St. Louis, Mo., March 1, 2020 – The No. 4-ranked Washington University in St. Louis baseball team exploded for 24 runs and 33 hits in a doubleheader sweep Sunday of Illinois Institute of Technology on Sunday at Kelly Field in St. Louis.
WashU improved to 6-0 with the victory, while IIT dropped to 0-3. The Bears won the three-game series outscoring IIT 37-4.
No. 4 WashU 14, IIT 1 – Game One
WashU tied a season-high with 17 hits in the game-one victory.
Junior Collin Kahal was 3-for-3 with an RBI in the win, while senior John Brinkman (2-4, two runs, two RBI), sophomore Caleb Durbin (2-3, two runs, two RBI), junior Sean Robinson (2-2, two walks, two runs) and junior Johnny LaMantia (2-3, three RBI) also had multi-hit games.
WashU led 4-0 after two innings, highlighted by a two-RBI single by Durbin. Brinkman tripled to left in the fourth to push across two more runs to make it 7-0.
LaMantia singled up the middle to drive in two in the fifth to make it 11-0.
Junior Troy Bauer (2-0) picked up the win allowing three hits in five innings pitched with seven strikeouts. WashU's bullpen allowed two hits and one earned run in four innings.
No. 4 WashU 10, IIT 0 – Game Two
Robinson was 4-for-4 with a run scored and three RBIs to lead the WashU offense that recorded 16 hits in the game-two win.
Brinkman (3-3), LaMantia (2-4, two RBI) and sophomore Tim Van Kirk (2-5, two RBI) all had multi-hit games for WashU.
A two-RBI single by Robinson made it 3-0 after two innings of play, and then a pair of two-RBI singles by LaMantia and Van Kirk in the fourth pushed the lead to 7-0.
Durbin added an RBI triple to left center in the fifth to make it 8-0.
Junior Tim Tague (2-0) picked up the win allowing one walk in four innings pitched with six strikeouts. Sophomore Matt Bauer made the start allowing one hit in three innings.
BEAR NOTEBOOK:
• WashU is off to a 6-0 start for the first time since 2006
• Robinson (.667), Kahal (.615) and Lamantia (.526) rank 1-2-3 in the UAA in hitting
• WashU has outscored its opponents 63-11 in the first six games
• Tague has not allowed a hit in eight innings pitched of relief
UP NEXT: WashU hosts MacMurray on Wednesday, March 4, at 2 p.m.