Big Green Take Series at Brown with 7-5 Victory

Sunday, April 14

Providence, R.I.

12:00 PM

Dartmouth College

11-18, 5-7

Brown

9-20, 6-6

Dartmouth

Brown

Freshman Justin Murray

Photo by: Brian Foley

Big Green Take Series at Brown with 7-5 Victory

4/14/2019 3:05:00 PM | Baseball

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Justin Murray provided seven strong innings on the mound

By: Rick Bender

HANOVER, N.H. — Freshman right-hander Justin Murray pitched seven strong innings and got home runs from senior Nate Ostmo and Ubaldo Lopez as Dartmouth (11-18, 5-7 Ivy) claimed the series at Brown (9-20, 6-6 Ivy) with a 7-5 victory on Sunday afternoon at Attanasio Family Field at Murray Stadium.

Murray (2-2) gave up two runs on just four hits and a pair of walks over his seven stanzas on the mound, striking out three along the way. Sophomore Max Hunter got the final five outs for his second save of the weekend and third of the season.

Senior Steffen Torgersen had three of the Big Green's 10 hits with a double, run and RBI, and his classmate Sean Sullivan reached base four times with a single, double and a pair of walks while scoring once and driving in two. Ostmo also had two RBIs and scored twice

Dartmouth got on the board in the first inning without the aid of a hit. Sullivan drew a leadoff walk, took second on a passed ball, advanced to third on a slow chopper to third and scored on Ostmo's grounder to short for a quick 1-0 lead.

In the second, junior Michael Calamari singled and was moved up to second on a sacrifice bunt. After a strikeout, Torgersen dropped an RBI single into right, followed by a single by junior Trevor Johnson and a Sullivan double down the left-field line to score both runners for a 4-0 Dartmouth lead.

A pair of walks to start the third set up the fifth Big Green run. Calamari hit a possible double-play grounder, but the throw to first was wild, allowing Ostmo to score an unearned run.

Ostmo scored the sixth run as well with a two-out, solo home run to left in the fifth, his second of the season.

Meanwhile, freshman Justin Murray cruised through the first five innings, shutting down Brown on just one hit and a pair of walks. But after retiring the first two hitters in the sixth, the Bears broke through with a pair of singles followed by a two-run double just inside the third-base bag by Garett Delano.

Dartmouth summoned sophomore Jonah Jenkins from the bullpen to start the eighth, but Parke Phillips lined a two-run homer to left with one down to cut the Bears' deficit in half. That brought Hunter to the mound, who allowed just a two-out single before getting the third out.

Lopez provided some insurance in the ninth by crushing a 2-1 pitch out to left-center for his team-leading fifth home run of the year.

In the bottom half, Brown battled back as Cameron Deere hit a sinking liner that got past a diving Johnson in center field for a triple, and Joe Lomuscio singled him home with one down. Hunter issued a free pass to put the tying run on first, but he got a force at third on a check-swing tapper back to the mound and a routine fly to center to close out the victory.

Will Tomlinson (1-4) suffered the loss, allowing five runs, three earned, on five hits and three walks in three-plus innings of work, striking out a pair. The Brown bullpen pitched in and out of trouble over the final six stanzas, allowing five hits and six walks, but the only runs to cross the plate were the two solo blasts.

Lomuscio, Phillips and Delano each had two hits for the Bears, and Calvin Farris drew three of their four walks.

Dartmouth returns home to host Middlebury College on Tuesday afternoon at 4 p.m., streamed live on ESPN+ with Wayne Young '72 and Justin McIsaac calling the action.

Notes: The Big Green have won 10 of the last 12 series against Brown, splitting the other two, and are now 151-110-1 in the all-time series … Dartmouth moved into a tie for fifth place in the Ivy League standings with Yale, four games behind league-leading Columbia, which swept the Bulldogs in New Haven this weekend … the Big Green will play their final three conference series at home, starting with a three-game set against Harvard, which is tied for second and a game behind the Lions, next weekend.