Box Score May 12, 2009
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Bronx, N.Y. - The Fordham baseball team was baffled in their final non-conference game of the season as Sacred Heart University put up 12 runs before the Rams' could bring a runner home with Fordham eventually being handed a 15-8 loss.
Fordham is now 19-30 on the year while Sacred Heart improves to 25-23-1.
Seven of those 12 Pioneers' runs came in the second inning on only five hits while the Rams finally put a run on the board in the bottom of the fourth. Fordham scored that run as John Kahn led off the inning with a single to left and moved over on Nick Martinez's ground out to third. Kahn would then come around to score on a wild pitch and a balk.
Fordham held Sacred Heart scoreless for the first time, in the top of the fifth, and put up five runs in the bottom half of the frame to cut the lead to 12-6. Ryan McCrann brought in the first run in the inning on a bases loaded fielder's choice while Danny Leach found his way across home plate on a passed ball.
Nick Martinez stepped up with two outs and runners on first and second to single in his first of two runs in the game. After Martinez and Kahn, who got on with a walk, moved up a bag on a throw that attempted to get McCrann out on Martinez's single, Mike Mobbs singled to left and brought both runners home.
The score remained the same until the seventh inning when the Pioneers put up three runs that were responded right back with two from the Rams. With Kahn and Bobby DiNardo on first and second, respectively, Martinez roped a double pasted first baseman Jeff Hanson and down the right-field line to score DiNardo. Mobbs then brought in Kahn with a grounder to short for his third RBI of the game.
The Rams could not get anything going in the final two innings as James Ineson took the win for the Pioneers in 3.1 innings of relief, giving up only two runs on two hits. Fordham's James Stone earns his first loss of the year after lasting only 1.1 innings, giving up eight runs on six hits and three walks.
Martinez had a solid day at the plate, going 3-4 with a double, two RBI and a run scored while Mobbs had a team-leading three RBI with only one hit.
Fordham will have to put this loss behind them as they are now set to host Temple University on Thursday, May 14, at 2:00 PM.
