Dartmouth Looks to Snap Skid at Siena on Wednesday

DARTMOUTH (1-27) at SIENA (6-29)
April 19, 2023 • Connors Park • Loudonville, N.Y.

On the Road Again
Dartmouth began the year with 17 straight games away from Hanover and just concluded an 11-game home stand. Now the Big Green start an eight-game road trip at Siena.

Overall Record vs. Siena
• The two teams have met a dozen times previously with Dartmouth sporting a 9-2-1 record.
• The Big Green have not lost to the Saints since 2008, winning six and tying another along the way.
• Dartmouth is 3-1-1 at Siena's ballpark with the lone loss coming in 2008.
• The Saints won the first matchup back in 2002 by a 4-1 count.

Last Year Against the Saints
• Dartmouth opened up a 7-0 lead through three innings at Red Rolfe Field at Biondi Park.
• Zackarie Casabonne started the scoring with a three-run double in the second, and in the third, Kolton Freeman hit a two-run blast and Max Zajec drove in two more with a single.
• Luke Carpenter, the first of eight Big Green pitchers, got his first career win on the mound in a scheduled two-inning start without surrendering a run.
• Zajec finished the day with four RBIs thanks to a two-run triple in the fifth as well, and Kade Kretzschmar completed the scoring with a two-run homer in the sixth.

Scouting the Saints
• Like the Big Green, Siena has gone through its struggles, suffering through a 15-game losing streak earlier this season.
• Despite hitting 27 home runs, the offense is struggling even more than Dartmouth's with a slash line of .212/.312/.324 while averaging 3.2 runs per game.
• Vincent DiNicola is the lone .300 hitter on the team at exactly .300 and leads the squad in doubles (8), homers (5) and slugging (.530).
• The pitching staff has an 8.38 ERA but also surrendered 66 unearned runs and walked 6.3 batters per nine innings.
• Relievers have saved four of the six wins for the team with Noah Rodriguez earning three.
• The defense has committed 51 errors for a .958 fielding percentage while allowing 89 stolen bases in 109 attempts.
• Joe Sheridan (UCF '20) took over as interim head coach on March 20 following the retirement of 54-year head coach Tony Rossi. Since taking the reins, Sheridan has led the Saints to a 4-13 record. As a collegiate player, he last pitched for Notre Dame in 2021, tying for the team lead in saves and helping the Fighting Irish reach an NCAA Super Regional.

What's Up Next
The Big Green will travel to the Big Apple to play three games at Columbia this weekend.

Heartbreaking Losses to Yale
Dartmouth could not quite snap its program-record losing streak this past weekend as Yale held off the Big Green in each of the three contests. First, Dartmouth closed to within two runs in the eighth of game one, 5-3, before the Bulldogs tallied 11 runs in the ninth. In game two, the Green led 2-0 after seven but surrendered single runs in the eighth and ninth — the second one unearned — and Yale scored five in the 10th to win, 7-2. And on Sunday, the team locked horns in a classic pitchers' duel with the game's only run crossing the plate in the seventh on a bases-loaded walk in a 1-0 defeat.

Stellar Starting Pitching …
Dartmouth's starting pitchers struggled in the early part of the season, but they have really come into their own of late. Over the last eight games, the starters have combined to throw 40.2 innings while surrendering just 10 earned runs for an ERA of 2.21. Devin Milberg is still building up his stamina, but in three starts has yet to allow a run over 8.2 innings. Trystan Sarcone tossed seven scoreless stanzas against Yale and has a 1.93 ERA in 14 innings during this stretch. And Jack Metzger has hurled eight innings in each of his two starts, striking out 11 and walking just one while posting a solid 3.38 ERA.

Prepare for today's noon @BigGreenBasebal game, presented by Milton CAT, by watching the No. 5 play from @SportsCenter #Top10 last night featuring Tyler Robinson (and a little Kolton Freeman for good measure)!#GoBigGreen | #TheWoods🌲 | @IvyLeague | @IvyOnESPN pic.twitter.com/n96oTWYbNY
— Dartmouth Athletics (@dartmouthsports) April 16, 2023

… and Some Stellar Defense
Tyler Robinson make a sensational diving catch to start the eighth inning of game two while Dartmouth held a 2-0 lead. It was so spectacular that it was featured on ESPN SportsCenter's Top 10 Plays on Saturday, April 15. Take a look for yourself in the embedded Twitter video clip. Not only that, but @NCAABaseball featured a brilliant behind-the-back stab of a comebacker by Clark Gilmore on Sunday. Those were two of just numerous terrific defensive plays by both the Big Green and Yale over the weekend.

Freeman Frees the Ball
Last year, Kolton Freeman led the Big Green with eight home runs. But this season, that power stroke had escaped him … until the opening game against Yale, that is. The senior opened the fifth inning by crushing the first pitch thrown over the left-field fence for his first long ball of the year. It was also the 10th of his career.

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