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Baseball Back Home for Battle with Brown
4/17/2015 2:30:00 PM | Baseball
Stretch Run in Ivy Schedule
Dartmouth enters its four-game Ivy League series against Brown with a three-game lead over second-place Harvard in the Rolfe Division and four-game lead over the Bears. Just splitting the final two series with those two teams would clinch the Big Green's eighth straight division title with the magic number to clinch at six.
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Last Week in Review
• After being shut out three times in their previous five games, Dartmouth came to life in its first-ever four-game sweep at Yale Field.
• The first showdown with the Bulldogs took an extra inning to decide as Kyle Holbrook provided the winning run in the eighth on a sacrifice fly. Mike Concato went the distance for the win and Michael Ketchmark blasted a two-run bomb.
• The bats exploded in the second game, a 22-10 slugfest. Joe Purritano went 2-for-3 with three walks, a double, homer and five RBIs while Matt Parisi tied a school record with four doubles and Nick Ruppert scored four runs.
• Duncan Robinson was the story of the third game, twirling a three-hit shutout without a walk while striking out seven. Ben Socher homered and Nick Lombardi drove in a pair in support of the right-hander in a 7-0 blanking of the Bulldogs.
• The series began as it ended, with a 3-2 nail-biter. Louis Concato surrendered one run over seven stanzas and Dustin Shirley twice singled, stole second and scored to serve as the offensive catalyst. Patrick Peterson earned the save by fanning the final hitter with the tying run on second base.
• On Tuesday, the Big Green played two at UMass Lowell in a rare mid-week doubleheader, winning both ends by finals of 6-5 and 4-2. Purritano hit three triples in the twinbill and drove in six runs, plus scored three more to account for nine of the 10 runs. Jack Fossand picked up a win in relief in his first collegiate appearance, and Chris England earned the victory in game two.
Last Time Against the Bears
Brown nearly sank Dartmouth's hopes of a seventh-straight Rolfe Division title last year, but the Big Green righted their ship to begin a six-game win streak to finish Ivy play and sail to the crown.
The Bears swept the doubleheader on the first day in Providence, pounding Dartmouth in the opener, 12-3, then squeaking out a 7-6, 10-inning triumph in the nightcap. Brown scored in each of the six innings with Daniel Massey and Wes Van Boom each hitting home runs, countering the long balls hit by Thomas Roulis and Joe Purritano. In the second game, the Big Green were undone by four errors that helped the last three Bear runs score, including the one in the bottom of the 10th on a J.J. Franco two-out single. Dartmouth had tied the game at six in the eighth on a Matt Parisi two-out single to force extra innings.
With a 5-9 league record at that point, the Big Green began their comeback in the standings with a sweep of the Bears the following day. First Mike Concato twirled a four-hit shutout as the offense put four on the board in the first en route to a 7-0 victory. Nick Lombardi had an RBI double and a solo homer to lead the Dartmouth bats. As the day before, the second game was much closer with the Green prevailing, 3-2. Chris England made his first Ivy start and baffled the Brown batters over seven innings, allowing two runs on just four hits, before Chris Burkholder and Duncan Robinson finished off the victory. A Purritano solo blast in the eighth provided the margin of victory.
Overall Record vs. Brown
• Dartmouth has played the Bears 244 times since the first meeting in 1871, with the Big Green having the edge, 138-105-1.
• Before last year's series split, the Big Green had won the season series each of the previous six years, sweeping the last two series in Hanover and taking three of four the other four years.
• In the divisional era (since 1993), Brown has held its own in Hanover as Dartmouth is 22-17 against the Bears, including a divisional playoff victory in 2001. But since Biondi Park was built before the 2009 season, the Green have won 11 of 12.
• Dartmouth head coach Bob Whalen is 56-41 against the Bears during his tenure in Hanover, including a pair of games the two played against each other in Hawaii back in 1992.
• The first game between the two clubs came back in 1871, a 41-17 victory for Brown. No, that is not a football score.
Scouting the Bears
• Since getting off to a 1-11 start, Brown has gone 7-9 with series splits against Cornell, Princeton and Harvard.
• The Bears have shown some pop at the plate with 17 homers, third-most in the league, led by Noah Shulman with five, while the team averages 4.7 runs a game with a slash line of .268/.352/.388.
• Rob Henry has been the hitting star for the Bears, leading the Ivy League with a .385 average and 47 hits while scoring 24 runs and driving in 20.
