{"id":219562,"date":"2026-04-05T13:14:27","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T13:14:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/219562\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T13:14:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T13:14:27","slug":"no-10-virginia-downs-no-7-florida-state-in-series-opener-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/219562\/","title":{"rendered":"No. 10 Virginia Downs No. 7 Florida State in Series Opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 0in;\">CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. \u2013 In a contest that was dominated by pitching, the No. 10 Virginia baseball team (24-7, 8-5 ACC) topped No. 7 Florida State (22-7, 7-3 ACC) 4-3 at Disharoon Park on Thursday evening (April 2).<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in;\">Virginia plated all four of its runs, highlighted by an Antoino Perrotta two-run home run, in the fourth inning before riding four shutout frames from the bullpen to victory in the series opener. <\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in;\">UVA starter <a href=\"https:\/\/virginiasports.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/player\/kyle-johnson\" title=\"Kyle Johnson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kyle Johnson<\/a> electrified the Disharoon Park faithful on Thursday with four scoreless innings and a season-high seven strikeouts, but was dealt a no-decision. In relief, <a href=\"https:\/\/virginiasports.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/player\/henry-zatkowski\" title=\"Henry Zatkowski\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Henry Zatkowski<\/a> picked up his fifth win of the season by allowing three unearned runs in three innings of work.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/virginiasports.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/player\/jake-weatherspoon\" title=\"Jake Weatherspoon\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jake Weatherspoon<\/a> led the Cavalier offense on the night with a 3-for-4 game, while Perotta and <a href=\"https:\/\/virginiasports.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/player\/joe-tiroly\" title=\"Joe Tiroly\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Joe Tiroly<\/a> each went 2-for-4 with an extra base hit. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. \u2013 In a contest that was dominated by pitching, the No. 10 Virginia baseball team (24-7,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217020,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":{"0":"post-219562","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-florida","8":"tag-florida","9":"tag-florida-headlines","10":"tag-florida-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219562","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=219562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}