The Ohio State baseball beat Penn State on Saturday by the score of 7-0 to clinch the weekend series. The Buckeyes took care of business on Friday night with a lot of offense en route to an 11-6 victory, and used a whole lot of pitching from Seth Lonsway to win Saturday.
The OSU ace went seven innings, giving up just three hits and two walks while striking out six. He slung a cool, even 100 pitches on the day to notch his second win of the year.
On offense, the Buckeyes broke out the bats for the second-straight time. They jumped on Penn State starter Conor Larkin for three runs in the first inning. Mitchell Okuley walked, advanced to third on a single by Zach Dezenzo, and later scored on Kade Kern’s single to center. Then with one out, Brent Todys lofted a sacrifice fly to score Dezenzo, and Kern later scored on a wild pitch.
The score stayed that way until the fifth inning when Nick Erwin tripled, then scored on a sac fly by Okuley to extend the lead to 4-0 for OSU. The Buckeyes got two more the next inning on two doubles, one by Todys, and another by Marcus Ernst, and Ohio State was up by a commanding 6-0 lead after six innings of play.
OSU would add one more run on a bases-loaded walk in the eighth inning for the final tally of 7-0.
Buckeyes win Game 2 of the series and have now won 7 in a row at home.#GoBuckeyes pic.twitter.com/T0qA2ijHLn
— Ohio State Baseball (@OhioStateBASE) April 24, 2021
With the win, the Buckeyes run their record to 15-12 on the season and remain in fifth place in the league, just one game behind the Iowa Hawkeyes for fourth. Ohio State and Penn State will do battle for the last game of the series on Sunday at 1 p.m. at Bill Davis Stadium.
Time to break out the brooms.
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