{"id":218288,"date":"2026-04-04T03:35:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T03:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/218288\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T03:35:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T03:35:14","slug":"baseball-drops-second-game-of-series-at-miami-saturday-series-finale-moved-up-to-10-am","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/218288\/","title":{"rendered":"Baseball Drops Second Game of Series at Miami; Saturday Series Finale Moved up to 10 AM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OXFORD, Ohio \u2013 The Ball State baseball team couldn&#8217;t keep up with Miami and fell 20-4 to the RedHawks on Friday afternoon at McKie Field.<\/p>\n<p>The Cardinals (15-14, 10-4 Mid-American Conference) got a solo home run from <a href=\"https:\/\/ballstatesports.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/ryan-muizelaar\/12835\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"12835\" target=\"_blank\">Ryan Muizelaar<\/a> in the fourth inning and a two-run triple by <a href=\"https:\/\/ballstatesports.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/john-colligan\/12721\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"12721\" target=\"_blank\">John Colligan<\/a> and RBI single by <a href=\"https:\/\/ballstatesports.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/jack-bakus\/12893\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"12893\" target=\"_blank\">Jack Bakus<\/a> in the seventh, but the RedHawks (19-10, 9-5 MAC) plated two runs each in the first and second frames and six in the third to build a 10-0 advantage early. Eight more runs in the fifth created more separation for Miami.<\/p>\n<p>Bakus had two hits in the final frame of the seven-inning game, while <a href=\"https:\/\/ballstatesports.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/gavin-balius\/12717\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"12717\" target=\"_blank\">Gavin Balius<\/a> posted a pair of hits as well including a double. <a href=\"https:\/\/ballstatesports.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/kendric-sorgius\/12839\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"12839\" target=\"_blank\">Kendric Sorgius<\/a> tallied a pinch hit double.<\/p>\n<p>The hosts were led offensively by Tommy Harrison who hit a grand slam among his three hits for seven RBI and three runs scored. Starting pitcher Clayton Burke (4-1) struck out four and went the distance to earn the win.<\/p>\n<p>Ball State starter <a href=\"https:\/\/ballstatesports.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/zach-kwasny\/12732\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"12732\" target=\"_blank\">Zach Kwasny<\/a> (2-1) produced three strikeouts but allowed four runs in 1.1 innings pitched to suffer the loss.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday&#8217;s series finale has been moved up to a 10 a.m. start time.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OXFORD, Ohio \u2013 The Ball State baseball team couldn&#8217;t keep up with Miami and fell 20-4 to the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":218289,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-218288","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\/218288","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=218288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}