No. 6 Duke Falls to No. 10 Florida State on Friday

Friday, April 26

Durham, N.C.

6 p.m.

Duke University

29-13, 13-9

Florida State

33-8, 12-7

Florida State

Duke

No. 6 Duke Falls to No. 10 Florida State on Friday

4/26/2024 9:33:00 PM | Baseball

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DURHAM – No. 6 Duke (29-13, 13-9 ACC) fell to No. 10 Florida State (33-8, 12-7 ACC) in the series opener on Friday at Jack Coombs Field, 4-2. The Blue Devils had the tying run on base in the ninth but stranded 10 for the entire contest.

Junior Jonathan Santucci worked six innings of three hit baseball, allowing four runs and punching out six batters, dropping his first decision of the season to fall to 5-1. The Seminoles opened up the scoring in the top of the first, scoring four runs, highlighted by a three-run home run to left center field by Jaime Ferrer.

The Blue Devils responded in the bottom of the first, as AJ Gracia singled and advanced on the throw to second, scoring Zac Morris from second. In the bottom of the third, Duke cut the Seminoles lead in half, as Logan Bravo flew out to center field to score Alex Stone from third, 4-2.

HOW IT HAPPENED

Florida State opened the scoring in the top of the first, 4-0.
In the bottom of the first, AJ Gracia singled and advanced on the throw to second, scoring Zac Morris from second, 4-1.
Logan Bravo flew out to center field to score Alex Stone from third in the bottom of the third, 4-2.

NOTES

Freshman AJ Gracia finished the day 2-for-4 with one RBI, tying Joey Loperfido for most RBI by a freshman at Duke with 43.
Junior Jonathan Santucci worked six innings of three hit baseball, allowing four runs and striking out six batters in his first loss of the season.
Graduate Zac Morris collected his 18th multi-hit contest of the season, finishing 2-for-4 with a walk, a run scored and a double.

QUOTES

"I thought it was a really good college baseball game. I feel like that was one of the best approaches against Jamie Arnold that anyone has had all year. Jonathan Santucci looked the best he has all year and one swing of the bat in the first wound up being the difference in the ballgame. He pitched great and our bullpen did a great job of keeping the ballgame right there within striking distance. Ben Miller smoked a couple of balls right at people that would have been RBI in different situations and that is just kind of our sport." – Head coach Chris Pollard on his overall thoughts on tonight.

UP NEXT

Duke and Florida State continue the three-game set from Jack Coombs Field on Saturday. First pitch is scheduled for 4 p.m.

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