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Pirates Play Long Ball for Doubleheader Sweep
5/19/2018 9:40:00 PM | Baseball
BALTIMORE, MD. – Seniors Mike Alescio (Fair Haven, N.J.) and Al Molina (Freehold, N.J.), as well as freshman Casey Dana (Montgomery, N.Y.) all hit home runs as the Seton Hall baseball team defeated Georgetown, 12-1, in game two of a doubleheader on Saturday.
The Pirate offense erupted for 12 runs and 17 hits with Alescio, Molina and Dana providing the fireworks. Molina went 3-for-5 with a home run, two RBIs and three runs scored. Alescio had a three-run home run and a hit-by-pitch. Dana had a three-run home run and a walk.
Seton Hall starter Ricky DeVito (Staten Island, N.Y.) was nearly perfect in his four innings of work, allowing just one hit, while striking out four.
Seton Hall's bats broke out in the top of the third inning. Christian Del Castillo (Miami, Fla.) and Rob Dadona (Staten Island, N.Y.) led off with back-to-back singles. After a sacrifice bunt by Sebastiano Santorelli (Tuckahoe, N.Y.) moved them both into scoring position, an infield single by Al Molina (Freehold, N.J.) drove in the first run of the game. Alescio then broke the game open with a three-run home run over the left-center field fence to give The Hall a 4-0 lead.
In the top of the fifth inning with one out, Molina belted a solo home run over the left field fence to extend the Pirates' advantage to 5-0.
After Georgetown pushed across their first run of the game against reliever Billy Layne, Jr. (Cliffwood Beach, N.J.), The Hall's offense went back to work in the top of the sixth inning. With two outs and the bases loaded, Santorelli delivered a two-run single through the right side to put Seton Hall up, 7-1. The Pirates never looked back.
Inside the Numbers:
Seton Hall will return to action on Thursday, May 24 when it begins play in the 2018 BIG EAST Championship in Mason, Ohio. The second-seeded Pirates will face third-seeded Butler. First pitch is scheduled for 6:30 p.m.
The Pirate offense erupted for 12 runs and 17 hits with Alescio, Molina and Dana providing the fireworks. Molina went 3-for-5 with a home run, two RBIs and three runs scored. Alescio had a three-run home run and a hit-by-pitch. Dana had a three-run home run and a walk.
Seton Hall starter Ricky DeVito (Staten Island, N.Y.) was nearly perfect in his four innings of work, allowing just one hit, while striking out four.
Seton Hall's bats broke out in the top of the third inning. Christian Del Castillo (Miami, Fla.) and Rob Dadona (Staten Island, N.Y.) led off with back-to-back singles. After a sacrifice bunt by Sebastiano Santorelli (Tuckahoe, N.Y.) moved them both into scoring position, an infield single by Al Molina (Freehold, N.J.) drove in the first run of the game. Alescio then broke the game open with a three-run home run over the left-center field fence to give The Hall a 4-0 lead.
In the top of the fifth inning with one out, Molina belted a solo home run over the left field fence to extend the Pirates' advantage to 5-0.
After Georgetown pushed across their first run of the game against reliever Billy Layne, Jr. (Cliffwood Beach, N.J.), The Hall's offense went back to work in the top of the sixth inning. With two outs and the bases loaded, Santorelli delivered a two-run single through the right side to put Seton Hall up, 7-1. The Pirates never looked back.
Inside the Numbers:
- DeVito allowed only one hit over four scoreless innings with four strikeouts and no walks.
- Layne, Jr. allowed only one run over four innings with four strikeouts and one walk in relief.
- Santorelli reached base three times, going 2-for-4 with a walk, a sacrifice bunt and two RBIs.
- Molina had a team-high three hits, going 3-for-5 with a home run, two RBIs and three runs scored.
- Alescio went 1-for-3 with a home run, a hit-by-pitch and three RBIs.
- Dana went 1-for-4 with a home run, a walk, two runs scored and three RBIs.
- Sophomore Connor Hood (Shrewsbury, Pa.) went 2-for-2 with a double, a sacrifice fly, an RBI and a run scored after entering in the fifth inning.
- Tyler Shedler-McAvoy (Allendale, N.J.) went 2-for-5 with an RBI and a run scored.
- Junior Dylan Verdonk (Losser, Netherlands) tossed a scoreless ninth inning with two strikeouts.
- The Pirates had 17 hits, while Georgetown had eight. Neither team committed an error.
- Seton Hall left nine men on base, while Georgetown left eight.
- Georgetown's Jeremiah Burke took the loss. He allowed four runs in four innings.
- The victory improves Seton Hall to 27-18-1 overall and 13-4 in the BIG EAST, while Georgetown falls to 25-28 overall and 8-9 in conference play.
- The Pirates' 13 BIG EAST wins are their most since the conference reconfigured prior to the start of the 2014 season.
- Seton Hall improves to 85-27 all-time against Georgetown.
- With a hit in the third inning of today's second game, Molina reached the 100-hit milestone for his career.
- Seton Hall reached double-figures in hits for the 17th time this season.
- The victory gives Seton Hall series wins against five of six BIG EAST Conference opponents in 2018.
- Seton Hall's three home runs today are a season-high and gives it 23 for the season. It's the most home runs in a season for the Pirates since belting 24 in 2008.
- With four scoreless innings today, DeVito's ERA in conference-only games is down to a BIG EAST-best 0.75. That's three earned runs in 36.0 innings pitched over six starts.
- Senior Ryan Ramiz (Freehold, N.J.) extended his season-long hit streak to nine games. It's the longest hit streak of the season for any Pirate.
- The Pirates are now 8-0 this season when scoring at least 10 runs.
- Seton Hall struck out 10 batters today. It's the 17th time this season that the Pirates have reached double-figures in strikeouts.
- After today's doubleheader, Seton Hall's team ERA is down to a season-best 3.98.
Seton Hall will return to action on Thursday, May 24 when it begins play in the 2018 BIG EAST Championship in Mason, Ohio. The second-seeded Pirates will face third-seeded Butler. First pitch is scheduled for 6:30 p.m.
| WINNING PITCHER | LOSING PITCHER | ||
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RICKY DEVITO (5-2) 4.0 IP, 0 R, 1 H |
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JEREMIAH BURKE (3-1) 4.0 IP, 4 R, 2 K |
| LINE SCORE | ||||||||||||
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E |
| SETON HALL (27-16-1, 13-4) | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 12 | 17 | 0 |
| Georgetown (25-28, 8-9) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 2 |
Team Stats
Pitching:
W: DeVito, Ricky (5-2)
L: Burke, Jeremiah (3-1)
Batting:
2B: Toke, Matt 1 ; Hood, Connor 1
HR: Molina, Al 1 ; Alescio, Mike 1 ; Dana, Casey 1
RBI: Santorelli, Sebastiano 2 ; Molina, Al 2 ; Alescio, Mike 3 ; Hood, Connor 1 ; Dana, Casey 3 ; Shedler-McAvoy, Tyler 1
SH: Santorelli, Sebastiano 1
SF: Hood, Connor 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Dadona, Rob 1 ; Molina, Al 3 ; Alescio, Mike 1 ; Villa, Chris 1 ; Ramiz, Ryan 1 ; Hood, Connor 1 ; Dana, Casey 2 ; Shedler-McAvoy, Tyler 1 ; Del Castillo, Christian 1
HBP: Alescio, Mike 1
Batting:
2B: Bernauer, Alex 1
RBI: Weisenberg, Ryan 1
SH: Stevens, Sammy 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Stevens, Sammy 1
HBP: McCabe, Eddie 1
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