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Leon, Molina Lift Pirates Over Hawaii in 11 Innings
3/25/2018 6:15:00 AM | Baseball
HONOLULU, HI. – Senior Matt Leon (Bethlehem, Pa.) closed the game with three perfect innings of relief, and Al Molina (Freehold, N.J.) had four hits as the Seton Hall baseball team outlasted Hawaii, 9-8, in 11 innings on Saturday.
The game began on Friday, but was suspended with one out in the bottom of the seventh inning because of heavy rain with Seton Hall leading, 8-7. The teams picked up where they left off on Saturday with the Rainbow Warriors rallying for a run in the bottom of the eighth inning to tie the game, and eventually force extra innings.
Molina led off the top of the 11th with a double to left field, and advanced to third on a single by Mike Alescio (Fair Haven, N.J.). Junior Sebastiano Santorelli (Tuckahoe, N.Y.) then grounded into a double play, but Molina came in to score the go-ahead run.
Leon picked up the victory with three perfect innings, entering the game to begin the bottom of the ninth, and tossing three straight 1-2-3 frames.
Hawaii struck for five runs off Seton Hall starter Shane McCarthy (Fair Haven, N.J.) in the bottom of the first inning, but the senior settled in nicely thereafter as the Pirates methodically battled back from 5-2 deficit.
In the fifth inning, both teams scored a single run, so The Hall took a 6-3 deficit into the top of the sixth inning.
The Pirates proceeded to send nine men to the plate, and scored five runs on five hits to take an 8-6 advantage. The rally was started by a solo home run over the left field fence by freshman Casey Dana (Montgomery, N.Y.). Three of the next four batters singled. Runs driven in by a Hawaii error plus RBIs from Rob Dadona (Staten Island, N.Y.), Santorelli and Ryan Ramiz (Freehold, N.J.) put the Pirates in front by two runs.
The Rainbow Warriors struck back with a two-out run in the bottom of the sixth, but with an out in the bottom of the seventh, the rains came with the Pirates leading 8-7.
Inside the Numbers:
The game began on Friday, but was suspended with one out in the bottom of the seventh inning because of heavy rain with Seton Hall leading, 8-7. The teams picked up where they left off on Saturday with the Rainbow Warriors rallying for a run in the bottom of the eighth inning to tie the game, and eventually force extra innings.
Molina led off the top of the 11th with a double to left field, and advanced to third on a single by Mike Alescio (Fair Haven, N.J.). Junior Sebastiano Santorelli (Tuckahoe, N.Y.) then grounded into a double play, but Molina came in to score the go-ahead run.
Leon picked up the victory with three perfect innings, entering the game to begin the bottom of the ninth, and tossing three straight 1-2-3 frames.
Hawaii struck for five runs off Seton Hall starter Shane McCarthy (Fair Haven, N.J.) in the bottom of the first inning, but the senior settled in nicely thereafter as the Pirates methodically battled back from 5-2 deficit.
In the fifth inning, both teams scored a single run, so The Hall took a 6-3 deficit into the top of the sixth inning.
The Pirates proceeded to send nine men to the plate, and scored five runs on five hits to take an 8-6 advantage. The rally was started by a solo home run over the left field fence by freshman Casey Dana (Montgomery, N.Y.). Three of the next four batters singled. Runs driven in by a Hawaii error plus RBIs from Rob Dadona (Staten Island, N.Y.), Santorelli and Ryan Ramiz (Freehold, N.J.) put the Pirates in front by two runs.
The Rainbow Warriors struck back with a two-out run in the bottom of the sixth, but with an out in the bottom of the seventh, the rains came with the Pirates leading 8-7.
Inside the Numbers:
- Leon improved to 1-1 with the victory after three innings of perfect relief.
- Molina had a team-high four hits, going 4-for-6 with a double and two runs scored.
- Dadona went 3-for-5 with an RBI, two runs scored and a sacrifice bunt.
- Alescio reached base four times, going 2-for-4 with an RBI and two walks.
- Ramiz reached base three times, going 2-for-5 with an RBI and a walk.
- Tyler Shedler-McAvoy (Allendale, N.J.) reached base three times, going 2-for-4 with a run scored and a walk.
- Dana clubbed his second home run of the season.
- Every Pirate starter had at least one hit. Furthermore, 17 of the 18 members of the starting lineup for both teams combined collected at least one hit.
- Seton Hall had a season-high 18 hits, while Hawaii had 12. Both teams committed one error.
- Seton Hall left nine men on base, while the Rainbow Warriors left four.
- Hawaii's Dylan Thomas took the loss, allowing one run over 2.2 innings pitched.
- The victory improves the Pirates to 8-9-1 on the season, while Hawaii falls to 12-7.
- This was the first-ever baseball game between Seton Hall and Hawaii.
- Seton Hall's 18 hits are a season-high. It's the seventh time this season that the Pirates have reached double-figures in hits.
- Dana's home run is the seventh of the season for Seton Hall. He is now tied with Matt Toke for the team lead.
- This was the first extra-inning game of the year for Seton Hall.
- Today's relief appearance is the 73rd of Leon's career, which ties former Pirates Isaac Pavlik and Sam Burum for fourth on Seton Hall's career list.
- With 6.0 innings today, McCarthy moves past former Pirates Charlie Puleo and Matt Morris into ninth place on Seton Hall's career innings pitched list. He now has 257.1 innings pitched in his career.
- McCarthy made his 43rd career start today, which ranks fifth-most all-time at Seton Hall. Former Pirate B.J. Benik ranks fourth on the list with 44 starts.
- Seton Hall head coach Rob Sheppard is approaching 400 career victories. Today's win is the 395th win of his coaching career.
- Tonight was Ramiz' 150th career start.
| WINNING PITCHER | LOSING PITCHER | ||
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MATT LEON (1-1) 3.0 IP, 0 H, 0 R |
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DYLAN THOMAS (1-1) 2.2 IP, 1 R, 3 H |
| LINE SCORE | ||||||||||||||
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | R | H | E |
| SETON HALL (8-9-1) | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 18 | 1 |
| Hawaii (12-7) | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 12 | 1 |
Team Stats
Pitching:
W: Leon, Matt (1-1)
L: Thomas, Dylan (1-1)
Batting:
2B: Molina, Al 1 ; Santorelli, Sebastiano 1
HR: Dana, Casey 1
RBI: Dadona, Rob 1 ; Alescio, Mike 1 ; Santorelli, Sebastiano 2 ; Ramiz, Ryan 1 ; Dana, Casey 1
SH: Dadona, Rob 1 ; Santorelli, Sebastiano 1 ; Hood, Connor 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Dadona, Rob 2 ; Del Castillo, Christian 2 ; Molina, Al 2 ; Dana, Casey 1 ; Shedler-McAvoy, Tyler 1 ; Hood, Connor 1
CS: Dadona, Rob 1 ; Dana, Casey 1
Batting:
2B: Fogel, Adam 1 ; Ramirez, Eric 1 ; Demeter, Dustin 1
RBI: Fogel, Adam 2 ; Rios, Kekai 1 ; Ramirez, Eric 1 ; Murray, Tyler 1 ; Demeter, Dustin 3
SH: Yamazaki, Maaki 1 ; Ka'aua, Chayce 1 ; Ramirez, Eric 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Yamazaki, Maaki 1 ; Weeks, Johnny 1 ; Fogel, Adam 1 ; Rios, Kekai 3 ; Ramirez, Eric 1 ; Vchulek, Dylan 1
CS: Yamazaki, Maaki 1
HBP: Rios, Kekai 1
PO: Demeter, Dustin 1
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