PISCATAWAY, N.J. – Rutgers baseball beat Washington by a score of 13-4 at Bainton Field on Saturday afternoon.
The Scarlet Knights (12-15, 3-5) took an early lead over the Huskies (12-16, 5-3) and used another strong outing from Landon Mack to set up a rubber match Sunday.
Mack provided his third straight quality outing, pitching six innings and allowing three runs on six hits and one walk, striking out a career-high six.
RU was able to get to UW's starter early, loading the bases with no outs in the first. A sac fly from Jack Sweeney drove in the first run of the game and RJ Johnson Jr. followed with an RBI groundout to make it 2-0.
Pablo Santos led off the second with a triple off the wall in left-center and made it 3-0 on an RBI groundout from Yomar Carreras.
The Huskies got on the board with a solo home run in the third to make it 3-1, but the RU bats extended the lead and put the game away in the fifth.
Ty Doucette started the frame with an RBI single to score Carreras. Sweeney then singled in another to make it 5-1 and JT Thompson followed with a two-run single to push it to 7-1.
A two-run double from Trevor Cohen made it 9-1 and Thompson was hit by a pitch with the bases loaded to make it 10-1 after six.
Washington kept fighting back, scoring three in the seventh to make it 10-4. JD Jones provided the exclamation point in the eighth with a two-run single into right to push the RU advantage to 13-4.
After Mack exited following a pair of singles in the seventh, Matthew Cruz got the first two outs of the frame. When three runs crossed, Joe Mazza got the call and got the final out.
Mazza would pitch scoreless eighth and ninth innings to lock down the victory and force a rubber match Sunday.
In total, five Scarlet Knights recorded multiple hits, led by a career-high three from true freshman Yomar Carreras.
Notes
- Trevor Cohen recorded his 11th multi-hit game of the season and his sixth multi-hit game in just eight Big Ten contests.
- Ty Doucette recorded his eighth multi-hit game of the season.
- Pablo Santos recorded his seventh multi-hit game of the season.
- JT Thompson recorded his fifth multi-hit game of the season.
- Yomar Carreras recorded his fourth multi-hit game of the season.
- The Rutgers defense has not committed an error in 15 consecutive games, raising its Big Ten-best fielding percentage to .986.
Career Highs
The series finale and rubber match between Rutgers and Washington is set for 12 p.m. on Sunday and will air live on the Big Ten Network.
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