COLLEGE PARK, Md. – Rutgers baseball ended its series at Maryland on a strong note, winning by a decisive 14-8 scoreline on Sunday afternoon in College Park.
The Scarlet Knights (16-15, 2-4) were able to win a Big Ten series finale for the second straight weekend, using an explosive day from the offense to take down the Terrapins (19-12, 4-2).
Everyone in the RU lineup contributed, with five players registering multi-hit performances.
Ryan Lasko led the surge, picking up his second five-hit game in the last three weeks. He went 5-for-6 with a home run, two doubles, three runs scored and three RBI.
After falling behind 1-0 in the first, Rutgers responded in the second with an RBI single off the bat of
Cameron Love. While the Terps made it 2-1 the next half inning,
Maximus Martin drove in a run on a hard-hit error in the third. Lasko plated a pair with a double in the fourth to ultimately give RU the lead for good.
While Maryland got the tying run on third with less than two outs in the fourth,
John Modugno came in from the bullpen and got a weak flyout and looking strikeout the end the frame.
Another RBI single from Love and a sac fly from
Josh Kuroda-Grauer made it 6-3 in the fifth.
The Scarlet Knights exploded for six runs in the sixth to blow the game wide open. Lasko led off the frame with his second home run of the series and his third of Big Ten play, a solo shot that made it 7-3. After
Chris Brito reached second on an error, Martin drove him in with a single.
Jordan Sweeney followed with a towering two-run home run off the camera platform in dead center field. Kuroda-Grauer put the exclamation point on the inning with a two-run shot to left field that made it 12-3 and all but put the game away.
Sweeney gave the team more insurance with a two-run single in the ninth.
Wyatt Parliament pitched the fifth and sixth innings with a pair of strikeouts.
Garrett French followed with 2.2 innings and two strikeouts of his own.
Drew Conover entered the game with two outs in the ninth and punctuated the victory with a three-pitch strikeout.
Rutgers is back in action with a pair of midweek games Bainton Field against Seton Hall on Tuesday and Marist on Wednesday.
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