No. 17 ECU Evens Series With Cincinnati, 6-4

Saturday, April 30

Greenville, N.C.

4:00 PM

East Carolina University

27-16, 8-6

Cincinnati

21-22, 9-5

Cincinnati

East Carolina

April 30, 2016 | Baseball

Box Score

April 30, 2016

Box Score

GREENVILLE, N.C. - Jimmy Boyd tossed six shutout innings, while Turner Brown, Parker Lamm and Eric Tyler each recorded two hits as No. 17 East Carolina won game two of the American Athletic Conference series over Cincinnati 6-4 Saturday afternoon at Lewis Field inside Clark-LeClair Stadium. With the win the Pirates even the weekend set and improve to 27-16 overall and 8-6 in league play, while the Bearcats drop to 21-22 and 9-5.

Boyd (6-3) picked up the win scattering four hits, walking two and striking out six over his six scoreless frames. The right-hander tallied his sixth quality start and is now the team leader with six victories. Joe Ingle notched his league-leading ninth save with a scoreless ninth frame that included one strikeout. Matt Bridges allowed a pair of runs (both earned) on two hits with two punch outs in two innings, while Chris Holba gave up two runs (both earned) without retiring a batter.

J.T. Perez (5-3) suffered the loss surrendering all six Pirate runs (five earned) on 11 hits with three walks and four strikeouts in 5.1 innings. Jarod Yoakam (0.2 IP, 1 H), Dalton Lehnen (1.0 IP, 1 BB) and Cal Jarrett (1.0 IP, 1 H, 1 BB) worked the final 2.2 frames without giving up a run.

For the 23rd time this season the Pirates had double-digit hits recording 13 on the afternoon. Tyler registered his team-leading 17th multi-hit game, while Lamm (14 games) and Brown (8 games) each added a pair of singles. Zack Mozingo drove in two runs in the sixth with a two-RBI pinch hit single for his third multi-RBI contest of the year. In all, 10 Pirates recorded a base knock while 11 reached base.

Cole Murphy led the Bearcats with two hits which included a two-run homer in the top of the ninth - his four long ball of the season. Six others added a hit, while Woody Wallace and Devin Wenzel had RBI base hits.

How It Happened:
ECU scored four runs in the first three innings and held on for its 27th win of the season. Luke Bolka drove in the first run of the day when he was hit by a Perez pitch in the first frame with the bases loaded. After Brown reached on a fielder's choice, Tyler and Watkins laced consecutive singles to load the bases for Bolka, who reached base twice on the afternoon.

Lamm and Brown each drove in a run in the second inning extending the Pirates lead to 3-0. Bryce Harman walked to start the stanza and moved to third when Charlie Yorgen reached on a throwing error by Ryan Noda on his sac bunt attempt. Lamm grounded out to second scoring Harman and moving Yorgen to third. Brown followed with an infield RBI single to third pushing across Yorgen.

Yorgen's RBI ground out scored Bolka from third making it a 4-0 ball game. Bolka led off with a double down the left field line and took third on Jeff Nelson's infield single. Two batters later Yorgen laced a grounder to first plating Bolka.

Mozingo's two-RBI pinch hit single extended ECU's lead to 6-0 in the sixth frame. With one out and the bases full of Pirates, Mozingo sent a full-count offering down the right field line plating Tyler and Watkins.

Cincinnati tried to make a game of it late in the ninth inning pushing across four runs on three hits. Wallace doubled home Cam Alldred for the first run and Wenzel plated Wallace with a long single to left center. Murphy pulled the Bearcats within two, 6-4, on a two-run shot off Holba to right field. Ingle entered the game with no outs and the bases empty getting a pop up, strikeout and ground out to preserve the Pirate victory.

Up Next:
ECU and Cincinnati will wrap-up the three game series on Sunday, May 1 with a 12 noon (ET) scheduled first pitch. Following game three, the Pirates will host their annual Exceptional Community Baseball League (ECBL) game approximately 45 minutes after their game - weather permitting.