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Saturday, April 15
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Dartmouth College
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Yale in Town for Three Games This Weekend
4/14/2023 12:34:00 PM | Baseball
Dartmouth took the series from the Bulldogs in New Haven last year
DARTMOUTH (1-24, 0-9) vs. YALE (10-16, 4-5)
April 15-16, 2023 • Red Rolfe Field at Biondi Park • Hanover, N.H.
April 15-16, 2023 • Red Rolfe Field at Biondi Park • Hanover, N.H.
Home Stand Concludes
Dartmouth is wrapping up an 11-game home stand with three games against Yale. The Big Green have uncharacteristically had a rough spell on their home field, dropping the first eight contests, lowering their winning percentage at Red Rolfe Field at Biondi Park to .661 since it opened in 2009.
Overall Record vs. Yale
• The two teams have met 237 times on the diamond with the Bulldogs leading 132-104-1.
• Dartmouth took the series last year after winning just one game against Yale in each of the previous four seasons (2016-19).
• But going back to 2009, the Big Green have won 28 of the last 45 meetings (.622).
• The last sweep in the series was by the Big Green in 2015, winning all four games in New Haven.
• Dartmouth won the first 11 games against the Bulldogs at Biondi Park and is 14-6 at the site.
• Over the last 100 years, the Green have hosted Yale for 98 games, going 54-44 in that span.
• Big Green head coach Bob Whalen enters this series with a 62-55 mark versus Yale.
• The first game in the series took place 141 years ago in 1881 when Dartmouth defeated Yale, 6-3.
Last Year vs. Yale
• Dartmouth sandwiched two wins around a loss at the newly named George H.W. Bush '48 Field.
• In the opener, the Big Green rapped out 14 hits — with Tyler Cox going 4-for-5 with three runs and four RBIs — to support seven solid innings from Nate Skinner en route to a 14-4 rout of the Bulldogs.
• Yale avenged its loss in the nightcap of the doubleheader as Grant Kipp threw a three-hitter and the Bulldog offense scored all of its runs in the first four frames in a 5-1 win over the Green.
• The Dartmouth bats got back on track in the finale, putting five runs on the board in the top of the first to bolster Justin Murray's 7.2 innings of four-run ball. Murray, Kade Kretzschmar and Connor Bertsch each had three hits and Kolton Freeman drove in three.
Scouting the Bulldogs
• Yale went through a bit of a slump in March, losing nine of 10 in one stretch, including a series at home to Cornell. But after winning its next four with a sweep of Brown on the road, the Bulldogs were swept by Columbia last weekend, each game by a single run.
• The offense is fifth in the league in scoring at over six runs per game with a team slash line of .263/.380/.361.
• Jimmy Chatfield has been more likely to get on base than make an out with an on-base percentage of .504. He also leads the team in 11 other offensive categories.
• The Bulldogs love to run with a league-high 58 stolen bases.
• Yale owns the second-best ERA in the league at 5.81 and easily leads the Ancient Eight in fewest walks issued per nine innings (3.6).
• The Bulldogs don't have one closer, but four pitchers with one save apiece.
• The defense has been perhaps Yale's biggest strength with a stellar .983 fielding percentage, seventh in the country.
• Brian Hamm (Middlebury '02) is in his first season at the helm of the Bulldogs. Prior to joining the Bulldogs Hamm led Eastern Connecticut State to the 2022 NCAA Division III National Championship, capping a season in which the Warriors went 49-3.
Probable Starting Pitchers
• Dartmouth has RHP Jack Metzger (0-4, 7.26), among the top five nationally in walks per nine innings and K-BB ratio, ready to go for the opener after he held Harvard to two runs over a career-long eight innings last week. If Yale uses the same rotation as last week, RHP Daniel Cohen (1-3, 4.50) will get the nod. He surrendered just one unearned run to the potent Columbia lineup over 5.1 innings, but that was enough to suffer the loss in a 1-0 contest.
• Game two will feature LHP Trystan Sarcone (0-5, 9.58) on the mound for the Big Green. The fifth-year senior has had his struggles after being named to the All-Ivy Second Team last year, but he has been performing much better of late with an ERA of 5.40 against Ivy teams. Expect the Bulldogs to go with RHP Colton Shaw (2-3, 4.67) who went the distance last week only to take a 3-2 defeat.
