No. 25 Huskies Beat Seattle U, 3-1, To Clinch Season Series

Tuesday, April 26

Seattle, WA

5:00 PM

University of Washington

23-14

Seattle

25-15

Seattle University

Washington

Photo by: Washington Athletics

No. 25 Huskies Beat Seattle U, 3-1, To Clinch Season Series

April 27, 2016 | Baseball

Box Score

By: Washington Athletics

SEATTLE – Joey Morgan broke a 1-1 tie in the sixth inning with a RBI single and three Husky pitchers combined to strike out 12 Seattle University hitters as Washington won, 3-1, on Tuesday at Husky Ballpark.

The win gave the 25^th-ranked Huskies (23-14) victories in two-out-three games this season against their cross-town rivals, the Redhawks (25-15). Washington has won four-straight games and six of its last eight. They have won nine of 10 series this season and tied two others.

Morgan was 2 for 4 and figured in both of the Huskies' first two runs. The sophomore extended his streak of reaching base safely to 19-straight games in the second with a single. He eventually scored to give Washington a 1-0 lead. In the sixth inning he broke a tie with a two-out RBI single that gave Washington a 2-1 lead.

Washington pitchers continued an upward trend Tuesday night, allowing just one run on six hits, two walks while striking out 12 batters. Over the last 36 innings, the Huskies have allowed just three runs.

Alex Nesbitt (3-2) struck out four and allowed one hit in 3 1/3 scoreless innings of relief to pick up his third win of the season.

Troy Rallings recorded the final four outs of the game to pick up his Pac-12 leading 12^th save of the season. He moved into a tie for third all-time on UW's single-season save list and now has 27 for his career – four short of tying the all-time UW record.

Washington put the first run of the game on the board in the second when Morgan and Duncan Hendrickson reached on back-to-back singles and catcher Willie MacIver drove Morgan home with a sacrifice fly to center field.

For a while, it looked like one run would be enough for Husky starter Ryan Schmitten as he dominated through the first four innings. After getting his career-high tying seventh strikeout to start the fifth, Seattle U strung together three-straight singles to load the bases and send Schmitten to the Huskies' bench.

Nesbitt came on in relief and struck out the first batter he faced, Griffin Andreychuk, for the second out of the inning, but Jack Reisinger fought off a 1-2 pitch and served a single into center that scored Jeffrey Morgan from third and tied the game at 1-1.

The run ended a stretch of 17-straight scoreless innings by Husky pitchers.

The Huskies took the lead back for good when Jack Meggs hit a one-out double in the sixth and came around to score on Morgan's single on a 3-2 pitch.

They added another run in the seventh on a squeeze play. Pinch-hitter KJ Brady laid down a bunt in front of the plate that allowed John Naff just enough room to slide around an attempted tag by SU catcher Reisinger.

Seattle U threatened to comeback in the ninth, putting the tying run on first base, but Rallings recorded back-to-back fielder's choice outs to end the game.

The Huskies have a big weekend of Pac-12 play ahead of them. The first-place Huskies travel to Berkeley, Calif. to take on the Cal Bears in a three-game series.

Washington 3 (23-14), Seattle U 1 (25-15)

SU 000 010 000 –- 1 6 0
UW 010 001 10x –- 3 6 1

LOB: SU 8, UW 4. Jake Prizina, Ted Hammond (6), Grant Gunning (7), Connor Moore (7), Zach Wolf (8) and Jack Reisinger; Ryan Schmitten, Alex Nesbitt (5), Troy Rallings (8) and Willie MacIver, Joey Morgan (9). W – Nesbitt (3-2). L – Prizina (1-1). SV – Rallings (12). HR – none. 3B – none. 2B – UW, Jack Meggs. Time – 2:48. Attendance – 481.