• Pitching and defense have been a bit problematic, however, with a team ERA of 8.03 and a fielding percentage of .949, both of which rank in the bottom 20 nationally.
• A pair of relievers in Chris Smith (3.57 ERA) and Dante Bosnic (4.02) have had some success on the mound, but the Bears' 54 errors have led to 56 unearned runs as opponents have averaged just over nine runs a game.
Probable Starting Pitchers
• Dartmouth will keep its weekend rotation intact, and after a four-game sweep of Yale, that should not come as a surprise. Sophomore RHP Mike Concato (2-3, 3.25) will climb the hill for the first game having completed all three of his Ivy starts while going 2-1. The lone loss was a 1-0 game against Cornell. Brown will counter with senior RHP Eddie Fitzpatrick (2-4, 8.74) who beat Harvard last week in the opener, 9-6.
• Game two will pit sophomore RHP Jackson Bubala (1-0, 3.18) against RHP Taylor Wright (0-3, 6.18). Dartmouth has won three of the four games Bubala has started, including last week's 22-10 slugfest (though Bubala allowed just two runs in 4.2 innings). Wright has pitched against the Big Green in each of the past three years out of the bullpen, allowing four runs in eight innings.
• On Sunday, junior RHP Duncan Robinson (3-2, 2.84) will attempt to continue his mastery of the Ivy teams, having posted a 0.89 ERA in three league starts including a 7-0 shutout win at Yale last week. For Brown, RHP Reid Anderson (3-3, 6.68) will return to the rotation after picking up a win out of the pen last weekend by allowing one earned run over four innings.
• For the finale, senior RHP Louis Concato (1-5, 4.96) will look to build upon his win last week at Yale in which he gave up only one run in seven stanzas. The lone lefty of the week will toe the slab for the Bears in LHP Austin French (0-1, 7.06), who made his starting debut last week against Harvard, allowing two ER in five innings.
What's Up Next
The game against St. Anselm on Tuesday has been canceled, though Coach Whalen is looking for another team to play. That leaves the four-game series against Harvard next weekend with Saturday's Senior Day doubleheader in Hanover at 1 p.m., followed by a twinbill the next day in Cambridge.
Keep Up with the Action
All four games this weekend will be streamed live on Big Green Insider via the Ivy League Digital Network. Visit IvyLeagueDigitalNetwork.com to find out how to subscribe so you can watch all of the action from Red Rolfe Field at Biondi Park.
Take Two
Dartmouth played a mid-week doubleheader during the Ivy season for the first time in 10 years, and the result was the same as it was back then — a sweep. The Big Green bested UMass Lowell in the first two games between the teams since 1999, 6-5 and 4-2, matching the end results of the last non-conference twinbill in the middle of the conference season, a sweep in 2005 of now-defunct Vermont, 12-10 and 8-0.
Six-Game Win Streak
During Dartmouth's seven-season run as Rolfe Division champions, the Big Green have recorded one (or more) winning streak of at least seven games. With the four-game sweep at Yale and two more wins at UMass Lowell, the team is just one win away from reaching that mark in hopes of making it eight straight division titles. Dartmouth has also won seven straight road games, the fourth-longest such streak in the country.
Purritano with a Triple-Triple
In the doubleheader at UMass Lowell on April 14, junior Joe Purritano hit three triples and was involved in the scoring of nine of the 10 Dartmouth runs to propel the team to the sweep. In the opener, he tied a Big Green record with two, two-run three-baggers down the right-field line and scored after each one to provide all six runs in the 6-5 squeaker. In the nightcap, the designated hitter boomed another triple, this time to right-center, for two more RBIs and crossed the plate moments later on a wild pitch to lift Dartmouth to a 4-2 triumph. He began the day without a triple and ended it tied for the league lead.
Purritano may merely be tuning up for Brown, a team that he has rocked for a .536 average with six homers and 15 RBIs in eight games in his career.
Fossand Fires Away
It took 30 games for freshman Jack Fossand to make his collegiate debut (primarily due to injury), and the rookie managed to earn a victory in his initial effort. He entered the first game at UMass Lowell to start the fourth and hurled two scoreless stanzas before being lifted with two on and one out in the sixth with Dartmouth leading 6-3. The bullpen may have allowed both runners to score, but Chris Burkholder held the lead for his first save of the season to give Fossand the 'W.'
