Completed Event: Baseball versus Cornell on April 27, 2025 , Win , 7, to, 4
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Saturday, April 27
Hanover, N.H.
1:00 PM
Dartmouth College
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Nate Ostmo is greeted by third-base coach Jonathan Anderson after his first-inning home run.
Photo by: Gil Talbot
Comeback Win Makes Senior Day Festive
4/27/2019 4:04:00 PM | Baseball
Dartmouth scored three in the seventh and one in the eighth to overcome a 5-3 deficit
HANOVER, N.H. — The seniors made sure Senior Day was a festive one as Dartmouth (14-21, 7-9 Ivy) rallied from a 5-3 deficit with three runs in the seventh and an insurance run in the eighth to defeat visiting Yale (14-23, 8-8 Ivy) on Saturday afternoon at Red Rolfe Field at Biondi Park, 7-5. Senior Nate Ostmo homered and drove in three runs to support the eight-inning start by senior Cole O'Connor.
All told, the four seniors in the batting lineup had 10 of the Big Green's 14 hits with three apiece for Matt Feinstein and Steffen Torgersen, while Ostmo and Sean Sullivan added two more each. That made a winner out of O'Connor (4-3), who overcame a rough first inning to throw 114 pitches in his eight frames, allowing 11 hits and five runs, four earned, while walking just one and striking out four.
The seventh-inning rally began with a pinch-hit single Michael Calamari, just the second pinch hit of the season by any Dartmouth player (2-for-28 with four walks). With junior Eric Stolt running for Calamari, Sullivan then beat out an infield hit, but came up lame when crossing the bag leading to another pinch runner in freshman Bryce Daniel. Feinstein followed with a base hit to load the bases, leading to a strange play.
Ostmo hit a chopper down the third-base line that was fielded by third baseman Mason LaPlante just inside the line. He stepped on the bag as he caught the ball, then threw to the plate to try and gun down Stolt. But catcher Cal Christofori did not realize LaPlante got the force at third and merely caught the throw with his foot on the plate, thinking the force was still in play. After a short umpire conference, the play stood as called with the run scoring, making it a 5-4 game.
Sophomore Ubaldo Lopez made that play moot by crushing a ball off the wall in dead center field for an RBI double, knotting the game at five. That ended Yale starter Scott Politz's day on the mound with Rohan Handa taking his place.
With the infield drawn in, junior Blake Crossing hit a hard liner that shortstop Simon Whiteman made a diving catch on to his left with a chance to double Lopez off second. But his underhand toss overshot the second baseman, allowing Ostmo to scramble home with the go-ahead run.
In the eighth, Daniel provided an insurance run by stroking a two-out RBI single to left, scoring junior Trevor Johnson who had reached on an error.
Sophomore Max Hunter pitched the ninth for his fourth save, working around a two-out error as the final out was tracked down on the warning track in center by Johnson to end the game.
The day did not begin well as Yale tallied three runs in the first as the first four batters hit safely. Two runs came home on a bunt single that was thrown wide of first and went down the right-field line. The third run trotted across the plate on a Griffin Dey line single to center.
Dartmouth quickly got back in the game as Feinstein and Ostmo belted back-to-back home runs in the bottom half, Feinstein's team-leading sixth long ball of the year and Ostmo's fifth.
Yale put solitary runs on the board in the third and fourth to take a 5-2 lead before the Big Green plated one in the fifth on an Ostmo sacrifice fly.
Politz (5-3) took the loss, yielding six runs, five earned, on 13 hits in 6.1 innings, walking one and striking out four. LaPlante had three of the Bulldogs' 11 hits, including a triple.
The second game was postponed until tomorrow due to the late start after the morning rain. The doubleheader will begin at 11:30 a.m. and will be streamed live on ESPN+ with Wayne Young '72 and Bob Lipman calling the action.
Notes: The win was the 599th for head coach Bob Whalen, now in his 30th season at the helm of the Big Green … Feinstein moved up to 15th on Dartmouth's career hit list with 167 … O'Connor is now 10th all-time at Dartmouth in innings pitched with 216.1 and with his start next weekend will tie the program record of 38 in a career … Torgersen extended his hitting streak to 10 games, the longest by a Dartmouth player this year, and boosted his league batting average to .403
All told, the four seniors in the batting lineup had 10 of the Big Green's 14 hits with three apiece for Matt Feinstein and Steffen Torgersen, while Ostmo and Sean Sullivan added two more each. That made a winner out of O'Connor (4-3), who overcame a rough first inning to throw 114 pitches in his eight frames, allowing 11 hits and five runs, four earned, while walking just one and striking out four.
