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University of Rhode Island

Genther vs George Mason
9
Winner Rhode Island URI 11-15
6
Fordham FOR 12-19
Winner
Rhode Island URI
11-15
9
Final
6
Fordham FOR
12-19
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 R H E
Rhode Island URI 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 3 0 0 3 9 12 1
Fordham FOR 2 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 6 13 2

W: Andrade, Ryan (1-0) L: HAYWOOD, Connor (1-0)

Game Recap: Baseball |

Rams Overtake Fordham in 12 Innings To Win Series

How it Happened
After trailing for the majority of the day, the Rhode Island baseball team rallied to score three runs in the top of the 12th for a 9-6 victory over Fordham on Friday afternoon at Houlihan Park. With the result, the Rams (11-15, 3-2 Atlantic 10) claimed their first conference series win of the year, as the team took down its hosts 5-4 on Thursday. 

The game-winning scoring spree began when Rob Butler plated Anthony DePino with an RBI triple that broke open a 6-6 tie. Calvin McCall then extended the lead with an RBI base hit of his own before Alex Ramirez pushed the team to its final margin of victory with his second home run in as many days. In the bottom half of the frame, Ryan Andrade sat down all three Rams he faced to lock up his first win of the year (1-0). 

While Fordham (12-19, 1-4 A-10) was never able to surpass the visiting Rams in Thursday's contest, the team got going early and put up a crooked number in the bottom of the first. Three frames later, Rhode Island cut the lead in half when Billy Butler scored on a miscue, but the home team re-padded its edge by bringing in an unearned run to go up 3-1 in the fifth. 

Rhody continued to make pushes down the stretch, but Fordham kept coming up with answers. After another error allowed URI to lower the deficit to one run in the top of the seventh, Tommy McAndrews belted a two-run blast that made it a 5-2 ballgame. Nicholas Toro then stepped up and took the Rams' reliever deep for his first career homer in the eighth and the momentum shifted from there, as Eric Genther's three-run big fly handed Rhode Island its first lead of the game at 6-5 in the top of the ninth. 

Jeremy Urena recorded two outs for URI in the bottom of the frame before handing things over to Ryan Andrade, who entered with the go-ahead run on first. Fordham used an infield single to knot up the score at 6-6 and threatened to do further damage, but Andrade stopped the bleed and sent the game into extras. Each side had chances to end it over the next few innings, but it was not until Rhode Island's offensive outburst in the 12th that the game was decided. 

Inside the Box Score
  • Rhode Island now has nine games with two-or-more home runs this season.
  • Junior Trystan Levesque pitched a quality start, allowing just three runs while fanning seven in 6.0 innings of work. He finished his outing without walking a single batter.
  • This marks the second-straight day that the team has recorded three homers, as redshirt-junior Addison Kopack, sophomore Anthony DePino and redshirt-junior Alex Ramirez all left the park in the series-opener. 
  • Sophomore Ryan Andrade was just one punchout shy of matching his career-high, finishing the day with six. 
  • Nine different Rams recorded at least one hit. Freshmen Michael Anderson and Nicholas Toro, as well as redshirt-sophomore Rob Butler, led the effort with two apiece. 
  • Seven of the team's 12 hits were for extra bases.
  • Rhode Island now has two three-double, three-home run games as the team also achieved the feat while on the road at Washington (March 17). 
  • Ramirez scored a team-best three runs, drew three walks and accounted for the Rams' only stolen base of the day. 

What's Next
Rhode Island will look to sweep Fordham in the series finale, which is scheduled for a Noon first pitch on Saturday, April 8. It would be Rhody's first time sweeping the opposing Rams since the 2017 season. 
 
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