INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. - The Greyhounds continue to impress as an early-season surprise on a national and regional level and swept the doubleheader against Davenport on Sunday. DU dropped game one 7-4 and went to extra innings for the first time this season and lost 2-1 in 10 innings.
The Panthers scored first in the first inning in game one as
Ben Mets hit a sacrifice fly to score
Gaetano Vallone. Indianapolis came right back and scored twice in the bottom of the first.
James Kohl held the Greyhounds to just two runs in the inning and the Panthers were able to come back and tie it up at 3 with two runs in the third inning.
Josh Robinson had a RBI single to score
Logan Hylek and
Carter Troncin had a sacrifice fly to score Mets.
Indianapolis surged ahead for good with three runs in the fourth inning. Brandon DeWitt was walked with the bases loaded as
Spencer Vainavicz replaced Kohl. Drew Donaldson then had a two-RBI single to make it 6-3.
Caleb Anspaugh had a single in the sixth inning and a run was scored on an error as
Miko Rodriguez crossed the plate to make it 6-4. Caleb Vaughn had a big RBI double in the home half of the sixth inning for an insurance run.
Kohl (1-3) lasted 3.1 innings and allowed four earned runs as both runs in the first inning were unearned. Vainavicz retired two batters but those base runners he inherited were charged to Kohl.
Jack Snow was saddled with giving up the run in the sixth on the Vaughn double. DeWitt batted leadoff and got the pitching win improving to 3-0. He went 5.2 innings and allowed seven hits before Wyatt Phillips closed it out for his third save of the season.
In game two, pitching was the story as
Isaac Van Dyke and Logan Peterson dueled into the seventh inning. Vaughn got the Greyhounds a 1-0 lead in the third inning on a RBI single. Anspaugh came up with a RBI single in the seventh inning to tie the game and send it into extra innings.Â
Logan Bursick-Harrington entered the game in relief of Vainavicz in the bottom of the ninth and stranded the winning run at third base. The Greyhounds would win it however in the 10th inning. The winning run was scored on a throwing error by the Panthers with two outs.
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