Buckeyes Close Home Schedule With Sixth Straight Victory – Ohio State Buckeyes

Tuesday, May 17

Columbus, Ohio

Ohio State

36-16-1

Eastern Michigan

20-31

Eastern Michigan

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Buckeyes Close Home Schedule With Sixth Straight Victory – Ohio State Buckeyes

5/17/2016 12:00:00 AM | Baseball

Box Score

May 17, 2016

Box Score

COLUMBUS, Ohio – The Ohio State baseball team concluded the 2016 home schedule with a 2-0 shutout win over Eastern Michigan Tuesday night at Nick Swisher Field at Bill Davis Stadium. With their sixth straight victory, the Buckeyes improve to 36-16-1 overall, while the Eagles drop to 20-31 in 2016.

“We finished up strong to close the home schedule and that’s what we wanted to accomplish tonight,” head coach Greg Beals said. “It was a trap game between two big conference series for us, but our pitching and defense were both strong tonight. It went as scripted from a pitching staff standpoint and we were able to get everybody some work to stay sharp for the big weekend ahead.”

Senior co-captain Nick Sergakis went 2-for-3 with a run scored and walk, while senior left-hander Daulton Mosbarger earned the win to improve to 2-0 and redshirt sophomore Yianni Pavlopoulos picked up his 12th save of the year.

BIG TEN SHOWDOWN IN MINNEAPOLIS UP NEXT
Ohio State concludes the regular season at first-place Minnesota (15-5) Thursday-Saturday in Minneapolis, Minn. The Buckeyes sit in third place with a 13-8 mark tied with Nebraska (13-8), who hosts second-place Indiana (15-6) this weekend in Lincoln, Neb. The Top 8 teams advance to the 2016 Big Ten Tournament held May 25-29 at TD Ameritrade Park in Omaha, Neb.

HOW IT HAPPENED
After a 1-2-3 first from Mosbarger, Ohio State scored two runs on three hits in the bottom of the first vs. 6-6 right-hander Brent Mattson. Sergakis lined a single to left field and reached third base after a stolen base and passed ball. Nennig pushed a groundball to shortstop to plate Sergakis for the first run. Ronnie Dawson followed with an infield second and stole his 16th bag of the year to reach third base safely. A Troy Montgomery infield single made it a 2-0 lead.

ON THE BUMP
Senior left-hander Daulton Mosbarger, from Bellefontaine, Ohio, gave coach Beals four solid innings on the mound, allowing just two hits on no runs with three strikeouts and no walks in his fourth start of the year. Right-hander Austin Woodby pitched one inning on no runs or hits. Right-hander Kyle Michalik tossed a scoreless sixth inning with a strikeout before right-hander Ryan Feltner pitched a scoreless seventh with a strikeout. Right-hander Seth Kinker threw tossed the eighth straight shutout frame with one strikeout and right-hander Yianni Pavlopoulos closed out the game with his 12th save of the year after a scoreless ninth.

WORTHY NOTES

Ohio State improves to 12-4 vs. Eastern Michigan, winning the last three meetings in Columbus.
The Scarlet and Gray leads the Big Ten with 36 overall wins.
The Buckeyes conclude the 2016 home slate with a 23-4 record. The 23 home wins are the most in the conference this season and fifth-most in school history.
The game tonight wrapped up a season-high 11-game homestand.
The Buckeyes have won six straight games and eight of their last 10 contests.
Ohio State is now 23-8-1 in non-conference games with a 14-1 mark at Bill Davis Stadium.
The Scarlet and Gray finish midweek play with an 8-2 record in 2016.
Ohio State stole four bags this year and is second in the Big Ten with 82 swipes.
Sergakis posted his team-best 20th multi-hit game. He leads the team with 69 hits this season and has reached base in 53 of 55 games in 2016.
Hit streaks extended: Sergakis (4).
Reached base streaks extended: Bosiokovic (10), Dawson (8), Sergakis (6) and Nennig (6).
Appearances: Mosbarger (12), Woodby (17), Michalik (15), Feltner (16), Kinker (29) and Pavlopoulos (24).
Pavlopoulos picked up his 12th save of the year, which is second-most in the Big Ten.
Kinker extended his scoreless streak to 18.2 innings.