Huskers Wear Down Penn State, 8-2
State College, Pa. – Nebraska's offense wore down Penn State's bullpen, as the Huskers scored seven unanswered runs over the final three innings in an 8-2 victory Friday night.
Trailing 2-1 after six innings against Nittany Lion starter Bailey Dees, the Huskers (16-6) got into the Nittany Lion bullpen with seven runs over the last three frames, including a five-run eighth, en route to NU's 11th win in the last 13 contests.
While the PSU bullpen struggled, NU relievers
Cam Wynne,
Jake Bunz and
Braxton Bragg combined for 3.1 shutout innings in relief of NU starter
Cade Povich. Buntz earned the win, fanning three over two shutout innings to improve to 3-1 on the season.
Nebraska pounded out 14 hits, as the bottom four spots in the lineup combined to go 8-for-15 with five runs scored.
Jaxon Hallmark and
Cam Chick had two RBIs apiece for the Big Red (16-6), who remained in first place in the Big Ten race, percentage points ahead of Michigan, which also won on Friday.
Trailing 2-1, Nebraska knotted the score in the seventh off of reliever Jared Freilich without putting a ball out of the infield. After Freilich walked Matthews and
Griffin Everitt – the eighth and ninth hitters in the Husker lineup – to open the inning,
Joe Acker laid down a bunt in front of the plate, but PSU third baseman Justin Williams was charging and could not get back to third allowing everyone to reach. Hallmark then coaxed a walk to plate the tying run.
Leighton Banjoff started the eighth-inning rally with a one-out single before pinch runner
Mojo Hagge stole second, advanced to third on a
Brice Matthews single and scored the go-ahead run on Everitt's infield single. After an error loaded the bases, reliever Steven Miller walked Hallmark to push another run home before
Cam Chick's two-out, two-run single broke the game open. The Huskers eventually pushed across a fifth run in the frame, as Roskam coaxed another bases-loaded walk to make it 7-2.
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State College, Pa. – Nebraska's offense wore down Penn State's bullpen, as the Huskers scored seven unanswered runs over the final three innings in an 8-2 victory Friday night.
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