Whitney Strikes Out Career-High 12 Batters against Dayton

Friday, March 23

6 pm

University of South Carolina Upstate Athletics

11-11-1

Dayton

6-11

Dayton

USC Upstate

3/23/2018 12:00:00 AM | Baseball

Box Score

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Spartanburg, S.C. – USC Upstate senior pitcher Blake Whitney struck out a career-high 12 batters but Dayton scored four runs in the ninth inning for a 6-5 win over the Spartans on Friday night at Harley Park.

Dayton improves to 6-11 while USC Upstate drops to 11-11-1.

Scoring Breakdown

Bottom 3^rd – Andres Kim led off the inning with a single, advanced to second on an error and reached third on a wild pitch. Kim scored on a groundout. The Spartans loaded the bases thanks to a pair of hit batters and a walk before Russell Schwertfeger drove in two runs with a double.
Bottom 6^th – Kim was hit by a pitch and advanced to second on a wild pitch. After a Pat Raiff single moved Kim to third, Charlie Carpenter's single brought Kim home for a 4-0 USC Upstate lead.
Top 8^th – The Flyers scored two runs on a Pat Meehan single.
Bottom 8^th – Mason Stewart opened the inning with a walk and advanced to second on a sacrifice bunt. Following a wild pitch that moved Stewart to third, a Kyle Gensler infield single scored Stewart.
Top 9^th – After a strikeout opened the inning, pinch hitter Jeff Steuck was hit by a pitch. After Takahiro Yamada singled and advanced pinch runner Connor Wilson to second, Wilson and Yamada scored on a Connor Echols triple. Echols scored the tying run on a Michael Cleary bunt single. Cleary advanced to third on a Brantley Johnson single before scoring the go-ahead run on a groundout.

Notables

Whitney struck out a career-high 12 batters while allowing two runs, one earned, on four hits with two walks in 8.0 innings.
Jonathan Brus (1-0) earned the win as he recorded the final out of the eighth inning.
Josh Nixon (2) recorded the save with a scoreless ninth.
Sean Hupp (1-1) was charged with the loss after he allowed four runs on four hits with a strikeout in 1.0 innings.
Kim went 2-for-2 with two singles and two runs scored.
Schwertfeger went 1-for-4 with a double and two RBI.
Raiff, Carpenter, Gensler and Austin Morgan each had a single.
Echols and Meehan each had two hits to lead Dayton.
USC Upstate left 12 runners on base while Dayton stranded four baserunners.
The teams combined to hit seven batters.

Up Next

USC Upstate and Dayton continue their series on Saturday at 2 p.m.

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