GAME ONE
• Score: Johns Hopkins - 5, McDaniel - 3
• Records: JHU (2-3) • MCD (0-5)
• Pitching Decision: W: Jonah Offman (1-1) • L – Matt Vener (0-2)
• The Short Story: A gutsy decision by Bob Babb pays off as Wyatt Copeland enters with a 3-2 count to strike out Jake Hubinger to preserve a 5-3 victory.    

How it Happened
• Despite both teams loading the bases in the first inning, the Blue Jays started the scoring in inning number two, taking a 1-0 lead as James Ingram scored on a wild pitch. Ingram led off the inning with a double, advanced to second on a base knock from Otaka and then scored on the wild pitch. 
• Trailing 1-0 in the fourth, McDaniel struck back to take a 2-1 lead. Hubinger laced a one-out single to left and then stole second. Jack Valentine walked, putting two men on with one away. Julian Jenkins bounced one to Jack Walters at third, but he couldn't make the play, loading the bases for Tyler Yohn. Yohn hit a modest fly ball to center, scoring Hubinger on the sacrifice fly. With the runners advancing, Ingram fired one into center field, allowing Valentine to cross home plate for a 2-1 McDaniel lead. 
• Vener lost control to start the bottom of the fifth, plunking Dillon Bowman with a pitch to put the leadoff man on. Matthew Ritchie followed with a free pass of his own, putting two on with nobody away. After retiring Isaiah Winikur, Jared deFaria ripped one into left, scoring Bowman to tie the contest at 2-2.
• Ingram picked up his second leadoff double of the contest to spark the Jays in the sixth. After a fly out from Otaka, Jack Walters turned on a pitch and sailed it over the right field fence for a two-run shot, the first of the season for JHU to give Hopkins a 4-2 lead. 
• Isaiah Winikur added some insurance for the Jays in the bottom of the seventh, crushing a solo shot off the scoreboard in left. The homer was Winikur's first as a Blue Jay and put Hopkins on top, 5-2.
• Jonah Offman ran into a spot of trouble in the top of the eighth inning after retiring the leadoff hitter. Hubinger drew a one-out walk, advancing to second when Valentine was hit by a pitch. After inducing a fly out to left, Yohn ripped one back up the middle off of Offman, scoring Hubinger to cut it to 5-3. Offman, however, rebounded with a strikeout of Connor Uhrig to preserve the two-run lead. 
• Billy Wheatley started off what would prove to me a highly eventful inning with a leadoff walk. Ben Keever entered to pitch, getting T.J. McGuire to pop out in foul territory for the first out. Austin Godeaux singled up the middle, putting two runners on with one away. Keever retired the next batter, getting Jack Bayne to line out to left. 
• Not many folks have been around baseball longer than JHU head man Bob Babb. Babb went into his bag of tricks, inserting freshman Wyatt Copeland into the game with a 3-2 count to try and finish off Hubinger and he did just that, getting him looking with a slider, earning the save with just one pitch. 


 Inside the Box Score
• The offense started to pick up for Hopkins in Game One. With just four total extra base hits in four games, Hopkins matched their season total with four in Game One, including the first two homers of the year off the bat of Winikur and Walters.
• Ritchie went 1-2 with a pair of walks, extending his hitting streak to five games and his on-base streak to 10 games, dating back to last season. Ritchie has reached base in 16 of his last 17 contests.
• Blue Jay pitchers combined for 14 strikeouts in the contest, their most of the season. Schaefer led the way with eight strikeouts in 4.1 innings pitched while Offman whiffed five in 3.2 innings.
 
GAME TWO
• Score: Johns Hopkins - 9, McDaniel - 1
• Records: JHU (3-3) • MCD (0-6)
• Pitching Decision: W: Kieran Collins (2-0) • L – Ryan Martino (0-2)
• The Short Story: The Blue Jay bats came alive in game two, scoring runs in each of the first four innings and cruised to a 9-1 victory.    

How it Happened
• After homering in his final at-bat of the first game, Winikur picked up right where he left off, blasting a solo shot to left-center in the bottom of the first to kick off the latter game of the twin bill. 
• Kieran Collins struck out the side in the second before Mark Lopez broke out of his early season struggles with a three-run home run to extend Hopkins' lead to 4-0. Collins would exit the game after five strong innings of shutout ball, allowing just three hits while striking out seven and not surrendering a walk. 
• Hopkins picked up four more runs in the bottom half the third. After Ritchie led off with single, Winikur was hit by a pitch to put runners on first and second. DeFaria followed with a double to score Ritchie, and AJ King and Otaka each followed with RBI singles. Lopez would pick up his fourth RBI of the game on a sacrifice fly to score Sam Frank.
• King tacked on to the Blue Jay lead in the fourth with another RBI single. The 9-0 cushion was more than enough for the Hopkins pitching staff that would allow just six hits for the game.
 
 Inside the Box Score
• Collins' seven strikeouts were a new career-high for the sophomore who made his first start of the 2021 campaign.
• Ritchie went 1-4, extending his hitting streak to six games and his on-base streak to 11 games, dating back to last season. Ritchie has reached base in 17 of his last 18 contests.
• As a team, Hopkins matched its season-high with 13 hits in game two. The eight extra base hits on the day more than doubled their total output of extra base hits (three) through the first four games.
• King entered the game 0-8 from the plate for the season before breaking out with his first career four-hit performance.