{"id":217075,"date":"2026-04-03T05:00:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T05:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/217075\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T05:00:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T05:00:17","slug":"baseball-falls-in-series-opener-at-miami","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/217075\/","title":{"rendered":"Baseball Falls in Series Opener at Miami"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OXFORD, Ohio \u2013 The Ball State baseball team cut a four-run deficit down to one in the middle innings of Thursday&#8217;s game at Miami but fell 14-4 to the RedHawks in the series opener at McKie Field.<\/p>\n<p>The Cardinals (15-13, 10-3 Mid-American Conference) trailed 4-0 after the hosts (18-10, 8-5 MAC) scored one run in the first inning and three runs in the second. Ball State got back-to-back-to-back run-<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nscoring singles from <a href=\"https:\/\/ballstatesports.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/brayden-huebner\/12727\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"12727\" target=\"_blank\">Brayden Huebner<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/ballstatesports.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/brett-griffiths\/12726\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"12726\" target=\"_blank\">Brett Griffiths<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/ballstatesports.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/jacob-gillis\/12832\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"12832\" target=\"_blank\">Jacob Gillis<\/a> in the top of the fifth to cut Miami&#8217;s edge to 4-3.<\/p>\n<p>After the RedHawks hit a solo home run in the bottom half of the fifth frame, the Cardinals responded with an RBI double from Huebner to plate <a href=\"https:\/\/ballstatesports.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/kenskey-thomas\/12843\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"12843\" target=\"_blank\">Kenskey Thomas<\/a> that made the score 5-4. Miami scored four runs in the sixth and five in the seventh to secure the seven-inning victory.<\/p>\n<p>Huebner went 3-for-4 with two doubles and two RBI, while Gillis and Thomas chipped in two hits each to lead the Ball State offense.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ballstatesports.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/brendan-garza\/12724\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"12724\" target=\"_blank\">Brendan Garza<\/a> (3-3) struck out nine but allowed five runs in 5.0 innings to suffer the loss. Zac Sohosky (3-0) worked 5.1 innings of four-run ball for the RedHawks to be credited with the win.<\/p>\n<p>The duo of Evan Applewick (double, homer, five RBI) and Tommy Harrison (3-for-4, home run, three RBI) in the middle of the Miami lineup led the way for the RedHawks.<\/p>\n<p>Game two of the series is scheduled for 3 p.m. on Friday.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OXFORD, Ohio \u2013 The Ball State baseball team cut a four-run deficit down to one in the middle&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217076,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-217075","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\/217075","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=217075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}