Bulldog Baseball drops suspended game from February with Pomona-Pitzer

Image Credit: Adrian Williams
Image Credit: Adrian Williams

CLAREMONT, Calif. – The University of Redlands Baseball team (15-20, 7-14 SCIAC) completed their series with Pomona-Pitzer (P-P) from the end of February that was suspended in the fifth inning of game three (originally scheduled as game one before the first postponement) due to rain as they lost 12-2 after allowing eight combined runs in the seventh and eighth innings.

Back in February Jared Anderson (Gilbert, AZ) got the Bulldogs on the scoreboard first with a first inning sacrifice fly to right field that scored Luke De Vries (Irvine, CA) who doubled to lead off the game and was moved to second on a sacrifice bunt by Esteban Nakashima (Riverside, CA).

The Sagehens took the lead on a two-run single in the bottom of the second, but Ian Umscheid (Beaumont, CA) tied the game at two with an RBI-groundout that allowed Nakashima to score after he walked, advanced to second on an Anderson single, and moved to third on a sacrifice bunt from current Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SCIAC) Hitter of the Week Max Clark (Fontana, CA).

The tie did not last long as the game-winning run was scored by the Sagehens in the bottom half of the inning.

Tuesday's action resumed in the top of the fifth, but over the final three innings the offense was unable to register a hit and only an Anderson hit-by-pitch saw a Bulldog reach base as a six-run bottom of the eighth ended the game, 12-2.

De Vries, Anderson, and Jake Burgess (Riverside, CA) each had one of the three Bulldog hits. The pitching staff struggled to keep the Sagehens off the bases as they walked six batters and allowed 18 hits, though, they stranded 11 runners to keep things close until the final two innings.

The Bulldogs return to their original schedule, which will be their final series of the season against Caltech this Friday-Saturday, May 5-6 with senior day on Saturday prior to the 11:00 a.m. game.