Lehigh baseball defeated Coppin State University 38-6 in seven innings on Tuesday afternoon, following a 9-24 deficit all season. They broke multiple NCAA and Patriot League records in the process.<\/p>\n
The Mountain Hawks (10-24, 4-12 Patriot) broke the record for most runs scored in a single inning in NCAA Division I history, with 20 in the top of the first inning. Senior infielder Aidan Quinn drew seven walks, giving him the NCAA record as well.<\/p>\n
Senior catcher Owen Walewander was a big offensive contributor, batting 4-5 with eight runners batted in, a double, a grand slam and scoring five runs himself.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Lehigh scored 13 runs in a row from walks, hit by pitches or wild pitches. The team was walked 11 times and hit by six pitches.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Sophomore Noah Gyauch-Quirk came into the game as a relief pitcher during the game to prevent the Eagles (7-24, 7-11 NEC) from scoring in two innings by striking out four.<\/p>\n
Lehigh\u2019s 38 runs are the most to ever be scored in a single game in Patriot League history. They recorded 12 hits with 70 plate appearances and 25 walks. Coppin State put a total of 10 players on the mound over the seven innings<\/p>\n
Following their win, the Mountain Hawks will face Lafayette College on April 17-19 for a late-season rivalry matchup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lehigh baseball defeated Coppin State University 38-6 in seven innings on Tuesday afternoon, following a 9-24 deficit all…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":677082,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2290],"tags":[85785,5,3417,558],"class_list":{"0":"post-677081","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-baseball","8":"tag-2-minute-read","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-brief","11":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116415746180515710","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677081","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=677081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/677082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=677081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=677081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=677081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}