Florida Gators baseball at Miami Hurricanes Game 1 live blog results

Barberi closed out the game with relative ease. West flied out to shallow right field. Alvarez got on base, beating the shift to Miller at third, who couldn’t backhand it. It was ruled a base hit. Barberi struck out Dubovik on three pitches. Alvarez took second on defensive indifference, but that’s where he stayed as pinch-hitter Cian Copeland grounded out to short.

Durso struck out Kendall and Myers, and Kyle Jones grounded out up the middle for a 1-2-3 inning. That’s a nice recovery after last inning’s disaster, but it might be too little, too late for Maimi.

Barberi had a long time to sit, but he came back out still throwing gas — around 97 mph. He walked Torres to open the frame, but got a pair of pop outs to right and froze Sosa with a heater for a short half inning. Surowiec moved to first base, and Sam Miller took over at third, solving the defensive issues caused by the pinch hitter in the top of the inning.

Jacob Kendall crushed a no-doubt home run into the palm trees in right field. Florida needed something to shift the momentum back in its favor, and Kendall did the job. It came off his bat at 102 mph, Kendall’s second of the year.

Myers skied one a mile in the air into shallow left field. The third baseman, Cuvet, couldn’t find it and watched it bounce off his glove, putting Myers on second with no outs. Packy Bradley-Cooney is taking over for Ciscar.

Bradley-Cooney walked Jones on five pitches and was pulled immediately. Left-hander Jake Dorn is coming in to face Lawson, a lefty as well.

Lawson went to the right side, with Jones hopping over the ball and affecting the sprawling defender. Myers scored with no throw. Miami opted to hold Jones at second. Another pitching change after one batter. This time, it’s Lazaro Collera entering the game.

Collera walked Surowiec on five pitches. He got a ground ball to third base, but Cuvet made a wild throw. Sosa just held his foot on the plate for a force out, but it took a review to get the call right. That’s only out No. 1, though. Collera walked in a run after that, missing on a full count. J.D. Arteaga went out to talk to him, but he left Collera in.

Cyr almost hit a grand slam, which would’ve led to a cacophony of boos, but he came up just short at the wall. Still, it drove another run in. Arteaga came out for his fourth pitching change of the inning, and fans started to file out.

Miami brought in another left, Jack Durso, prompting Kevin O’Sullivan to bring in Caden McDonald. Sully won the chess game. McDonald lined one into left field, scoring Bowen, but Strayer was tagged out at home. Florida plated five runs in all that chaos, though.

Barberi came back out for the seventh. He got Dubovik to fly out in foul territory after he lost his bat on a swinging strike. Bowen and Striping both went after it, but the first baseman called it. Watkins flied out in foul territory to the other side. Surowiec made the play.

Ogden grounded out to third on what looked like a sure-fire single, but Surowiec laid out to stab it and made a strong throw to leave no doubt.

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Strayer and Cyr both flied out on the first pitch they saw, keeping Ciscar in the game through seven. He finished off the inning with a full-count sinker to punch out Stripling.

Ogden checked his swing but made contact for a leadoff double that snuck by Stripling and down the right-field line. Peterson is getting a couple of strike calls and the crowd is not pleased. None of them ended up mattering. Torres lined it over Myers’ head into right-center for a second hit with no outs. Fortunately, Ogden held up to see if the catch was made, stopping him from scoring. Peterson got Cuvet swinging on a breaking ball.

Sully came out to talk to Peterson but left him in the game. He got Sosa swinging through a 90 mph changeup for the second out, but Williams hit a ball softly into no-man’s-land on the left side. Surowiec looked for it to go foul, but it made a beeline for the bag and stayed fair, scoring a run.

Jackson Barberi took over after that. He gave up an RBI single on his second pitch to West, tying the game. Barberi is running it up to 99 on his heater and struck out Alfonzo to end the inning.

Peterson’s final line: 5.2 IP, 6 H, 2 R, 2 ER, 1 BB, 8 K (98 pitches, 59 strikes)

Jones grounded out to short to open the inning. It took a strong throw, but Ogden made it look relatively easy. Ciscar ran a slider inside a bit too much and caught Lawson on the knee for a free base. Surowiec went right back up the middle, but Ciscar got out of the inning by snagging a liner right back at him and doubling up Lawson, already on the run.

