MIAMI –\u00a0 Boston College Baseball (9-6, 2-1 ACC) defeated Miami (12-4, 1-2 ACC) on Sunday afternoon, 9-5, to earn the Eagles’ first-ever series win on the road against the Hurricanes.<\/p>\n
Brady Miller<\/a> went three innings, giving up one earned run while striking out four. Jacob Burnham<\/a> replaced Miller but was quickly replaced after only getting one out and giving up four runs, three earned. John Kwiatkowski<\/a> came on in relief and threw one and two-thirds innings of scoreless ball and only gave up three hits. Kyle Kipp<\/a> then closed the game out as he threw four innings of shutout ball while only giving one hit and striking out three.\u00a0<\/p>\n The Hurricanes got the scoring started in the first inning for the third straight game when a single brought in a runner from third, but Boston College caught the runner advancing and got out of the inning.\u00a0<\/p>\n In the second inning, the Eagles took the lead for the first time when, after Jack Toomey<\/a> led off the inning with a double to left field, Esteban Garcia<\/a> drove him in from second to tie the game at one. Boston College tacked on a second when Cesar Gonzalez<\/a> grounded out to short to bring in Garcia, who had advanced to third.\u00a0<\/p>\n In the top of the fourth, the Eagles would add three more runs courtesy of Gonzalez’s first career home run, which was a three-run shot to left field that brought in Luke Gallo<\/a> and Danny Surowiec<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n In the bottom half of the fourth, Miami would tie the game up with four runs of its own. The first came off a solo shot to left field. Burnham would get one strikeout before putting runners at second and third, who would then score when the Hurricanes roped a single to left field that scored both and made it 5-4. Miami would get one more on a single to center that scored a runner from third, which tied it all at five.\u00a0<\/p>\n Boston College would retake the lead for good in the top half of the next inning when Gallo knocked a single into left field that scored both Garcia and Toomey to put the Eagles ahead 7-5.\u00a0<\/p>\n Boston College added an insurance run in the eighth when Nick Wang<\/a> added his second home run of the series and fifth of the season when he hit a solo shot to left field.The Eagles made it 9-5 at the top of the ninth when Esteban Garcia<\/a> hit a sacrifice fly to deep left field that brought in Julio Solier<\/a> from third.\u00a0<\/p>\n Kipp came out for the ninth inning and went 1-2-3, including a strikeout looking to end the game.\u00a0<\/p>\n Up Next: The Eagles will return to action on March 10th when they travel to UConn to take on the Huskies at 3:05 p.m.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MIAMI –\u00a0 Boston College Baseball (9-6, 2-1 ACC) defeated Miami (12-4, 1-2 ACC) on Sunday afternoon, 9-5, to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":183634,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-183633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183633","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=183633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183633\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}