Mississippi State
10-0
Rhode Island
0-7
Dogs Remain Unbeaten With 13-2 Win Over Rams
February 26, 2013 | Baseball
STARKVILLE, Miss. - The first seven Bulldog batters hit safely and scored in the first inning Tuesday as No. 5 Mississippi State (10-0) stayed unbeaten with a 13-2 win over Rhode Island on a chilly afternoon at Dudy Noble Field.
State and Rhode Island (0-7) conclude their two-game midweek series Wednesday with a 4 p.m. contest.
Rams starting pitcher Milan Mantle (0-1) faced 10 Bulldog batters in the opening frame. C.T. Bradford, Alex Detz and Mitch Slauter began multi-hit plate performances with first-inning hits. Each finished the game with a double and a single. Detz drove in three runs, two on a first-inning double and Matthew Britton matched that on a 2-for-2 afternoon with a single and a double.
State starter Luis Pollorena allowed two runs on five hits over 4-1/3 innings of pitching. Freshman Myles Gentry followed Pollorena and retired the two batters he faced to close out the fifth. Senior Chad Girodo (2-0), the third of four Bulldog pitchers in the game, fanned six and blanked URI with one-hit pitching over three innings to earn the win. Rookie John Marc Shelly closed out Bulldog pitching with a scoreless ninth. State's bullpen has now allowed four earned runs in 40.2 innings
URI shortstop Tim Caputo went 3-for-4 and scored the first of the Rams' two runs during a four-hit URI burst in the third-inning burst.
Team Stats
Pitching:
W: Girodo, Chad (2-0)
L: MANTLE, Milan (0-1)
Batting:
RBI: OLMO, Ryan 1
Base Running:
RUNS: ROY, Jeff 1 ; CAPUTO, Tim 1
HBP: FAMIGLIETTI, Chris 1 ; FOREMAN, Connor 1
PO: GARDELLA, Derek 1
Batting:
2B: Britton, Matthew 1 ; Bradford, C.T. 1 ; Detz, Alex 1
3B: Slauter, Mitch 1
RBI: Slauter, Mitch 1 ; Detz, Alex 3 ; Robson, Jacob 1 ; Armstrong, Derrick 1 ; Porter, Trey 1 ; Pirtle, Brett 1
SF: Detz, Alex 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Frazier, Adam 1 ; Britton, Matthew 1 ; Bradford, C.T. 3 ; Slauter, Mitch 2 ; Detz, Alex 1 ; Robson, Jacob 1 ; Armstrong, Derrick 1 ; Porter, Trey 1 ; Fullerton, Tyler 1 ; Henderson, Demarcus 1
HBP: Slauter, Mitch 1
