University of Washington
North Dakota
Dawgs Roll To 17-3 Win In First Game Of Doubleheader
March 01, 2015 | Baseball
SEATTLE – The Huskies scored a season-high 17 runs to give All-American pitcher Tyler Davis plenty of offensive support in an 17-3 win in game one of a double-header Saturday at Husky Ballpark.
Davis went seven innings, allowing five hits and one earned run, while striking out nine batters – one off his career high – to pick up his second win of the season, the 17th of his UW career.
Washington (7-4) pounded out 13 hits and scored in six of eight innings, including more than two runs in five innings. Ten different Huskies had hits in the game, with KJ Brady, Braden Bishop and Levi Jordan all collecting two hits each.
Bishop got the scoring started, picking up where he left off Friday night, hitting a first-inning home run to centerfield off North Dakota starter Brett DeGagne (0-1) to give the Huskies an early 2-0 lead. With Jack Meggs on after a one-out walk, Bishop crushed the 1-0 pitch from DeGagne about 415 feet over the fence and about 10-feet high off the batter's eye. In his last at bat Friday night, Bishop collected his first career home run in the 10th inning of Friday night's 6-4 loss.
North Dakota (1-4) got a run back in the third, getting to Davis with two outs. Tyler Follis doubled and Jeff Campbell, last night's winning pitcher, delivered a run-scoring single that cut the Huskies lead to 2-1.
It was the closest the game would ever be as Washington answered right back in the bottom half of the third scoring four runs – all with two outs – to take the 6-1 lead. Bishop led off with a walk and advanced to second and third on ground outs. Alex Schmidt followed with a walk, and with Chris Baker at bat, took off for second, drawing a throw from the catcher. Bishop broke on the play and stole home, while Schmidt safely arrived at second for the perfectly executed double steal.
Chris Baker added to the lead with a triple to score Schmidt, and after a walk to Zach Bonneau, Levi Jordan singled to right. Baker scored on the hit and when the right fielder Dalton Leuschke misplayed the ball, Bonneau scored all the way from first.
The Huskies tacked three more on the scoreboard in the fourth on a mammoth three-run homer by Schmidt. Schmidt took a 2-0 pitch from reliever Andrew Favaro an estimated 360-feet that one-hopped into Lake Washington.
Washington added two runs in the fifth, five in the sixth and one in the seventh before finally being retired without scoring in the eighth.
North Dakota scored a pair of runs in the eighth off reliever Channing Nesbitt to make the final score 17-3.
Game 1: Washington 17, North Dakota 3,
ND 001 000 020 –- 3 7 2
UW 204 325 10x –- 17 13 1
LOB: ND 6, UW 13. Tyler Davis, Channing Nesbitt (8), Mack Gaul (9) and Zach Bonneau. Brett DeGagne, Andrew Favaro (4), Cameron Powell (6), Chris Knoll (6) and TJ Pigeon. W – Davis (2-1). L – DeGagne (0-1). Sv – none. HR – UW, Braden Bishop (2), Alex Schmidt (2). 3B – UW, Chris Baker. 2B – UND, Jeff Campbell (2), Tyler Follis; UW, Jack Meggs, Josh Cushing. Time – 1:01. Attendance – 1,052.
