CMS Baseball Drops Series Opener to Emory 9-3
| Final | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E | |
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Claremont-Mudd-Scripps | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 3 |
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Emory | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | X | 9 | 9 | 2 |
ATLANTA, Ga. – The Emory baseball team used a four-run fifth inning to break open a close game and take a 9-3 win over Claremont-Mudd-Scripps on Friday afternoon in the first game of a three-game series.
With the loss, CMS slips to 2-2 on the young season while Emory improves to 4-1 with the win.
CMS worked itself out of trouble in the bottom of the first inning by throwing Emory runners out on the basepaths. With runners on first and second and nobody out, William DeForest caught an Eagle runner trying to steal third, and then starting pitcher Diego Avila picked the other runner off of second. In the second inning, Marco Castillo ended a threat with runners on second and third by fielding a grounder at third and tagging the approaching runner out before a run could score.
Emory managed an unearned in the third inning off of reliever PJ Wendler, who left two runners on base by picking up a big strikeout on a full count to leave the score 1-0. After the Eagles added a second run in the fourth and had two runners on and nobody out, Wendler coaxed a popup to DeForest behind the plate, and then Castillo turned an inning-ending 5-4-3 double play.
Castillo then got CMS on the board in the top of the fifth with an RBI single. DeForest started off the inning with a walk, and then went to third on a single by Tyler Shaw. Castillo pulled a single through the left side to plate DeForest with the first CMS run and cut the Emory lead to 2-1.
The Eagles, though, broke it open with four runs in the bottom of the fifth, and built a 9-1 lead before the Stags were able to push two across in the ninth on an RBI single from Cade Kritsch and a double play.
CMS had seven different players record hits, with Kritsch, Aidan Booth and Miles Cook each finishing 1-for-1. Spencer McCann retired all three batters he faced in the ninth, while Avila allowed no runs and one hit in two innings of work as the starter.
The teams will play the second game of their three-game series tomorrow at 1 p.m. local time (10 a.m. Pacific) before concluding the series on Sunday at noon.