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DeVito Dazzles as Pirates Blank Butler, 3-0
4/21/2018 5:33:00 PM | Baseball
INDIANAPOLIS, IND. – Sophomore Ricky DeVito (Staten Island, N.Y.) tossed eight shutout innings and senior Rob Dadona (Staten Island, N.Y.) had four hits as the Seton Hall baseball team blanked Butler, 3-0, on Saturday.
DeVito was brilliant on the mound, scattering just four hits over a career-high eight innings, striking out a career-high eight batters and walking only one to improve to 2-1 on the season. DeVito's eight innings is the longest outing of any Pirate so far this season.
Dadona went 4-for-5 with a two-run home run, his third of the season.
The Pirates got all of the offense they'd need with a single run in the top of the third inning. Connor Hood (Shrewsbury, Pa.) led off and reached on an error by the Butler shortstop. Dadona followed with a single through the rights side, and both moved into scoring position on a sacrifice bunt by Sebastiano Santorelli (Tuckahoe, N.Y.). Senior Al Molina (Freehold, N.J.) then delivered a sacrifice fly to plate Hood with the first run of the game.
In the top of the fifth, the Pirate added some insurance runs. After Christian Del Castillo (Miami, Fla.) singled through the right side, Dadona hit a two-run home run over the left field fence to put Seton Hall on top, 3-0.
Inside the Numbers:
Seton Hall will return to action tomorrow when it concludes its three-game series at Butler. First pitch is scheduled for Noon.
DeVito was brilliant on the mound, scattering just four hits over a career-high eight innings, striking out a career-high eight batters and walking only one to improve to 2-1 on the season. DeVito's eight innings is the longest outing of any Pirate so far this season.
Dadona went 4-for-5 with a two-run home run, his third of the season.
The Pirates got all of the offense they'd need with a single run in the top of the third inning. Connor Hood (Shrewsbury, Pa.) led off and reached on an error by the Butler shortstop. Dadona followed with a single through the rights side, and both moved into scoring position on a sacrifice bunt by Sebastiano Santorelli (Tuckahoe, N.Y.). Senior Al Molina (Freehold, N.J.) then delivered a sacrifice fly to plate Hood with the first run of the game.
In the top of the fifth, the Pirate added some insurance runs. After Christian Del Castillo (Miami, Fla.) singled through the right side, Dadona hit a two-run home run over the left field fence to put Seton Hall on top, 3-0.
Inside the Numbers:
- DeVito scattered just four hits over a career-high eight innings to improve to 2-1 on the season. He struck out a career-high eight batters and walked only one.
- Dadona went 4-for-5 with a two-run home run.
- Molina went 2-for-3 with a sacrifice fly and an RBI.
- Del Castillo went 2-for-4 with a run scored.
- Junior Andrew Politi (Long Valley, N.J.) pitched a perfect ninth inning with a strikeout to earn the save.
- Senior Ryan Ramiz (Freehold, N.J.) walked three times.
- Seton Hall had 10 hits, while Butler had four. Seton Hall committed no errors, while the Bulldogs had one.
- Seton Hall left eight men on base, while the Bulldogs left five.
- Butler's Sam Hubbe took the loss. He allowed three runs over 4.2 innings.
- The victory improves the Pirates to 16-14-1 overall and 4-1 in BIG EAST play, while Butler falls to 24-10 overall and 4-3 in conference games.
- Seton Hall is now 8-6 all-time against Butler.
- The win gives Seton Hall the series victory over Butler, its second straight series victory to begin BIG EAST Conference play.
- The Pirates have now reached double-figures in hits 12 times this season and three times in the last four games.
- Seton Hall has now recorded three shutouts on the season.
- With a strikeout today, Politi has reached 100 for his career.
- DeVito's eight innings pitched are a season-high for any Seton Hall starting pitcher in 2018.
- Ramiz leads the team with a .500 batting average and a .636 on-base percentage in BIG EAST Conference games.
- Dadona now has three home runs this season, which ties teammate Casey Dana (Montgomery, N.Y.) for the team lead.
Seton Hall will return to action tomorrow when it concludes its three-game series at Butler. First pitch is scheduled for Noon.
| WINNING PITCHER | LOSING PITCHER | SAVE | |||
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RICKY DEVITO (2-1) 8.0 IP, 0 R, 8 K |
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SAM HUBBE (1-1) 4.2 IP, 3 R |
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ANDREW POLITI (1) 1.0 IP, 0 R, 1 K |
| LINE SCORE | ||||||||||||
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E |
| SETON HALL (16-14-1, 4-1) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 10 | 0 |
| Butler (24-10, 4-3) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 |
Team Stats
Pitching:
W: DeVito, Ricky (2-1)
L: HUBBE, Sam (1-1)
S: Politi, Andrew (1)
Batting:
HR: Dadona, Rob 1
RBI: Dadona, Rob 2 ; Molina, Al 1
SH: Santorelli, Sebastiano 1
SF: Molina, Al 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Dadona, Rob 1 ; Del Castillo, Christian 1 ; Hood, Connor 1
CS: Ramiz, Ryan 1
HBP: Dana, Casey 1
PO: Dadona, Rob 1
Base Running:
HBP: MARGROFF, JACOB 1
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