The Ohio State Buckeyes welcomed the Eastern Michigan Eagles to Nick Swisher Field at Bill Davis Stadium on Tuesday afternoon. It was a beautiful day for baseball in the Buckeye State, and the Buckeye baseball team played even more beautifully.
They entered the game with momentum and picked up where they left off. Trey Lipsey got a lead-off double in the bottom of the first. Lee Ellis advanced Lipsey to third, and then Tyler Pettorini was up to bat. Pettorini knocked it out of the park to make the score 2-0, Buckeyes.
BOTTOM 1 | NO DOUBTER 💣 A two-run bomb from @TPettorini puts the Buckeyes on the board!#GoBucks pic.twitter.com/PcK2b2tCMW
— Ohio State Baseball (@OhioStateBASE) March 11, 2025
Matt Graveline would get a hit and would find his way to third base with two outs left in the inning and then the Buckeye catcher would steal home! The Buckeyes would leave the first inning with a 3-0 lead.
The Bucks were back at it in the second inning, with Lipsey and Ellis reaching first and second with two outs. Pettorini would again clear the bases as his double allowed Lipsey and Ellis to score.
Graveline would then knock Pettorini in with a single. Mason Eckelman would then get on base, and Will Carpenter would knock them both in. The Buckeyes were up 8-0 heading into the third inning!
BOTTOM 2 | A two-RBI single from @wcarpenter7127 gives the Buckeyes an 8-0 lead!#GoBucks pic.twitter.com/UViyLEH6GV
— Ohio State Baseball (@OhioStateBASE) March 11, 2025
EMU would get two back in the top of the third, but the Buckeyes got them back when they were up to bat. Reggie Bussey and Lipsey would both get on base with a single each. Ellis would knock Bussey in with a sacrifice fly, and Lipsey would score on an EMU wild pitch. The Bucks would lead 10-2 after three.
The Eagles again scored two runs to start the fourth inning. Ohio State loaded the bases, and EMU walked Ellis, resulting in a Buckeye run. Unfortunately, that was all Ohio State would get out of the fourth, and they’d got to the fifth, leading 11-4. EMU didn’t score in the fifth but walked in another OSU run. The Bucks had the bases loaded twice and only got two runs, but the lead was still significant at 12-4.
Eastern Michigan then got three more runs in the sixth to cut the Buckeyes’ lead to five. Ohio State would get one more in the bottom of the eighth when Graveline would knock in Ellis. The Bucks would win 13-7. EMU falls to 7-7 on the year, and Ohio State improves to 5-9, winning four of their last five. The Buckeyes will travel to Bloomington for their first Big Ten series of 2025 against the Hoosiers.