Box Score
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – The Bulldogs snapped a four-game skid on Wednesday night by defeating Indiana by the final score of 7-5. Butler enjoyed a 5-0 lead before a four-run fifth inning from the Hoosiers. In the end, Butler would notch seven runs off 14 hits to earn the victory.
Zach Jarosz,
Garrett Christman and
Michael DiViesti would combine for nine of Butler's 14 hits with each student-athlete posting three against the Hoosiers. Two of Christman's three hits went down as a double and DiViesti led the club with three RBI.
Sam Hubbe got the start for BU and tossed the opening 4.2 innings of action. His exit would move the win to
Josh Walker, his second of the season. Additional arms to see work today included
Ottavio Dattolo and
Chris Myjak. Dattolo threw a perfect eighth inning as the setup man and Myjak came up big with his eighth save of the year.
Butler took advantage of two wild pitches in the first inning to grab a 1-0 lead.
Tyler Houston walked to reach base and would move into scoring position after
Michael Hartnagel's single. The base knock moved Hartnagel's hitting streak to 19-straight games, one shy of his personal-best and five shy of tying the school record.
The Bulldogs doubled their lead in the second inning after an RBI single from Jarosz. The scoring spree would continue in the third with Christman scoring an unearned run. The BU third baseman hit a double down the leftfield line with two outs in the inning. His brother
Connor Christman would follow him in the order as the designated hitter and reach base on a throwing error. Garrett would round third base and score on the bad throw.
The fifth inning was the most exciting as the two teams combined for six runs and seven hits. Christman returned to the dish to haunt the Hoosiers with his second double of the game that would score Lucio all the way from first base. DiViesti would post his first RBI of the game with a single to left that would score Christman for the 5-0 lead.
Indiana would answer with four runs off three hits. There was a costly BU error in the mix making three of the four runs scored against Hubbe unearned. Lloyd, Dedelow, and Gorski would all pick up RBIs in the inning.
The slim 5-4 BU lead would hold until the ninth inning. Indiana made a pitching change at the start of the ninth putting BJ Sabol in the contest for Foote.
Jordan Lucio would take a pitch into right center to lead off the inning with a double. A sac bunt would put Lucio on third, but a strikeout would follow giving the Hoosiers two outs.
The very next at-bat would help Butler hang on for the victory as DiViesti delivered a two-run homerun with two outs in the ninth. IU made things interesting in the bottom half, but Myjak would strike out Dedelow to end the game as preserve the win.
Butler will return to action this weekend with a three-game road trip at Xavier.
