Hot bats for dukes lead to victory over Fairfield

Harrisonburg, va. – On Friday afternoon, James Madison Baseball used a first inn with six runs and an eighth inning of five runs on the Veterans Memorial Park to Fairfield (13-6).

The dukes improved to 5: 4 and won five of their last six games, while the deer fell 3: 4.

senior Eli Steadman led the dukes on the plate and went 3: 4 with a run achieved, a hit-by-pitch and an RBI. The three goals are a high season for Steadman and combine his career high. Redshirt newcomer Holden McKinney Received his first career victory after he had thrown 0.2 Innerings with a strike. Junior Max Kuhle Received his third season in the season and threw two innings to end the game with four rashes.

How it happened
First inning

Dean Ferrara took the game with a single for Fairfield and stole the second before scored a single to gain a 1-0 lead to the deer.

The dukes reacted with six of their own runs in the home of the inning, starting with a few colorful single and a walk to load the bases without outs. A victim flying from the second year Ike Schmidy Place the dukes on the board and a double from junior Wyatt Peifer followed to do it 2-1. Junior Jack Cannizzaro and senior Coleman Calabrese Increased the lead to five, each associated with two base blows with two runs with 6: 1.

Second Inning

With invited bases, Fairfield took a run back with an infield single to do it 6-2.

Third Inning

JMU pushed his lead over five when Cannizzaro colored a squeeze colorful to achieve Peifer and make 7-2. Peifer made himself with a single one and switched from a bank and another single to the third basis.

Fifth inning

Ferrara took a second inning with a goal and doubled into the left field. Then he met a single in the next at bat to make it 7-3.

Sixth inning

Fairfield scratched a run without blows, with two runners being taken by a hit by pitch and a walk, moving them into a goal position on a passed ball and then making the score 7: 4 during a victim fly.

Seventh inning

After a two-basis error, a deep fly ball landed on the foul line in the right field to knock a run for the stags. You would achieve another run to achieve 7-6 in another infield goal.

JMU got a graduate back Corey Dowdell Pinch hit and took the first pitch, which he saw 484 feet above the left field wall to make it 8-6.

Eighth inning

The dukes scored fifth place in eighth place to achieve it 13: 6. The first six batteries set up the base and scored three runs before the first one was recorded. The first out also achieved a run because it was a victim fly that lifts the inning in front of Steadmans RBI -Single.

Game notes

• Although he gave up his first three runs of the season, Corey Costello pushed his strip without allowing a deserved run to 11.1. It has been the longest strip for the dukes since then Donovan Burke Last season had a 16-end series.
• Corey Dowdells Pinch-Hit Homerun was the first Homer for the Dukes since Jaylon Lee had scored a prise hit-off homer against Louisiana against Louisiana on April 21, 2023.
• For the first time this season, JMU recorded at least 10 runs in one game.
• The dukes appeared .429 (9-against-21) with runners and 368 (7- against 19) with runners in the scoring position.
• The JMU pitching employee combined for 12 strikes, the sixth time this season they threw at least 10 in one game and the third time of at least 12 years.
• Five dukes had multi-hit games, led by von Eli Steadman's Three hit game. Coleman CalabresePresent Maddux FleckPresent Kyle Langley And Wyatt Peifer All had two hits each.

Next on

The dukes and deer meet tomorrow, March 1st in the middle game of the series for a first place in Veterans Memorial Park.