UVA Baseball | Cavaliers Wrangle Rams To Open Final Homestand

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. – Powered by a six-run fourth inning, the Virginia baseball team (25-16) downed VCU (14-30) by a score of 9-8 on Tuesday night (April 29) at Disharoon Park.

After falling behind 2-1 through an inning and a half of play, Virginia scored the next seven runs, including the six-run fourth that was capped off by a Henry Ford three-run blast.  

Ford led all Cavalier hitters on Tuesday with a 3-for-4 outing with three RBIs and a run scored. Joining Ford, the Virginia duo of Aidan Teel and James Nunnallee each had two hits with runs driven in.

HOW IT HAPPENED  

• For the third straight game, Eric Becker jump-started the Cavalier offense with a home run in the first inning. Becker’s eighth of the season put Virginia up 1-0 after the opening frame.
• VCU took its lone lead of the night by plating two runs in the top of the second on a sacrifice fly and an RBI single.
• In the home half of the second, Nunnallee worked a one-out walk and later came home to score on an Teel double to right field to tie the game at 2-2.

• In relief, Kevin Jaxel tossed three scoreless innings of two-hit ball to pick up his third win of the season.

• The Cavalier offense exploded for six runs in the fourth, highlighted by a Nunnallee RBI double down the line in left and a three-run home run off the bat of Ford that made it an 8-2 contest. Ford’s home run was his seventh of the season.
• VCU made it an 8-5 ballgame in the top of the seventh with a three-run home run off the bat of Casey Kleinman.
• Virginia tacked on an insurance run following the seventh inning stretch when Nunnallee knocked a 3-0 pitch through the right side for an RBI single that plated Henry Godbout.

• In the eighth, the Rams cut the Cavalier advantage to 9-7 with a two-run single down the right-field line.
• VCU added another run in the top of the ninth and had the tying run on…