The Basics
• Score: Bethel - 6, Hopkins - 5 (12 innings)
• Records: JHU (7-6) • Bethel (12-1)
• Location: Fort Myers, FL (Player Development Park)
• Pitching Decision: W - Jake Marsh (1-0) • L - Jack Bunting (0-1)
• The Short Story: For the second day in a row the Johns Hopkins baseball team needed extra innings for the second day in a row, and for the second day in a row the Blue Jays fell in extras, this time to Bethel by a score of 6-5 in 12 innings.

How it Happened
• Tim Kutcher led off the bottom of the first with a double to right field which was followed by a bunt single by Zach Jaffe. Jaffe then caught the Royals defense sleeping and took second on the play to put two runners in scoring position. Chris DeGiacomo then hit a sacrifice fly to center to score Kutcher and put Hopkins up 1-0. Bethel starting pitcher Michael Bohlke was able to retire the next Blue Jay batters to escape the inning.
• Bo Lovdahl and John Leach hit back-to-back singles to begin the second, however, Josh Hejka got John Horner to ground into a double play to put a runner on third with two outs and Michael Wesner singled to right to tie the game.
• Hopkins added four runs in the second off Bohlke. Kutcher doubled to right to score Mike Eberle and Dillon Bowman. Jaffe singled home Frank Clara and Alex Darwiche followed with a sacrifice fly to score Kutcher and cap the four-run inning that gave Hopkins a 5-1 lead.
• The Royals got two runs back in the fourth on a Michael Wesner home run to left center to make the score 5-3.
• Bethel tied the game in the fifth on an Austin Ledin double and a Bo Lovdahl single to center.
• Jack Bunting, who came in relief in the sixth, did not allow a run until the top of twelfth when Austin Ledin homered left to give Bethel a 6-5 lead.
• Jake Marsh retired Hopkins in order in the bottom of the inning to secure the 6-5 victory.

Team Leaders
Johns Hopkins:
Hits: Four with two
RBI: Kutcher (2)
Strikeouts: Bunting (8)

Bethel:
Hits: Horner (3)
RBI: Wesner (3)
Strikeouts: Bohlke (11)

What it Means
• This is the first time Hopkins has lost two extra-inning games in a season since 2015. This is the first time since the 2014 season that the Blue Jays have dropped consecutive extra-inning games.
• Johns Hopkins is now 4-2 against Bethel.

Inside the Box Score
• Kutcher, Jaffe, Eberle and Clara all had two hits in the game.
• Hejka, making his first start in a Hopkins uniform, went five innings and struck out three. Bunting went 6.1 innings scattering three hits with eight strikeouts and one walk.

Up Next
• The Blue Jays return to the diamond tomorrow for a 12 pm contest against SUNY Old Westbury.

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