Big Green Come Up One Run Short in Series Finale at Yale

Sunday, April 22

New Haven, Conn.

1:00 PM

Dartmouth College

10-19-1, 6-5-1

Yale

17-16, 11-4

Dartmouth

Yale

Big Green Come Up One Run Short in Series Finale at Yale

4/22/2018 3:40:00 PM | Baseball

NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Dartmouth scored twice in the eighth and put the tying run in scoring position with one out in the ninth, but could not quite battle back in the third and final game at Yale in a 5-4 defeat. Griffin Dey and Alex Stiegler both had three hits and a pair of RBIs to lead the Bulldogs (17-16, 11-4 Ivy), while Matt Feinstein homered and drove in two runs for the Big Green (10-19-1, 6-5-1 Ivy).

The decisive inning came in the fifth when Yale rallied from a 2-1 deficit to score four runs. Dartmouth starter Clay Chatham, who had only been touched for a run in the second on back-to-back doubles by Dey and Stiegler, lost his command. After a leadoff walk — the only free pass of the game for either team — and a hit batter, the Big Green called upon left-hander Michael Parsons from the bullpen. But after getting the first out, Parsons loaded the bases on another hit batter, then surrendered a two-run single to Dey and a two-run double to Stiegler, his second of three two-baggers on the day.

Yale starter Eric Brodkowitz kept Dartmouth off the board in the sixth and seventh, but ran into trouble in the eighth when junior Nate Ostmo singled and freshman Bennett McCaskill ripped a one-out, RBI double. With the tying runs on base, Brodkowitz was lifted after throwing 96 pitches in favor of first baseman Benny Wanger. Junior Matt Feinstein came through with a two-out single to center, plating McCaskill, but Wanger got the third out on a called third strike to preserve the 5-4 Bulldog lead.

In the ninth, senior Kyle Holbrook gave the Green hope by stroking a double with one gone. A tapper back to the mound put Holbrook 90 feet away from tying the game, but Wanger got his second strikeout to end the game and earn his fifth save.

Dartmouth originally took the lead one out into the game on Feinstein's second home run of the season, a solo blast to left. In the second, Ostmo rapped a two-out single and sprinted home on a double to the gap in left-center off the bat of junior Steffen Torgersen.

Brodkowitz (5-2) picked up the win after allowing the four runs over 7.1 innings on six hits while striking out four.

Chatham (1-4) suffered the loss as he surrendered three runs on five hits over four-plus frames, walking one and striking out three. Sophomore reliever Tyler Fagler kept the Bulldogs off the board for three innings, yielding three hits and punching out two.

Dartmouth begins a seven-game homestand on Wednesday when the Big Green host Siena (10-27) at Red Rolfe Field at Biondi Park at 3 p.m. The game will be streamed live on the Ivy League Network, now available on Apple TV, Roku and the ILN app for Android and Apple devices, with Wayne Young '72 calling the action.

Notes: With the two teams splitting a doubleheader yesterday, Dartmouth lost its first Ivy League series of the year … Yale has won the season series from the Big Green each of the last three years … sophomore Blake Crossing was 0-for-4 and had his streak of reaching base end at 19 games, though Holbrook extended his streak to 19 with his ninth-inning double.