale 6, Princeton 3 l Yale 6, Princeton 1
Home has provided the ultimate advantage so far for the Princeton baseball team during the early weekends of the Ivy League season, though it is a trend the Tigers would love to change Sunday afternoon in Providence.
Less than one week after Princeton posted dramatic home sweeps against both Dartmouth and Harvard, the Tigers suffered their first two losses of the Ivy season during a road doubleheader in New Haven, Conn. One big inning for the Bulldogs in both games were enough to lead Yale to a 4-2 league mark in the Rolfe Division, while the Tigers fell to 4-2 in the Gehrig Division.
GAME 1
Yale starter Scott Politz scattered four hits and didn't walk a batter over a seven-inning complete-game victory for the Bulldogs, who broke a 2-2 tie with a three-run fifth inning to take control of a 6-3 win.
Following a one-out bunt single and stolen base by Nate Adams, Simon Whiteman hit a triple to leftfield to break the tie. Richard Slenker followed with a two-tun home run to left field off starter Luke Strieber, who fell to 2-3 with the loss.
Princeton junior Danny Baer recorded two of Princeton's four hits, including an RBI triple in the third inning that scored Asher Lee-Tyson for the game's first run. Baer scored on a double by Jesper Horsted later in the inning, but Yale quickly evened the score following an error-plagued bottom of the inning.
GAME 2
Princeton outhit Yale 6-5 through a mostly low-scoring second game, but Yale broke open a 2-1 lead with four runs in the bottom of the eighth inning to take control.
Tiger junior Nick Hernandez cut a two-run deficit in half in the top of the seventh inning with a home run over the right field fence. Princeton wasn't able to draw even over the next two innings, and Yale pushed across four runs after three walks (one intentional) and a pair of RBI singles. Tom O'Neill drove in two runs during the inning, one of his two hits on the day.
Princeton starter Chad Powers limited Yale to only one earned run and three hits over his seven innings, but Yale was able to get to the Tiger bullpen in the eighth to secure its fourth Ivy win of the season.
Princeton will return to the field Sunday at noon for an Ivy League doubleheader at Brown. That will be the final non-division doubleheader for the Tigers, who will begin focus on Gehrig Division play next Saturday when they begin a four-game homestand against Penn.