TOLEDO, Ohio – The Toledo baseball team was locked in a back-and-forth slugfest with Youngstown State, but the Rockets fell a run short to the Penguins, 11-10 at Scott Park on Tuesday.
 
Toledo (17-23) took a 4-3 lead with a four-run second inning and later came back to tie things in the third inning, 5-5 and fourth inning, 7-7. The Penguins regained the lead in the fifth inning and extended the margin to 10-7, but the Rockets cut the deficit to one in the sixth and ninth innings. Toledo had the winning run on base in the ninth, but a flyout ended the game.
 
Junior Cade Baker hit a three-run home run and a two-run home run in back-to-back at-bats, his first multi-home run game of the season. He totaled five RBIs on the afternoon. Five players tallied multi-hit games, with Cole Cahill contributing a pair of RBI knocks. Junior Charlie Scholvin marked his 19th multi-hit game of the season.
 
Senior Arturo Ormaza and redshirt junior Ryan Hughes worked the final three innings for Toledo on the mound, allowing just one run and one hit combined. Braden Curry took the losing decision.
 
Toledo and Youngstown State will complete the home-and-home series tomorrow at 5:00 p.m. at Eastwood Field in Niles, Ohio.
 
Quoting Head Coach Rob Reinstetle
“Really disappointed with that game. After playing so well on Sunday and getting some life in us, we came out today and did nothing. We hit the ball okay but not good enough to win. We didn’t pitch very well early and were always playing from behind. We get another crack at these guys tomorrow at their place. We’ve got another opportunity to play good baseball and feel good about ourselves heading into a MAC weekend versus our rivals.”
 
Top Rocket Hitters


Cade Baker – 2-for-6, 2 HR (5), 5 RBIs, 2 runs

First multi-homer game of the season


Cole Cahill – 2-for-5, 2 RBIs, 1 2B, 1 SB
Liam Arsich – 2-for-4, 1 run, 1 HBP, 1 SB
Charlie Scholvin – 2-for-5, 1 run, 1 2B
JP Wagner – 2-for-4, 1 RBI, 1 run

Pitching Lines


Braden Curry (L, 0-4) – 3.2 IP, 6 H, 5 R, 5 ER, 3 BB, 5 Ks
Arturo Ormaza – 2.1 IP, 0 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 2 BB, 1 K
Ryan Hughes – 0.2 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 1 K

How it Happened


A three-run home run by Garrett Cutting put Youngstown State up 3-0 in the 2nd.
JP Wagner put Toledo on the board with an RBI single in the second. Two batters later, Cade Baker hit a three-run home run off the top of the scoreboard to give Toledo a 4-3 lead.
YSU regained the lead, 5-4 in the third on a Teddy Ruffner home run. Cole Cahill tied the game in the bottom of the inning with an RBI double.
The teams traded two-run home runs in the fourth. Ryan Schummer launched a long ball for YSU in the top of the inning, before Baker hit his second tater of the game in the bottom of the inning.
Brady Shannon went deep to the opposite field to give the Penguins an 8-7 advantage in the fifth. YSU scored two more in the sixth off a wild pitch and an RBI single for a 10-7 edge.
Cole Cahill got a run back on an RBI single in the sixth. Then, a double steal plated Troy Sudbrook to get Toledo within one, 10-9.
Youngstown State added an insurance run with two outs in the ninth on a single to extend the lead to 11-9.
In the bottom of the ninth, back-to-back walks put runners on first and second with one out. With two outs, pinch hitter Jackson Hiatt singled to extend the game and cut the deficit to 11-10. However, a flyout ended the game with the tying and winning runs on base.