UVA Baseball | No. 23 Cavaliers Walk-Off Maryland in Fredericksburg

FREDERICKSBURG, Va.  – The No. 23 Virginia baseball team (10-5) prevailed on Tuesday night (March 11) over the Maryland Terrapins (8-8) when Henry Godbout rushed home from third in the bottom of the ninth inning on a Maryland wild pitch to give the Cavaliers a 7-6 walk-off win at Virginia Credit Union Stadium.

Eric Becker paced the Virginia offense on Tuesday by going 2-for-5 with a two-run double in the sixth that put UVA out front at 4-3. Ryan Osinski picked up the win for the Hoos after pitching the ninth inning.

HOW IT HAPPENED

• After two scoreless frames to open the contest, Maryland got on the board first in the top of the third with an RBI triple from Elijah Lambros that put the Terrapins up 1-0.
• UVA had runners on the corners in the bottom of the fourth when James Nunnallee was caught in a rundown trying to steal second. The rundown went long enough to allow Harrison Didawick to scamper home and tie the game.
• The 1-1 tie held until the sixth inning when Maryland plated a pair of runs with a sacrifice fly and an RBI single to left to take a 3-1 advantage.
• Virginia answered right back in the home half of the inning when Aidan Teel scored on a Maryland Error. Later in the frame, Becker singled home Trey Wells and Didawick to give the Cavaliers their first lead of the game at 4-3.

• In the eighth, Nunnallee worked a two-out walk that brought Luke Hanson, who had entered the game as a defensive replacement one inning earlier, to the plate. On the first pitch that Hanson saw of the night, he crushed a no-doubt home run to left for his first homer of the season. The two-run blast extended the Cavalier advantage to 6-3 heading into the ninth.

• In the ninth, Maryland rallied to tie the game with an RBI double, an RBI ground out and passed ball that plated the tying run at 6-6.
•  Godbout opened the bottom of the ninth with a leadoff single and made his way to third thanks to productive outs from Chris Arroyo and Henry Ford. Teel kept the inning alive with a two-out walk before Maryland’s pitcher threw a wild pitch…