Fifth-inning meltdown derails Maryland baseball in 12-8 loss to No. 25 Iowa

Maryland baseball clinched a collection win on Saturday towards No. 25 Iowa with a 7-4 win. On Sunday, it regarded for a giant street sweep towards the Hawkeyes in its first Massive Ten collection of the 12 months.

Maryland was able to take action. It took a 6-1 lead into the underside of the fifth inning, and freshman lefty Kyle McCoy was cruising.

However in that body, two hits and a stroll loaded the bases with nobody out. A floor ball by Iowa redshirt sophomore utilityman Keaton Anthony was misplayed by junior second baseman Kevin Keister, which allowed two runs to attain. It was all downhill from there, as Iowa scored 9 runs within the backside of the fifth on eight complete hits. The five-run Maryland lead was a four-run deficit.

The Terps couldn’t reply to the Hawkeyes’ huge rally, dropping the third and closing recreation of the collection, 12-8. Maryland nonetheless bought a street collection win, but it surely could not end off the Hawkeyes.

Sunday’s recreation began precisely like Saturday’s, as junior catcher Luke Shliger hit a leadoff residence run, giving Maryland an early lead. Regardless of this, Iowa junior right-handed pitcher Ty Langenberg stored the Terps at bay early, putting out six and giving up just one hit in his first three innings of labor.

Iowa responded to Shliger’s residence run with a giant hit of its personal, as redshirt junior outfielder Kyle Huckstorf hit an RBI double to tie issues up within the first.

McCoy and Langenberg traded two scoreless innings, holding it a tie recreation after three innings.

Within the fourth, a leadoff double by Keister was adopted up by a Bobby Zmarzlak no-doubt residence run, extending Maryland’s result in two.

Within the fifth, Shliger was hit by a pitch, and senior third baseman Nick Lorusso singled to place two runners on, extending his hitting streak to 26 video games. After a strikeout by junior shortstop Matt Shaw, fifth-year outfielder Matt Woods, Keister, and Zmarzlak all hit respective RBI singles to stretch the Terps’ result in 5, which pressured Langenberg out of the sport. Maryland then loaded the bases with a stroll by sophomore outfielder Jacob Orr, however stranded the bases loaded with a strikeout.

The Hawkeyes have been unfazed within the backside of the fifth, shortly loading the bases. After Keister’s error at second, graduate utilityman Brennen Dorighi hit an RBI single and Huckstorf adopted with a single of his personal that tied the sport up. That pressured McCoy, who couldn’t report an out in his fifth inning of labor, out of the sport. Junior righty Nate Haberthier got here in for aid, however Iowa’s bats didn’t cease.

Raider Tello gave the Hawkeyes the lead with an RBI single, and sophomore utilityman Sam Petersen walked. Three extra runs shortly crossed the plate, as redshirt junior infielder Sam Hojnar subsequently launched a ball over the middle subject fence. Two extra hits pressured Haberthier out of the sport — he was solely capable of report one out. Sophomore southpaw Andrew Johnson lastly shut down the monstrous Iowa rally with two fast outs.

Maryland chipped away within the sixth, when Shliger and Shaw each reached base on an error and a stroll, respectively, and a throwing error put them in scoring place. Woods knocked one in with a single, and Keister walked to load the bases with one out. Zmarzlak drove residence his fourth run of the day on an infield single, and the lead was lower to 2. However, sophomore first baseman Eddie Hacopian ended the rally by hitting right into a double play that stranded the bases loaded.

Johnson and Iowa freshman left-handed pitcher Cade Obermueller traded two scoreless innings, cooling down the red-hot bats for the primary time shortly.

Within the backside of the eighth, Johnson was pulled after a stroll, and Nigel Belgrave regarded to maintain the Terps inside two headed to the ninth. Iowa woke again up, as Huckstorf hit a single and Tello hit one other to offer the Hawkeyes some insurance coverage. Belgrave loaded the bases however solely surrendered another run after a handed ball by Shliger.

A four-run ninth-inning deficit was an excessive amount of for the Terps, as they dropped recreation three of the collection.

The Terps will face William & Mary on Tuesday and Rutgers subsequent weekend.

Three issues to know

1. Disastrous fifth inning. Three runs, 4 hits, and two free passes lifted Maryland to a five-run lead. Iowa erased it in a heartbeat, although, accumulating eight hits, 9 complete runs, and two walks within the backside of the fifth to show a five-run deficit right into a four-run lead. Maryland couldn’t report its first out until the tenth batter of the inning, a testomony to how poor Maryland’s pitching has been at occasions this season.

2. The underside of Maryland’s order underperformed. Hacopian, Orr and sophomore outfielder Elijah Lambros mixed to go 0-for-12 within the recreation, with Orr and Hacopian each having a stroll. Whereas unhealthy stretches are inevitable, the underside of Maryland’s order was unable to maintain rallies going, both putting out or hitting rally-killing floor balls that damage the Terps’ means to match Iowa’s offense.

3. No sweep, however a giant collection win. Regardless of tough pitching all collection lengthy, Sunday’s recreation doesn’t take away how large this street collection win is for Maryland. Iowa was the one ranked opponent within the Massive Ten headed into the weekend and it had the very best ERA within the convention. Regardless of this, Maryland put up 25 complete runs in three video games, miraculously overcoming a five-run deficit in recreation one and getting a giant win in recreation two.