{"id":217121,"date":"2026-04-03T06:01:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T06:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/217121\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T06:01:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T06:01:16","slug":"redhawks-down-ball-state-14-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/217121\/","title":{"rendered":"RedHawks Down Ball State 14-4"},"content":{"rendered":"

OXFORD, Ohio \u2013 The RedHawks beat Ball State 14-4 Thursday in seven innings, winning via the run rule after scoring five runs in the seventh. Evan Appelwick<\/a> spearheaded the offense, recording five RBIs and three runs, including his 11th home run of the season. Miami moves to 18-10 (8-5 MAC) with the win, while Ball State drops to 15-13 (10-3 MAC).<\/p>\n

HOW IT HAPPENED
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\n\tZac Sohosky<\/a> pitched two strikeouts and a fielder’s choice in the first, getting out of the first inning with 12 pitches.
\n\tMarcus Dierks<\/a> came up with a leadoff walk in the bottom of the first and Tommy Harrison<\/a> singled. Ryan Novak<\/a> took an HBP to load the bases. With two outs, Dierks scored Miami’s first run on a passed ball.
\n\tCarson Raether<\/a> recorded a leadoff walk in the second and advanced as Christopher Roa singled to right-center. Appelwick delivered a two-RBI double to extend Miami’s lead to three runs, and Harrison recorded his second single of the day to drive in Appelwick, making it a 4-0 game.
\n\tA strikeout and two groundouts held back the Cardinals in the third. Sohosky and the defense came up with a popout and a double play in the fourth.
\n\tBall State pulled\u00a0back within one run of the RedHawks in the fifth inning as a walk and four back-to-back singles forced in three runs.
\n\tHarrison sent a solo shot to left field in the bottom of the fifth to rebuild a two-run lead for the RedHawks, 5-3.
\n\tCarson Byers<\/a> came into the game to pitch in relief in the sixth, surrendering just one run while pulling the RedHawks out of a jam. The run made it a 5-4 ballgame.
\n\tDiego Cruz<\/a> led off the bottom of the sixth with a single up the middle and Dierks walked. Appelwick hit his 11th home run of the year to add three to the tally and make it an 8-4 Miami lead. Novak followed with an insurance solo homer to pull ahead 9-4.
\n\tByers held Ball State scoreless in the top of the seventh. In the bottom, Cruz reached first on a wild pitch, setting up Roa for an RBI single. Two walks loaded the bases, and Harrison took an HBP to make it an 11-4 game. Novak immediately followed with a two-RBI single to put Miami ahead by nine. A walk reloaded the bags, and Raether had a walk-off walk, forcing in the run that put Miami ahead by 10 to enact the run-rule. <\/p>\n

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\nMIAMI GAME NOTES:<\/p>\n


\n\tDierks had three walks and four runs.
\n\tAppelwick went 2-for-4 with five RBIs and three runs.
\n\tHarrison went 3-for-4 with three RBIs and a run.
\n\tNovak went 2-for-3 with three RBIs and a run.
\n\tRoa went 2-for-4 with an RBI and two runs.
\n\tSohosky pitched 5.1 innings and earned the win.
\n\tByers pitched 1.2 scoreless innings. <\/p>\n

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\nUP NEXT:
\nMiami will face Ball State again tomorrow to try and clinch the series win over the Cardinals. Game two is currently scheduled for 3 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OXFORD, Ohio \u2013 The RedHawks beat Ball State 14-4 Thursday in seven innings, winning via the run rule…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217122,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-217121","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\/217121","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=217121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}