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Duke Races to Series Sweep Over Pittsburgh
4/19/2025 5:53:00 PM | Baseball
DURHAM, N.C. – Trailing 6-0 after two and a half innings, Duke (28-14, 12-9 ACC) strung together 19 runs across the final six frames to run-rule Pittsburgh (18-19, 5-12 ACC), 19-9 and complete the sweep on Saturday at Jack Coombs Field.
Pitt opened the scoring in the top of the first inning, before adding five more runs to take a 6-0 lead heading into the bottom of the third inning. Duke cracked the scoreboard in the bottom half, as Ben Miller singled through the left side to score Jake Berger from second, 6-1.
The Blue Devils continued to chip away at the deficit, as Macon Winslow grounded into a double play to score Tyler Albright from third, 6-2. Pitt extended their lead in the top of the fifth to 7-2, before Duke batted around for the 11th time this season, scoring six runs to take the lead 8-6. In that inning, Miller singled to right to score Clark, Winslow singled to right to score a pair, before Sam Harris came in off the bench and hit a three-run home run to left center field, 8-7.
Pitt took the lead back in the top of the sixth inning, but the Blue Devils went back to work scoring eight runs and batting around once against in the frame. Graduate Reid Easterly earned the win in relief, improving to 6-1 on the season, working the final three innings and allowing two hits and punching out five Panthers.
HOW IT HAPPENED
NOTES
QUOTES
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Pitt opened the scoring in the top of the first inning, before adding five more runs to take a 6-0 lead heading into the bottom of the third inning. Duke cracked the scoreboard in the bottom half, as Ben Miller singled through the left side to score Jake Berger from second, 6-1.
The Blue Devils continued to chip away at the deficit, as Macon Winslow grounded into a double play to score Tyler Albright from third, 6-2. Pitt extended their lead in the top of the fifth to 7-2, before Duke batted around for the 11th time this season, scoring six runs to take the lead 8-6. In that inning, Miller singled to right to score Clark, Winslow singled to right to score a pair, before Sam Harris came in off the bench and hit a three-run home run to left center field, 8-7.
Pitt took the lead back in the top of the sixth inning, but the Blue Devils went back to work scoring eight runs and batting around once against in the frame. Graduate Reid Easterly earned the win in relief, improving to 6-1 on the season, working the final three innings and allowing two hits and punching out five Panthers.
HOW IT HAPPENED
- Pitt opened the scoring in the top of the first inning, 1-0.
- The Panthers added to the lead in the top of the third inning, 6-0.
- In the bottom of the third inning, Ben Miller singled through the left side to score Jake Berger from second, 6-1.
- Duke cut into the lead in the bottom of the fourth inning, as Macon Winslow grounded into a double play to score Tyler Albright from third, 6-2.
- The Panthers added to their lead in the top of the fifth inning, 7-2.
- In the bottom of the fifth inning, Miller singled to right field to score Clark from second. Winslow singled to right field to score a pair, before Sam Harris hit a three-run home run to left center field, 8-7.
- Pitt responded in the top of the sixth inning, 9-8.
- The Blue Devils continued to scrap, as Miller doubled in AJ Gracia before Jake Hyde doubled to right center field. Ben Rounds hit a three-run home run to center field. Berger singled to right field to score Winslow from second. Gracia hit a two-run home run to right field, 16-9.
- In the bottom of the seventh inning, Albright singled to left field to score Hyde, 17-9.
- In the bottom of the eighth, Miller doubled to right field to score Clark. Albright doubled to left center field to score Gracia, 19-9.
NOTES
- Duke batted around for the 11th and 12th times this season, scoring six runs in the bottom of the fifth inning and eight in the bottom of the sixth inning.
- The Blue Devils improved to 237-52 (.820) when scoring three-plus runs in an inning since 2016.
- Sophomore Sam Harris hit his sixth home run of the season on Saturday, a pinch-hit three-run home run to left center field. It was the first pinch-hit home run since Kyle Johnson against Cornell earlier this season. Harris finished the day 1-for-3 with three RBI.
- Duke is now 49-1 when scoring 10-plus runs in a game since 2023, including 13-0 in 2025. The lone loss came against Pittsburgh in 2024 in Sunday's series finale.
- The 19 runs scored against Pitt on Saturday are the most in an ACC contest for the Blue Devils since last season, when Duke scored 16 against Florida State at Jack Coombs Field and also against the Seminoles in the ACC Championship game in Charlotte. The most runs in a regular-season ACC contest before today was 17 at Virginia on April 28, 2023.
- Graduate Reid Easterly earned the win in relief for the Blue Devils, working the final three innings and allowing two hits with no runs. Easterly struck out five batters and improved to 6-1 on the season.
- Two Blue Devils recorded four-hit contests on Saturday, as Ben Miller and Tyler Albright both hit that mark. Miller secured four RBI to go along with his four hits, while Albright collected two RBI, including the game-winning RBI.
QUOTES
- "What I told our guys in there was that it has been a good week for us and securing the series, a lot of teams would have shrugged their shoulders there in the third inning with Reed pitching well. You can say, well, you know we have had a good week, and today's not our day, but we had a tremendous offensive response by our guys. We gave them no room to breathe offensively and kept stacking great at-bats together. Our offense really pulled us through today." – Head coach Chris Pollard on his overall thoughts on Saturday's sweep of Pitt.
- "We talked about just cutting the deficit in half. We had a couple of chances. The ball that Macon hit was 104 off the bat, and they made a great play and turned two, and got them off the field. We liked our at-bats and just tried to chip away at it. We felt like if we could get in the pen that there were some guys we matched up well with. We saw that there later in the game and took some great swings off them." – On the message being down 7-2 early in the ballgame.
UP NEXT
- Duke continues its 11-game homestand on Tuesday evening, hosting Gardner-Webb at Jack Coombs Field. First pitch is scheduled for 6 p.m.
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Team Stats
Pitching:
W: Easterly, Reid (6-1)
L: McAuliff,Daniel (2-2)
Batting:
2B: Melendez,Jayden 1
HR: Dulin,Caden 2
RBI: Nessler,AJ 1 ; Cantwell,Luke 3 ; Dulin,Caden 4
SF: Cantwell,Luke 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Pedanou,David 3 ; Nessler,AJ 1 ; Zuckerman,Ryan 1 ; Dulin,Caden 2 ; LaSala,Anthony 2
SB: Pedanou,David 2 ; Nessler,AJ 1
Batting:
2B: Gracia, AJ 1 ; Miller, Ben 2 ; Hyde, Jake 2 ; Albright, Tyler 1
HR: Gracia, AJ 1 ; Rounds, Ben 1 ; Harris, Sam 1
RBI: Gracia, AJ 2 ; Miller, Ben 4 ; Hyde, Jake 1 ; Albright, Tyler 2 ; Rounds, Ben 3 ; Winslow, Macon 2 ; Harris, Sam 3 ; Berger, Jake 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Clark, Wallace 1 ; Bell, Andrew 1 ; Gracia, AJ 4 ; Miller, Ben 2 ; Hyde, Jake 2 ; Albright, Tyler 2 ; Rounds, Ben 2 ; Winslow, Macon 2 ; Harris, Sam 1 ; Berger, Jake 2
SB: Clark, Wallace 1 ; Albright, Tyler 1
HBP: Clark, Wallace 1 ; Gracia, AJ 1
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