The Ohio State baseball team was hoping to get a win on Sunday to make it a winning weekend in Nashville, but it wasn’t in the cards. Instead, the Buckeyes dropped a 4-2 decision to fall to 3-6 overall on the season.
The Bison got on the board first in the bottom of the 1st inning thanks to a sacrifice fly and led 1-0.
Things then remained scoreless for awhile until Ohio State’s Nick Erwin mashed a two-run homer in the top of 5th inning for a 2-1 lead. But Lipscomb grabbed the lead for good a couple of innings later in the bottom of the 7th on a squeeze and another sac fly to go up 3-2.
The Bison would add one more, and Ohio State could get nothing going on offense the rest of the way. That would be all she wrote.
Starting pitcher Griffan Smith had a solid outing on the mound, hurling six innings of six-hit ball — giving up just one earned run on five strikeouts. Unfortunately for him, the bullpen couldn’t hold the lead and the offense couldn’t crank it up anymore and he was left with a no-decision.
FINAL | Erwin flies out to right to end it. Buckeyes fall 4-2 in the rubber game. #GoBucks
— Ohio State Baseball (@OhioStateBASE) March 1, 2020
The Buckeyes will now try to turn momentum back around to the positive side of the ledger when it embarks on a three-game swing in DeLand, Florida next weekend. Friday it’ll play Stetson, followed by Harvard and Fairfield Saturday and Sunday.
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