Boston College baseball has hit its stride.
Despite a slow start, the Eagles (18–8, 6–3 Atlantic Coast) pulled it together and cruised to a 12–2 seven-inning win over Merrimack (10–11, 5–4 Metro Atlantic) on Wednesday.
The Eagles held Merrimack scoreless through the opening frames, as starter Drew Grumbles went four innings with five strikeouts.
BC took a 1–0 lead in the third when Carter Hendrickson advanced on Jace Roossien’s sacrifice bunt and scored on a groundout by Colin Larson.
Larson racked up four RBIs for the second time this year, matching the career high he set in the Eagles’ win over NC State.
Merrimack tied it up 1–1 in the fifth when Greg Cristino knocked Samuel Sherman in with an RBI single.
BC fired back in the bottom of the inning with a Ty Mainolfi double, scoring both Larson and Juilo Solier to make it 3–1.
The Warriors were able to cut the deficit to one with a sacrifice fly, but it wasn’t enough to offset the impending charge from the Eagles’ hitting arsenal.
A Luke Gallo walk and two singles loaded the bases for Larson, who came through once again. He roped a double to right field to put the Eagles up 5–2.
Solier followed that up with a sacrifice fly that scored Roossien from third before Larson took home on a wild pitch. Nick Wang closed out the inning with a 399-foot homer to extend the lead to 8–2.
The Eagles continued to pour it on in the bottom of the seventh. Larson and Solier both hit RBI singles, and Mainolfi drew a bases-loaded walk to make it 11–2. Wang came up right after and laced a single to left field, scoring Larson. That run gave the Eagles a 10-run lead and gave them a 12–2 run-rule win for their seventh victory in a row.
