{"id":247890,"date":"2026-04-27T04:01:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T04:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/247890\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T04:01:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T04:01:18","slug":"baseball-outhits-miami-10-6-but-cant-capitalize-in-dropping-series-finale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/247890\/","title":{"rendered":"Baseball Outhits Miami, 10-6, But Can&#8217;t Capitalize in Dropping Series Finale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OXFORD, Ohio \u2013 Central Michigan won the battle of the hits, but could not make them count on Sunday in fall to Miami (Ohio), 5-2, in the finale of a three-game Mid-American Conference baseball series at the RedHawks&#8217; Hayden Park.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe Chippewas dropped all three games of the series and are 18-23, 9-15 MAC. They go to Notre Dame on Tuesday for a nonconference game and then entertain Grace Christian on Wednesday at Theunissen Stadium.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe sweep leaves CMU in ninth place in the MAC. The top six teams in the conference standings earn a berth in the league tournament. CMU trails sixth-place Ball State, which is 14-10 in league play, by five games with nine remaining.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nMiami (28-13, 16-7) seized a 4-0 lead after two innings on Sunday against CMU starter <a href=\"https:\/\/cmuchippewas.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/gavin-moczydlowsky\/7261\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"7261\" target=\"_blank\">Gavin Moczydlowsky<\/a> (1-3), who surrendered four runs on five hits, walked two and struck out two over four innings.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe Chippewas, who outhit the RedHawks, 10-6, got a run in the third on a <a href=\"https:\/\/cmuchippewas.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/miguel-correa-jr-\/7263\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"7263\" target=\"_blank\">Miguel Correa Jr.<\/a> sacrifice fly and one in the fourth on <a href=\"https:\/\/cmuchippewas.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/brady-krzciok\/7233\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"7233\" target=\"_blank\">Brady Krzciok&#8217;s<\/a> leadoff homer, his ninth round-tripper of the season.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nCMU stranded 11 baserunners and left the bases loaded in the eighth.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/cmuchippewas.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/spencer-verburg\/7242\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"7242\" target=\"_blank\">Spencer Verburg<\/a> singled, doubled and tripled to lead CMU at the plate, while <a href=\"https:\/\/cmuchippewas.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/cole-prout\/7236\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"7236\" target=\"_blank\">Cole Prout<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/cmuchippewas.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/drew-loikits\/7246\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"7246\" target=\"_blank\">Drew Loikits<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/cmuchippewas.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/logan-keilen\/7231\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"7231\" target=\"_blank\">Logan Keilen<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/cmuchippewas.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/cole-prout\/7236\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"7236\" target=\"_blank\">Cole Prout<\/a> had two hits apiece.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nClayton Burke, who held the Chippewas scoreless over 3 2\/3 innings in relief, earned the win. Clayton Burk, who came on to get a strikeout to end CMU&#8217;s eighth-inning threat, picked up the save.<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OXFORD, Ohio \u2013 Central Michigan won the battle of the hits, but could not make them count on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":247891,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-247890","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\/247890","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=247890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247890\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}