INDIANAPOLIS – Mid-week madness for UIndy baseball continued as the Greyhounds walked off the Kentucky Wesleyan Panthers on Tuesday.
Drew Donaldson had the honors of the man to hammer the final run home, smoking a ball through the left side the infield, scoring
Easton Good and putting the exclamation point on a four-run bottom of the ninth comeback by the Greyhounds.
The Greyhounds moved to 25-16 with the victory while the Panthers drop to 17-25.
Brandon DeWitt nabbed his sixth win of the season, coming in the top of the ninth to the tune of no hits and one strikeout.
Frankie Klemm flirted with history, going five innings with no hits before a massive six run sixth by the Panthers ended his day. Outside of Donaldson,
Easton Good was spectacular from the plate in the contest, going 4-5 with four RBIs. Today's contest was Good's third four-hit contest and his second recording four RBIs.
HOW IT HAPPENED
Offense was easy to come by for the Hounds in the first three frames of action, with
Caleb Vaughn, the reigning GLVC Player of the Week, being the first to etch across a run, grounding out to short, not before scoring DeWitt. Good combined with DeWitt for a pair of RBI singles.
The "Twin Shredders," in
Jared Bujdos and
Nick Lukac added on two more in the third with a bases loaded walk and a sacrifice fly to left field. The Hounds later added another off of a Good rocket up the middle.
The sixth is where the Panthers did their damage, roughing up Klemm with situational hitting and a long ball, putting up a six-spot. They went on to add one more via a long homer in the seventh off of
Seth Spencer. Good tied it up in the seventh, but the eighth saw three more Panther runs making it 10-7.
Going into the bottom of the ninth the Hounds needed energy and Good gave it to them, crushing a ball off the pitcher scoring
Denton Shepler and setting up a bases loaded situation for DeWitt. He would deliver dropping a ball into left center to score both
Zach Fell and Lukac. Finally, on the first pitch he saw, Donaldson finished the game, with the Hounds winning 11-10.
HOUND BYTES
Head Coach Al Ready on the up and down nature of the game…
"It certainly finished a lot crazier than it started that is for sure.
Frankie Klemm did fantastic, he gave us an outstanding outing today, was able to chop off five innings of a nine inning game in the middle of the week where you don't always know what you're going to get… He takes a no-hitter into the sixth, he made some good pitches that, with two strikes, they battled and got something going and that's just baseball."
Ready on the comeback…
"Never count out the Hounds, the cardiac Hounds again, left for dead and we just came back to life. We've done it, I can't tell you how many times we've done it this year. It's been a wild ride, but I just had a feeling in that last inning the way it was setting up. The best at bat that whole inning was
Isaac Bair, he pinch hits, coming off the bench cold against a really good arm and drew a walk with two outs. What a finish."
UP NEXT
The Hounds have one of their longest road trips of the year this weekend, traveling to Rockhurst to take on the Hawks in a four-game set starting on Friday at 4 p.m.
