{"id":682933,"date":"2026-04-26T02:24:39","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T02:24:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/682933\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T02:24:39","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T02:24:39","slug":"baseballs-anthony-devito-homers-in-series-opening-loss-to-calvin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/682933\/","title":{"rendered":"Baseball&#8217;s Anthony Devito Homers in Series-Opening Loss to Calvin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>                    &#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1776916653_219_Calvin-College.png\" alt=\"Calvin University\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                Next Game:<\/p>\n<p>at Calvin University<\/p>\n<p>4\/25\/2026 | 1:00 PM<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                    Apr. 25 (Sat) \/ 1:00 PM&#13;\n                <\/p>\n<p>                    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sidearm-story-template-next-game-opponent-logo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1776916653_219_Calvin-College.png\" alt=\"Calvin University\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                        at\u00a0Calvin University&#13;\n                    <\/p>\n<p>                    <a class=\"sidearm-story-template-next-game-details-history\" href=\"https:\/\/athletics.hope.edu\/sports\/baseball\/opponent-history\/calvin-university\/33\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">History <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                             &#13;<\/p>\n<p>                    Shortstop <a href=\"https:\/\/athletics.hope.edu\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/anthony-devito\/10986\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"10986\" target=\"_blank\">Anthony Devito<\/a> slugged his fourth home run of the season, but the Hope College baseball team dropped the series opener to Calvin University, 5-2, on Friday at Boeve Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>The freshman from Lithia, Florida (Newsome) crushed a pitch over the right-field fence as the Flying Dutchmen&#8217;s second batter of the game for a 1-0 lead.<\/p>\n<p>Calvin starting pitcher Evan Steinbacher held Hope scoreless over his next 7.1 innings on the mound. The right-hander allowed only five hits and one walk before exiting after a leadoff double from sophomore second baseman <a href=\"https:\/\/athletics.hope.edu\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/colton-kinnie\/10429\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"10429\" target=\"_blank\">Colton Kinnie<\/a> of Bloomfield Hills, Michigan (Birmingham Seaholm) in the ninth.<\/p>\n<p>Hope freshman <a href=\"https:\/\/athletics.hope.edu\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/owen-weber\/10939\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"10939\" target=\"_blank\">Owen Weber<\/a> of Canton, Michigan (Canton) pitched seven innings, but the Knights&#8217; two and three hitters\u00a0\u2014 third baseman Landon Mikula and leftfielder Ryan Tschirhart \u2014\u00a0 combined to go 6-for-6 against him with two runs apiece.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Mikula and Tschirhart both singled in the fourth to spark a go-ahead, two-run rally. Tschirhart blasted a two-run homer in the sixth to extend Calvin&#8217;s lead to 4-1.<\/p>\n<p>Weber, who gave up 10 hits, yielded a solo homer to center fielder Thomas Paplawsky in the sixth.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Hope (11-24, 5-11 MIAA) pushed across a run in the seventh. Kinnie scored on a fielder&#8217;s choice, but reliever Alex DeAngelis closed the door on any more runs.<\/p>\n<p>Calvin (13-22, 5-11 MIAA) is scheduled to host a doubleheader to complete the series on Saturday, April 25, at 1 p.m.&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; &#13; Next Game: at Calvin University 4\/25\/2026 | 1:00 PM &#13; Apr. 25 (Sat) \/ 1:00&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":682934,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2289],"tags":[5,648,1694,2341],"class_list":{"0":"post-682933","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-college-baseball","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-college-baseball","10":"tag-ncaa","11":"tag-ncaa-baseball"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116468637532476756","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682933","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=682933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/682934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=682933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=682933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=682933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}