Pirates Outlasted by ETSU in Slugfest, 17-10

Saturday, April 1

Johnson City, Tenn. / Thomas Stadium

2 p.m.

Seton Hall University

11-13

East Tennessee State

13-12

Seton Hall

ETSU

4/1/2023 6:06:00 PM | Baseball

Box Score BOX SCORE - ETSU2 (.pdf)

The teams combined for eight home runs and 38 hits.

JOHNSON CITY, TENN. – The Seton Hall baseball team belted four home runs and both Max Viera (Greenwood Lake, N.Y.) and Alex Clyde (Old Tappan, N.J.) collected three hits, but the Pirates fell at East Tennessee State, 17-10, on Saturday.

With the wind howling from right to left field, the teams combined for eight home runs with Viera, Jedier Hernandez (Trenton, N.J.), Oscar Murray (Brentwood, Calif.) and Mark McNelly (Limerick, Pa.) all hitting long-balls for The Hall. With the score tied at nine, however, ETSU put the game away with an eight-run seventh inning.

Viera again kick-started the offense, going 3-for-5 with a home run, a stolen base and two runs scored. Clyde was 3-for-4 with a double, a triple and two RBIs. Murray had a team-best three RBIs with a home run and a double.

Hernandez, Devin Hack (Somerville, N.J.) and Zack Sylvester (Montville, N.J.) also had two hits for The Hall which belted out a season-high 17 hits.

How It Happened:
Trailing 9-4, the Pirates rallied in the middle innings. Viera belted a solo shot to left field to lead off the top of the fifth. In the top of the sixth, The Hall put up a huge inning to tie the game at nine. After Will Gale (Scotch Plains, N.J.) and Viera singled, Staus Pokrovsky (Pittsgrove, N.J.) scored two runs with a single up the middle to cut The Hall's deficit to 9-7. Hernandez followed with a single, and then Clyde ripped a triple to right-center field to score two more and tie the score at nine.

With the score tied at nine, eight of the first nine ETSU batters reached base in the seventh inning. The big blast was a three-run home run by ETSU's Ashton King, his third of the day giving him eight RBI in the game.

McNelly came off the bench and blasted a solo shot in the ninth, but the Pirates couldn't get closer.

Numbers & Notes:

Seton Hall drops to 11-13 on the season and has its three-game win streak snapped, while ETSU improves to 13-12.
The Buccaneers out-hit the Pirates, 22-to-16. The Pirates' 16 hits are a season-high, as are the 22 hits for a Seton Hall opponent.
Both teams committed one error. It's the 18^th time this year that The Hall has committed one or fewer errors.
ETSU left 11 men on base, while Seton Hall left nine.
Viera went 3-for-5 with a home run, a stolen base and two runs scored.
Clyde was 3-for-4 with a double, a triple and two RBI.
Murray was 2-for-5 with a home run, a double and a team-best three RBI.
Hernandez went 2-for-5 with a home run and two runs scored.
Sylvester was 2-for-3 with a double, a walk and a run scored.
Hack was 2-for-4 with a pair of singles.
Viera is batting .429 over his last six games with two home runs and is 7-for-7 in stolen base attempts. As a team, the Pirates are batting .315 over the same stretch.
The Hall's 16 hits are the most since collecting 18 hits vs. Creighton in the BIG EAST Tournament on May 27, 2021.
Seton Hall's four home runs today are the most in a single-game since belting four at San Diego State on Feb. 25, 2017.

UP NEXT:
Seton Hall will return to action tomorrow for the rubber game of its three-game series at East Tennessee State in Johnson City, Tenn. First pitch is scheduled for 11:30 a.m.