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#Pack9 Holds Off No. 16 Panthers, Clinches Series
5/15/2021 7:20:00 PM | Baseball
PITTSBURGH, Pa. – In a back-and-forth contest that featured four ties and six lead changes, NC State baseball (25-14, 16-13 ACC) held off a late rally by No. 16 Pittsburgh (22-15, 16-13 ACC) on Saturday afternoon at Charles L. Cost Field in Pittsburgh, Pa., to earn a 9-7 victory and clinch the series.
It is the Wolfpack's fifth series win this season, including its third straight, and it is on a four-game win streak while winning nine of its last 10 games.
Thanks to aggressive base running by Tyler McDonough in the first inning the Pack struck first. After reaching on a dropped third strike wild pitch and stealing second, he stole third and then scored on the throw down to first following another dropped third strike.
Pitt answered in the bottom frame to take a 2-1 lead as a Wolfpack error and David Yanni single up the middle with a runner at second plated a pair of runs.
Jose Torres knotted the score at two in the second after leading off with a double and moving to third on Terrell Tatum's bunt single, as he crossed home plate on a 6-4-3 double play.
In the third, a double by McDonough down the left field line and single by Butler to right field on two outs put NC State back in front, 3-2, but the Panthers quickly knotted it back up in their half of the inning when Sky Duff scored on an RBI groundout to second.
Tatum led off the fourth with his seventh home run of the season to left field to give the Pack its lead back, but it was short-lived as a Jackson Phinney two-run home run to left field gave Pitt a 5-4 advantage after four complete.
Vojtech Mensik tied the score at five in the sixth when he led off with a double down the left field line and scored on Devonte Brown's RBI single to left field, then Butler's 10th long ball of the year in the seventh gave the Pack a 6-5 lead.
In the ninth the Pack pushed three more runs across to add to its lead, as Butler and Tatum managed to pull off the double steal at the corners on two outs and Mensik crushed a two-run homer to right field.
The Panthers tried to rally back in the final frame of the game as they scored on pinch hitter Matt Tarabek's bases-loaded single and a 6-4-3 double play, but Evan Justice once again shut the door to pick up his sixth save of the season and second of the series.
SCORING RECAP
OF NOTE
ON DECK
Sunday, May 16 · @ Pittsburgh · 1 PM
It is the Wolfpack's fifth series win this season, including its third straight, and it is on a four-game win streak while winning nine of its last 10 games.
Thanks to aggressive base running by Tyler McDonough in the first inning the Pack struck first. After reaching on a dropped third strike wild pitch and stealing second, he stole third and then scored on the throw down to first following another dropped third strike.
Pitt answered in the bottom frame to take a 2-1 lead as a Wolfpack error and David Yanni single up the middle with a runner at second plated a pair of runs.
Jose Torres knotted the score at two in the second after leading off with a double and moving to third on Terrell Tatum's bunt single, as he crossed home plate on a 6-4-3 double play.
In the third, a double by McDonough down the left field line and single by Butler to right field on two outs put NC State back in front, 3-2, but the Panthers quickly knotted it back up in their half of the inning when Sky Duff scored on an RBI groundout to second.
Tatum led off the fourth with his seventh home run of the season to left field to give the Pack its lead back, but it was short-lived as a Jackson Phinney two-run home run to left field gave Pitt a 5-4 advantage after four complete.
Vojtech Mensik tied the score at five in the sixth when he led off with a double down the left field line and scored on Devonte Brown's RBI single to left field, then Butler's 10th long ball of the year in the seventh gave the Pack a 6-5 lead.
In the ninth the Pack pushed three more runs across to add to its lead, as Butler and Tatum managed to pull off the double steal at the corners on two outs and Mensik crushed a two-run homer to right field.
The Panthers tried to rally back in the final frame of the game as they scored on pinch hitter Matt Tarabek's bases-loaded single and a 6-4-3 double play, but Evan Justice once again shut the door to pick up his sixth save of the season and second of the series.
SCORING RECAP
- T1: McDonough stole third and scored on the throw down to first on a dropped third strike (NCSU 1, PITT 0 – 1 out)
- B1: Duff scored from second on a Wolfpack error (NCSU 1, PITT 1 – 1 out)
- B1: Hess scored from second on Yanni's single up the middle (NCSU 2, PITT 1 – 2 outs)
- T2: Torres scored from third on a double play (NCSU 2, PITT 2 – no outs)
- T3: Butler drove in McDonough from second with a single to right field (NCSU 3, PITT 2 – 2 outs)
- B3: Duff scored on Hess's RBI groundout to second (NCSU 3, PITT 3 – 1 out)
- T4: Tatum homered to left field (NCSU 4, PITT 3 – no outs)
- B4: Phinney hit a two-run home run to left field (PITT 5, NCSU 4 – 2 outs)
- T6: Mensik scored from second on Brown's single to left field (NCSU 5, PITT 5 – no outs)
- T7: Butler homered to right field (NCSU 6, PITT 5 – 1 out)
- T9: Butler stole home (NCSU 7, PITT 5 – 2 outs)
- T9: Mensik hit a two-run home run to right field (NCSU 9, PITT 5 – 2 outs)
- B9: Tarabek drove in Yanni with a single to center field (NCSU 9, PITT 6 – no outs)
- B9: Hulett scored on a 6-4-3 double play (NCSU 9, PITT 7 – no outs)
OF NOTE
- Butler tallied his seventh-straight multi-hit game as he went 3-for-5 at the plate with a double and home run.
- Butler is the second NC State player to reach double-digit home runs this year.
- Tatum also tallied three hits in his four plate appearances, while Austin Murr, McDonough, Torres and Mensik all tallied two apiece.
- Tresh has reached base in his last 14 games, which is a team high.
- McDonough has reached base safely in 38 of 39 games this year.
- Andrew Tillery (1-0) picked up his first career win on the mound as he surrendered just one hit in two shutout innings of work.
- Justice earned his team-leading sixth save, which ranked second in the ACC in conference play, after tossing the final inning of the game.
ON DECK
Sunday, May 16 · @ Pittsburgh · 1 PM
Team Stats
Pitching:
W: Tillery, Andrew (1-0)
L: Stephen Hansen (1-4)
S: Justice, Evan (6)
Batting:
2B: McDonough, Tyler 1 ; Butler, Jonny 1 ; Torres, Jose 1 ; Mensik, Vojtech 1 ; Jarrett, J.T. 1
HR: Butler, Jonny 1 ; Tatum, Terrell 1 ; Mensik, Vojtech 1
RBI: Butler, Jonny 2 ; Tatum, Terrell 1 ; Mensik, Vojtech 3 ; Brown, Devonte 1
Base Running:
RUNS: McDonough, Tyler 2 ; Butler, Jonny 2 ; Torres, Jose 1 ; Tatum, Terrell 2 ; Mensik, Vojtech 2
SB: McDonough, Tyler 2 ; Butler, Jonny 1 ; Tatum, Terrell 1
CS: Murr, Austin 1
HBP: Tatum, Terrell 1
Batting:
2B: Sky Duff 2 ; Bryce Hulett 1
HR: Jackson Phinney 1
RBI: Kyle Hess 1 ; David Yanni 1 ; Jackson Phinney 2 ; Matt Tarabek 1 ; Jordan Anderson 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Sky Duff 2 ; Kyle Hess 1 ; David Yanni 1 ; Bryce Hulett 2 ; Jackson Phinney 1
SB: Kyle Hess 1
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