Our past few months and weeks have been consumed with Ohio State and college basketball, and rightly so. The Buckeyes got hot, then got cold, then got hot again, just in time to lose their first-round game in the NCAA Tournament.
You may have followed that at least a little, but because of all the drama, we can’t blame you if you haven’t kept up with what the Ohio State baseball team is doing. To be fair the scarlet and gray boys of summer got off to a bit of an inconsistent start, but they are now starting to find a groove.
OSU swept a very good Indiana Hoosier squad last weekend in a four-game set to jump all the way up to third place in the league, and on tap this weekend is an important three-game series on the road against one of the teams ahead of it, rival Michigan.
Game one was Friday night, and Ohio State kept on rolling, winning its fifth in a row, this time by a score of 7-4. It wasn’t easy though. The Bucks had to play comeback after Michigan jumped out to a 2-0 lead through four innings.
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Ohio State started the comeback in the top of the fifth inning when Scottie Seymour lined a triple just over the outfielder’s head and scored on a groundout to cut the lead to 2-1, followed by an RBI single by Kade Kern to tie things up at 2-2 after five innings.
Michigan would score two more runs in the bottom of the sixth to seemingly take control of the game 4-2, but the Buckeyes would come right back in the seventh inning with three more runs to take a 5-4 lead and never look back. With the win, Ohio State pulls into a tie with Michigan for second place in the league.
Ohio State would add on two more runs and win game one 7-4. The teams will be back at it again on Saturday at 2:00 p.m.