{"id":272787,"date":"2026-05-15T21:33:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T21:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/272787\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T21:33:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T21:33:18","slug":"harrison-burke-lead-redhawks-past-zips-13-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/272787\/","title":{"rendered":"Harrison, Burke Lead RedHawks Past Zips 13-3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AKRON, Ohio \u2013 Miami beat Akron in seven innings Friday, winning 13-3 after a five-hit day from <a href=\"https:\/\/miamiredhawks.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/tommy-harrison\/10869\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"10869\" target=\"_blank\">Tommy Harrison<\/a> that included two home runs. <a href=\"https:\/\/miamiredhawks.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/clayton-burke\/10864\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"10864\" target=\"_blank\">Clayton Burke<\/a> was Miami&#8217;s starting pitcher and tossed his third complete game as a RedHawk. The RedHawks improve to 37-15 (24-8 MAC) with the victory, while the Zips fall to 21-33 (11-21 MAC).<\/p>\n<p>HOW IT HAPPENED:&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/miamiredhawks.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/evan-appelwick\/10861\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"10861\" target=\"_blank\">Evan Appelwick<\/a> recorded Miami&#8217;s first hit of the game, a one-out double in the top of the first. Harrison singled to left field, putting runners at the corners, and Appelwick scored the RedHawks&#8217; first run of the day by advancing on a groundout. <a href=\"https:\/\/miamiredhawks.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/ignacio-gonzalez\/10868\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"10868\" target=\"_blank\">Ignacio Gonzalez<\/a> homered to right field on the next at-bat, clearing the bases and putting the RedHawks ahead 3-0 early.&#13;<br \/>\n\tBurke took the mound for Miami in the bottom of the first and sent down all three batters he faced.&#13;<br \/>\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/miamiredhawks.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/dominic-krupinski\/10871\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"10871\" target=\"_blank\">Dominic Krupinski<\/a> started the second inning by taking first after an HBP. Harrison hit his 15th home run of the year, a two-run shot to right field that extended Miami&#8217;s lead to five runs.&#13;<br \/>\n\tGonzalez collected his second hit of the day, hitting leadoff in the third. <a href=\"https:\/\/miamiredhawks.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/carson-raether\/10880\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"10880\" target=\"_blank\">Carson Raether<\/a> walked, and both runners moved up a base on a groundout. Gonzalez then scored on a wild pitch. Still with one out, Christopher Roa doubled down the right-field line, bringing Raether around to score. Krupinski hit Miami&#8217;s third home run of the day, another two-run blast that put the RedHawks ahead by nine.&#13;<br \/>\n\tAkron added their first run in the bottom of the third, leading off the inning with a double and a single before utilizing a sac fly to score and make it 9-1. A solo home run by the Zips made it a 9-2 ballgame in the bottom of the fourth. Burke stopped the scoring streak with a one-two-three inning in the fifth.&#13;<br \/>\n\tIn the top of the sixth, Harrison hit his second home run of the day, again to right field, to add one to Miami&#8217;s tally. On the very next at-bat, <a href=\"https:\/\/miamiredhawks.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/ryan-novak\/10873\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"10873\" target=\"_blank\">Ryan Novak<\/a> homered to left field, making the score 11-2. Akron answered with a home run of their own in the bottom of the inning to make the score 11-3.&#13;<br \/>\n\tWith two outs in the seventh, Krupinski walked and <a href=\"https:\/\/miamiredhawks.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/marcus-dierks\/10888\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"10888\" target=\"_blank\">Marcus Dierks<\/a> hit an infield single. Appelwick walked, loading the bases, setting up Harrison for a two-run single through the right side that put Miami ahead ten runs, 13-3.&#13;<br \/>\n\tBurke finished out his third complete game in a Miami uniform with a groundout.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<br \/>\nMIAMI GAME NOTES:<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tHarrison went a perfect 5-for-5 with three runs and five RBI.&#13;<br \/>\n\tGonzalez went 2-for-5 with two runs and two RBI.&#13;<br \/>\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/miamiredhawks.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/diego-cruz\/10886\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"10886\" target=\"_blank\">Diego Cruz<\/a> went 2-for-3.&#13;<br \/>\n\tKrupinski went 1-for-2 with three runs and two RBI.&#13;<br \/>\n\tBurke pitched 7.0 innings, holding the 30 batters he faced to seven hits and three runs in 101 pitches.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<br \/>\nUP NEXT:<br \/>\nMiami&#8217;s final regular season game will take place against the Zips tomorrow at 12 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AKRON, Ohio \u2013 Miami beat Akron in seven innings Friday, winning 13-3 after a five-hit day from Tommy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":272788,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-272787","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\/272787","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=272787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272787\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}