Late Offense Not Enough in 7-6 Loss to Brown

Sunday, February 27

Memphis, Tenn.

12 P.M.

University of Memphis

4-2

Brown

1-2

BROWN

Memphis

Photo by: Matthew A. Smith

Feb 27, 2022 | Baseball

Box Score

MEMPHIS, Tenn. – The Memphis Tigers (4-2) brought the tying run to the plate in the seventh and eighth innings and had the winning run at the plate in the ninth, but the Brown Bears (1-2) held on for their first victory since March 2020 and avoided the series sweep with a 7-6 win.

Memphis: 6, Brown: 7

How it happened:

2B Charles Crawford led off the game for Brown with a triple off of RHP Carson Stinnett (ND) and scored two batters later on a sacrifice fly
Stinnett departed after just 1.2 innings with an apparent injury, as the Tigers used nine total pitchers in the loss
Memphis got three straight singles off of RHP Santhosh Gottam (W, 1-0) in the second frame and tied the game on a run-producing double play groundout from 2B Austin Baskin
Neither side scored again until the fifth, when C Jacob Burley put Brown in front for good with a sacrifice fly
The Bears and Tigers each scored in the sixth, as Brown led 3-2 after six frames
Burley and 1B Ryan Marra had back-to-back home runs for Brown in the seventh, and the Bears added two more in the frame to lead 7-2
The Tigers pushed a run across in the sixth on a sacrifice fly but left runners at second and third base
Memphis got consecutive singles from 3B Logan Kohler and Baskin to begin the seventh but got just one run and left the bases loaded
As the third Brown pitcher of the day, Sam Duncan retired just one of the three batters that he faced, as Memphis plated two runs in the eighth before LF Ian Bibiloni grounded into an inning-ending double play, which kept Memphis behind 7-5
In the final frame, CF BJ Banyon led off with a double and scored on a sacrifice fly from DH Jacob Compton, but with the tying run at second base, Charlie Beilenson (SV, 1) struck out 1B Taylor Howell to secure Brown's 7-6 win

Notables:

Nine pitchers were the most Memphis has used so far this season
DH Jacob Compton had three hits, his fourth multi-hit effort in six games this season
2B Austin Baskin and 3B Logan Kohler each had two hits, their first and third multi-hit games of the season respectively
With a second inning single, C Taylor Howell extended his hit streak to 5 games
With nine strikeouts in the loss, Memphis pitching finished with 39 strikeouts in the series

Up Next:

The season-opening homestand will continue into next week, with a Tuesday matchup against Alabama A&M at 4 p.m. and a weekend series vs. Nicholls Friday through Sunday

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