Four-Game Sweep at Yale
On April 11-12, Dartmouth swept a four-game series at Yale for the first time ever, winning the four contests by a combined score of 35-14. The current format of playing four games at either Brown or Yale every year was instituted in 1993, meaning this was the 12th time the Big Green had played a four-game series at Yale Field.
Robinson Tosses First Shutout
Junior Duncan Robinson became the first Big Green pitcher to throw a complete-game shutout this year, the first of his career. The right-hander stymied the Yale bats on April 12, holding them to three hits over the seven-inning contest while striking out seven. He also extended his streak of innings without issuing a free pass to 24.2. But two other Ivy pitchers also threw three-hit shutouts, leaving the one that threw against the best offense (Cornell's Kellen Urbon) as the league's weekly award winner, though College Sports Madness did peg Robinson as its Ivy League Player of the Week.
Offense Explodes for 22 Runs
The Dartmouth offense had been in a bit of a slumber before the second game of the twinbill on April 11 at Yale, having gone 26 games without scoring more than eight runs, including a total of six runs in the previous four contests. That changed against the Bulldogs as the Big Green tallied 22 runs, their most since a 23-9 win over Fairleigh Dickinson on St. Patrick's Day in 2004. Dartmouth rapped out 17 hits to match a season high, and the seven-run eighth inning was its biggest output since a nine-run sixth at Harvard last year.
Parisi Sets Ivy Record with 4 2B
Senior Matt Parisi doubled up on doubling his double total in one game as he swatted four two-baggers against Yale in the 22-10 victory on April 11. Not only is he the third Big Green batter to collect four in one game ever (Al Fusonie in 1926, J.J. Curren in 1943), he also broke the record of three in a league game (which he shared already). Parisi finished the game 4-for-6 while matching a personal high with three runs and setting another with three RBIs.
Concato Brothers Earn Victories
Entering the Yale weekend, the Concato brothers, Louis and Mike, had just one victory between them in nine total starts. But both managed to earn a 3-2 win to bookend the series. First, Mike hurled eight innings of two-run ball as Dartmouth scored in the extra eighth inning to begin the weekend. Then Louis tossed a season-high seven stanzas and allowed just one run on six hits while matching a career high with six strikeouts as the Big Green bullpen held off the Bulldogs to complete the sweep.
Quality Starts Keep Coming
Dartmouth came into the series at Yale having had seven straight quality starts (six or more innings, three or fewer earned runs) from its rotation. The streak ended at eight after Mike Concato's strong performance, but picked right back up thanks to Duncan Robinson and Louis Concato. On the season the staff has provided 14 QS in 31 games, and that doesn't include a pair of starts that consisted of five scoreless innings.
Pitching, Defense Shining of Late
Over the last 16 games, Dartmouth has gone 11-5 thanks to a pitching staff that has posted a 3.04 ERA and a defense that has committed just nine errors for a sparkling .984 fielding percentage. Only three times in those 16 games have the Big Green allowed even five runs, all of which were victories. As a result, the staff ERA has dropped from 6.64 to 4.79 and the team fielding is back on top of the Ivy League (where it has been the last three years) at .973.
Whalen Reaches 500 Ivy Games
Dartmouth head coach Bob Whalen presided over his 500th Ivy League game with the Big Green in the final game against Yale on April 12, a 3-2 victory. In those 500 games he boasts a record of 284-216, a .568 winning percentage to go with 10 Rolfe Division titles and two Ivy League crowns.
Big Green Banter
• Joe Purritano has come alive lately with 13 RBIs in the last five games, more than half his season total of 24.
• Freshman Justin Fowler owns the team's longest current hitting streak at five games, and has reached base in the last 11 games he has played.
• Another freshman, Kyle Holbrook, has gradually improved at the plate with a .371 on-base percentage over the last 10 contests.
• Sophomore John Melody made his first career start, catching the 6-5 win at UMass Lowell while walking and scoring a run.
• If you throw out his first collegiate appearance, freshman Patrick Peterson has a 1.65 ERA over 16.1 innings in six outings on the mound.
• Freshman Dustin Shirley collected his first extra-base hit with a double in the 4-2 win over UMass Lowell on April 14.
• Sophomore Ben Socher swatted his first career home run, a solo shot in a 7-0 win at Yale.
• In the first three innings of a game, senior Matt Parisi is hitting .434 (23-of-53).
• Senior Adam Frank has pitched in every inning except the fifth this season and allowed just one run when on the mound after the second frame.
• Take away the second inning and Duncan Robinson has an ERA of 1.45.
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