CORAL GABLES, Fla. \u2013 The Miami Hurricanes baseball team (25-8, 6-6 ACC) survived a late comeback by the FIU Panthers Tuesday night at Mark Light Field, 9-7. With the win, Miami now moves to 9-0 on the season in midweek matchups.<\/p>\n
Miami reliever TJ Coats (5-1) earned the win, delivering a strong outing with 6.0 innings pitched, allowing two runs (one earned) on two hits with two walks while recording a career-high seven strikeouts. FIU starter Rene Lastres (0-1) was charged with the loss after surrendering two runs on one hit across 2.0 innings. Ryan Bilka secured the save, his second of the year, tossing the final inning.<\/p>\n
Following a walk to Derek Williams, Brylan West started the scoring with a 365-foot, two-run home run off the scoreboard in left-center field. His fifth homer of the season gave Miami a 2-0 lead.<\/p>\n
FIU struck back in the top of the fourth with a solo home run from Cole Cleveland, but the Hurricanes responded with authority in the bottom half of the inning, scoring five runs off four hits.<\/p>\n
Vance Sheahan started the rally by drawing a walk, and West later scored on an FIU wild pitch to make it 3-1 while Max Galvin advanced to third. Moments later, Alonzo Alvarez delivered an RBI single to right-center, bringing home Galvin and moving Sheahan to third. Fabio Peralta followed with a sacrifice fly to left field, scoring Sheahan to push the advantage to 5-1.<\/p>\n
Reigning ACC Player of the Week, Jake Ogden, capped the inning with a two-run home run to right field, his fifth of the season, driving in Alvarez and extending Miami\u2019s lead to 7-1.<\/p>\n
FIU added a run in the top of the sixth when Samuel Fischer lifted a sacrifice fly to left field, allowing Andrew Ildefonso to score.<\/p>\n
Miami answered right back in the bottom of the seventh, as Williams launched a two-run home run to deep left field, his 13th of the season, scoring Alex Sosa and extending the Hurricanes\u2019 advantage to 9-2.<\/p>\n
FIU made a late push in the top of the ninth, stringing together a five-run rally to tighten the game quickly,<\/p>\n
Cooper Rasmussen got things started with a two-run home run to deep right field, bringing home Vicente Feliciano. Later in the inning, Aidan Cohall worked a bases-loaded walk to force in another run, trimming the deficit further. The Panthers weren\u2019t done as Mario Trivella followed with a two-run single to center field, driving in Cole Cleveland and Samuel Fischer to make the score 9-7, with two Panthers still on the bases.<\/p>\n
Despite the rally, reliever Ryan Bilka settled in and forced the final out with a fly out to left field, sealing the victory for Miami.<\/p>\n
Miami returns to conference play this weekend, hosting Wake Forest for a three-game series beginning Friday at 7 p.m. at Mark Light Field. The game will air on ACCNX and can be heard on WVUM 90.5 FM.<\/p>\n
To stay up to date with the Miami Hurricanes baseball team, be sure to follow @canesbaseball on Instagram, X and Facebook.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CORAL GABLES, Fla. \u2013 The Miami Hurricanes baseball team (25-8, 6-6 ACC) survived a late comeback by the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":224544,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[3816,23741,10428,589,13769,123,125,5079,124,23742,23740],"class_list":{"0":"post-224543","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-miami","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-canes","10":"tag-coral-gables","11":"tag-featured","12":"tag-headlines","13":"tag-miami","14":"tag-miami-headlines","15":"tag-miami-hurricanes","16":"tag-miami-news","17":"tag-the-u","18":"tag-university-of-miami-hurricanes"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224543","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=224543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}