Big Green Split Road Doubleheader with Brown

Saturday, April 13

Providence, R.I.

11:30 AM

Dartmouth College

10-17, 0

Brown

8-19, 0

Dartmouth

Brown

Matt Feinstein homered in both ends of the doubleheader.

Photo by: Brian Foley

4/13/2019 5:56:00 PM | Baseball

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Matt Feinstein homered in both games of the twinbill, the first giving Dartmouth the lead for good

By: Rick Bender

Senior Matt Feinstein and sophomore Ubaldo Lopez homered in the seventh inning of the first game of a doubleheader to break a 3-3 tie, and sophomore Max Hunter retired the six Brown batters he faced to save a 6-4 victory for Dartmouth senior Cole O'Connor on Saturday at Attanasio Family Field at Murray Stadium. But the Bears (9-19, 6-5 Ivy) rebounded in the nightcap to salvage a split of the twinbill with a 13-6 victory over the Big Green (10-18, 4-7 Ivy).

Feinstein and fellow senior Sean Sullivan led Dartmouth at the plate with four hits apiece with Feinstein smacking long balls in each game along with a two-run triple in the opener, while Sullivan was 2-for-5 with a single, double and run scored in both ends.

Brown got on the board first thanks to a leadoff walk to Parke Phillips in the second inning. Mark Sluys followed by beating out an infield hit, and after O'Connor got the first out on strikes, Rich Ciufo rapped a ball back through the middle to plate Phillips. That would be all of the damage in the inning, however, as Sluys was thrown out at third trying to take an extra base and Ciufo was gunned down trying to steal second.

An uncharacteristic bout of wildness in the bottom of the fourth proved costly for O'Connor when he walked Phillips and Sluys with two gone before Garett Delano helped his own cause with an RBI single into right-center.

Delano navigated the first four innings without surrendering a run but was not as fortunate in the fifth. Sophomore Bennett McCaskill stroked a one-out double to right-center and Sullivan hit a sinking liner to to the opposite gap that just eluded a diving center fielder for a two-bagger. Though McCaskill could only advance to third as he waited to see if the ball would be caught, it did not matter when Feinstein lined a full-count pitch into the alley in right-center for a two-run triple. Senior Nate Ostmo wasted no time in giving Dartmouth a 3-2 lead, ripping the very next pitch for an RBI single to left.

Brown knotted the score at three in the sixth when a double play grounder was booted for an error and another possible double play produced only a force at second. With runners on the corners and one out, Delano sent a fly ball to center that brought home the unearned run.

The Bears went to the bullpen to start the seventh, and Feinstein quickly put the Big Green back on top, belting a one-out, solo homer to left off of Charlie Beilenson (0-1). After Ostmo dropped down a bunt single on the next pitch, Lopez crushed a two-out blast to left for his fourth home run of the year and a 6-3 Dartmouth lead.

O'Connor departed after seven innings of work in which he allowed three runs, two earned, on seven hits and three walks with four strikeouts. But like the Big Green, Brown jumped on the reliever as Calvin Farris launched the first pitch over the fence in right-center, his first four-bagger of the year. When the next batter walked, Dartmouth head coach Bob Whalen turned to sophomore southpaw Max Hunter, who retired the next three hitters to keep the Bears at bay, then did so again in the ninth for his second save.

In the nightcap, Brown jumped out to a 2-0 lead through three innings with solitary runs in the first and third, both thanks to leadoff hitter Joe Lomuscio. His hustled for a double on his hard grounder to the left of second base, then scored after a pair of singles by Farris and Phillips. In the third, he cranked his second home run of the season over the left-field fence.

But as in the first game, Dartmouth struck back, scoring an unearned run in the fourth before back-to-back two-out hits through the right side by Feinstein and Ostmo plated Sullivan in the fifth, knotting the score at two.

It took three pitches for the Bears to reclaim the lead as Frank Caprio was hit with the first pitch, Lomuscio bunted him to second and Farris sent the third offering to the opposite field over the fence in left for a two-run shot, his second of the day.

A Blake Crossing single and Ben Rice double in the sixth put the tying runs on for the Big Green, but only one would cross the plate when junior Trevor Johnson grounded out to short. But Brown scored twice in the bottom half when Willy Homza rapped a two-out, bases-loaded single back through the box to score a pair of runs and extend the Bears' lead to 6-3.

Brown scored a run in the seventh on two walks and two hit batters, then blew the game open with a six-run eighth, capped by Lomuscio with his second long ball of the game, this time a two-run shot to left-center.

Johnson matched Lomuscio's two-run four-bagger in the ninth, his third of the year, and Feinstein added his second of the day and fourth of the season down the line in left, but that would be all for the Big Green.

Collin Garner (2-4) earned the victory, giving up three runs, two earned, over six stanzas on seven hits and two walks while fanning four. Skinner (1-5) was stuck with the loss for yielding four runs on eight hits and one walk in 4.2 innings of work to go with four strikeouts.

The two teams will play the rubber game of the series on Sunday at noon with Dartmouth freshman Justin Murray (1-2, 5.76) squaring off against Brown's Will Tomlinson (1-3, 5.90). The game will be streamed live on ESPN+ with Mike Rubin calling the action.

Notes: The win in the opener ended Dartmouth's five-game skid … O'Connor surpassed 200 career innings with his outing today and walked two batters in one inning for just the third time … both Feinstein and Lopez have four home runs to lead the team … Johnson drove in a career-high three runs in the nightcap … junior Austin Michel, a second-team All-Ivy League reliever last year, made his season debut on the mound in the eighth inning of the second game and recorded one out before departing.