Duke Downs Towson 19-3 on Tuesday

Tuesday, March 21

Durham, N.C.

4 PM

Duke University

14-7

Towson

6-16

Towson

Duke

Duke Downs Towson 19-3 on Tuesday

3/21/2023 8:08:00 PM | Baseball

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DURHAM – Duke Baseball (14-7) scored 17 of its 19 runs in the final four frames of Tuesday's ballgame, defeating the Towson Tigers (6-16) 19-3 at Jack Coombs Field. Sophomore Ryan Higgins picked up his second win of the season, improving to 2-0, working three clean innings for the Blue Devils on Tuesday.

Freshman Andrew Fischer produced his first multi-home run game at the plate, blasting a two-run home run in the first and adding a second in the seventh.

HOW IT HAPPENED

Freshman Andrew Fischer gave Duke the lead in the bottom of the first inning hitting a two-run blast to right field, 2-0.
Towson hit a solo home run in the top of the second inning to cut the Duke lead to 2-1.
In the top of the third, Towson scored on an error in center field to tie the ballgame, 2-2.
Graduate student Damon Lux was hit by a pitch in the bottom of the fifth with the bases loaded to drive in a run, 3-2. Graduate transfer MJ Metz drew a bases loaded walk to drive in a second run, 4-2.
Sophomore Alex Mooney singled up the middle to score Andrew Yu from second in the bottom of the sixth, 5-2. Mooney later scored on a wild pitch to extend the Duke lead to 6-2.
In the bottom of the seventh, Mooney doubled to the gap in left center field to score Andrew Yu and Metz from third, 8-2. Fischer hit his second home run of the day, a two-run shot off the batter's eye in center field, 10-2.
Duke added to the lead in the bottom of the eighth, scoring on a passed ball and an infield single to the pitcher, 12-2.
The Blue Devils tacked on nine more runs in the bottom of the eighth, including back-to-back home runs from Luke Storm and Devin Obee.

NOTES

Freshman Andrew Healy made his first career start on the mound Tuesday, working three innings and striking out a career-high four Tigers.
Freshman Andrew Fischer recorded his first multi-home run game of the season on Tuesday, finishing the day 2-for-4 with three runs scored and four RBI.
Sophomore Alex Mooney tallied his 10th multi-hit game during the midweek, a 3-for-5 performance with three runs scored and three RBI.
Duke Baseball hit back-to-back home runs on Tuesday in the eighth inning, the first time since Damon Lux and Alex Stone accomplished the feat on Mar. 27, 2022, in Tallahassee. Junior Luke Storm and sophomore Devin Obee hit back-to-back blasts in the bottom of the eighth inning.
Tuesday's eighth inning production of nine runs is the second time the Blue Devils have accomplished the feat in 2023. The last time Duke scored nine runs in an inning was Feb. 24, 2023, against Baylor.
Graduate transfer MJ Metz drew four walks in his first four plate appearances on Tuesday, moving his season total to 26 on the year. The all-time mark for a single season at Duke is 55 by Vaughn Schill in 1998.
Duke scored double-digit runs for the ninth time this season, nearly eclipsing the 20-run mark for the third time.

QUOTES

"I was really proud of our guys today. The start by Healy was amazing. He has showed much growth over the last few weeks. He gave up the solo home run in the second and he went right back to work. We made a mistake in the third and he pitched through that as well. It was a really mature outing by him. Higgins gave us three clean innings out of the bullpen and that was big. Those two guys stemming six innings for us was big for our staff heading into the weekend. A terrific, combined start by those two guys." – Head coach Chris Pollard on the job Andrew Healy and Ryan Higgins did on the mound tonight.
"We let them off the hook a few times early and had a chance to blow it open there in the second and didn't. We did a good job of just grinding and we did that there in the fifth. One of the things I liked was once we did break through, we kept our foot on the gas pedal. Terrific swings by Andrew Fischer. Alex Mooney had a terrific ballgame as well. The savvy baserunning to take second on the cut throw to score on the ball that skipped away from the catcher was big." – On the ability to continue to score runs and take advantage of free offense.

UP NEXT

Duke jumps back into conference play this weekend traveling down the road to Chapel Hill, N.C., to face off against No. 15 North Carolina. First pitch is scheduled for Thursday, Mar. 23 at 7 p.m. and is broadcasted live on ACC Network.

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Team Stats

Pitching:

W: Higgins, Ryan (2-0)

L: Brandon Jung (0-1)

Towson

Batting:

2B: Jordan Peyton 1

HR: Bryce Frederick 1

RBI: Casey Bishop 1 ; Bryce Frederick 1

Base Running:

RUNS: Bryce Frederick 1 ; Josh Janove 1 ; Cole Stefano 1

SB: Cole Stefano 1

Duke

Batting:

2B: Mooney, Alex 2 ; Beshears, Jay 1 ; Lux, Damon 1 ; Yu, Andrew 1

HR: Fischer, Andrew 2 ; Storm, Luke 1 ; Obee, Devin 1

RBI: Mooney, Alex 3 ; Fischer, Andrew 4 ; Beshears, Jay 2 ; Storm, Luke 3 ; Lux, Damon 1 ; Obee, Devin 1 ; Metz, MJ 1 ; Yu, Andrew 1

Base Running:

RUNS: Mooney, Alex 3 ; Fischer, Andrew 3 ; Solomon, Josh 1 ; Beshears, Jay 1 ; Knight, Chad 2 ; Storm, Luke 2 ; Obee, Devin 2 ; Metz, MJ 1 ; Albright, Tyler 1 ; Yu, Andrew 3