Offense explodes for season-high 19 runs in win over Dayton

Tech hits four home runs, while Dylan Hall notches first quality start of season

April 4, 2018

BLACKSBURG – JD Mundy kick-started Virginia Tech baseball’s offense on Wednesday night, launching a three-run home run in the first inning – one of four in the game, and Dylan Hall set career highs in innings and strikeouts as the Hokies took care of Dayton, 19-3, on Wednesday night at English Field at Union Park.

Hall, who allowed a leadoff home run in the first inning, settled in after that as he scattered three more hits and two walks over a career-high six innings pitched and struck out a career-high seven batters to improve to 2-2 on the season.

Trailing 1-0, the Hokies offense went to work, with Mundy’s long ball in the first and three more in the second – a two-run homer by Jack Owens and solo shots from Tom Stoffel and Joe Freiday, Jr.

Dayton (7-16) made it 7-2 in the top of the third, however Tech outscored the Flyers 11-0 until the seventh frame, which included a seven-run sixth.

Tech (12-15) saw nine different players cross the plate in the game while nine also collected at least one RBI. Leaders on the night included Jack and Nick Owens each scoring four times, while Jack had a career-high tying four hits and Mundy tallying a career-high four RBI.

Inside the Box

• Sam Fragale – double, eighth of the season, 37th of his career; two hits, seventh multi-hit game of the season, 45th of his career.
• Freiday – home run, third of the season, 14th of his career; double, third of the season, 15th of his career; three runs, season-high, second multi-run scoring game of season, ninth of his career; two hits, sixth multi-hit game of the season, 23rd of his career; two RBI, fourth multi-RBI game of the season, 13th of his career.
• Hall – career-high 6.0 innings pitched (previous high was 5.2); four scoreless innings, 14 for the season, 18 in his career; first career quality start; career-high seven strikeouts (previous high was four, done twice).
• Hayden Heflin – two scoreless frames, three for the season; struck out the side in the eighth, first time this season.
• Luke Horanski – three RBI, sixth multi-RBI game of the season/career, third game with at least three.
• Mundy – home run, fifth of the season, 10th of his career; two runs, third multi-run scoring game of season, ninth of his career; three hits, ties season-high, fifth multi-hit game of the season, 10th of his career; four RBI, career-high, third multi-RBI game of the season, ninth of his career.
• J. Owens – home run, second of the season, seventh of his career; stolen base, a perfect 9-for-9 this season, 18 in his career; 2 HBPs, leads the team with 14 this season, 25 times in his career; four runs, ties a career-high done twice this year, sixth multi-run scoring game of season, 22nd of his career; four hits, ties career-high, done twice this year, sixth time in his career, seventh multi-hit game of the season, 31st of his career; two RBI, third multi-RBI game of the season, ninth of his career.
• Nick Owens – double, third of the season; four runs, career-high, first multi-run scoring game of the season; two hits, seventh multi-hit game of the season.
• Brian Sisson – first career RBI.
• Stoffel – home run, third of the season, 13th of his career; two runs, fourth multi-run scoring game of season, 20th of his career.

Additional Notes

• The last time Tech scored at least 19 runs was last year at Nevada (Feb. 26) in a 24-10 victory.
• The last time the Hokies scored at least 19 runs and won by more than 15 was versus Alcorn State (May 8, 2016) in a 23-7 victory.
• The last time the Hokies hit four (or more) home runs in a game was April 11, 2017 at Radford (4) and they did it seven times last season.
• The last time Tech hit three home runs in a single inning was March 28, 2017 – Freiday, J. Owens and Ryan Tufts all hit a home run in the second inning versus Campbell.
• The last two Hokies to go back-to-back was Owens and Tufts in that Campbell game – as Owens and Stoffel did in the second inning of tonight’s game.
• All-time, Tech is now 14-3 versus Dayton, including a 7-0 mark at home.

Up Next

• Tech will head north to Charlottesville to take on Virginia in a three-game ACC series set for this weekend. It’s scheduled to start on Friday with a 6 p.m. first pitch.

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