Baseball Drops Heartbreaker vs. Rhode Island, 5-4

Tuesday, March 26

Hamden, Conn.

3:00 PM

Quinnipiac University

8-12

Rhode Island

7-12

Rhode Island

Quinnipiac

3/26/2019 7:29:00 PM | Baseball

Box Score

Bobcats Score Four Runs Early, Rams Chip Away and Score Winning Run in Ninth

By: QU Athletic Communications

HAMDEN, Conn. – The Quinnipiac baseball team dropped a heartbreaker Tuesday afternoon as the Rhode Island Rams scored a run in the top of the ninth inning the Bobcats could not answer in the bottom half of the ninth in a 5-4 loss, snapping Quinnipiac's three-game winning streak.

Andre Marrero (West Springfield, Massachusetts) went 2 for 3 with a pair of RBI singles and also drew a walk and was hit by a pitch to reach base four times in Tuesday's game. Marrero extended his hitting streak to eight games with his two-hit game.

Anthony Cruz (Burlington, Massachusetts) and Brian Moskey (Higganum, Connecticut) each had a single and a double for the Bobcats to join Marrero with two-hit games.

The Bobcats jumped out to a 4-2 lead after four innings of play but the Rams chipped away with runs in the sixth and seventh before scoring the go-ahead run on a fielding error with two outs in the inning and the bases loaded

SCORE
Quinnipiac 4, Rhode Island 5

RECORDS
Quinnipiac (8-12 MAAC) | Rhode Island (#7-12)

LOCATION
QU Baseball Field | Hamden, Conn.

QUINNIPIAC SCORING PLAYS
FIRST INNING

Cruz doubled to left center with one out in the inning before Marrero followed him with an 0-2 single to right center field for his first RBI single of the game

THIRD INNING

After the Rams took a 2-1 lead in the top half of the inning, Kyle Maves (Burlington, Ontario) doubled down the left field line with one out before he moved up to third on a bunt single from Cruz
With runners on the corners, Marrero punched another single through the right side of the infield to score Maves and keep runners on the corners
Derek Kasperzyk (Killingworth, Connecticut) stepped in after entering the game as defensive replacement and laid down a safety squeeze the got past the pitcher and her reached safely with a single that scored Cruz

FOURTH INNING

The Bobcats tacked on another run with one out in the bottom of the fourth as Liam Scafariello (Southington, Connecticut) reached second as Rhode Island's leftfielder dropped a fly ball
On the very next pitch, freshman Michael Kohn (Rockville, Maryland) laced a single to right field that scored Scafariello from second base.

NOTES

Marrero extended his hitting streak to eight games with his 2 for 3 day and raised his batting average to .329 on the season
Marrero also had a pair of RBIs, his fifth straight game with an RBI, and now leads the team with 16 and is tied for fifth in the MAAC
Over his eight-game hitting streak, Marrero is 11 for 27 (.407)
Cruz has two hits in each of his last two games while he's hit safely in seven of his 10 games this season to boost his batting average to .326
Moskey had two hits in a 2 for 4 day at the plate, including his 37^th career double to move into 10^th in Division I program history
Blake DeCarr (Foxboro, Massachusetts) was solid in his first start of the season, striking out six batters in six innings of work and limited the Rams to just three runs
DeCarr struck out the side in the top of the fifth inning on just 11 pitches, and now has 14 strikeouts in three appearances spanning 12.1 innings
Maves came around to score his 14^th run of the season, and has now scored a run in seven straight games as he has now hit safely in four straight games
Kohn recorded his second hit and drove in his second RBI of the season with an RBI single Tuesday