The seventh-inning rally began with a pinch-hit single Michael Calamari, just the second pinch hit of the season by any Dartmouth player (2-for-28 with four walks). With junior Eric Stolt running for Calamari, Sullivan then beat out an infield hit, but came up lame when crossing the bag leading to another pinch runner in freshman Bryce Daniel. Feinstein followed with a base hit to load the bases, leading to a strange play.
Ostmo hit a chopper down the third-base line that was fielded by third baseman Mason LaPlante just inside the line. He stepped on the bag as he caught the ball, then threw to the plate to try and gun down Stolt. But catcher Cal Christofori did not realize LaPlante got the force at third and merely caught the throw with his foot on the plate, thinking the force was still in play. After a short umpire conference, the play stood as called with the run scoring, making it a 5-4 game.
Sophomore Ubaldo Lopez made that play moot by crushing a ball off the wall in dead center field for an RBI double, knotting the game at five. That ended Yale starter Scott Politz's day on the mound with Rohan Handa taking his place.
With the infield drawn in, junior Blake Crossing hit a hard liner that shortstop Simon Whiteman made a diving catch on to his left with a chance to double Lopez off second. But his underhand toss overshot the second baseman, allowing Ostmo to scramble home with the go-ahead run.
In the eighth, Daniel provided an insurance run by stroking a two-out RBI single to left, scoring junior Trevor Johnson who had reached on an error.
Sophomore Max Hunter pitched the ninth for his fourth save, working around a two-out error as the final out was tracked down on the warning track in center by Johnson to end the game.
The day did not begin well as Yale tallied three runs in the first as the first four batters hit safely. Two runs came home on a bunt single that was thrown wide of first and went down the right-field line. The third run trotted across the plate on a Griffin Dey line single to center.
Dartmouth quickly got back in the game as Feinstein and Ostmo belted back-to-back home runs in the bottom half, Feinstein's team-leading sixth long ball of the year and Ostmo's fifth.
Yale put solitary runs on the board in the third and fourth to take a 5-2 lead before the Big Green plated one in the fifth on an Ostmo sacrifice fly.
Politz (5-3) took the loss, yielding six runs, five earned, on 13 hits in 6.1 innings, walking one and striking out four. LaPlante had three of the Bulldogs' 11 hits, including a triple.
The second game was postponed until tomorrow due to the late start after the morning rain. The doubleheader will begin at 11:30 a.m. and will be streamed live on ESPN+ with Wayne Young '72 and Bob Lipman calling the action.
Notes: The win was the 599th for head coach Bob Whalen, now in his 30th season at the helm of the Big Green … Feinstein moved up to 15th on Dartmouth's career hit list with 167 … O'Connor is now 10th all-time at Dartmouth in innings pitched with 216.1 and with his start next weekend will tie the program record of 38 in a career … Torgersen extended his hitting streak to 10 games, the longest by a Dartmouth player this year, and boosted his league batting average to .403
Team Stats
Pitching:
W: O'Connor, Cole (4-3)
L: Politz, Scott (5-3)
S: Hunter, Max (4)
Batting:
2B: Ronai, Brian 1
3B: LaPlante, Mason 1
RBI: Whiteman, Simon 1 ; Dey, Griffin 1 ; Christofori, Cal 1
SH: Hegeman, Harry 1
SF: Whiteman, Simon 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Whiteman, Simon 1 ; LaPlante, Mason 1 ; DeGraw, Tim 1 ; Dey, Griffin 1 ; Ronai, Brian 1
Batting:
2B: Lopez, Ubaldo 1
HR: Feinstein, Matt 1 ; Ostmo, Nate 1
RBI: Daniel, Bryce 1 ; Feinstein, Matt 1 ; Ostmo, Nate 3 ; Lopez, Ubaldo 1
SH: Stolt, Eric 1
SF: Ostmo, Nate 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Sullivan, Sean 1 ; Feinstein, Matt 2 ; Ostmo, Nate 2 ; Johnson, Trevor 1 ; Stolt, Eric 1
PO: Crossing, Blake 1
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