LOUISVILLE, Kentucky – Florida State scored three runs in the ninth inning – and the final seven runs of the game – to complete a 7-4 comeback victory over Louisville Friday night at Jim Patterson Stadium. Jackson Baumeister pitched a career-high 8.0 innings, and Brennen Oxford earned his first career save with a perfect ninth inning.
Louisville took the lead with a pair of home runs in the third inning – a leadoff home run from Logan Beard, and a three-run shot from JT Benson – to take the 4-0 lead.
FSU cut the lead in half with Williams’ single in the seventh inning, scoring Ben Barrett and McGwire Holbrook. Barrett led off the inning with a walk – FSU’s first of the game – and Holbrook pinch-hit and singled, his first pinch-hit of the season. Williams’ matched his career RBI high with the two-run single.
After Baumeister posted another scoreless inning in the bottom of the seventh, Jaime Ferrer led off the eighth with a single and scored on Colton Vincen
SOUTH BEND, Indiana – Jackson Baumeister pitched 6.0 innings and struck out nine hitters – while allowing just one run – in Florida State’s 3-2 victory at Notre Dame Friday evening. Doug Kirkland earned his second save in as many games with 2.1 scoreless innings. The Fighting Irish stranded eight runners in the game as Baumeister needed 106 pitches to complete his six innings. He has struck out nine batters in back-to-back games as he improved to 3-4 on the season. Andrew Armstrong got two outs in the seventh inning before Kirkland earned his second career save with 2.1 scoreless innings to close out the contest. The Seminoles scored a pair of runs against Aidan Tyrell in the third inning on Jaime Ferrer’s two-run double. Ferrer’s 58th hit of the season scored DeAmez Ross and James Tibbs III, who both reached on walks. After Estevan Moreno cut the lead in half with a solo home run in the fifth inning for the Irish, FSU and Notre Dame traded runs in the seventh inning. Colto
TALLAHASSEE, Florida – Right fielder Jaime Ferrer doubled twice, his team-high 14th and 15th of the season, in Saturday’s contest against Virginia Tech. Ferrer now leads FSU with 56 hits and a .350 batting average.
The teams traded runs in the second inning, with each side scoring courtesy of three hits. The Hokies added a run in the third and fourth innings to take a 3-1 lead against FSU starter Conner Whittaker.
Ferrer doubled to score James Tibbs in the sixth inning and cut the deficit back to one, but the Hokies answered in the top of the sixth against Andrew Armstrong. Pitching in his 24th game of the year – and fifth consecutive – Armstrong allowed one run over the final 4.0 innings.
Virginia Tech’s Drue Hackenberg pitched a complete game, striking out 12 batters. DeAmez Ross hit FSU’s third single of the ninth inning to score Treyton Rank, but FSU’s tying run was stranded on third to end the game.
SCORING SUMMARY:
T2 | VT 1, FSU 0
TALLAHASSEE, Florida – Jamie Arnold and Doug Kirkland combined for five hitless innings as Florida State beat Virginia Tech, 4-3, Sunday afternoon to salvage the final game of the series. Arnold improved to 2-4 on the year, while Kirkland did not allow a baserunner over the final two innings for his first career save.
At the plate, James Tibbs hit his second home run of the weekend, a two-run shot in the third inning, while DeAmez Ross and McGwire Holbrook provided RBI singles.
Holbrook began the game with a knock to the shortstop and just beat out the throw which allowed Tibbs to score from second for the game’s first run. This extended Holbrook’s six game hitting streak, all of which were singles.
In his next at-bat, Tibbs unleashed a powerful strike over the right field fence to send himself and Colton Vincent home for a three-run lead. The sophomore finished the series with five hits and took sole possession of home run leader on the team with his 12th of the season.
RALEIGH, North Carolina – NC State scored two runs in the bottom of the 10th inning to beat Florida State, 5-4, Sunday afternoon at Doak Field in Raleigh. Cam Smith had both of FSU’s extra-base hits in the contest, including a go-ahead solo home run in the top of the 10th. Andrew Armstrong pitched four scoreless innings in the contest. He was one of eight Florida State pitchers to appear in the game. Armstrong entered with the bases loaded and one out in the third inning with FSU already trailing 2-0. Armstrong struck out both batters and proceeded to get an inning-ending strikeout in the fourth and fifth innings as well. When Armstrong did run into trouble in the seventh inning – the first two Wolfpack batters of the inning reached – Armstrong fielded a sacrifice bunt attempt and threw out lead runner at third base. Ben Barrett entered in relief and needed just four pitches to force a pop up and groundout. FSU cut the Wolfpack lead in half on Jordan Carrion’s groundout in th