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Baseball bats wake up too little too late in Ball State series, CMU swept

(04/28/14 3:58am)

[wzslider autoplay="true" interval="5000" transition="'slide'" info="true"] It took Central Michigan's baseball team 16 1/3 innings to score a run against Ball State during the team's crucial home series this weekend. Losing its first series sweep of the season, the team fell Sunday, 5-3. Baseball also lost Friday, 9-0 and Saturday, 6-5. Sunday's first run came on a fielder’s choice in the eighth inning against Cardinals starting pitcher Scott Baker. The Chippewas scored two more runs in the inning with two walks forcing in those runners. Baker, last year’s Mid-American Conference Pitcher of the Year, held the Chippewas to zero runs, three hits and no walks through eight innings Saturday “When you think about those middle innings, we were pressing a little bit," said CMU head coach Steve Jaksa. "The guys obviously know, no matter how much you try to keep the ‘outside’ away from you, they know they haven’t scored and are down." Right fielder Logan Regnier, who came into Saturday’s game with a .321 batting average, went 0-5 with three strikeouts. First baseman Cody Leichman also entered the game with a .311 batting average, and hit 0-3. During Friday and Saturday’s games, CMU totaled five runs, 12 hits, six walks and 16 strikeouts. The Chippewas were hitting the ball hard, but those hits ended up barely foul, including a questionable call on the right-field line off the bat of Alex Borglin. “They had two balls that were probably fair right on the chalk," Jaksa said. "Am I happy with how the guys battled? Yeah. I think most people would bet that being down 4-0 in that situation, we weren’t going to come back, and we were inches away from winning that game.”

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