Tigers Fall In Second Game At Emory

Atlanta, GA – The Wittenberg Tiger Baseball team dropped their final game of the two-game set with the Emory Eagles, 6-4. Posting eight hits to the Eagles 12 on the day. The two sides were squaring off, trading runs and holding the other side scoreless on the defensive side when it mattered.

After a scoreless first two innings of action, Wittenberg was the first to show signs of life, plating two runs in the top of the third. Emory responded with two runs of their own in the bottom half of the inning.

It was alert baserunning by Wittenberg that pushed the first Tiger run across, taking advantage of the failed pickoff attempt to second base, sending Maxwell Monachino to third and scoring Ian Ash. With Monachino lingering on third, Luke Thomas drove in the second Wittenberg run with a single up the middle to add to the Tiger lead.

The fourth, fifth and top of the sixth would play out without either team pushing a run across, maintaining the 2-2 deadlock. Emory would force a fielder's choice during the Tiger's defensive half of the sixth to score their third run.

Wittenberg would regain the lead in the top of the eighth, plating two runs. Thomas brought the score back to even with a single through the right side, plating Monachino leveling the game back at 3-3. A bases loaded walk drawn by Dylan Jackson would push the Tigers back ahead, 4-3.

Emory would eventually push three runs across in the bottom of the eighth and regaining the 6-4 advantage.

Wittenberg used a stable of pitchers, as Nate Floyd got the start on the hill. Floyd put in 4.0 innings of work, allowing five hits with two strikeouts. Joe Horoszko made an appearance for one inning of relief work, striking out two Eagle hitters. Andrew Rust, Charlie Schafer and Justin Maynard combined to complete the final three innings.