CORAL GABLES, Fla. \u2013 The Miami Hurricanes baseball team secured the victory over the Indiana State Sycamores Wednesday night, 6-2. Freshman Alonzo Alvarez\u2019s go-ahead solo home run in the bottom of the seventh inning was the difference maker to push the Hurricanes to a 5-0 start on the season.<\/p>\n
Miami left-handed pitcher Rob Evans (1-0) earned the win for Miami after tossing 1.0 inning in relief, allowing one hit and no runs while striking out one and walking one. Hunter Small (0-1) was charged with the loss for Indiana State after surrendering one run on two hits over 1.2 innings, striking out three.<\/p>\n
A pitching match for the first third of the evening, the Hurricanes\u2019 bats showed some life as senior outfielder Derek Williams was able to bring Michael Torres on a sacrifice fly, giving the Hurricanes the 1-0 lead. Alvarez then notched an RBI double on 1-1 count to bring in Alex Sosa, giving Miami a 2-0 advantage.<\/p>\n
But the Sycamores battled back in the top of the fifth, tying the game at two.<\/p>\n
Emil Estrella delivered a two-out RBI double to deep right field, scoring Jorge Cartagena from second. Nick Sutherlin followed with an RBI single up the middle, bringing home Estrella to make the contest even.<\/p>\n
But two innings later, in the bottom of the seventh, Alvarez returned to the plate for the Hurricanes to deliver his first home run as a Hurricane. A 352-foot solo shot to left field off the bat from the Brentwood, Calif. native put the Hurricanes back in the drivers seat.<\/p>\n
Daniel Cuvet provided a key insurance run in the following inning, driving in Michael Torres, who raced all the way around from first base to extend Miami\u2019s lead to 4-2.<\/p>\n
Reigning ACC Player of the Week Derek Williams extended the lead in the eighth inning, launching a two-run home run, his third of the season, to push Miami\u2019s lead to 6-2.<\/p>\n
Miami\u2019s bullpen shut the door over the final three innings. Rob Evans only allowed one hit and struck out one across a scoreless seventh. Alabama transfer Packy Bradley-Cooney followed with a clean eighth, surrendering one hit while recording a strikeout, then right-hander Ryan Bilka closed it out in the ninth, retiring all three batters he faced and striking out two to secure the 6-2 victory.<\/p>\n
Miami returns to action this weekend for a four-game series against Lafayette, highlighted by a Saturday doubleheader. First pitch for the series opener is set for 7 p.m. Friday at Mark Light Field at Alex Rodriguez Park.<\/p>\n
To stay up to date with the University of Miami baseball team, be sure to follow @canesbaseball on Instagram, X and Facebook<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CORAL GABLES, Fla. \u2013 The Miami Hurricanes baseball team secured the victory over the Indiana State Sycamores Wednesday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":162274,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[3816,23741,10428,589,13769,123,125,5079,124,23742,23740],"class_list":{"0":"post-162273","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-miami","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-canes","10":"tag-coral-gables","11":"tag-featured","12":"tag-headlines","13":"tag-miami","14":"tag-miami-headlines","15":"tag-miami-hurricanes","16":"tag-miami-news","17":"tag-the-u","18":"tag-university-of-miami-hurricanes"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162273\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}