Big Green Outslugged by No. 11 Boston College, 14-10

Wednesday, April 12

Hanover, N.H.

3:00 PM

Dartmouth College

1-24

Boston College

23-9

Boston College

Dartmouth

Milo Suarez went deep twice against the Eagles

Photo by: Kyle Relf

Big Green Outslugged by No. 11 Boston College, 14-10

4/12/2023 7:47:00 PM | Baseball

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Milo Suarez launched two bombs to lead Dartmouth's 15-hit attack

By: Rick Bender

HANOVER, N.H. — Freshman Milo Suarez crushed a pair of home runs to help Dartmouth produce its best offensive output in over three weeks, but the 11th-ranked Boston College Eagles were able to outlast the Big Green, 14-10, on Wednesday afternoon at Red Rolfe Field at Biondi Park. Nick Wang was the offensive star of the day for BC (23-9), going 5-for-6 with three doubles, a four-bagger, four runs and five RBIs as the Eagles banged out 16 hits against a program-record 11 Dartmouth pitchers.

The Big Green (1-24) matched a season high with 15 hits of their own, three apiece from sophomore Elliot Krewson and senior Peter O'Toole at the top of the lineup. Krewson was a perfect 3-for-3 on the day with two walks and scored three runs, while Suarez was 2-for-5 with his two round-trippers while driving in three.

The day began well for Dartmouth as it held BC scoreless in the first, leaving the bases loaded, before scoring two runs in the bottom half. Senior James House doubled home sophomore Jackson Hower, who had drawn a two-out walk, and senior Connor Bertsch followed with an RBI single.

The Eagles went right to work in responding to their early deficit, loading the bases with nobody out. Vince Cimini coaxed a walk to force in a run, and after a sacrifice fly, Travis Honeyman hit a ball to deep left-center, where it ricocheted off a fence post and back into center field. By the time the Big Green defense could run the ball down, Honeyman had the first-ever inside-the-park home run at Biondi Park, a three-run shot that gave BC a 5-2 lead.

Cohl Mercado drove in another Eagle run in the third with a base hit to score Wang, who hit his first double to start the stanza, but Dartmouth got that tally right back on another two-out RBI single off the bat of Bertsch, keeping Dartmouth with three at 6-3.

It looked as if Boston College would run away with the game when it pushed four more runs across the plate in the fourth, the big blows coming on a back-to-back doubles by Wang and Barry Walsh that combined to drive in three.

But the Big Green would not go quietly. A throwing error on a potential double play grounder in the fifth allowed Krewson to score, and Suarez led off the sixth with a towering blast to left for his first bomb of the day. Sophomore Luke Carroll then legged out a triple and scored on an O'Toole two-out single to make it a 10-6 game.

Wang got those runs back with a two-out, two-run double in the seventh, only to have Suarez crank a two-run blast in the Dartmouth half, his team-leading third homer of the season, whittling the deficit back to four runs at 12-8.

After O'Toole doubled Krewson to third with one out in the eighth, Hower lined a shot into center on which Walsh made a crucial diving catch on, turning the hard-hit ball into a sacrifice fly. The Big Green tried to steal another run on an infield hit by senior Ryan Schwartz, but the BC defense was alert enough to throw out O'Toole trying to score from second, leaving the score at 12-9.

Wang hit an opposite-field two-run blast in the ninth to extend the Eagles' lead back to five, yet there was Dartmouth chipping away again with two down in the ninth as Carroll walked, took second on defense indifference and sprinted home on senior Kolton Freeman's single to left-center. But Ian Murphy was able to finally end the game after three hours and 31 minutes by getting the final out on strikes.

Luke Delongchamp (1-0), the third of seven Boston College hurlers, picked up his first win of the year after allowing one run over two innings while striking out a pair. Murphy was credited with his first save after getting the final five outs.

Junior Shane Bauer (0-2) was stuck with the defeat, yielding five runs, four earned, on two hits and two walks in two-thirds of an inning.

Dartmouth will wrap up its 11-game home stand this weekend with Yale (10-16, 4-5 Ivy) in town for a three-game Ivy League series. Saturday's doubleheader will begin at 11:30 a.m. and the finale will take place on Sunday at noon. All three games will be streamed live on ESPN+ with Wayne Young '72 and Brett Franklin calling the action, and live stats will be available on DartmouthSports.com, the official website of Dartmouth Athletics.

Notes: Dartmouth has lost 17 consecutive games, surpassing a 16-game skid in 1979 as the longest in program history … Suarez is the first freshman to go yard twice in a game since Joe Purritano pulled off the feat twice in his rookie campaign back in 2013 … Suarez is also the second Big Green hitter in the last three games with two big flies, the other being Hower against Harvard this past weekend … Dartmouth pitchers issued 12 walks, the most in 20 years … only one pitcher in the entire game faced a hitter more than once, that being Boston College starter A.J. Colarusso, who pitched to 12 batters.