You may be just now coming out of a fog from Ohio State hoops season, and if so, it’s time to get caught up on what the Buckeye baseball team is doing. It’s a good time to get on board because the squad just polished off a four-game weekend sweep of Indiana.
Going into the weekend, OSU had been experiencing an up and down season, compiling an 8-7 record, good for middle of the pack in the conference. That all changed this weekend though when OSU put together a four-game sweep winning the first game on Friday 3-2, taking a doubleheader on Saturday by scores of 5-2 and 6-0, then wrapping up a highly successful weekend with a 4-3 win in dramatic fashion Sunday.
Sunday’s game was epic. Indiana got on the board first with a misplayed ground ball in the top of the fourth. Ohio State then knotted things up with a sacrifice fly in the bottom of the sixth by Kade Kern before the Hoosiers got two more in the top of the eighth on two doubles and an error to go up 3-1.
That would only set the stage for all the drama in the late innings for the Buckeyes. OSU would get a quick two more back in the bottom of the 8th inning thanks to two RBI singles by Connor Pohl and Kade Kern to tie the score again at 3-3 as things headed to the 9th.
Indiana couldn’t get anything going in its half of the inning, and OSU would take advantage in the bottom. Nick Erwin would draw a one-out walk, followed by a single Sam Wilson. That’s when Zach Dezenzo served the walk-off RBI single into left field to polish off the sweep for Ohio State.
Queue the celebration.
Buckeyes 🧹🧹🧹🧹 Hoosiers thanks to Dezenzo's walk-off in the 9th
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With the win, the Buckeyes improved their record to 12-7 and vaulted all the way into third place in the league, just a game and a half behind both Michigan and Nebraska.
Ohio State is next in action with a four-game set against Illinois in Greenville, South Carolina this weekend. It might be time to take notice.
