Posted: May 27, 2021
The Youngstown State baseball team got four hits from Turner Grau but fell 7-4 to UIC in the opening round of the 2021 Horizon League Baseball Championship on Thursday at Nischwitz Stadium.
The Penguins will now play an elimination game against Milwaukee at 7 p.m. on Thursday. The game will be broadcast live on ESPN+ and YSNLive.com. Youngstown State won three of its four games against Milwaukee last week in the final series of the regular season.
Grau became the sixth Penguin to have at least four hits in a Horizon League Tournament game as he went 4-for-4. Steven D'Eusanio and Nick Caruso had two hits apiece, and YSU finished with 12 as a team. Seven different Penguins had at least one hit, and Dominick Bucko hit the game's only home run.
UIC scored twice in the first inning, and the Flames maintained the lead throughout the game as they twice answered YSU runs with scores of their own.
Four straight one-out hits in the bottom of the first inning gave the Flames an early 2-0 lead on YSU starter Colin Clark. Bryan Rosario hit a one-out single for the first hit of the game, and three straight doubles from Matt Bottcher, Joshua Figueroa and Cole Conn followed. The Penguins saved another potential run on a relay from Lucas Nasonti to Phillip Glasser to Blaze Glenn as Bottcher tried to stretch his double into a triple.
The Penguins cut their deficit in half in the top of the third with three straight hits to start the inning. D'Eusanio led off with an opposite-field double to the right-field corner, and Nick Caruso followed with a bunt single to the left of the mound to put runners at the corners with nobody out. Nasonti plated D'Eusanio on a two-strike bloop single to center to make the score 2-1, and Jeff Wehler's sacrifice bunt gave the Penguins runners at second and third with one out. UIC starter Jacob Key got a big strikeout of Phillip Glasser for the second out, and the Flames' right-hander got Bucko to bounce out back to the mound on a 3-0 pitch to end the inning.
The top of the order came through again for the Flames as they answered YSU's run in the top half of the third with two runs in the bottom of the inning. Leadoff batter Thomas Smart singled to start the inning, and Figueroa singled him in three batters later. Thomas Norton's two-out, RBI single gave the Flames a 4-1 lead.
UIC added a run with some small ball in the fourth to increase its lead to 5-1. Garrett McCarthy led off with a bunt single, stole second and advanced to third on a sacrifice bunt. Smart then brought him in with a sacrifice fly to left.
Bucko hit his team-leading ninth home run of the season to start the top of the sixth, and a double by Glenn and Grau's third single of the game followed as YSU quickly got the tying run to the plate. After a shallow pop out to right field, D'Eusanio came through with an RBI single to left field to score Glenn and cut the deficit to two. Nasonti was hit by a pitch with two outs to load the bases, but Key got Wehler to pop out to preserve the 5-3 lead.
The Flames answered again in the bottom of the inning, equaling the Penguins' output with two unearned runs to get the margin right back to four runs at 7-3. McCarthy led off with a single, and Cory Moore followed with UIC's third bunt single of the game to put two runners on with nobody out. Chad Coles came out of YSU's bullpen to get McCarthy out at third on a fielder's choice, but a fielding error by D'Eusanio at first base led to UIC's two runs. Moore scored on the error, and Smart scored on a two-out single by Figueroa.
Grau's fourth hit of the day came in the top of the seventh inning as he ripped a two-out double to plate Bucko and make the score 7-4. UIC reliever Fred Gosbeth came in with a 1-2 count on Padraig O'Shaughnessy to induce a long foul out and keep the lead at three.
Caruso hit a one-out double but was stranded at third base in the top of the eighth inning, and Gosbeth retired the Penguins in order in the ninth.
Clark allowed five runs on nine hits before handing the ball to Joel Hake with one out in the fourth. UIC's two unearned runs were scored on Conner Johnson in the sixth inning, and Chad Coles and Dalton Earich combined to get the final nine outs without allowing a run.
Key allowed all four YSU runs and worked around 11 hits and a walk in 6.2 innings. The All-Horizon League First Team pitcher was awarded his seventh win of the season. Gosbeth allowed one hit to the eight batters he faced and recorded his seventh save.
Figueroa led the Flames offensively with three hits, and UIC's two through four hitters in the lineup combined for seven hits.
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