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Ohio State baseball’s Zach Dezenzo selected in 12th round of MLB draft by Houston Astros

The Buckeye baseball captain has been taken off the board in the MLB draft. #GoBucks

The Ohio State baseball team saw one of its stars go off the board in the 2022 MLB draft. Senior captain Zach Dezenzo was selected by the Houston Astros with the No. 373 overall pick in the 12th round Tuesday.

Out of Alliance, Ohio, Dezenzo put together one whale of a season in 2022. He hit .319 and tied the Ohio State single-season home run record with 19. He also led the team with 54 runs scored and finished second on the club with 66 hits, just one shy of tying for the lead.

Dezenzo also notched 18 doubles, 2 triples, and 54 runs batted in, all while slugging .700 with an on-base percentage of .413. He was a second-team All-Big Ten performer, beginning the season at first base because of elbow soreness before moving back to his natural shortstop position in April.

Dezenzo is the program’s 112th MLB selection. According to a release from Ohio State, he is the fifth Buckeye taken by the Astros, joining Roy Marsh in 1994, J.B. Shuck in 2008, and then Pat Porer and Ronnie Dawson who were taken in back-to-back years in 2015 and 2016.

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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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Dezenzo’s walk-off caps Ohio State baseball’s four-game weekend sweep of Indiana

Ohio State used a dramatic walk-off single by Zach Dezenzo to polish off a four-game weekend sweep of the Indiana Hoosiers.

You may be just now coming out of a fog from Ohio State hoops season, and if so, it’s time to get caught up on what the Buckeye baseball team is doing. It’s a good time to get on board because the squad just polished off a four-game weekend sweep of Indiana.

Going into the weekend, OSU had been experiencing an up and down season, compiling an 8-7 record, good for middle of the pack in the conference. That all changed this weekend though when OSU put together a four-game sweep winning the first game on Friday 3-2, taking a doubleheader on Saturday by scores of 5-2 and 6-0, then wrapping up a highly successful weekend with a 4-3 win in dramatic fashion Sunday.

Sunday’s game was epic. Indiana got on the board first with a misplayed ground ball in the top of the fourth. Ohio State then knotted things up with a sacrifice fly in the bottom of the sixth by Kade Kern before the Hoosiers got two more in the top of the eighth on two doubles and an error to go up 3-1.

That would only set the stage for all the drama in the late innings for the Buckeyes. OSU would get a quick two more back in the bottom of the 8th inning thanks to two RBI singles by Connor Pohl and Kade Kern to tie the score again at 3-3 as things headed to the 9th.

Indiana couldn’t get anything going in its half of the inning, and OSU would take advantage in the bottom. Nick Erwin would draw a one-out walk, followed by a single Sam Wilson. That’s when Zach Dezenzo served the walk-off RBI single into left field to polish off the sweep for Ohio State.

Queue the celebration.

With the win, the Buckeyes improved their record to 12-7 and vaulted all the way into third place in the league, just a game and a half behind both Michigan and Nebraska.

Ohio State is next in action with a four-game set against Illinois in Greenville, South Carolina this weekend. It might be time to take notice.