Saturday, March 17
Stillwater, Okla.
2:00 PM
Seton Hall University
7-9
2
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14
Missouri State
11-5
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Seton Hall
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Missouri State
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14
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Ramiz Excels, But Pirates Fall to Missouri State
3/17/2018 7:05:00 PM | Baseball
STILLWATER, OKLA. – Senior Ryan Ramiz (Freehold, N.J.) collected three hits, but the Seton Hall baseball team fell to Missouri State, 14-2, on Saturday in Stillwater.
Missouri State wasted little time in getting on the scoreboard. With one out in the bottom of the first inning, the Bears' Jeremy Eierman hit a solo home run over the center field fence to put Missouri State on top, 1-0.
In the bottom of the third inning, Missouri State took advantage of the Pirates' lack of control. Seton Hall starter Andrew Politi (Long Valley, N.J.) issued a walk and allowed a single, before handing the ball to reliever Blake Espinal (Bronx, N.Y.). Espinal hit a batter to load the bases with no outs, and then walked in two runs sandwiched around a strikeout, to give the Bears a 3-0 lead. He gave way for freshman Ryan McLinskey (Pearl River, N.Y.), who promptly stranded three base-runners by getting a pop out and a strikeout to retire the side.
Trailing 6-0, sophomore Christian Del Castillo (Miami, Fla.) drove in the Pirates' first run in the top of the sixth inning with a two-out RBI single.
Missouri State tacked on four more runs in the bottom of the sixth to take a commanding 10-1 advantage.
Inside the Numbers:
Seton Hall will return to action tomorrow when it faces Oklahoma State in Stillwater, Oklahoma. First pitch on Friday is scheduled for 1:00 p.m. ET.
Missouri State wasted little time in getting on the scoreboard. With one out in the bottom of the first inning, the Bears' Jeremy Eierman hit a solo home run over the center field fence to put Missouri State on top, 1-0.
In the bottom of the third inning, Missouri State took advantage of the Pirates' lack of control. Seton Hall starter Andrew Politi (Long Valley, N.J.) issued a walk and allowed a single, before handing the ball to reliever Blake Espinal (Bronx, N.Y.). Espinal hit a batter to load the bases with no outs, and then walked in two runs sandwiched around a strikeout, to give the Bears a 3-0 lead. He gave way for freshman Ryan McLinskey (Pearl River, N.Y.), who promptly stranded three base-runners by getting a pop out and a strikeout to retire the side.
Trailing 6-0, sophomore Christian Del Castillo (Miami, Fla.) drove in the Pirates' first run in the top of the sixth inning with a two-out RBI single.
Missouri State tacked on four more runs in the bottom of the sixth to take a commanding 10-1 advantage.
Inside the Numbers:
- Ramiz went 3-for-4 with an RBI and a stolen base.
- Del Castillo went 2-for-4 with an RBI.
- Senior Rob Dadona (Staten Island, N.Y.) reached base three times, going 1-for-3 with two walks.
- Seton Hall had seven hits, while Missouri State had nine. The Bears committed one error, while the Pirates had none.
- Seton Hall left 10 men on base, while the Bears left 12.
- Politi fell to 0-4 on the season with the loss. He allowed three runs in two innings.
- Missouri State's Ty Buckner allowed only one run over six innings to pick up the victory.
- The loss drops the Pirates to 7-9 on the season, while Missouri State improves to 11-5.
- This was the first-ever meeting between Seton Hall and Missouri State.
- Ramiz is the Pirates' hottest hitter over the last six games. After batting just .121 through the season's first 10 games, he has batted a team-best .476 over the last six.
- Freshman Sean Miller (Newton, N.J.) made his collegiate debut on the mound.
- Seton Hall committed no errors for the second time this season, and the second time in the last three games.
- Missouri State's 14 runs are a season-high for runs allowed by Seton Hall.
Seton Hall will return to action tomorrow when it faces Oklahoma State in Stillwater, Oklahoma. First pitch on Friday is scheduled for 1:00 p.m. ET.
| LINE SCORE | ||||||||||||
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E |
| SETON HALL (7-9) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 0 |
| Missouri State (11-5) | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 3 | X | 14 | 9 | 1 |
WINNING PITCHER: Ty Buckner (1-2) LOSING PITCHER: Andrew Politi (0-4)
Team Stats
Pitching:
W: Buckner,Ty (1-2)
L: Politi, Andrew (0-4)
Batting:
RBI: Ramiz, Ryan 1 ; Del Castillo, Christian 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Molina, Al 1 ; Alescio, Mike 1
SB: Ramiz, Ryan 1
HBP: Alescio, Mike 1
Batting:
2B: Duffy,Jack 1
HR: Eierman,Jeremy 1 ; Faith,Sam 1
RBI: Eierman,Jeremy 1 ; Millas,Drew 1 ; Whetstone,Ben 2 ; Steinmetz,Hunter 1 ; Duffy,Jack 3 ; Brown,Matt 2 ; Faith,Sam 2 ; Skalnik,Ryan 2
SF: Whetstone,Ben 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Privitera,John 2 ; Eierman,Jeremy 4 ; Millas,Drew 3 ; Steinmetz,Hunter 1 ; Duffy,Jack 2 ; Faith,Sam 1 ; Skalnik,Ryan 1
HBP: Whetstone,Ben 2 ; Duffy,Jack 1 ; Skalnik,Ryan 1
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1
RBI
0
ph/lf
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2
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0
H
1
RBI
0
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