Trojans Drop Another One-Run Decision
Game 2
Game 2
| Final | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | R | H | E |
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0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
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0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 1 |
MARION, Ind. – For the sixth time in 10 losses this season, the Taylor baseball team came up one run short, this time suffering a walk-off, 1-0 loss, at Indiana Wesleyan in a completion of the game that was suspended for fog on March 28.
Monday's action resumed in the top of the second inning, with Andrew Kennedy singling and Jared Adkins reaching on an error to open the action. The threat fizzled however and no Trojan reached base from the second through sixth innings of the seven-inning contest.
Brett Lawson ended the drought with an infield single with two outs in the seventh to snap a string of 15-straight outs made by the TU sticks, but the Wildcats (24-12, 10-4 CL) escaped the frame without damage and scored the 1-0 win on a one-out single in the bottom half of the inning.
Matt Patton (8-3) suffered the hard-luck loss, after yielding only one run in 5.1 innings of work and the duo of Kennedy and Lawson collected TU's two hits on the pair of singles.
The walk-off loss marked Taylor's fourth-such loss through 11 games in Crossroads League play and its sixth one-run setback on the season.
Taylor (26-10, 6-5 CL) will look to bounce back on Tuesday, when it hosts Mount Vernon Nazarene (19-13, 8-6 CL) in a nine-inning contest starting at 5:00 pm.