Derek Williams led off the bottom of the fifth with a line drive to left field that fell in front of Cyr. Bowen went to talk to Peterson after missing a couple of sliders. Brylan West caught a fastball with the runner in motion for an easy single through the 5-6 hole. Alvarez moved Williams to third on a routine flyout to center.

Dubovik hit the ball a mile high, but it didn’t even reach the infield grass. Bowen camped out under it and got a crucial second out. Watkins flied out to right, allowing Peterson to escape the danger.

Jackson Barberi is warming up in the bullpen.

Now it’s Ciscar’s turn to draw some ground balls with that cutter (89-90). He retired the side in order, getting Stripling to go to first and Kendall and Myers to short. Ogden made a nice Jeter-esque backhand play where the grass meets the dirt to get Myers.

Peterson is dipping in velocity a bit to 94 at times. After going down 3-0 on Michael Torres, Peterson worked his way back and got him to ground out for out No. 1 thanks to a sweet backhand play from Myers at second. Cuvet grounded out softly to first, and Peterson is still touching 96 with his heater. Stripling handled a hard-hit ball for the third out.

Peterson is in control and looks comfortable. He’s missing inside at times, but he’s drawing a lot of swings for groundouts after working five strikeouts early on.

Ciscar is being careful with Lawson and working him on the outer third of the zone after the first-inning bomb. He took a long time between the first and second pitch, missing badly on the initial throw. Ciscar worked his way back into a 2-2 count, but Lawson took one of those outside pitches to right field on a line.

Ethan Surowiec followed up with a hard-hit through the right side to put two on with no outs. Karson Bowen whiffed on a bunt attempt. Bowen tapped a slider for a swinging bunt, moving both runners into scoring position. Cash Strayer took one for a ride foul to left before flying out deep to the warning track in left center. It scored Lawson from third, though. That’s a good run creation to double the lead.

Cyr struck out looking on a high heater. The crowd loved it and gave him a left-right-left-right chant until he stepped into the dugout.

Dylan Dubovik led off the bottom of the third with a hard-hit single through the left side. Peterson’s slider isn’t moving a ton this inning, but he’s finding the top of the zone with his heater, sitting around 95-96 mph and topping at 97. He froze Jalen Watkins with a fastball and got Jake Ogden to hit a tall flyout to second base for a pair of outs. Peterson kept checking on Dubovik over at first, who has wheels, and used a nifty pickoff move to face the minimum.

Jacob Kendall struck out swinging, and Kolt Myers grounded out softly to second base for a quick pair of outs. Ciscar is locating his fastball well and his slider is moving well. The home crowd is amped up and loudly heckling the Gators. Blake Cyr’s name is booed whenever mentioned over the PA system. Kyle Jones struck out swinging to end the inning.

Peterson comes out strong in the second, pumping his high heat to set up an 86 mph slider to get his fourth straight strikeout. He gets the second out on a sky-high fly ball to left that the left fielder struggled to corral. Peterson retired the side in order with a swinging strikeout of Alfonzo Alvarez.

Ciscar delivers a pitch down the heart of the plate that Cash Stayer drives into the deep right-center gap, but a tremendous effort by the center fielder sends him back to the dugout. Blake Cyr swung at an outside slider to notch out No. 2 for Florida and Landon Stripling flailed at an 81 mph slider at his feet to end the frame.

Liam Peterson throws four straight balls to Miami’s leadoff hitter — always a bad omen. The runner steals second, but Florida’s ace gets his first out with a full-count swinging K to the next batter.

Next hitter sees two straight balls before taking a huge whiff at an 86 mph slider well outside; hitting 99 mph with the fastball, he notches a back-to-back strikeout swinging on the outside part of the plate. He finishes the inning with a nasty 89 mph changeup down low to erase the leadoff walk.

Kyle Jones, who has been extremely reliable when it comes to getting on base at the leadoff spot, grounds out to shortstop on four pitches to open up the game. No worries, because Brendan Lawson followed him with a home run to deep left to give the Gators their first run.

Ethan Surowiec hits an infield groundout to the first baseman, thrown to the pitcher for out No. 2. Karson Bowen hit a grounder up the middle fielded by the shortstop to end the frame. But the early damage is done.