VESTAL, N.Y. — On a day highlighted by clutch hitting, it was
Derek Yalon and
Matt Brown-Eiring who clinched the series for the Stony Brook baseball team in a 7-5 victory over Binghamton on Saturday afternoon.
Yalon continued his red-hot weekend, driving a game-tying single to center in the eighth and Brown-Eiring sent his ninth home run over the season way over the left-field wall, a two-run shot to put the Seawolves up for good.
Fox scored the first run of the game in the first, as an error by the second baseman brought him home. After Binghamton followed that with three in the third,
Ryan Micheli and Yalon knocked in back to back run-scoring hits, as Micheli's double brought in
Stanton Leuthner and Yalon's hit drove home Micheli.
Binghamton took a 5-3 lead in the fifth before
Chris Leone's sacrifice fly cut the deficit in half at 5-4 after six to set the stage for Yalon and Brown-Eiring's theatrics.
Josh O'Neill earned the victory, throwing five innings of one-run ball in relief, closing out the game by striking out three and scattering six hits.
STATS AND NOTES
- Brown-Eiring enters double digits for his career, with home run number 10 on his Seawolves tenure. He's also up to an even 50 RBI for his career, with 47 coming this year. He has brought in a run in 12 of his last 17 games, with 22 RBI coming during that span.
- Between Friday and Saturday, Yalon has gone 5-for-8 at the plate with five RBI. He started and ended yesterday's scoring along with tying the game today.
- Led by three each by Evan Fox and Stanton Leuthner, the Seawolves recorded a season-high eight stolen bases. Fox's trio are a new season-best and match his career-high, last done against Fordham on March 9, 2021. Leuthner's three are the most in his Seawolves career. Yalon swiped his seventh of the season and Micheli stole the first base of his collegiate career.
- The eight as a team are the most since April 21, 2012 when Matt Senk's club swiped 11 against Hartford.
- O'Neill's five innings of work matches a season-best done on three other occasions. His ERA dropped to a season-low 4.47 and has come down 1.39 runs over his last five outings. He has allowed three earned over 17 innings during that stretch.
- The Seawolves defense turned four double plays today, a season-best.
QUOTES FROM THE SEAWOLVES
"What a hard fought game! So happy for our guys to end up on the winning sdie of that one. Clearly,
Matt Brown-Eiring's two-run ninth-inning home run was huge, but that opportunity doesn't happen if not for eight stolen bases, four turned double plays, two sac flies, a two-hit day from
Evan Fox and Derek and finally,
Josh O'Neill's allowing only one run in five innings of relief. This victory was a true team effort!" - head coach
Matt Senk.
UP NEXT
The Seawolves go for a sweep on Sunday, with first pitch from Vestal, N.Y., slated for 1 p.m. at the Bearcats Sports Complex.
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