Huskies Hold Rutgers To Two Hits, Take Series Opener

Friday, March 28

Piscataway, NJ

3:00 PM

University of Washington

12-15, 0

Rutgers

11-15, 0

Washington

Rutgers

March 28, 2025 | Baseball

Box Score

By: UW Athletic Communications

PISCATAWAY, N.J. – Washington's pitchers were on fire on Friday, holding Rutgers to two hits as the Huskies earned a 3-1 victory in the series opener.

Washington improves to 12-15 and 5-2 in the Big Ten while Rutgers drops to 11-15 and 2-5 in the conference.

The Huskies jumped out to an early lead, scoring two runs in the top of the first inning. The first run came from a balk and the second was scored on a wild pitch to put the Huskies up 2-0.

Max Banks had a two-run cushion before taking the mound, but he didn't need it. Washington's ace tossed 6.0 scoreless innings, allowing only one hit with two strikeouts and three walks.

The senior right-hander used only 79 pitches across his six frames, averaging a scant 13.17 pitches per inning. Following his second win of the season, Banks' ERA dropped down to 3.76 from 4.87.

Washington added an insurance run in the seventh when Colton Bower brought home AJ Guerrero from third on a sacrifice fly.

Isaac Yeager took the mound for the final three frames and picked up right where Banks left off. He faced 11 batters, two more than the minimum for his outing, and struck out six of them.

He allowed only one hit and one run, coming from a home run in the bottom of the ninth. Yeager earned his first save this season as well.

Blake Wilson recorded two of the Huskies' six hits on Friday night to lead the team. Sam DeCarlo contributed the lone extra-base hit for Washington, a double in the fourth inning.

The win pushes Washington to 5-2 in the Big Ten and makes it three straight Big Ten series opening wins for the Huskies.

Game two of the series kicks off tomorrow afternoon at 1 p.m. PT as the Diamond Dawgs look to claim their third Big Ten series win in a row.

DAWG BITES

Max Banks tossed 6.0 innings of one-hit ball on Friday night, the least hits he's allowed in a game in his Washington career
Banks and Yeager combined to allow only two hits in the series-opener against Rutgers, tying Washington's least hits allowed in a game this season (vs. PLU 3/19)
12 Huskies have produced 54 multiple hit games (Kole - 8, DeCarlo - 7, Guerrero - 6, Bower - 6, Taggart - 5, Wilson - 5, Terry - 4, Knight - 4, Whitton - 3, Sanders - 2, Hotchkiss - 2, Henning - 2)
12 Huskies have generated 33 multi-RBI games, with Trevor Kole leading the way with six (Kole – 6, Taggart – 5, Guerrero – 4, Knight – 4, Wilson - 3 Hotchkiss - 2, Terry - 2, Bower - 2, Whitton - 2, Blanchard - 1, Sanders - 1, DeCarlo - 1)
Guerrero's home run against Texas Tech moved him into a tie for fourth in the Husky home run record book with 36 career home runs (T-1. 42, Kyle Conley, 2006-09; T-1. 42, Ed Erickson, 1997-00; 3. 41, Zach Clem, 2003-06; 4. 36, Will Simpson, 2020-23)
The Huskies have turned 21 double plays this season, ranking 16th in the NCAA
52 of Washington's 134 RBIs have come from new transfer players (Trevor Kole – 18, Casen Taggart – 16, Malakhi Knight – 14, Julian Sanders – 8, Carson Crawford- 1)
19 Huskies have made their program debuts (Banks, Brandenburg, Bronzini, Bujacich, Crawford, Curran, Denomme, Gilbert, Henning, Hotchkiss, Knight, Kole, Nichols, O'Neal, Sanders, Taggart, Thomas, Tims, W. Woodward)