GAME ONE
• Score: Johns Hopkins - 13, Gettysburg - 0
• Records: JHU (6-3) • GC (3-6)
• Pitching Decision: W: Peter Schaefer (2-2) • L – Erik Wortmann (1-2)
• The Short Story: The Hopkins offense came to life, scoring at least one run in eight of nine innings to total a season-high 13 in a shutout victory over Gettysburg.      

How it Happened
• The Blue Jay offense wasted no time putting the pressure on the Bullets, pushing two runs across in the first inning. Moving into the leadoff spot, Isaiah Winikur drew a walk on a 3-2 pitch, advancing to second on a fielding error that allowed Matthew Ritchie to reach base. After AJ King bounced into a fielder's choice, retiring Ritchie, Jared deFaria brought home the first run of the game with a sacrifice fly in foul territory down the left field line. Austin Sacks singled up the middle to bring home King and it was a two-run lead for the Jays.
• James Ingram led off the second with a single and moved up to third on a base knock off the bat of Dai Dai Otaka. With Winikur at the plate, Otaka took off for second, forcing a throw down to second. The grad student smartly stopped halfway, forcing a rundown and allowing Ingram to score. Otaka ended up safe after an error by the Bullets first basemen, Mark Seibert.
• Now leading 4-0 after another run in the third, the Jays really blew it open in the fourth. With two outs and a runner on first, Ritchie drew a walk, bringing King up to dish. The junior backstop singled into center, scoring Mark Lopez. After a pitching change, deFaria was hit by a pitch, loading the bases. Sacks singled up the middle again, scoring two, but he was thrown out trying to stretch it to a 2B.
• Johns Hopkins scored again in the fifth, on a bases loaded balk, and in the seventh, on a sacrifice fly from King.
• Leading 9-0 in the eighth, Ingram roped his second homer of the year to right center, a solo shot to give Hopkins a double-digit lead.
• In the ninth, Barrett Smith brought home fellow grad transfer David Harding with an RBI double and scored on the first homer of freshman Tripp Myers' career.


 Inside the Box Score
• Sophomore right-hander Peter Schaefer put forth arguably the best start of his career, throwing seven shutout innings, allowing just five hits and striking out six. Schaefer lowered his season ERA to 1.80 and has 34 strikeouts in 25 innings.
• Fellow sophomore Jack McRae threw two scoreless innings out of the bullpen to close things out. McRae now has an ERA of 0.79 in 11.1 innings and has gone six straight innings out of the bullpen without allowing a run.
• With another strong day at the plate (2-4, 2 RBI), King is now hitting .455 on the season and has 10 hits in his last 14 at-bats.
• After driving in three runs in the first eight games, Sacks drove in three runs on a 2-4 day at the plate. The senior has raised his average up to .292. with five hits in his last 10 at-bats.
• Ritchie has reached base in 11 straight games and 22 of 23 contests dating back to the 2019 College World Series.
 

GAME TWO
• Score: Johns Hopkins - 15, Gettysburg - 5
• Records: JHU (7-3) • GC (3-7)
• Pitching Decision: W: Ben Keever (1-0) • L: Kenneth Spadaccini (0-2)
• The Short Story: The Blue Jays completed by far their best offensive weekend of the season, taking the second game by a final score of 15-5.

How it Happened
• The Blue Jays racked up 18 hits, 11 RBI and 15 runs scored, taking the second game of the doubleheader by a final score of 15-5.  
• After a scoreless first, the Jays put four on the board in the second inning. With one away, James Ingram laid down a bunt single, putting runners on first and second. Barrett Smith, into the starting lineup after two hits off-the-bench in game one, drew a walk to load the bases. Bullets starter Kenneth Spadaccini lost the feel, unleashing a wild pitch, scoring Austin Sacks. Dai Dai Otaka walked to re-load the bases. Jack Walters singled to right, bringing home Smith and Ingram for a 3-0 lead. After a sacrifice moved Walters and Otaka both into scoring position, Matthew Ritchie singled up the middle, scoring Otaka.
• Otaka singled through the right side in the top of the third inning, bringing home Sacks and AJ King to stretch the lead to 6-0.
• Gettysburg got one back in the bottom of the third off starter Kieren Collins, but King doubled to left center in the top of the fourth, scoring David Harding and pushing the lead right back to six.
• Collins' day ended in the fourth inning as a two-run triple from Andrew Donlan and a sacrifice fly from Andrew Decker chased him from the game.
• The Bullets cut the deficit to 7-5 in the bottom of the sixth as Donlan drove in another with an RBI double off of Ben Keever.
• That was all for Gettysburg as the Blue Jays scored the next eight runs to come away with a 15-5 victory. Harding scored Otaka with a sacrifice fly in the seventh before Dillon Bowman brought home Jared deFaria with an RBI single in the eighth to make it a 9-5 contest.
• Hopkins pushed six more across the board in the ninth, getting another sac fly from Harding to put them in double digits. Leading 10-5, Ritchie doubled to right, scoring Walters. After a throwing error scored Ritchie, King came home on a wild pitch to make it 13-5. Bowman added another RBI single en route to the 10-run victory.

 Inside the Box Score
• With 28 runs, the Blue Jays doubled their highest total from a doubleheader this season. The last time the Blue Jays scored 28 runs in a doubleheader was March 30^th, 2019 vs. Muhlenberg (30 runs).
• King added another multi-hit contest to his total (3-6), giving him four multi-hit games in his last five and raising his average to .464.
• Six Blue Jay hitters registered at least two hits in the victory. Ritchie, King, Otaka and Walters all had three while Bowman and Harding each added two.
• Five different Blue Jays drove in exactly two runs. Harding, Ritchie, Bowman, Otaka and Walters.