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IOWA vs #11 Indiana: Double Header Friday (NOON Start); 3rd game as scheduled on Sunday(1 pm Start)

GAME 2

Iowa's Starting Pitcher Brady Schanuel's LINE thru 6 COMPLETE innings:
4
WALKS
10 STRIKE OUTS
1 HIT ALLOWED
0 RUNS ALLOWED

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NOTE: The first 3 Iowa runs were scored w/ 2 outs.

Bottom of 6th scoring for Iowa:
With one out, Chris Whelan hits a solo HR (Iowa leads 4-0).
Neustrom hits a double.
Cropley walks (runners on 1st and 2nd)
Guzzo walked (bases loaded)
Crowl strikes out w/ bases loaded, 2 outs
Hoeg flies out w/ bases loaded for the 3rd out


After 6 innings:

0 #11 Indiana (1 hit, 1 error)
4
Iowa (8 hits, 0 errors)


Score by Inning:

......1..2..3..4..5..6
IU...0..0..0..0..0..0
UI...2..1..0..0..0..1
 
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8th Inning Scoring Summary:
IU scores on a sacrifice fly. (Iowa leads, 4-1)

IU's Cropley hits a solo HR to left. (Iowa leads, 5-1)



After 8 innings:

1 #11 Indiana (2 hits, 1 error)
5
Iowa (9 hits, 0 errors)


Score by Inning:

......1..2..3..4..5..6..7..8..9
IU...0..0..0..0..0..0..0..1
UI...2..1..0..0..0..1..0..1
 
Indiana does not score in the top of the 9th!!!

HAWKS WIN GAME TWO, 5-1!!!


Game Summary:

1 #11 Indiana (2 hits, 1 error)
5 Iowa (9 hits, 0 errors)


Schanuel gets the W with 11 Ks!!

Cropley goes 3-for-4 with 2 RBIs!

Iowa ties the series up, 1-1!



Score by Inning:

......1..2..3..4..5..6..7..8..9
IU...0..0..0..0..0..0..0..1..0
UI...2..1..0..0..0..1..0..1..--


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Thanks!!!
Watched replays.
Hawks were in position in the 9th with middle of lineup up. Not much more you can ask for there.
Missed first two runs at beginning of second game, but otherwise played solid, I thought.
 
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Thanks!!!
Watched replays.
Hawks were in position in the 9th with middle of lineup up. Not much more you can ask for there.
Missed first two runs at beginning of second game, but otherwise played solid, I thought.

yeah, 1st game Iowa brought the game winning run to the plate, so that was good.

2nd game: with double headers, it is tricky. unfortunately the stream started late; mostly because Iowa said first pitch would be 4:05 pm and it was actually 3:35pm.
 
Coverage from HawkCentral.com

Iowa baseball: Hawkeyes salvage DH split versus Indiana thanks to Brady Schanuel's dominance
Dargan Southard, msouthard@gannett.comPublished 7:49 p.m. CT March 23, 2018 | Updated 8:08 p.m. CT March 23, 2018


IOWA CITY, Ia. — On the backend of a doubleheader with ominous weather approaching, Iowa needed Brady Schanuel to keep a swift pace going.

After some early self-induced traffic, the Hawkeyes right-hander was nothing short of brilliant.

Schanuel twirled seven dominant innings and yielded no hits after the game’s second batter, propelling the Hawkeyes to a 5-1 win and a Friday split against Indiana at Duane Banks Field. The Hoosiers knocked off Iowa, 4-2, in the opener.

Staring down a series loss in their conference-opening weekend, Schanuel picked up the Hawkeye slack. He retired the final 10 Hoosiers he faced and finished with 11 strikeouts, stifling an Indiana offense that racked up 11 hits in Game One.

The late shutdown arrived after early success and some maddening inconsistency. Schanuel walked four and was repeatedly in deep counts through the first four innings, but the Parkland College transfer still piled up seven strikeouts to keep Indiana off the board.


"I was just not trying to do too much and throw strikes and throw to my spots," Schanuel said. “If I get a strikeout, fine. If they get weak contact, even better.”

Earlier in the week, Iowa coach Rick Heller pinpointed Schanuel’s wild effectiveness as his biggest issue so far. The right-hander needed 90-plus pitches to get through each of his previous two starts, and Friday’s 110 pitches marked a season high.

But Heller let Schanuel work through it, trusting his weekend workhorse to find a rhythm late. He did and eventually gave way to Zach Daniels, who surrendered one run but kept Indiana from making a serious threat.


"The big thing is Brady doesn’t let things snowball emotionally when he does walk a guy or puts two guys on," Heller said. "He usually buckles down and pounds the zone and gets himself out of the jam, which tells you he’s doing a good job of playing it one pitch at a time."

The Hawkeyes’ instant offense certainly helped.

After mustering four hits in the opener, Iowa sprinted out to a 3-0 lead in the second thanks to a bulk of two-out magic. Hoosiers starter Pauly Milto retired the first two Hawkeyes in each of the first two innings, then yielded a combined seven two-out base runners.

Matt Hoeg and Justin Jenkins picked up RBIs in the first, and Tyler Cropley followed with a run-scoring double in the second. Chris Whelan and Cropley added solo homers late to expand the cushion.

A few more crucial knocks like that could’ve put Iowa in position to sweep. Indiana’s Game One starter Jonathan Stiever was on his game — three hits and one run allowed in seven frames — but the Hawkeyes still went 0-for-7 with runners in scoring position.

Iowa brought the winning run to the plate in the ninth with nobody down, but Hoosiers closer Cal Krueger mowed down the next three to cement the win. Southpaw Nick Allgeyer yielded three runs in seven innings but gave up 10 hits, including solo homers to Logan Kaletha and Matt Lloyd.

“Nick consistently gives us a chance to win,” Heller said, “and in that game, there were some opportunities to score — and we didn’t. Lose 4-2, but only three runs (given up) through seven innings (from Allgeyer). I’ll take that.”

With only 45 minutes or so in between games, Iowa didn’t have time to dwell.

“Coach Heller came in right away (in between games) and said, ‘Hey guys, we don’t have a lot of time to hang our heads on this one,’” Whelan said. “’We’ve just got to turn around and play our game and play how we know how to play.

“I think that really stuck with us because the locker room was pretty quiet for the first 10-15 minutes.”

With snow scheduled to hammer Iowa City on Saturday, the Hawkeyes will have to wait until Sunday to try for a pivotal series win. But Schanuel’s outing brought back the energy postgame.

“Every time you lose a game,” he said, “you try to come out with a little extra fire in the next game and a little extra focus.”

Dargan Southard covers preps, recruiting, Iowa and UNI athletics for the Iowa City Press-Citizen, The Des Moines Register and HawkCentral.com. Email him at msouthard@gannett.com or follow him on Twitter at @Dargan_Southard.
 
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