Baseball Falls in Second Game of Youngstown State Series Saturday

Saturday, May 4

Youngstown, OH

3:00 PM

Wright State University

33-14, 15-8

Youngstown State

12-33, 6-14

Wright State

Youngstown State

Raiders drop second game of Youngstown State series

Photo by: Joseph Craven

Baseball Falls in Second Game of Youngstown State Series Saturday

5/4/2019 6:56:00 PM | Baseball

Box Score

By: AJ Schraffenberger

Youngstown, Ohio – The Raiders and Youngstown State Penguins continued their three-game weekend series Saturday afternoon, and after tying the game late, the Raiders dropped the second game of the series on a ninth inning sacrifice fly.

SCORING
1st Inning – For the second straight game of the series, the Raiders jumped out to an early lead in Saturday's game on an RBI single off the bat of Seth Gray.
6^th Inning – After surrendering 4 total runs in the second and fifth innings to the Penguins, a Zane Harris sacrifice fly cut the Youngstown State lead to two runs at 4-2.
7^th Inning – JD Orr brought home the third run of the game for Wright State on an RBI groundout, an unearned run due to a throwing error on the previous play.
8^th Inning – Chase Slone brought the game level in the eighth inning with an RBI single down the left field line, plating Peyton Burdick from third base.
9^th Inning – The Penguins would go on to win the game in the ninth with a one out sacrifice fly, evening the series at one game apiece.

The rubber match of the series will take place Sunday afternoon at 1:00 PM from Youngstown, Ohio. Live stats and audio for the final game are available through links on the schedule page at wsuraiders.com.