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Pitcher, and Gordon Lee grad, Bo Rhudy #33 of the Tennessee Volunteers during the game between the Northern Kentucky Norse and the Tennessee Volunteers at Lindsey Nelson Stadium in Knoxville, TN.<\/p>\n
Photo By Elliot Walker\/Tennessee Athletics<\/p>\n
KNOXVILLE, TN (utsports.com) – Tennessee rode a six-run eighth inning and a combined seven RBIs from\u00a0Blake Grimmer\u00a0and\u00a0Trent Grindlinger\u00a0to a 12-6 win over Northern Kentucky Tuesday night at Lindsey Nelson Stadium.\u00a0<\/p>\n
After a walk from leadoff man\u00a0Garrett Wright, Grimmer got the scoring started right away in the bottom of the first inning with a two-run homer to right field, giving the Vols (21-12) an early 2-0 lead.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The redshirt sophomore went yard again in the fifth, marking his first-career multi-homer game. Grimmer has gone deep four times over the last four games after hitting a pair of home runs in last weekend’s series against LSU.<\/p>\n
Manny Marin\u00a0would follow suit in the bottom half of the second inning with a home run of his own, a solo shot into the porches to extend the UT lead to three.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Back-to-Back singles from the Norse (13-18) to lead off the top of the third put two runners on with no one out for nine-hole hitter Hunter Friedberg, who stepped in and hit a three-run home run to clear the bases and tie the game.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Wright came through in the bottom of the fourth inning with an RBI double down the left-field line, bringing Marin around to score to put the Vols back in front.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Grimmer stayed red hot in the bottom of the fifth, launching a 422-foot bomb over the bullpen in right field, to make the score 5-3.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Wright delivered again for the Orange and White in the bottom of the sixth, hitting a seeing-eye single up the middle to bring in\u00a0Levi Clark\u00a0from third to add to UT’s lead.<\/p>\n
After two runners reached on consecutive walks in the top of the seventh, NKU hit their second three-run homer of the game to level things up once again at six.<\/p>\n
The Big Orange punched back in a big way in the bottom of the eighth. The first two runs of the inning came in to score on a throwing error from the shortstop before Grimmer drove in his fourth run of the game with a single to right field to give his squad a three-run lead.\u00a0<\/p>\n
One batter later, Grindlinger delivered the first home run of his career, a three-run blast from the standout freshman to right field to put the final nail in the coffin.<\/p>\n
Gordon Lee grad Bo Rhudy\u00a0earned the first win of his Tennessee career, posting a scoreless relief outing while striking out three batters over the final 1.2 innings. With the win, UT improved to 9-0 in midweek games this season.<\/p>\n
UP NEXT:\u00a0Tennessee will be on the road this weekend as they head down to Starkville for a three-game set against the No. 9 Mississippi State Bulldogs at Dudy Noble Field. First pitch for Friday’s series opener is slated for 7 p.m. ET.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pitcher, and Gordon Lee grad, Bo Rhudy #33 of the Tennessee Volunteers during the game between the Northern…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":669585,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2288],"tags":[2315,2309,2351,5,2316,2323,2314,2317,2313,2325,2447,2335,19,2310,2328,2304,2318,2308,2319,4,2305,2303,35196,2307,2327,2321,185,2324,2311,8161,2045,2312,1039],"class_list":{"0":"post-669584","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb-postseason","8":"tag-athletic-sports","9":"tag-ball-and-bat-games","10":"tag-base-on-balls","11":"tag-baseball","12":"tag-baseball-competitions","13":"tag-baseball-events","14":"tag-baseball-finals","15":"tag-baseball-games","16":"tag-baseball-playoffs-and-champions","17":"tag-baseball-teams","18":"tag-batting-baseball","19":"tag-home-run","20":"tag-major-league-baseball","21":"tag-major-league-baseball-competitions","22":"tag-major-league-baseball-playoffs","23":"tag-major-league-baseball-postseason","24":"tag-major-league-baseball-seasons","25":"tag-major-league-baseball-teams","26":"tag-major-league-baseball-teams-seasons","27":"tag-mlb","28":"tag-mlb-playoffs","29":"tag-mlb-postseason","30":"tag-october-in-sports","31":"tag-outdoor-sports","32":"tag-seasons-in-american-sport","33":"tag-seasons-in-baseball","34":"tag-sports","35":"tag-sports-events","36":"tag-team-sports","37":"tag-tennessee-lady-volunteers-basketball","38":"tag-tennessee-volunteers-football","39":"tag-turf-sports","40":"tag-world-series"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=669584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669584\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/669585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=669584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=669584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=669584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}