T.J. O'Grady
had another terrific mid-week start and
the Patriots had one of their best offensive days in weeks but the George Mason
baseball team was unable to turn those positives into a win as Mason fell to
Georgetown, 10-6 at Shirley Povich Field in Bethesda, Md. Playing their eight
road game in two weeks, the Patriots lost falling to 9-12-1 on the year.
Georgetown improved to 15-7 on the season.
Eight of the nine Patriot batters had multiple hits
with five different players having multi-hit games. Zack Helgeson
had the first
homer by a Patriot since March 12 while Brig Tison
, Shane Davis
, Blaise
Fernandez and Danny Lyons
each had two-hit games. O'Grady went five innings
allowing just five hits and two earned runs but he fell to 1-1. Five of
Georgetown's 10 runs were unearned. Mike Garza was 3 for 5 with four RBI
including a three-run homer.
Mason built a three-run lead in the early innings
scoring once in the second, once in the fourth and once in the fifth. The first
run came when Davis walked, Fernandez singled, the pair advanced on a passed
ball and Davis came home on a Mick Foley
sacrifice fly. In the fourth, Davis
doubled but was thrown out trying to score on a Fernandez single. Fernandez
went to second on the play and scored on a Helgeson base hit. Foley singled and
Lyons walked to load the bases but Jeremy Haas
popped out to end the threat. In
the fifth, Tison singled with two outs, took third when Davis singled and a
throwing error was made, and then scored on a wild pitch.
In the bottom of the fifth, O'Grady had two outs
before Andy Lentz reached on an error. Justin Leeson singled and Garza homered
to tie the score. In the sixth, Sean Lamont singled and Dan Capeless walked to
end O'Grady's day. Reliever Branden Bartlett
came on and gave up an RBI double
to Erick Fernandez. After a pair of strikeouts, Lentz doubled to make it 6-3.
In the seventh, Mason made it a two-run game when
Nick Allen
walked, went to second on a wild pitch, took third on a Tison single
and scored on a Davis sacrifice fly. But the Hoyas responded with two in the
bottom of the frame when they put together a single an RBI double from Lamont
and an RBI single by Corbin Blakey.
Each team put two on the board in the eighth.
Helgeson led off with a homer, then with one out, Lyons singled, Haas doubled
and Cook's sacrifice fly made it 8-6. But Georgetown used a Leeson walk, a
Garza single and a Davis error in left to made it 10-6.
The Patriots will return home on Wednesday for the
first time since March 9 when they host George Washington at Spuhler Field at 3
p.m.
