Florida Gators baseball at Miami Hurricanes Game 2 live blog results

Justin Nadeau took over at second base, replacing McDonald, who pinch-hit for Myers.

Reeth came back out to retire Ogden on a pop-out just behind second base. Kevin O’Sullivan pulled him after that, bringing in Ernesto Lugo-Canchola to face the lefty-heavy portion of Miami’s lineup. Lugo-Canchola gave Torres a heavy dose of sliders to strike him out, and Cuvet swung at the first pitch he saw for a 6-3 routine groundout.

Evans hit Strayer to open the inning, putting him at 99 pitches on the night. A mound visit came after pitch No. 100, and Ryan Bilka started warming up in the bullpen. Arteaga came out to get Evans, who received a standing ovation, after he walked McDonald on five pitches.

Ryan Bilka took over for Evans and walked Miller to load the bases. Miler tried to bunt initially, but he couldn’t get it down and had to fight back from an 0-2 count. Jacob Kendall pinch-hit for Myers but struck out. Bilka found his groove and struck out Jones. Lawson sent a line drive screeching to dead center, but Torres tracked it down — BUT WAIT!

As the home crowd celebrated, the umpires brought everyone back onto the field. A balk was called, scoring the run and nullifying the pitch. More importantly, Florida took the lead as all runners moved up a base. Fans started a (expletive) you, Derek chant aimed at home plate umpire Derek Mollica, and boos continued to rain down as Lawson drew a walk.

Despite the trouble in the fifth, Reeth returned for the sixth. He struck out the side, getting Copeland looking and Dubovik and Watkins swinging at sliders. In back-to-back nights, Florida has leaned on a reliever for multiple innings. It’s kept everyone but McDonald and Reeth fresh to throw for the final 12 innings of this series.

The Gators went down in order again, making it 13 in a row retired by Evans. He’s up to 23 strikeouts on the season, which gives him the team lead. He recorded his 12th of the game against Surowiec to lead off the inning. Surowiec almost fouled to deep right field, but Williams missed it. Karson Bowen flied out to right, and Blake Cyr grounded out to third.

Sully sticks with Reeth for another inning, and he gets Ogden out on an easy grounder to shortstop, but Torres follows him with an opposite-field double down the left-field line to give Miami a runner in scoring position with one out. Torres moved up to third on a wild pitch. A shallow fly ball to center from Cuvet scored the run on a sacrifice fly.

Sosa and Williams hit back-to-back singles, prompting a visit from Sully, but Reeth stayed in to strike out West swinging.

Evan starts the fifth inning with 69 pitches thrown and shows no signs of slowing, getting Myers to strike out on a changeup that has just stymied the Gators this evening. Jones ground out to third and was thrown out from the foul side of the line on a nice play by the defender — and hey, at least it wasn’t a strikeout.

Lawson chops the sixth pitch he sees to second for out No. 3.

Reeth remains in the game and gives up a deep drive to left-center by West, but the center fielder hauls it in with room to spare. Next batter Copeland reaches base on an error by the second baseman on a first-pitch grounder, giving Miami one on with one out.

Dubovik forces a full count, but a belt-high slider outside the plate gets him swinging for out No. 2. A grounder by Watkins to second gets tossed to the shortstop for out No. 3, and the error is stranded.

Evans is still in the game for the ‘Canes and continues to baffle Gators batters, getting his eighth strikeout on a swing-and-miss by Strayer on a low and inside fastball. McDonald works him to a full count, but watches a fastball at his fists for out No. 2.

Miami’s lefty’s three-pitch arsenal proves to be too much for Miller, who makes it seven-straight strikeouts swinging at a slider to end the frame.

Right-hander Ricky Reeth takes the bump in place of King, who may have sustained an injury before exiting the game. He comes in with two on and one out, and after getting forced into a full count by Sosa, induces a ground ball to second base with just the out at first as an option.

Two outs and two in scoring position, and the righty offers a series of fastballs in and out of the zone before getting Williams to fly out to right. Crisis averted.

King’s first offering is softly grounded to third base by Ogden, who is out easily on the throw. Torres battles Florida’s righty to a full count, and after a steady diet of fastballs he gets a 93 mph heater a little too high to earn a trip to first base.

The fastball velo is falling to around 90 mph with bursts of 93 as he reaches the 65-pitch mark; King has been laboring all evening and fatigue might be starting to show. After another full-count at-bat, he hits Cuvet in the face with an 89 mph throw to put two on for the ‘Canes and bring Sully out to the bump. He appears to be buying time for his bullpen by standing out with his infielders… and he is after walking off the field.

Surowiec and Bowen both struck out swinging on sliders. Cyr struck out on a changeup. The top of the order is not seeing things well against Evans.

Cian Copeland flied out to left to start the frame, but King ran one inside on Dylan Dubovik and hit him. King’s command looks shakier than it usually is, but he still got Jailen Watkins swinging on a heater. Dubovik tried to swipe second, but Bowen got him easily.

Florida didn’t hang its head after the home run. Karson Bowen singled through the right side, Blake Cyr lined one over the shortstop’s head, and Cash Strayer singled through the left side to load the bases. Caden McDonald swung and missed a slider for Evans’ third strikeout of the night, but Miller got the train rolling again with an RBI single over the second baseman.

Evans bounced back with a filthy changeup to strike out Kolt Myers, but Jones tied it up with a two-run single into left-center. Torres was charged with an error in center, taking away the double from Jones.

A slider got away from the catcher, Sosa, and Miller scored on a wild pitch. Lawson almost went deep, but Torres got it on the warning track in right-center.

Aidan King got started with a groundout on Jake Ogden. Sam Miller fielded it deep in the dirt, but he made a strong throw to make it look routine.

King got Michael Torres to hit into the shift up the middle, but Lawson booted it. It looked like an error, but the home scorer ruled it a base hit. King got Daniel Cuvet swinging with a heater for out No. 2. Alex Sosa hit into a routine 5-3 out, with Sam Miller shifted over toward the traditional shortstop position, but Miller dropped it for an error. As he got the ball back to King, Torres took off to take an uncovered third base.

That error proved costly as Derek Williams hit a no-doubt home run deep to left. All you saw was Blake Cyr’s back sprinting to the wall. He got Brylan West to strikeout with a heater.

King is working 92-93 mph on his fastball with some wicked arm-side run, and mixing in the 83-mph slider with some tight break. He also flashed an 85-86 mph changeup.

First pitch was delivered at 6:16 p.m. ET.

Rob Evans struck out Kyle Jones on three pitches to start the game. Evans is throwing 91-93 mph on his heater and mixing in an 81-mph breaking ball. Brendan Lawson fouled balls off his shin and knee before grounding out to first, unassisted. He was a bit shaken up after the one off his knee.

Evans retired the side in order with a strikeout of Ethan Surowiec. That slider out of the low 3/4 arm slot is going to be a problem.