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#Pack9 Defeats Wake Forest In Rubber Match To Take Series
5/2/2021 5:24:00 PM | Baseball
WINSTON- SALEM, N.C. – NC State baseball (22-14, 14-13 ACC) used a season-high 20 hits, highlighted by four home runs, to defeat Wake Forest (15-22, 7-19 ACC), 15-8, on Sunday afternoon in the rubber match between the squads at the David F. Couch Ballpark in Winston-Salem, N.C. With the victory, the Wolfpack collected its fourth series win of the season and has won six of its last seven games.
The rubber match proved to be another slug fest as the teams combined for 33 hits, including eight home runs.
Bobby Seymour and Chris Lanzilli went yard in back-to-back at-bats in the second to give the Demon Deacons the 2-0 advantage, but it was short-lived as RBI singles by Tyler McDonough and Jonny Butler with runners in scoring position followed by a passed ball gave the Pack a 3-2 lead in the third.
The Pack added three more runs in the fourth to extend its lead to 6-2 thanks to Austin Murr's seventh home run of the season, a two-run shot to right field, and a Luca Tresh RBI single with runners at first and second.
A big six-run sixth inning put NC State up 12-2, as the frame was highlighted by McDonough's two-run homer to right field, Tresh's RBI triple and Terrell Tatum's three-run home run to left field.
Wake responded in the bottom half of the sixth with three runs as a pair of RBI groundouts and Brendan Tinsman RBI single cut its deficit to 12-5.
In the seventh, McDonough went yard for the second time in the game to center field to lead off the side and give the Pack a 13-5 lead, but Wake answered right back in his half on homers by Seymour and Lanzilli.
Back-to-back RBI singles by Vojtech Mensik and J.T. Jarrett with runners at first and second plated a pair of runs in the eighth to extend NC State's lead to 15-8. Wake looked to continue to rally back in the bottom frame as it managed to put runners in scoring position with one out, but a strikeout and line out stranded them.
In the ninth, Dalton Feeney put the game away as he struck out the side after yielding a leadoff single.
SCORING RECAP
OF NOTE
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The rubber match proved to be another slug fest as the teams combined for 33 hits, including eight home runs.
Bobby Seymour and Chris Lanzilli went yard in back-to-back at-bats in the second to give the Demon Deacons the 2-0 advantage, but it was short-lived as RBI singles by Tyler McDonough and Jonny Butler with runners in scoring position followed by a passed ball gave the Pack a 3-2 lead in the third.
The Pack added three more runs in the fourth to extend its lead to 6-2 thanks to Austin Murr's seventh home run of the season, a two-run shot to right field, and a Luca Tresh RBI single with runners at first and second.
A big six-run sixth inning put NC State up 12-2, as the frame was highlighted by McDonough's two-run homer to right field, Tresh's RBI triple and Terrell Tatum's three-run home run to left field.
Wake responded in the bottom half of the sixth with three runs as a pair of RBI groundouts and Brendan Tinsman RBI single cut its deficit to 12-5.
In the seventh, McDonough went yard for the second time in the game to center field to lead off the side and give the Pack a 13-5 lead, but Wake answered right back in his half on homers by Seymour and Lanzilli.
Back-to-back RBI singles by Vojtech Mensik and J.T. Jarrett with runners at first and second plated a pair of runs in the eighth to extend NC State's lead to 15-8. Wake looked to continue to rally back in the bottom frame as it managed to put runners in scoring position with one out, but a strikeout and line out stranded them.
In the ninth, Dalton Feeney put the game away as he struck out the side after yielding a leadoff single.
SCORING RECAP
- B2: Seymour went yard to right center (WF 1, NCSU 0 – no outs)
- B2: Lanzilli homered to left field (WF 2, NCSU 0 – no outs)
- T3: McDonough's single to right field scored Mensik from third (WF 2, NCSU 1 – 1 out)
- T3: Butler drove in Jarrett from third with his single to the shortstop (WF 2, NCSU 2 – 1 out)
- T3: A passed ball allowed McDonough to cross home plate from third (NCSU 3, WF 2 – 1 out)
- T4: Murr blasted a two-run home run to right field (NCSU 5, WF 2 – 2 outs)
- T4: Tresh laced a single to left field to bring home McDonough from second (NCSU 6, WF 2 – 2 outs)
- T6: McDonough crushed a two-run home run to right field (NCSU 8, WF 2 – no outs)
- T6: Tresh drove in Butler from first with a triple off the center field wall (NCSU 9, WF 2 – no outs)
- T6: Tatum cranked a three-run homer to left field (NCSU 12, WF 2 – no outs)
- B6: Turconi homered to right field (NCSU 12, WF 3 – no outs)
- B6: Lanzilli's groundout to second base scored Wilken from third (NCSU 12, WF 4 – no outs)
- B6: Cecere's groundout to first brought Seymour home from third (NCSU 12, WF 5 – 1 out)
- T7: McDonough went yard to center field to lead off the inning (NCSU 13, WF 5 – no outs)
- B7: Seymour hit a two-run home run to right field (NCSU 13, WF 7 – 2 outs)
- B7: Lanzilli homered to left field (NCSU 13, WF 8 – 2 outs)
- T8: Mensik's single to right field scored Tatum from second (NCSU 14, WF 8 – no outs)
- T8: Jarrett's bunt single to the pitcher and a Wake Forest error brought Brown home from second (NCSU 15, WF 8 – no outs)
OF NOTE
- McDonough extended his reached base streak to 53 games. It is the longest streak currently held by a Division I player and is the second-longest by a Wolfpack player since 1999.
- McDonough leads the team with 12 home runs this year, and six of them have come in the Pack's last four games.
- McDonough matched his career best in a single game with his 4-for-6 performance as he drove in four runs and scored four of his own.
- Butler (3-for-6), Murr (3-for-5), Tresh (2-for-6), Torres (2-for-4), Brown (2-for-6) and Mensik (2-for-4) also turned in multi-hit games.
- NC State has hit at least one home run in 28 of its 36 games, and has belted two or more on 17 separate occasions.
- Tatum's homer was his sixth of the season and third of the series.
- Reid Johnston (5-2) tossed 6.1 innings to pick up the win, surrendering nine hits and six runs while fanning four.
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