Cluster of Buckeyes...They mobbed Noah McGowan (center, right) after his 12th inning double scored Kobie Foppe with the winning run to take the weekend series from #8 Indiana. Read more about the surging Buckeyes in today's Press Pros inside feature by Greg Board.
Fightin' For The Series...Ohio State coach Greg Beals and umpire Mike Martin go chin to chin over a disputed call on a caught fly ball in the fourth inning. Beals said yes, Martin said no, but the Buckeyes came back to win anyway. Read more about the game on Press Pros.
It's one of the game's oldest cliches', argued about by the respective sides. But Indiana made its argument in Friday's series opener, that indeed...good pitching (not always, but usually) will beat good hitting.
No. 8 Indiana played clean baseball, got solid pitching and help from the Buckeyes to take the series opener at Bill Davis Stadium Friday night. The Bucks were not "straight-up beaten", in the words of starting pitcher Connor Curlis, but they lost nonetheless and need to square things today.
The people who know Buckeye reliever Seth Kinker the best are those whom he's won over with his attitude for efficiency and effectiveness. They depend on him...and they can't seem to say enough.
