Boston College Baseball: Birds Back in the Win Column

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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – The Boston College baseball team salvaged its series against No. 18 Florida State with a 5-3 win at Dick Howser Stadium on Sunday. Battling through two rain delays, the Eagles came ay with the win to move to 15-18 overall and 5-16 in the ACC, while the Seminoles fell to 18-14 and 13-11.

BC put two on the board in the third inning before FSU answered with a two-run home run from right fielder Robby Martin in the fourth. Junior center fielder Sal Frelick (Lexington, Mass.) doubled with two away and scored the go-ahead run in the fifth.

Graduate right-hander Alex Stiegler (Dallas, Texas) walked the first two batters of the fifth and issued a wild pitch to put two runners in scoring position. After a strikeout and a fly ball to right, he was lifted for graduate lefty Joey Walsh (Plymouth, Mass.). After an intentional-walk loaded the bases, he got Martin to ground out and end the threat.

The game, which started 90 minutes late due to rain, then entered a 52-minute rain delay. Graduate first baseman Jack Cunningham (South Riding, Va.) restarted the action with a leadoff-single and graduate right fielder Dante Baldelli (Cumberland, R.I.) drove him in with a sacrifice-fly.

Walsh (2-3) went back to the mound after more than an hour in the dugout. He pitched the final 4.1 innings to earn the win and allowed just one run on one hit and six walks with four strikeouts. Stiegler pitched the first 4.2 innings and surrendered just the two runs on the home run with three walks and three total hits against him to go with four strikeouts.

Cunningham went 2-for-4 with a double and graduate shortstop Brian Dempsey (Potomac, Md.) went 3-for-5 with a RBI.

DETAILS
Score: Boston College 5, No. 18 Florida State 3
Records: Boston College 15-18, 5-16; Florida State 18-14, 13-11
Stadium: Mike Martin Field at Dick Howser Stadium
Attendance: 1,253

BC Highlights

Baldelli hit a leadoff-triple in the third; leading to a two-run frame for the Eagles.
Frelick started a two-out rally in the fifth with a double and scored on a base hit by Dempsey.
Walsh entered with two in scoring position and two out in the fifth. He issued an intentional-walk and got a ground ball to first to leave the bases loaded.
Cunningham led off the sixth with a single, Ramon Jimenez doubled and Baldelli drove in a run with a sacrifice-fly.
First-pitch swinging, Lucas Stalman hammered a solo home run to right center in the eighth.

Game Notes

BC pitchers matched a season-low four hits allowed.
Dempsey started his 150^th career game.
Dempsey picked up his 12^th multi-hit game of the season and 57^th of his career.
Dempsey drove in the 99^th run of his career.
Stalman hit his first career home run.

UP NEXT
Boston College hosts Rhode Island Wednesday, April 21 at 3 p.m. on ACC Network.