• BALTIMORE, MD- The fifth-ranked Johns Hopkins baseball team looked to extend their lead in the Centennial Conference standings against one of the teams tied for second place in Dickinson.

GAME ONE

• Score: #5 Johns Hopkins- 26, Dickinson- 8
• Records: JHU (27-3), Dickinson (18-11-1)
• Pitching Decision: W: Gabe Romano (6-0), L: Thomas Marshman (0-1)
• The Short Story: The Blue Jays finished the game before it even started with a historic 14 run first inning to help them coast to a 26-8 blowout win.

How It Happened

• Even in a year where the Blue Jays offense has been one of the best in school history, no one could have predicted what JHU would do in the first inning and it can only be described as remarkable. 14 runs on nine hits, with six of those hits being home runs. Five different Blue Jays hit home runs and Caleb Cyr left the yard twice with four RBI. Johns Hopkins hit back-to-back as well as three consecutive homers in the inning at different points. 11 of the Blue Jays runs in the inning, brining a staggering 12 straight batters to the plate at one point.
• The homer bug reappeared in the bottom of the third for Johns Hopkins after Jimmy Stevens and Dylan Whitney reached base to kick off the inning. Alex Shane came up and roped the first homer of his career over the right field fence. Cooper followed him with a moonshot to left field which gave him his third multi-home run game of the season.
• Cyr etched his name in the Johns Hopkins history books in the next inning, smacking his third home run of the game to give JHU their 21st run. Cyr became the sixth Blue Jay to hit three home runs in one game, joining his teammate Cooper on the list.
• Dickinson had a bit of a surge in the fifth inning, scoring five runs on four hits with a two-run homer coming from Derek Smith. Outside of that there was no bright spots from Dickinson as they dropped game one 26-8.

Inside the Box Score

• The Blue Jays six home runs in the first inning tied an NCAA D3 record for the most homers ever hit in one inning of a game, and it is the first time it has happened since 2000. The nine total homers is a school record and tied for fourth all-time in a game in D3. It is the first time a team hit nine long balls in a game since 1998.
• 26 runs is the most runs scored by the Blue Jays this season and they have now scored 20 or more runs three times this year.
• Romano's win earned him his sixth of the season. He is now one of just 10 pitchers in the country to have at least six wins without a single loss.

Of Note

• 26 runs is tied for the eighth most ever scored by a Johns Hopkins team in a game and the first time they have done so since 2000 against Neumann.
• The Blue Jays have now scored 24 or more runs three times against the Red Devils with the most being 30 in 1987.

GAME TWO

• Score: #5 Johns Hopkins- 8, Dickinson- 6
• Records: JHU (28-3, 9-1), Dickinson (18-12-1, 6-4)
• Pitching Decision: W: Ryan Anderson (2-1), L: Ethan Hamilton (4-1), S: Ben Keever (3)
• The Short Story: In a back and fourth game, Johns Hopkins came up with the timely hits and hung on to a late lead to take a two game advantage in the Centennial Conference standings.

How It Happened

• Dickinson set a new tone for game two early in the top of the first after back-to-back doubles brought in the games first run. Johns Hopkins answered the bell in the bottom of the inning with back-to-back singles to bring up Matthew Cooper. Cooper smoked an 0-1 pitch to right center field that carried over the fence, for his 15th homer of the season, to put the Jays ahead 3-1.
• Two more runs were tacked on to the Blue Jays lead in the third as they hit five singles in the inning to bring those runs in. Sam Frank and Jimmy Stevens both picked up the RBI knocks.
• Momentum shifted back into the hands of the Red Devils in the top of the fourth. Kaden Sigmon and Christian Kim both cranked home runs to highlight a four run inning for Dickinson which pulled the game back even at five. JHU had an immediate answer once again in the bottom of the inning. On a 3-2 pitch with two outs, Frank punched a base hit through the left side of the infield to plate Dillon Souvignier to give the Blue Jays a one run lead.
• Stevens picked up another RBI on a single to left field which brought in Caleb Cyr to extend the lead. Another run came in on a Dickinson throwing error to make it 8-5.
• Matt Torres launched the third home run of the game for the Red Devils to left field to bring the gap back down to two. After the next batter singled, the Blue Jays called on Ben Keever out of the pen to try and lock down a six-out save. Keever sat down the first three batters he faced, retiring the last two with a strikeout. After a single to start off the ninth, Keever once again set the next three down in order to close out an 8-6 win and 2-0 sweep for Johns Hopkins over Dickinson.

Inside the Box Score

• Cooper's home run total continues to climb after hitting three in total today. He is now in fifth place for home runs in a single season in school history and sits in fifth also on the career home run list.
• Keever and Ryan Anderson produced key innings for the Blue Jays out of the pen, holding the Red Devils to just 1 run on five hits in the final five innings of the game.
• In total between the two games, Johns Hopkins produced 34 runs on 37 hits. They have now scored 34 runs in total against three opponents this year.

Of Note

• JHU has been mashing the ball in conference play so far, outscoring opponents 128-41. In 10 conference games, the Jays have mashed 25 home runs, which doubles any other team in the Centennial.

Up Next

• The Blue Jays will be back at Babb Field on Tuesday to take on in-state conference rival McDaniel at 3:30 pm.