Pirates Handle Wagner At The Shep, 15-5 - Seton Hall University Athletics
Staus Pokrovsky (Pittsgrove, N.J.) went 3-for-5 with a home run, a double and four RBI and Zack Sylvester (Montville, N.J.) drove in three runs and r...
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7. Seton Hall 15, Wagner 5 (F) Baseball Box Score - Seton Hall University Athletics
7. Seton Hall 15, Wagner 5 (F) Baseball Box Score
South Orange, N.J. --Staus Pokrovsky (Pittsgrove, N.J.) went 3-for-5 with a home run, a double and four RBI and Zack Sylvester (Montville, N.J.) drove in three runs and reached based three times as the Seton Hall baseball team handled Wagner in its home opener, 15-5, at Mike Sheppard, Sr. Stadium on Tuesday.
Jayson Torres (East Islip, N.Y.) earned his first career win and Alex D'Ambrosio (Marlboro, N.J.) faced the minimum in two scoreless innings of relief work. Alex Lyons (West Chester, Pa.) posted his second multi-hit game of the, had an RBI and scored twice from the nine-spot in the batting order.
How It Happened
After Torres worked a clean top of the first inning, Pokrovsky reached on a one-out single and he was driven in on a triple by Danny Melnick (Hamilton, N.J.) that gave the Pirates a 1-0 lead. A Wagner error following a wild pitch allowed two more runs to score before the first inning ended with the Pirates leading 3-0.
Torres blanked the Seahawks in the top of second and that set the stage for crooked number in the home half. The Pirates went station-to-station as an RBI single from Lyons, a run-scoring single off the bat of Jonathan Luders (Lynnfield, Mass.), an RBI groundout from Pokrovsky and an RBI single from Sylvester made it 7-0 Pirates. Nick Ferri (Flemington, N.J.) plated Sylvester with an RBI double that put the PIrates up 8-0.
Wagner got on the board with three runs in the top of the third and it tacked on another run in the top of the fourth that cut the Seton Hall lead in half, 8-4. D'Ambrosio entered in the fifth where he tossed a scoreless frame and he retired the side in order in the sixth that kept it a four-run game. With two on and one out in the bottom of the sixth, Pokrovsky doubled down the left field line and cleared the bases, giving the Pirates some breathing room by extending their lead to 10-4. Later, with runners on the corners and one out still, Sylvester delivered a bases-clearing triple that gave The Hall a 12-4 lead.
After Wagner scratched a run across in the top of the eighth that made it 13-5, Pokrovsky continued his big day by delivering his second home run of the season in the bottom of the eighth that made it 14-5 Pirates. With two outs and Melnick standing on second base, Ryan Frontera (Red Bank, N.J.) delivered his first career RBI on a base knock to right center field that gave Seton Hall its 15th run of the ball game
Up Next
The Pirates will embark on their Spring Break trip this weekend as they open a four-game series with Florida International on Friday at 6:30 p.m. in Miami.
