May 3, 2005

Box Score

BALTIMORE, MD -- The 21st-ranked Johns Hopkins baseball team rallied from a 7-4 deficit with six runs over the final three innings to pick up a 10-7 win over host York Tuesday afternoon. The win is the 16th in the last 18 games for the Blue Jays, who improve to 29-7. York had a modest two-game winning streak snapped and falls to 27-14-1.

The Spartans built a 7-4 after six innings, only to have the Blue Jays score four runs in the top of the seventh to take an 8-7 lead. Mike Durgala doubled-home Rob Sanzillo and Matt Scally followed with a two-run double that plated Durgala and Jonas Fester to tie the score at 7-7. Scally then stole third and scored on a sacrifice fly by Bryce Baumann to give the Blue Jays the lead for good.

The Blue Jays tacked on single runs in the eighth and ninth to build a three-run cushion. Brian Harris hit a solo home run in the eighth and Paul Winterling doubled home Baumann in the ninth to polish off the scoring.

The Blue Jays jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the first as Scally's RBI-double plated Fester with two outs. Scally later scored on an RBI-single by Baumann.

York got one run back in the bottom of the first and scored three times in the third to take a 4-2 lead. Mike Welch's two-run triple fueled the three-run third and Ashley Swope's RBI-single drove home Welch to account for the third run of the inning.

Sanzillo and Rob Pietroforte added RBI-singles in a two-run fourth to tie the score at 4-4, but the Spartans responded with a three-run fifth to take the 7-4 lead.

Jeff Moore tripled home Welch and Swope and later scored on a ground out to give the Spartans the three-run lead. After a scoreless sixth inning for both teams the Blue Jays erupted for the four runs in the seventh and never surrendered the lead again.