VICTORY! Gilmore Pitches Dartmouth to 2-1 Win in Final Game at Brown

Saturday, April 29

Providence, R.I. / Murray Stadium

11:30 AM

Dartmouth College

1-34, 0-17

Brown

10-23, 7-10

Dartmouth

Brown

Clark Gilmore threw Dartmouth's first nine-inning complete game in four years.

VICTORY! Gilmore Pitches Dartmouth to 2-1 Win in Final Game at Brown

4/29/2023 6:13:00 PM | Baseball

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The win ends the Big Green's 27-game losing streak

By: Rick Bender

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — The losing streak is no more.

Junior Clark Gilmore threw a complete game six-hitter and did not allow an earned run to help Dartmouth (2-34, 1-17 Ivy) end its program-record 27-game skid on Saturday with a 2-1 victory in the final game of the series at Brown. The Bears (10-24, 7-11 Ivy) rallied in the first game of the doubleheader to deny the Big Green that sense of relief earlier in the day, nipping the visitors, 4-3.

Gilmore (2-4) had not thrown more than five innings in any outing of his collegiate career, but he put Dartmouth on his back and made sure that the streak would go no further by becoming the first Big Green pitcher in nearly four years to throw a nine-inning complete game. The right-hander needed 109 pitches to get the 27 outs, and he struck out five without walking a batter.

Dartmouth wasted no time in taking a 1-0 lead in the nightcap as Tyler Robinson walked to start the game, stole second and scored on Elliot Krewson's base hit, one of just four in the game for the Big Green. Brown threatened to tie the game in the bottom half as Derian Morphew hit a leadoff double, but Gilmore left him there by retiring the next three hitters.

Gilmore dazzled the crowd with his defense in the second, retiring back-to-back hitters on behind-the-back grabs. But he faced a big threat in the fourth when Mika Petersen stroked a leadoff triple. Again Gilmore was up to the task, inducing a grounder to third that held Peterson, getting the second out on strikes and ending the inning on a routine grounder to second with the 1-0 lead intact.

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Brown managed to tie the game in the fifth, however, after a dropped fly ball with two gone put a man on first. A stolen base, hit batter and single through the right side by Morphew — who had half of the Bears' six hits in the game — brought home the unearned run.

In the seventh, the Big Green put together their own two-out rally against right-hander Bobby Olsen, who struck out the first two batters in the frame. But a walk to Connor Bertsch and a single to left off the bat of Zackarie Casebonne on his 104th pitch ended his afternoon with Christian Keel replacing him. Kolton Freeman worked the reliever for a walk on eight pitches, and Robinson was hit in the foot by a pitch to force in the go-ahead run.

After Gilmore retired the side in order in the seventh and Brown escaped a bases-loaded, one-out jam in the eighth, the Bears threatened again in the eighth. Morphew rapped a one-out single, and following a popup on a drag bunt attempt, Gilmore hit his second batter of the day to put two men with two down. Jacob Burley then hit a grounder in the shortstop hole to Krewson, whose throw was scooped out of the turf at first by Max Zajec to end the inning.

With 98 pitches under his belt, Gilmore was sent back to the mound to try and close out the win. He fell behind the first batter, 3-0, but battled back and got a popup to short. Although Logan Meusy did find the hole between short and third with two out, Gilmore got the final out on a fly to Robinson in center, who cradled the ball and grinned from ear to ear as the catcher Casebonne embraced Gilmore.

Olsen (3-4) took the tough-luck loss for surrendering the two runs on three hits in 6.2 innings of work, walking two and striking out six.

The Big Green took an early 1-0 lead in the opener as well with runners on the corners and two out in the second. Bertsch attempted to steal but stopped halfway, so when the catcher's throw went down to second, Milo Suarez scampered home before the Bears could tag Bertsch to end the inning.

Dartmouth starter Devin Milberg escaped a bases-loaded jam in the first and put two more zeroes on the board before being lifted in the fourth when the first batter reached on an error. Head coach Bob Whalen summoned Jack Metzger to the mound, and he quickly induced a double play to erase any chance of a rally.

The score remained 1-0 until the top of the sixth when Robinson hit a leadoff triple to left-center, and a pair of walks loaded the bases with nobody out. That ended Santhosh Gottam's day on the mound as he was replaced by Jack Seppings. Although he induced his own double play, Robinson was able to score on the twin killing, making it a 2-0 Dartmouth lead.

Metzger cruised into the seventh, but the Bears got a bloop double to fall in shallow left to start the stanza, and the floodgates opened. Morphew lined a single to right with one out for his third hit of the game, bringing home the first Brown run. Petersen followed with his third base hit as well, and D.J. Dillehay tied the game with a line single just over the leaping shortstop. A line drive was dropped on the infield, but the Green got the force at second for the second out. But following a stolen base, Ryan Marra looped a single into left to bring home two more and give Brown a 4-2 lead.

Robinson began the eighth as he did the sixth, with a triple, and one out later he sprinted home on Peter O'Toole's line drive sacrifice fly to center, cutting the Big Green deficit to one. But Sepping (2-2) struck out the side in the ninth to close out the win for the Bears and himself as he allowed just one run on two hits over four frames while fanning four.

Metzger (0-7) was tagged with the loss for giving up all four Brown runs on seven hits but no walks and three strikeouts.

Dartmouth returns home for a non-conference tilt on Tuesday against Merrimack (14-25) at 3 p.m. The game will be streamed live on ESPN+ with Wayne Young '72 and Bob Lipman calling the action, and live stats will be available through DartmouthSports.com, the official website of Dartmouth Athletics.

Notes: The last nine-inning complete game was thrown by Cole O'Connor against Cornell on May 4, 2019, though the Big Green lost the game, 8-6 … the last nine-inning, complete game victory was thrown by Duncan Robinson in a 1-0 win at USF on March 26, 2016 … coincidentally, Dartmouth's only other victory this season came against USF on March 14 … Brown won the season series from the Big Green for the first time since 2007 … Robinson is the 29th Dartmouth player with two triples in a game but first since Dustin Shirley against the University of Chicago on March 21, 2017 … he also has 10 triples in his career but only 14 extra-base hits.