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#Pack9’s Comeback Falls Short, Wake Forest Evens Series
5/1/2021 8:53:00 PM | Baseball
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – Despite making an attempted comeback on two separate occasions in the later innings, NC State baseball (21-14, 13-13 ACC) was ultimately unable to overcome an early deficit in game two of the series with Wake Forest (15-21, 7-18 ACC) on Saturday afternoon at the David F. Couch Ballpark in Winston-Salem, N.C., as it fell, 14-11.
With the result, the Demon Deacons snapped the Wolfpack's five-game win streak to even the series and force a rubber match Sunday.
An RBI fielder's choice in the first inning followed by a pair of 2-RBI doubles and a three-run home run in the second gave Wake a commanding 8-0 lead early on.
Jose Torres cut into the Pack's deficit with his two-run home run to left field to make it 8-2. It was the fourth time this season he has left the park.
In the fifth, Wake tacked on a run thanks to Michael Ludowig's sacrifice fly to left field.
The Pack managed to score five runs in the sixth on a bases-loaded passed ball and Devonte Brown's first career grand slam, and then cut its deficit to 9-8 in the seventh when Jonny Butler scored on Brown's RBI groundout to first.
Wake pushed five runs across in the eighth on a two-run error, bases-loaded walk and 2-RBI single en route to its win, but not before the Pack made its second attempted comeback of the game.
In the ninth Austin Murr drew a bases-loaded walk and Tyler McDonough delivered with a two-run single on two outs, but the comeback fell short as a strikeout ended the game.
SCORING RECAP
OF NOTE
ON DECK
Sunday, May 2 · @ Wake Forest · 1 PM
With the result, the Demon Deacons snapped the Wolfpack's five-game win streak to even the series and force a rubber match Sunday.
An RBI fielder's choice in the first inning followed by a pair of 2-RBI doubles and a three-run home run in the second gave Wake a commanding 8-0 lead early on.
Jose Torres cut into the Pack's deficit with his two-run home run to left field to make it 8-2. It was the fourth time this season he has left the park.
In the fifth, Wake tacked on a run thanks to Michael Ludowig's sacrifice fly to left field.
The Pack managed to score five runs in the sixth on a bases-loaded passed ball and Devonte Brown's first career grand slam, and then cut its deficit to 9-8 in the seventh when Jonny Butler scored on Brown's RBI groundout to first.
Wake pushed five runs across in the eighth on a two-run error, bases-loaded walk and 2-RBI single en route to its win, but not before the Pack made its second attempted comeback of the game.
In the ninth Austin Murr drew a bases-loaded walk and Tyler McDonough delivered with a two-run single on two outs, but the comeback fell short as a strikeout ended the game.
SCORING RECAP
- B1: Costello scored from third on Wilken's RBI fielder's choice (WF 1, NCSU 0 – no outs)
- B2: Turconi's double to right field scored Ludowig and Tinsman from first and second (WF 3, NCSU 0 – 2 outs)
- B2: Lanzilli's double down the left field line drove in Wilken and Turconi (WF 5, NCSU 0 – 2 outs)
- B2: Muntz hit a three-run home run to left center (WF 8, NCSU 0 – 2 outs)
- T4: Torres launched a two-run home run over the left field wall (WF 8, NCSU 2 – 1 out)
- B5: Muntz scored on Ludowig's sacrifice fly to left field (WF 9, NCSU 2 – 1 out)
- T6: A bases-loaded passed ball allowed Tresh to score from third (WF 9, NCSU 3 – no outs)
- T6: Brown belted a grand slam to right center (WF 9, NCSU 7 – no outs)
- T7: Brown's RBI groundout to first base allowed Butler to score from third (WF 9, NCSU 8 – 1 out)
- B8: A Wolfpack error brought Ludowig and Bennett around from second and third (WF 11, NCSU 8 – no outs)
- T9: A bases-loaded walk brought Tatum across home plate (WF 14, NCSU 9 – 2 outs)
- T9: McDonough's single through the right side drove in Soles and Brown (WF 14, NCSU 11 – 2 outs)
OF NOTE
- McDonough extended his reached base streak to 52 games with his 2-for-5 performance. It is the longest streak currently held by a Division I player and is the second-longest by a Wolfpack player since 1999.
- Butler turned in a 3-for-4 outing and scored two runs, while Torres, Tatum and Brown all tallied two hits apiece.
- Brown's grand slam was his seventh homer of the season, as he drove in a career-best five runs batted in in the contest.
- Andrew Tillery turned in his best performance of the year out of the bullpen, tossing five complete innings and surrendering just two hits and one run while fanning four.
- NC State has hit at least one home run in 27 of its 35 games, and has belted two or more on 16 separate occasions.
ON DECK
Sunday, May 2 · @ Wake Forest · 1 PM
Team Stats
Pitching:
W: Rhett Lowder (2-2)
L: Willadsen, Matt (3-2)
S: Eric Adler (6)
Batting:
2B: Brown, Devonte 1
HR: Torres, Jose 1 ; Brown, Devonte 1
RBI: Murr, Austin 1 ; McDonough, Tyler 2 ; Torres, Jose 2 ; Brown, Devonte 5
Base Running:
RUNS: Tresh, Luca 2 ; Butler, Jonny 2 ; Torres, Jose 2 ; Tatum, Terrell 2 ; Brown, Devonte 2 ; Soles, Noah 1
SB: McDonough, Tyler 1 ; Butler, Jonny 1 ; Mensik, Vojtech 1
HBP: Butler, Jonny 1
Batting:
2B: Michael Turconi 1 ; Chris Lanzilli 1 ; Shane Muntz 1
HR: Shane Muntz 1
RBI: Michael Turconi 2 ; Brock Wilken 1 ; Bobby Seymour 1 ; Chris Lanzilli 4 ; Shane Muntz 3 ; Michael Ludowig 1
SF: Michael Ludowig 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Lucas Costello 2 ; Michael Turconi 2 ; Brock Wilken 2 ; Bobby Seymour 1 ; Chris Lanzilli 1 ; Shane Muntz 2 ; Brendan Tinsman 1 ; Michael Ludowig 2 ; Pierce Bennett 1
HBP: Pierce Bennett 1
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