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Schedule Game Recaps Recap Game 5: Florida St. vs Miami | Recap Game 5: Florida St. vs Miami |
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Top-seeded Miami took a five-run advantage into the ninth
inning but had to hang on to survive and advance with a 7-5 victory
over Atlantic Coast Conference rival and fourth-seeded Florida State
Monday in a Men’s College World Series elimination game.
The Hurricanes four-run third inning gave Miami an early lead which it held throughout. After adding a pair of Miami runs in the seventh and a Blake Tekotte solo home run in the eighth, closer Carlos Gutierrez entered to close-out the game to start the ninth with a 7-2 lead. In the Florida State ninth, two singles led off the inning, before a pair of ground outs brought home the first run and cut the margin to 7-3. A walk and two singles made it 7-5with national player of the year Buster Posey as the go-ahead run. Posey drew a walk to load the bases but a grounder up the middle was fielded by Miami 2B Jemile Weeks to seal the victory. Miami (53-10) advances to play another elimination game Wednesday night at 6 p.m. (Central) against the loser of Monday night’s winners’ bracket game between Stanford and Georgia. Florida State’s season ends with a record of 54-14. Florida State got on the board first in the opening inning when Dennis Guinn’s two-out single drove home Posey from second base. A second-inning leadoff single by FSU DH Tommy Oravetz hit Miami starter David Gutierrez and the injury knocked Gutierrez out of the game. Eric Erickson (9-1) entered the game and eventually got the win, pitching five innings of relief and allowing just one earned run while scattering eight hits and striking out six. In the third inning, Miami gained its first lead of the game on a solo home run by one-out, two-run home by Jemile Weeks. With two outs, a pair of walks and an infield single loaded the bases for Miami RF Dennis Raben who capped the inning with a two-run single up the middle. After Florida State added a run in the fourth to cut the lead to 4-2, Jason Hagerty’s two-out, two run single in the seventh gave the Hurricanes some breathing room. Then Blake Tekotte’s leadoff home run in the eighth extended the Miami margin to 7-2. |
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