Big Green Win Final Road Game, 6-4, at Siena

Wednesday, April 24

Loudonville, N.Y.

3:00 PM

Dartmouth College

13-21

Siena

11-26

Dartmouth

Siena

Sophomore Jonah Jenkins

Photo by: Brian Foley

4/24/2019 5:36:00 PM | Baseball

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Jonah Jenkins left the tying runs stranded in the ninth for his first save

By: Rick Bender

LOUDONVILLE, N.Y. — Senior Nate Ostmo homered and drove in three runs, and sophomore Jonah Jenkins stranded the tying runs in scoring position in the ninth to earn his first career save and help Dartmouth (13-21) defeat Siena (11-26) at Connors Park on Wednesdasy afternoon, 6-4.

Junior Alec Vaules (2-2) earned the victory for his five-inning start, allowing the four runs on seven hits and one walk. Four Big Green relievers kept the Saints of the board for the last four innings, scattering six hits and a pair of walks while fanning three.

Ostmo gave Dartmouth a quick 1-0 lead with a two-out, solo blast in the top of the first, his fourth home run of the season. But Siena answered back with three runs on four hits in its half, capped by a Devan Kruzinski two-out, two-run single, his first of four hits on the afternoon.

After leaving the bases loaded in the third, the Big Green did not let a scoring opportunity pass them by in the fourth as freshman Ben Rice ripped an RBI double to left-center, scoring senior Steffen Torgersen from first after he extended his hitting streak to nine games with a leadoff single. One out later, freshman Bryce Daniel stroked a single and junior Trevor Johnson was plunked to load the bases, ending the day for Saints starter Matt Pierce. Junior Blake Crossing greeted reliever Avery Short with a fly ball to center, deep enough to score Rice, and Ostmo followed with a ringing two-run double to left for a 5-3 Big Green lead.

Senior Matt Feinstein yanked the first pitch of the fifth inning over the fence down the left-field line, thing him for the team lead with his fifth home run of the season. Although Rice added a one-out single, the Siena bullpen stifled Dartmouth the rest of the game, retiring 13 straight batters while yielding just a harmless infield single to Ostmo — his third hit of the day — with two gone in the ninth.

Vaules issued his lone free pass to start the fifth, and Ryan McGee singled him to second. A sacrifice bunt moved the runners up, and Brian Kelly brought home one run with an infield single. That would be all in the inning, however, as Vaules induced a double play to end the rally and the inning.

The Saints had an opportunity to close the gap further in each of the next three innings against the Big Green bullpen with leadoff singles in each stanza. But Rice gunned down the first trying to steal second, which proved to be costly for Siena as the next two batters also reached. Freshman Chase Jeter was summoned from the bullpen and he escaped the jam on a liner to left and a called third strike.

Jeter stranded two runners in the seventh, and freshman Trystan Sarcone induced a double play in the eighth to erase the runner.

In the ninth, Sarcone retired the first hitter but McGee slapped his fourth single of the game to center to bring Jenkins into the game. Zach Durfee greeted him with a single, but Jenkins fanned Kelly for the second out. A wild pitch put the tying runs into scoring position, but clean-up hitter Nick Ramos chopped a grounder to second to end the game.

Pierce (0-2) took the loss for yielding five runs on six hits and two walks over 3.1 innings.

Dartmouth (6-9 Ivy League) will play its final seven games of the season on its home field at Red Rolfe Field at Biondi Park, starting with a three-game series against Yale (14-22, 8-7 Ivy) this weekend. The Big Green will observe Senior Day to honor their senior class on Saturday between games of the doubleheader that starts at 11:30 a.m., while first pitch on Sunday for the finale will be at noon. All three games will be streamed live on ESPN+ with Wayne Young '72 joined in the booth by Brett Franklin on Saturday and Bob Lipman on Sunday.

Notes: The win was the 598th for head coach Bob Whalen, now in his 30th season at the helm of the Big Green … all 13 of Siena's hits were singles … Rice, who has seven starts behind the dish in his rookie season, has thrown out four of the six runners who have tried to steal against him this season … Dartmouth has hit 67 doubles this season, its most since banging out 98 in 2013.