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BOX SCORE
PHOTO GALLERY (Photos by Olivia
Walter)
INDIANAPOLIS - The Butler baseball team
pounded out 19 hits and broke the game open with seven runs in the
bottom of the 8th in a 16-5 win over Taylor Tuesday afternoon. Mike
Hoscheit went 3-for-6 with three runs and two RBIs to lead the
Bulldogs. Kyle Kramp
started on the mound and picked up his first career win.
Kyle
Waggoner, Zach Sizemore, Marcos
Calderon and Andrew
Eckhardt each had two hits for the Bulldogs. Michael
Letzter also went 2-for-4 with a home run in the 1st inning and
two RBIs. Four different BU hitters had two RBIs each.
An RBI groundout by Grant
Fillipitch and Letzter's solo shot to left gave Butler a 2-1
lead after one innings. The Dawgs added another in the bottom of
the 2nd and three more in the 3rd to lead 6-3.
After Taylor's Ryne Otis homered in the top of the 4th to make
it 6-4, Butler answered with three runs in the bottom of the 5th.
Hoscheit smacked in RBI double to left-center, and he scored on a
double down the left-field line by Calderon. Now with an 8-4 lead,
Butler continued to attack offensively. Brian
Padove roped a line drive base hit to score Calderon, giving
the Bulldogs a 9-4 lead.
Butler led 9-5 late in the game before going off for seven in
the 8th. The inning featured five Butler hits and two errors by
Taylor. Bob
Akin and Patrick Guinane
had RBI singles and Sizemore finished the scoring at the end of the
inning with a two-run single to center.
Kramp (1-0) threw 4.0 effective innings for the victory. He
scattered five hits and struck out three. The biggest moment for
the right-hander came in the top of the 3rd. Two hits, a walk and
an error loaded the bases for Taylor with nobody out. Kramp got
TU's Austin York to fly out to shallow left before inducing a 4-6-3
double play ball to end the inning.
Dom
Silvestri worked 4.0 innings and picked up the save. He allowed
just one run, no walks and struck out six.
Butler (4-4) is set for a seven-game swing in Florida from March
13-19. BU's next day of action is Sunday, March 13 when it takes on
Minnesota-Duluth and Mt. Marty College.
