Baseball Winning Streak Ends at 11. – Ohio State Buckeyes
4/25/1998 12:00:00 AM | Baseball
April 25, 1998
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – Penn State won the second game of Saturday’s doubleheader, 4-2, snapping an 11-game Ohio State winning streak.
After an emotional 15-11 win in game one, the Buckeyes seemed flat and were ineffective in the second contest. Mike Lockwood (So., Powell, Ohio) led off the Buckeye first with a bunt single and moved to second on the play when starting pitcher Peter Yodis fired the ball into the dirt attempting to make the out. The OSU center fielder then advanced to third base on a passed ball and scored on Dan Seimetz’s (Sr., Massillon, Ohio) RBI single to left center field, putting the Bucks up 1-0.
The Buckeyes blew the chance for a huge inning in the top of the fourth, opening the stanza with three consecutive base hits without managing a run. With the bags full of Bucks, Matt Middleton (Jr., Conover, Ohio) reached on a fielder’s choice but Seimetz was out and the plate on the force play and Mike Kremblas (Sr., Carroll, Ohio) was thrown out at home attempting to score from second. Chad Ehrnsberger (Fr., Kalida, Ohio) popped up to first base, ending the inning and a chance to blow the game open.
Penn State took a 2-1 lead in the bottom of the fifth as Eric Spadt sent his fifth home run of the year over the left center field fence, bringing in Chris Netwall on the play. Michael Campo and Chad Whitmoyer tacked on two more runs in the bottom of the sixth, both recording solo home runs off OSU starter Kurt Fullenkamp (Jr., Minster, Ohio) to move the lead to 4-1. Middleton led off the OSU seventh with a home run to left field to pull he Bucks within two but Penn State starter Peter Yodis retired the next three Buckeyes for the win. OSU is now 29-11 on the year and 13-6 in the Big Ten.
PSU evens its overall record at 21-21 and has a 9-10 conference mark. The two teams will play the final game of the series tomorrow at 1 p.m.
