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Notre Dame Baseball looks to end 3-game losing steak as they host Northwestern

We’ll have to wait until tomorrow

It was not the weekend the Irish baseball team envisioned, as Louisville swept them on the road during the weekend. The great part about baseball is that games are played very regularly, so the bitter taste can be erased from Notre Dame’s mouth.

The were supposed to get that opportunity tonight, but they will have to wait until Wednesday as the game has been moved. First pitch is scheduled for 4:30pm EST as the Irish will send lefty Jack Findlay to the mound at Frank Eck Stadium.

It should be the end of the current 3-game losing streak, as the Irish are currently 3-0 against the Big Ten and have been spectacular at home against non-conference foes during Link Jarrett’s tenure, going 17-6.

Hopefully, this is the first game of another winning steak for the Irish, as they will play their next five games without having to travel outside of South Bend.

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Ohio State baseball drops final game of season to Northwestern

The Ohio State baseball team dropped the final game of its 2021 season Sunday against Northwestern.

The 2021 Ohio State baseball season has come to a close, and it was in a nondescript fashion, losing to Northwestern 8-2 on Sunday to conclude the three-game weekend series. The good news is that OSU still took two out of three to finish the season with a 21-20 winning record. The bad news is that Ohio State didn’t do nearly enough to continue on into the postseason.

But back to the action on Sunday.

Northwestern didn’t take long to plate a run, smashing a home run in the top of the first inning to take a quick 1-0 lead. The Buckeyes answered right back in the bottom of the first to tie things at 1-1 when Connor Pohl brought home Zach Dezenzo on an RBI single.

But that would be all that OSU could muster until the seventh inning, as the Wildcats pitching stymied most of the Buckeye threats the rest of the way. Meanwhile, the Northwestern offense got two runs in the second, two in the third, two more in the sixth, and one more in the ninth inning. The Buckeyes scrapped together one more run in the seventh inning, and that was all she wrote, a final 8-2 score.

Time to turn the page and hope for better in 2021 for the Ohio State baseball team.

 

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Ohio State baseball team wins game two of weekend series against Northwestern

The Ohio State baseball team used some solid pitching to win the second of a three-game series against the Northwestern Wildcats Saturday.

After winning a wild one on Friday 13-10, the Ohio State baseball team backed it up by winning a lower scoring affair 4-1 against Northwestern on Saturday evening.

It all started on the mound for the Buckeyes with junior right-hander Garrett Burhenn. He went six innings, allowing just one run on five hits, and struck out 11 batters. It was Burhenn’s second-straight brilliant performance on the mound for the scarlet and gray.

There wasn’t much offense, but the Buckeyes jumped on the board first when Marcus Ernst was hit by a pitch with the bases loaded in the bottom of the first to give OSU a 1-0 lead.  Ohio State struck again in the bottom of the third inning when Zach Dezenzo hit his third homer of the weekend, a solo shot to extend the lead to 2-0.

Northwestern would get its lone run in the fourth inning on a single and a double, but that was all the offense the Wildcats would be able to muster, as the OSU bullpen nailed things down for the final three innings. Colton Bauer delivered the remaining two runs with a clutch two-run single in the bottom of the sixth to score Marcus Ernst and Brent Todys. That would result in the final 4-1 score.

The win boosts the Buckeyes record to 21-19 and assures a winning record for the season. Ohio State and Northwestern will finish up the three-game series at 2:05 p.m. Sunday.

 

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Ohio State baseball wins wild, high scoring affair against Northwestern

The Ohio State baseball team erased a five-run deficit and came back to win a wild, high-scoring affair against Northwestern Friday night.

The Ohio State baseball season is winding down and the Buckeyes are looking to finish strong. So far so good in game one of its final weekend series vs. Northwestern. It was a wild, high-scoring affair that was about as entertaining as you’ll find, and the Buckeyes did it in come from behind fashion.

The Wildcats jumped out to a 5-0 lead after some weather threatened to kill things all together on a cloudy, blustery day in Columbus. They jumped all over OSU starter Seth Lonsway who was uncharacteristically wild, plating five runs in the top of the first inning, three coming on a home run by David Dunn.

But the Buckeyes would strike back a couple of innings later with a four-spot of their own. Archer Brookman got Ohio State off and running on a two-run homer. Then in the bottom of the fourth inning, Zach Dezenzo hit a three-run bomb into a stiff wind to tie the game at 7-7 and the Buckeyes officially erased a five-run deficit.

But things wouldn’t end there. In the very next inning (the fifth), the Buckeyes would plate two more runs on a double by Colton Bauer and an RBI single by Brookman, and OSU had officially taken the lead for the first time and got out of the inning up 9-7.

Dezenzo would strike again with another three-run homer in the bottom of the seventh inning to extend OSU’s lead to 13-7 and it looked like the Buckeyes would cruise.

However, Northwestern managed to score three more runs in the eighth inning and actually had the tying run on before Patrick Murphy shut the door for a 13-10 Ohio State victory.

With the win, Ohio State improves its record to 21-19. The Buckeyes are next in action against Northwestern again Saturday at 7 p.m.

 

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