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Cole Foster pitching for MIT
Aiden Shertzer
2
WPI WPI 11-11
4
Winner MIT MIT 9-10
WPI WPI
11-11
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Final
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MIT MIT
9-10
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
WPI WPI 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 2 5 0
MIT MIT 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 X 4 8 0

W: Foster, Cole (2-1) L: L. Blandino (2-1) S: Hood, Phillip (3)

Game Recap: Baseball |

Foster Pitches Baseball to Weekend Sweep of WPI; Tubbs, Moore Reach 100 Hit Milestone in 4-2 Victory

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Junior starting pitcher Cole Foster (Austin, Texas) turned in a career performance, striking out six and giving-up just one run over 7.0 standout innings of work to lead the MIT baseball team to a 4-2 NEWMAC win over WPI and a sweep of a two-game weekend series at Fran O'Brien Field.

Senior Reed Tubbs (Pflugerville, Texas) and junior Zev Moore (Jerusalem, Israel) each recorded their 100th career hits in the game as the Cambridge Engineers got out to a 2-0 lead over their Worcester rivals and never trailed in a tightly contested contest.

THE BASICS:

  • Score: MIT 4, WPI 2
  • Records: MIT (9-10 Overall, 3-1 NEWMAC), WPI (11-11 Overall, 0-4 NEWMAC)

HOW IT HAPPENED:

  • After Foster fired a 1-2-3 top of the first inning, grad student Teddy Schoenfeld (Boulder, Colo.) and first year John Spivey (St. Louis, Mo.) reached with back-to-back singles to lead off the bottom of the first inning. Both runners advanced on a balk before Schoenfeld was cut down at home trying to score on a ground ball to third off the bat of CJ McCarthy (Pawling, N.Y.). Spivey moved to third on the play before McCarthy swiped second to put two back in scoring position. Zev Moore grounded out to drive in Spivey and move McCarthy to third. McCarthy later scored on a wild pitch. 
  • WPI starter Luke Blandino (Eden, N.Y.) settled in after the first inning and delivered a quality start for WPI. Blandino went 7.0 innings, giving up three earned and striking out seven.
  • Foster and Blandino dueled until the top of the fifth inning when WPI got on the board. First year Chuck Cappello (Southboro, Mass.) was awarded first base on a hit by pitch before advancing into scoring position on a ground out. Cappello came around to score when senior Tommy Burns (Morris Plains, N.J.) singled up the middle with two outs to make the score 2-1. 
  • Blandino worked around an infield single from Schoenfeld to hold MIT scoreless in the bottom of the fifth but MIT got the run back in the bottom of the sixth as Zev Moore adventured around the bases to make the score 3-1. With one away, Moore struck out but reached on a dropped third strike. He moved to second as Tubbs singled to record his 100th career hit. Moore and Tubbs then executed a double steal, moving Moore to third before he scored on a sacrifice fly off the bat of senior Malachi Soqui (Castaic, Calif.).
  • Both starters tossed 1-2-3 seventh innings to move the game into the eighth. With Phillip Hood (Grapevine, Texas) now on for Foster, WPI added a run to make the score 3-2, as an Andrew Cash (Marlboro, Mass.) RBI single up the middle scored Burns from second after Burns had doubled earlier in the inning. With the tying run aboard, Hood got clean-up man Jonathan Lattimer (Windsor, Conn.) to ground out to third to end the threat. 
  • MIT loaded the bases with no outs in the bottom half of the inning but only got back the run that was surrendered in the top half when Tubbs drew a bases loaded walk. WPI grad student Brian Riley (Portland, Maine) escaped the jam, leaving the bases loaded for MIT by getting back to back infield pop ups before striking out John Dwyer (Northport, N.Y.) to end the threat. Zev Moore's 100th career hit was an infield single during the inning.
  • Hood closed the door in the ninth, setting down WPI 1-2-3 to end the game and earn his third save of the season.

INSIDE THE NUMBERS:

  • MIT is now 5-1 at Fran O'Brien Field and stands one game shy of reaching .500 on the season despite starting the year with an 0-6 record.
  • Schoenfeld, Spivey and Tubbs each recorded two hits in the contest, with Spivey scoring a pair of runs.
  • Schoenfeld now has multiple hits in four straight games and five of his last six.
  • Burns was 2-for-4 with a run scored and an RBI to lead WPI. 
  • Hood pitched 2.0 inning, giving up two hits and striking out two in his ninth appearance of the year.

UP NEXT:

  • MIT will travel to face Springfield in NEWMAC play on Tuesday, April 8 at 3:30 PM before returning home to host Salve Regina on Wednesday, April 9 in the conclusion of the suspended game from March 28. 
  • MIT's game against Tufts originally scheduled for April 9 has ben canceled and will not be rescheduled. 

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