Baseball Drops Game One to Cincinnati, 3-1
5/14/2011 12:00:00 AM | Baseball
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CINCINNATI, OHIO - Cincinnati scored two unearned runs in the bottom of the first and an insurance run in the fifth to slip past the Seton Hall baseball team, 3-1, in game one of Saturday's doubleheader at Marge Schott Stadium.
First pitch was delayed 10 minutes due to weather and field preparation, but the Pirates bats were alive in their half of the first inning.
Zack Granite (Staten Island, N.Y.) drilled a lead-off double down the left field line, moved to third base on a successful sacrifice bunt by Mike Genovese (Livingston, N.J.) and scored one batter later when Sean Gusrang (Burlington, N.J.) ripped a single up the middle.
The Pirates, however, lost the momentum in the bottom of the first inning when the Bearcats plated two unearned runs on no hits. Chris Peter's led off the frame with a walk and Justin Glass drew a one-out walk. As both players broke from their respective base attempting a double steal, Seton Hall catcher Frank Esposito (Staten Island, N.Y.) threw down to third base, but third baseman Giuseppe Papaccio (Nutley, N.J.) mishandled the throw allowing Peters to score the tying run.
With two outs and Glass on third, Justin Riddell drew the third walk allowed by Pirates' starter Joe DiRocco (East Hanover, N.J.) of the inning. Riddell then attempted to steal second base drawing a throw from Esposito, which was cut off by shortstop A.J. Rusbarsky (Freehold, N.J.) ahead of the second base bag. Peters started for home on Esposito's throw and beat the return throw from Rusbarsky by sliding under the tag of the Pirate's catcher for the, 2-1, lead.
Nic Spence would add an insurance run in the bottom of the fifth with an RBI single to give starting pitcher Zach Isler (5-2) all the run support he would need. The right-hander ended his day with a complete game surrendering one run on six hits striking out two.
DiRocco (6-1) suffered his first loss of the season allowing only three runs, one earned, on one hit - a single to left field by Jake Saylor in the bottom of the fourth - and eight walks.
Henry Warner (Gladstone, N.J.) relieved DiRocco by tossing four scoreless innings yielding three hits.