• Dartmouth hasn't announced who will start the finale, that will be presented by Milton CAT, but LHP Devin Milberg (0-1, 6.52) is the likely candidate after getting the nod last weekend and tossing three scoreless stanzas. Yale has LHP Reid Easterly (3-2, 3.71) lined up after a quality start against Columbia of two earned runs over 7.0 innings, but like the other two starters was stuck with the loss.
What's Up Next
Dartmouth gets back on the road for its next eight contests, starting with a visit to the Siena Saints on Wednesday. Next weekend, the Big Green head to the Big Apple for a three-game series against the defending Ivy champions, Columbia.
Bats Break Out Versus BC
In the 13 games since suffering a demoralizing 12-10 loss at UCF on March 18, the Dartmouth offense had struggled mightily, averaging about 3.4 runs per game while hitting a collective .184. It took a matchup with the 11th-ranked Eagles to snap the lumber out of its slumber as the Big Green scored in seven of the nine innings while putting a 10-spot on the board and matching a season high with 15 hits. Alas, it was not enough to end Dartmouth's losing streak as Boston College escaped Hanover with a 14-10 win.
Hitting the Ball a Country Milo
Freshman Milo Suarez returned to the lineup against BC after missing the Harvard series with an injury, and he showed that he healed up nicely by cranking not one, but two home runs in the 14-10 loss. He is the second Big Green hitter to launch two long balls in a game in a three-game span (read on to find out who the other one was). All three of his team-leading three home runs have come against ranked ACC teams (Miami).
Krewson for Perfection
Slotted at the top of the lineup for just the fifth time this season, Elliot Krewson did exactly what any coach wants out of his leadoff hitter, reaching base in all five of his plate appearances (for the second time this season). The sophomore alternated singles and walks, going 3-for-3 on the day while scoring three runs as well. It was his second three-hit day of the season and third of his career.
(Boston) College of Pitchers
I'm harkening back to the old "College of Coaches" that ran the Chicago Cubs in the early '60s, but how many pitchers does it take to get 27 outs? It may sound like the setup for a joke, but against No. 11 Boston College, Dartmouth found out the answer is 11. Only one Big Green pitcher — Danny Will — faced more than six batters on the day, and unsurprisingly had the most success, tossing 1.2 scoreless innings in relief. The 11 pitchers are being claimed by me as a school record, but if you can find a game with a dozen, more power to you. Dartmouth did use 10 pitchers in last year's season finale, a thrilling 12-11 victory in 10 innnings over Columbia, so using that many pitchers isn't necessarily a bad thing.
Putting His O'Tooles On Display
Infielder Peter O'Toole is making the most of his opportunities in the field these days. Since rejoining the lineup at the start of the month, the senior has hit safely in seven of the eight games while batting an even .400 (12-for-30) with five doubles, three walks and five RBIs while posting an on-base percentage of .470. His .364 average in the Ivy League leads the team as well.
Beware the Ides of March
Back on March 15, Dartmouth lost a hard-fought, 4-3 game at South Florida. Little did the team realize that would be the start of the current 17-game losing streak, the longest in program history. The previous longest was 16 games, suffered during the 1979 campaign. Oddly enough, it was a 15-6 win over Boston College that snapped the skid, something this year's team could not repeat.
Hitting Hower-itzers
I told you I would get to other Big Green player to hit two homers in a game this season. Jackson Hower entered the second game against Harvard with nary a four-bagger to his name in 94 career at-bats. But in his third plate appearance, the sophomore left no doubt about his first career homer, a solo shot. He liked how it felt so much that he belted another bomb his next time up, this one a two-run shot (the first one all season for the Big Green with a runner on base), giving him a career-high three RBIs.
Late Leads Lost to Harvard
Dartmouth had two terrific opportunities to put its losing streak in the rear-view mirror on April 8 against Harvard, but the Crimson rallied late to snatch the games away from the Green. First, Jack Metzger tossed a career-long eight innings and yielded just two runs while striking out seven. But the 3-2 lead he enjoyed when he departed was ruined by a grand slam in the ninth, giving Harvard a 6-3 victory. In the nightcap, Dartmouth had a 6-3 lead behind seven strong innings from Trystan Sarcone — his best start of the year — before the Crimson touched the Big Green bullpen for six runs in the eighth en route to a 10-6 triumph.
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