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PISCATAWAY, N.J. – The Indiana baseball program dropped a heartbreaking decision, 10-9, in the series finale at Big Ten-leading Rutgers on Sunday (April 17) afternoon at Bainton Field.
Indiana (13-21, 2-7 B1G) opened the scoring with a single run in the first inning, before the two teams scored three runs apiece in the third. Both teams plated four runs in the fifth inning and IU struck with one in the sixth to build a 9-7 lead. Rutgers (30-6, 11-1 B1G) plated one in the seventh and hit two solo home runs in the ninth for the walk-off victory.
Freshman Carter Mathison hit a grand slam as part of a multi-hit game. The left-handed hitter went 2-for-4 with four RBIs in his eighth multi-hit effort of the season. It was the first grand slam for Indiana since Matt Gorski cleared the bases against Ball State on April 16, 2019.
Along with Mathison, graduate student Tyler Doanes, senior Phillip Glasser, freshman Josh Pyne and redshirt-sophomore Bobby Whalen each added multi-hit games, and Hunter Jessee was on base three times. Whalen singled, doubled, scored three runs…
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