Last season, Boston College baseball headed into a matchup against Dartmouth desperate for a rebound after suffering a shutout loss to Northeastern. A rebound is what they got.
“When you play a game like yesterday, that’s as frustrating as it was, all you want to do is play,” BC head coach Todd Interdonato said after last year’s win over the Big Green.
Once again this season, BC headed into its matchup against Dartmouth in somewhat of a bad place.
The Eagles had lost five games in a row before Tuesday’s slim win over UMass Lowell. And those losses were harsh, too. A shutout by Northeastern, a narrow loss in ten innings to Rhode Island, and three consecutive defeats to Louisville—two of which saw BC getting mercy ruled.
But slowly, the Eagles (15–17, 5–10 Atlantic Coast) have begun to claw away at the less-than-favorable streak that plagued them last week.
Tuesday’s win improved things a bit. And Wednesday’s 12–2 beatdown win over Dartmouth (5–16, 4–5 Ivy League) helped even more.
It started with a three-run first inning, followed by a shutout in the bottom half of the frame thanks to Brady Miller’s efforts on the mound. That’s pretty much how the rest of the game played out—productivity from BC’s offense and almost complete silence from the Big Green.
Patrick Roche led off with a walk and then stole second. A double from Jack Toomey scored him shortly after. Adam Magpoc hit a double of his own to score Toomey, and a single from Vince Cimini scored Magpoc. Just like that, the Eagles’ offense had gotten going.
Miller opened up the game with a strikeout on the second batter—a sign for what was to come. The other two batters he faced grounded out, and he posted a 1-2-3 inning to maintain BC’s 3–0 lead through the first frame.
BC didn’t score again until the fourth inning. But when the first run of the fourth came, the rest started pouring in.
Once again, Roche started the inning with a walk. Kyle Wolff’s sacrifice fly later in the inning scored Roche and put Josiah Ragsdale on third base. Magpoc walked and stole second shortly after, then Cimini walked. The bases were loaded as Sam McNulty stepped up to the plate.
McNulty cracked a single up the middle of the field as Magpoc and Ragsdale sprinted through home plate, pushing the Eagles’ lead to six. BC scored two more runs before the inning was over and found itself with a comfortable 8–0 lead.
The fifth inning saw three runs from BC, too. Meanwhile, the Big Green was incapable of getting anything going offensively as Gavin Soares, who relieved Miller in the fourth, posted two scoreless innings, including a 1-2-3 outing in the bottom of the fifth.
Freshman Jacob Burnham, Kyle Kipp, and Karl Meyer all eventually went in to pitch for the Eagles. Kipp gave up three hits and two runs in his single-inning stint, but that was all the Big Green could muster for the entire afternoon.
It wasn’t as if BC’s offense was perfect throughout—the Eagles left nine runners on base throughout the game. But a solid overall performance kept BC in the lead for the entirety of the matchup.
The Eagles scored 12 runs on 11 hits, walked 11 times to Dartmouth’s zero, and collected five stolen bases to Dartmouth’s zero. BC simply outdid the Big Green in every category, leading to the 10-run advantage it ended the game with.
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