The Ohio State baseball team has been on a tear recently, but it has a bit of a speed bump against Michigan over the last two contests. After taking Friday’s three-game weekend series opener, OSU lost Saturday’s foray into its rival’s home field 7-0, then came back today and lost by a score of 16-7.
The offense was unstoppable for the Wolverines. They raced out to a 7-1 lead and never looked back. The Buckeyes tried to claw their way back into the game by cutting the score to 7-3 after the top of the eighth inning, but then Michigan exploded for nine runs in the bottom of the inning. The Wolverines finished the game with sixteen hits.
With the loss, Ohio State drops to 13-9 to fall two games behind Michigan and 2.5 behind first-place Nebraska. Despite the series loss, the Buckeyes have found some momentum and put themselves in position to make a run for a Big Ten title at the halfway point of the season.
Ohio State is now at the half-way point of the 2021 season and the Big Ten championship race is wide open, and critically important with no Big Ten tournament this year. Ohio State next travels to College Park, Md., next week for a three-game series against the Terrapins.
— Ohio State Baseball (@OhioStateBASE) April 11, 2021
Next up is a three-game weekend series at Maryland beginning on Friday.
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