Manhattan University Athletics

LOUDONVILLE, N.Y. – The Manhattan baseball team split its Friday doubleheader with the Siena Saints, dropping game one 10-4, but bouncing back to win game two, 10-2.

The rubber game is set for 1 pm tomorrow.

GAME ONE
Manhattan stranded a pair in the top of the first and paid the price in the home half of the inning. Siena utilized a pair of extra-base hits to plate a pair of runs, making the score 2-0 at the end of the inning.

Siena followed that up with another two in the second inning and it would take until the fifth inning for the Green and White to get on the board. Ryan Ash led the inning off with a double down the right-field line. He moved over 90 feet on a wild pitch which was followed up by a Frankie Marinelli walk. Logan Pfannenbecker knocked in Ash for his ninth RBI of the season a single. Marinelli came around to score on a sac fly off the bat of Pete Durocher.

Siena took control of the game from there, with Manhattan adding another two in the ninth inning.

Durocher finished the game with a pair of RBI.

GAME TWO

Manhattan had chances early on in the game, stranding two in the first and fourth innings, and leaving the bases juiced in the third. During this stretch, Marinelli led the third inning off with a single to right field for his 100th collegiate hit.
In the fourth, Siena managed to ding Jasper starter Tyler Fagler for a solo shot to deep center field to take a 1-0 lead.

Manhattan responded immediately to tie the game, Alfredo Delgado singled and was moved over on a wild pitch and a groundout. He moved the final 90 feet from third on a Trevor Hansen double. The lead returned to the Saints in the bottom of the fifth, with the inning ending in a 2-1 advantage.

In the following half inning, Manhattan strung together some offense to regain the lead. Nick Plue, in front of a hometown audience, kicked off the inning with a base hit. Two batters later, Marinelli capitalized on a fielding miscue by the second basemen to reach first, with Plue going to third. Pfannenbecker was the next man up, and connected for a single to right to score Plue. However, the Saints right fielder hung onto the ball without throwing it into the infield, which allowed Marinelli to come all the way around from first to score, making the score 4-2.

In the seventh, another two runs came across the plate to grow the lead to 6-2. The home half of the seventh did see the Saints put pressure on the Jasper defense. With runners on second and third and one out, Nick Plue made a leaping grab at second to get the second out, and save at least one run. Oliver Pudvar, who came in to relieve Fagler earlier in the game, got the final out courtesy of a strikeout to escape the jam.

Pudvar earned the win, throwing 4.1 innings while striking out four.

Pfannenbecker finished with a career-high four RBI in game two.

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