The Ohio State baseball team lost both games of their two-game series vs. nationally-ranked Louisville at Bill Davis Stadium. On Tuesday night, the Buckeyes were shutout 6-0 before being handed a 10-8 setback to the Cardinals for Wednesday’s matinée.
For Tuesday’s Buck-a-Burger night in front of a season-high 2,033 fans at BDS, redshirt freshman pitcher Justin Amlung tossed five innings of scoreless ball for Louisville while allowing just four hits and no walks with four strikeouts. Two relievers finished off OSU, surrendering just one hit and a base-on-balls in the final four frames.
The Buckeyes only real threat to score came in the fifth after Ryan Dew doubled and Brian DeLucia added a single with one out. But Matt Streng hit a sharp liner right back to the pitcher, who then threw to second base to double up DeLucia that ended the inning.
Ohio State’s starting pitcher, Dean Wolosiansky, lasted four innings on the night and allowed two earned runs, three hits, one walk and four strikeouts. He retired the last eight batters he faced, but took the loss as his record dropped to 3-6.
On Wednesday afternoon, the Buckeyes lost their third consecutive game as Louisville improved their record to 38-7 with a 10-8 victory.
Ohio State catcher, Dan Burkhart, went 5-for-5 at the plate with home run and a pair of RBIs while Michael Stephens had two hits and two RBI. The Buckeyes outhit the Cardinals, 14-11, but the team also had three errors that led to five unearned runs.
Eric Shinn, a redshirt junior pitcher, made his first career start for the Buckeyes but lasted just 1.2 innings after giving up five runs (three earned) on three hits with a walk and a strikeout.
Tags: Baseball by Matt Barker, Publisher & Editor of BuckeyeBanter.com
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