CMS Baseball Opens Caltech Series With 13-1 Road Win

PASADENA, Calif. - Jack Potter was 3-for-4 with two RBI and Parker McGraw allowed two hits in six innings to get the win as the Claremont-Mudd-Scripps baseball team opened a three-game series with Caltech with a 13-1 win on Friday afternoon.

With the win, CMS improves to 24-10 overall and 12-7 in the SCIAC, solidifying its position in the top four in the conference standings with five games to play. Caltech falls to 8-28 overall and 1-21 in league play with the loss. 

The Stags picked up all the runs they would need in a three-run second, before tacking on seven in the sixth and three in the seventh to enforce the 10-run rule. 

Potter led off the second with a single and went to third on a ground-rule double from Adam Dapkewicz. Rider Gordon drove home the first run of the game with a groundout, and Tyler Shaw capped off the inning with a two-run single. 

Caltech got a run back in the third, and it held there until the sixth, when the Stags were able to break it open. Dapkewicz and Gordon led off the inning with walks, and Nate Seluga loaded the bases with a single. Wild pitches plated two runs, before Shaw had a sacrifice fly for his third RBI of the game. Potter tacked on an RBI single to help make it 10-1 going in the seventh. 

With the bases loaded and two outs, Dillon Martin coaxed a walk to get the lead up to 10 runs, and after a wild pitch, Potter capped off the scoring with an RBI single. 

CMS drew 12 walks on the day, with Andrew Mazzone and Julian Sanders each being intentionally walked twice. McGraw allowed just two hits and no earned runs while striking out two. Lucas Welch finished off the game by pitching the seventh and stranding a runner on third. 

The Stags will be back in action tomorrow when they host Caltech in a doubleheader at 11 a.m., which will be played at Pomona-Pitzer's Alumni Field. It will also be Senior Day for the six players who will be playing in their final regular season weekend home games - Dapkewicz, Sanders, Shaw, Kieran Sidebotham, Jake Tracey and Pieter van Wingerden - who will be honored between games of the doubleheader.