{"id":181638,"date":"2026-03-07T03:31:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T03:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/181638\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T03:31:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T03:31:09","slug":"grangers-8-strikeout-outing-leads-florida-am-over-villanova-4-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/181638\/","title":{"rendered":"Granger&#8217;s 8-strikeout outing leads Florida A&#038;M over Villanova 4-1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>                    &#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Villanova.png\" alt=\"Villanova University\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                Next Game:<\/p>\n<p> Villanova University<\/p>\n<p>3\/7\/2026 | 2:00 PM<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                        SWAC TV  &#13;\n                    <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                    Mar. 07 (Sat) \/ 2:00 PM&#13;\n                <\/p>\n<p>                    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sidearm-story-template-next-game-opponent-logo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Villanova.png\" alt=\"Villanova University\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                        \u00a0Villanova University&#13;\n                    <\/p>\n<p>                    <a class=\"sidearm-story-template-next-game-details-history\" href=\"https:\/\/famuathletics.com\/sports\/baseball\/opponent-history\/villanova-university\/113\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">History <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                             &#13;<\/p>\n<p>TALLAHASSEE, Fla.\u00a0&#8212;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/famuathletics.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/caleb-granger\/4373\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"4373\" target=\"_blank\">Caleb Granger<\/a> dominated on Friday, punching out eight Villanova hitters over eight innings of work to help propel the Florida A&amp;M Rattlers over the Wildcats 4-1.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to his eight strikeouts, Granger (2-1) went eight innings, giving up one run on eight hits and walking one for Florida A&amp;M (4-9). <a href=\"https:\/\/famuathletics.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/cody-williams\/4497\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"4497\" target=\"_blank\">Cody Williams<\/a> also made an impact on the mound for the Rattlers, throwing one shutout inning while allowing no hits.<\/p>\n<p>At the plate, the Rattlers were paced by <a href=\"https:\/\/famuathletics.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/matthew-perez\/5456\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"5456\" target=\"_blank\">Matthew Perez<\/a>, who went 1-for-3 on the day with a double, a walk and an RBI. <a href=\"https:\/\/famuathletics.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/justen-crews\/5448\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"5448\" target=\"_blank\">Justen Crews<\/a> put together a standout performance as well, going 2-for-4 with a double. <a href=\"https:\/\/famuathletics.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/jackson-mckenzie\/5471\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"5471\" target=\"_blank\">Jackson McKenzie<\/a> also contributed for Florida A&amp;M, putting together one hit in two trips to the plate while adding a double.<\/p>\n<p>HOW IT HAPPENED<\/p>\n<p>The Rattlers got on the board immediately, starting their scoring with one run in the bottom of the first inning. <a href=\"https:\/\/famuathletics.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/caden-kresak\/5469\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"5469\" target=\"_blank\">Caden Kresak<\/a> came across to score the lone run of the inning for Florida A&amp;M and get them on the board.<\/p>\n<p>The Wildcats failed to push any runs across before the Rattlers offense got back to their scoring ways the next inning. Florida A&amp;M pushed across a run on Perez&#8217;s RBI double, which brought the score to 2-0 in favor of the Rattlers.<\/p>\n<p>Florida A&amp;M held Villanova without a run before building their lead to 3-0 the following inning.<\/p>\n<p>The Wildcats gained ground, closing the gap to 3-1 until Florida A&amp;M added some insurance in the fifth. <a href=\"https:\/\/famuathletics.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/jay-campbell\/5446\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"5446\" target=\"_blank\">Jay Campbell<\/a> crossed home plate with the lone run of the inning for the Rattlers, bringing the score to 4-1 in favor of Florida A&amp;M. The score remained 4-1 for the rest of the game, as the Rattlers held on for the win.<\/p>\n<p>GAME NOTES<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00bb Granger struck out eight Wildcats hitters.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00bb Florida A&amp;M&#8217;s highest scoring inning was the fifth, when it pushed one run across.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00bb Florida A&amp;M grabbed a 1-0 lead in the bottom half of the first and didn&#8217;t surrender that lead for the remainder of the game.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00bb Granger put together eight innings of one-run ball for the Rattlers.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00bb The Rattlers out-hit the Wildcats at an 11-8 clip.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00bb Florida A&amp;M pitchers limited Villanova to just 1-for-7 (.143) with runners in scoring position.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00bb Florida A&amp;M pitchers faced 33 Villanova hitters in the game, allowing 10 ground balls and five fly balls while striking out eight.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00bb Perez led the Rattlers at the plate, going 1 for 3 with a double and an RBI.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00bb Villanova was led offensively by Mark Giallusi, who went 2 for 3 with a double and an RBI.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00bb Bobby Finn led the Wildcats pitching staff, throwing 3.1 scoreless innings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; &#13; Next Game: Villanova University 3\/7\/2026 | 2:00 PM &#13; SWAC TV &#13; &#13; Mar. 07&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":181639,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-181638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181638","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=181638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}