{"id":218337,"date":"2026-04-04T04:37:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T04:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/218337\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T04:37:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T04:37:16","slug":"burke-harrison-lead-redhawks-past-cardinals-20-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/218337\/","title":{"rendered":"Burke, Harrison Lead RedHawks Past Cardinals 20-4"},"content":{"rendered":"

OXFORD, Ohio \u2013 The RedHawks decimated Ball State Friday 20-4 after four different players hit home runs and Clayton Burke<\/a> held the Cardinals to eight hits in seven complete innings of work. Tommy Harrison<\/a> recorded seven RBIs during the contest, bringing his season total to 50. Miami moves to 19-10 (9-5 MAC) with the win, while Ball State drops to 15-14 (10-4 MAC).<\/p>\n

HOW IT HAPPENED
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\n\tMiami pulled ahead 2-0 in the first. Harrison and Ryan Novak<\/a> each walked and Ignacio Gonzalez<\/a> delivered a two-run single up the middle.
\n\tBurke pitched a one-two-three inning in the top of the second for the RedHawks. Diego Cruz<\/a> led off the bottom of the inning with a single and scored as Christopher Roa came up with an RBI bunt single. One more run scored on a single by Harrison.
\n\tDominic Krupinski<\/a> led off the third inning for Miami with a double. Roa walked and Krupinski scored on a single by Marcus Dierks<\/a>. Evan Appelwick<\/a> then walked to load the bases and Harrison added four RBIs to his stats by crushing a grand slam to right field. The blast marked his ninth home run of the year. One at bat later, Gonzalez took a solo shot to left field, his fifth home run of the season, to make it a 10-0 lead for the RedHawks.
\n\tThe Cardinals scored their first run of the ballgame in the top of the fourth as the leadoff batter hit a home run to left field. The RedHawks answered with a run of their own in the bottom of the fourth, loading the bases with no hits and scoring on a wild pitch to make the score 11-1.
\n\tLeading off the fifth, Novak hit a home run to right field, his fifth of the year. Gonzalez walked and Carson Raether<\/a> took a two-run shot to right field to make it 14-1. Still with no outs, Miami loaded the bases and Dierks walked to make it 15-1. Cruz scored as Appelwick grounded out and Harrison hit a two-RBI single to make it an 18-1 game. With two outs, Raether singled to add one more run and cap off the eight-run, four-hit inning for the RedHawks.
\n\tJamie Rasmussen<\/a> recorded a single in the sixth and Miami loaded the bases with an HBP and a walk. Rasumessen scored Miami’s 20th run as Keenan Proctor<\/a> walked.
\n\tBall State scored three runs in the top of the seventh, but Burke recorded the final three outs to enforce the run rule and finish his second complete game as a RedHawk, a 20-4 victory. <\/p>\n

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


\n\tDierks went 1-for-2 with two RBIs and two runs.
\n\tAppelwick recorded four walks, an RBI, and a run.
\n\tHarrison went 3-for-4 with seven RBIs and three runs.
\n\tNovak went 1-for-3 with an RBI, two runs, and two walks.
\n\tGonzalez went 2-for-4 with three RBIs and two runs.
\n\tRoa had three walks and scored four runs.
\n\tBurke pitched the second complete game of his Miami career and held the Cardinals to four runs and two walks with 106 pitches. <\/p>\n

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\nUP NEXT:
\nThe RedHawks will look to sweep the Cardinals tomorrow in game three. First pitch has been moved up to 10 a.m. due to inclement weather.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OXFORD, Ohio \u2013 The RedHawks decimated Ball State Friday 20-4 after four different players hit home runs and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":218338,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-218337","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\/218337","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=218337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}