Buckeyes Drop Game to Cardinals – Ohio State Buckeyes

Saturday, June 4

Louisville, Ky.

Ohio State

44-19-1

Louisville

49-12

Ohio State

Louisville

Buckeyes Drop Game to Cardinals – Ohio State Buckeyes

6/4/2016 12:00:00 AM | Baseball

Box Score

June 4, 2016

Box Score

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – The Ohio State baseball team found itself in a big third-inning hole that it could not recover and ended up losing a winners bracket NCAA Tournament game to host and No. 1 seed Louisville, 15-3, in front of 4,058 fans. The teams waited through a short 10-minute rain delay at 5:23 p.m. ET in the bottom of the third with the Cardinals leading, 10-0, at Jim Patterson Stadium. A second delay occurred in the top of the sixth at 6:42 p.m. ET due to severe weather in the area. The contest resumed again at 7:33 p.m. ET.

Ohio State, 44-19-1, now plays Wright State, 45-16, for the second time this weekend in a Noon ET elimination game Sunday. The winner will face the Cardinals at 4 p.m. ET Sunday in the first championship Regional game. Both games will be shown on ESPN3. Louisville starter Brendan McKay struck out 10 and received the win to improve to 12-3, while left-hander John Havird dropped to 6-4 in 2016.

HOW IT HAPPENED
A two-out walk came back to bite the Buckeyes in the bottom of the first. With a runner on first, McKay took a 1-2 pitch vs. his counterpart over the wall in right center for a two-run home run and give the UL starter an early 2-0 cushion. Montgomery was the first Buckeye to reach base in the top of the second, but was left stranded after a strikeout by McKay before Washington lined out to left center. Havird left a runner on second in the bottom half of the second. Ohio State had a runner on in the top of the third, but McKay struck out his sixth batter of the game to keep it a two-run deficit.

Louisville tacked on eight runs in the bottom half of the third to open up the game, 10-0. The Cardinals knocked in a third run in the on a RBI single by McKay and no down. A RBI double by Devin Hairston pushed a fourth run home before a passed ball made it 5-0. Louisville scored for the sixth time on a RBI double by Blake Tiberi. A two-run home run by Danny Rosenbaum ended Havird’s day on the mound and was relieved by Austin Woodby with no down on the board. A one-out RBI single pushed the lead to nine. After a RBI single made it 10-0, the game was suspended due to a rain showers.

In the fourth, the Buckeyes loaded the bases, but a called strike three ended the chance. The Cardinals scored three runs in the bottom half. Ohio State had a runner on in the fifth, but a diving catch by Louisville center fielder Logan Taylor robbed Ronnie Dawson for extra bases and retired the side. A RBI grounder in the bottom of the fifth made it 14-0.

In the sixth, Jacob Bosiokovic knocked a two-out single before Jacob Barnwell hit a RBI double to the gap in left center to put runners on second and third. The severe weather delay followed until play after a 51-minute delay. Louisville reliever Shane Hummel fanned one hitter to leave the OSU runners stranded.

In the eighth, Daulton Mosbarger homered down the right field line to put the Buckeyes on the board on a two-run shot. It was his first dinger as a Buckeye. In the ninth, Dawson lined a single off the wall in right before being pushed home by a RBI single by Mosbarger.

ON THE MOUND
It wasn’t Havird’s day on the mound for the Scarlet and Gray. He gave up eight runs, eight earned, on eight hits with two walks and a strikeout in 2.0 innings of work. It was his shortest outing of the season. Woodby pitched the next two innings and allowed five runs on eight hits, three walks and one strikeout. Left-hander Joe Stoll threw the final four innings and limited the Cardinal bats to one run on three hits with three strikeouts and one walk.

WORTHY NOTES

Ohio State is 4-12 all-time vs. the Cards.
The Buckeyes are 43-40 all-time in the NCAA Tournament and 1-1 under head coach Greg Beals.
Ohio State has a program-record 100 stolen bases this season.
Hit streaks extended: Dawson (14), Bosiokovic (8) and Montgomery (5).
Reached base streaks extended: Dawson (20), Kuhn (11), Nennig (11), Bosiokovic (8) and Montgomery (5).
Mosbarger homered for the first time as a Buckeye. It was his first multi-RBI game of the year. He posted a season-high three RBI.
Barnwell recorded his second double of the season in his 14th appearance.
Other reached base streaks ended: Sergakis (8).
Appearances: Havird (16), Woodby (19) and Stoll (12).
Stoll tied his career-high with four innings pitched and three strikeouts.
A moment of silence occurred before first pitch in memory of sports legend and great humanitarian Muhammad Ali, who passed away last night. Ali, a native of Louisville, made countless contributions to the Louisville community and directly to the University of Louisville baseball program. The flag at Jim Patterson Stadium was lowered to half-staff in his honor.