⚾: Noles Sweep Doubleheader vs. Jacksonville

TALLAHASSEE – Florida State (30-17) swept a doubleheader Tuesday against Jacksonville (24-23) at Dick Howser Stadium. The Seminoles won game one 2-1 and game two 5-4, improving to 9-4 in one-run games.

Game 2 – FSU 5, JAX 4

FSU posted a five-spot in the third inning to lock up the doubleheader sweep with a 5-4 victory in Tuesday’s nightcap.

Brock Mathis got the Seminoles on the board with a two-run ground-rule double against Blake Barquin (2-3). Jaime Ferrer got under the tag at the plate on Jackson Greene’s sacrifice bunt, Mathis scored on a wild pitch and Logan Lacey capped the scoring with a sacrifice fly that plated Greene.

Jackson Baumeister (1-2) earned his first career win in his first career start. He lasted 3.2 innings and struck out five batters, tying career-bests for both. He allowed one run before being relieved by Conner Whittaker, who struck out Jonah Diaz with the bases loaded to end the fourth inning.

Whittaker left with the bases loaded in the sixth inning when Davis Hare came in and recorded three outs without allowing a run. In the seventh, Jacksonville scored three runs and left the tying run at third base when Hare forced a grounder back to the mound.

Tyler Naumann started for the Dolphins and allowed two hits in two innings.

SCORING SUMMARY:

B3 | JU 0, FSU 2       Mathis doubled, Carrion & Roberts scored
B3 | JU 0, FSU 3       Greene reached on a fielder’s choice sac bunt, Ferrer scored
B3 | JU 0, FSU 4       Mathis scored on a wild pitch
B3 | JU 0, FSU 5       Lacey sacrifice fly, Greene scored
T4 | JU 1, FSU 5       Pacheco hit by pitch, Coipel scored
T7 | JU 4, FSU 5       Grabsky singled, Flowers & Coipel scored; DeLamielleure scored on a throwing error

Game 1 – FSU 2, JAX 1

James Tibbs’ two-run double in the fifth inning was all the offense needed as Florida State topped Jacksonville 2-1 in the first game of Tuesday’s doubleheader. Jonah Scolaro (2-3) pitched a career-high 4.1 innings of relief in the win.

Jacksonville scored its run in the first inning on Tommy Joseph’s two-out infield single. Ross Dunn started and notched just two outs, allowing a hit, walk and a hit batter.

Scolaro came in and got FSU out of the jam en route to five strikeouts, tying a season high. Davis Hare pitched a scoreless sixth inning and Wyatt Crowell earned his first career save with a scoreless seventh.

In the fifth, Colton Vincent and Jordan Carrion led off the inning with singles against Heston Mosley (2-3). After Brett Roberts’ sacrifice bunt moved the runners, Jacksonville went to the bullpen for Bryce Fisher. Tibbs’ sent Fisher’s fifth pitch high off the right field wall for his 12^th double of the season and an FSU lead.

Alex Toral hit two singles in the contest, his third straight game with multiple hits.

SCORING SUMMARY:

T1 | JU 1, FSU 0       Joseph singled, Flowers scored
🍁 | JU 1, FSU 2       Tibbs doubled, Vincent & Carrion scored

UP NEXT:

Florida State wraps up the regular season home schedule with three games against No. 6 Miami. Friday’s opener is at 7:00 p.m. on ACC Network Extra.

OF NOTE:

• Jonah Scolaro threw a career-high 4.1 innings and tied a season high with five strikeouts. Scolaro ranks second nationally among active players with 114 career pitching appearances.
• Scolaro also picked off a runner in the second inning. It was FSU’s third of the season.
• Wyatt Crowell pitched a scoreless seventh inning for his first career save.
• Alex Toral singled twice and has multiple hits 10 times this season.
• Brett Roberts’ sacrifice bunt was his first of the season.
• James Tibbs gave FSU the lead with a two-run double in the fifth inning. He has reached safely in 34 of 35 starts. Before pinch-hitting in game two against Jacksonville, Tibbs had reached in 19 consecutive games, the longest streak for a Nole this season. His 12 doubles are tied for second on the team.
• Treyton Rank made his first career start in center field. Logan Lacey made his first career start as the designated hitter.
• Jaime Ferrer was hit by a pitch for the 20^th and 21^st time this season. That leads the ACC and is third in FSU single-season history.
• Ferrer also singled Tuesday and leads FSU with 53 hits.
• Brock Mathis tied a season high with two hits (in his first two at-bats). His two-run double got FSU on the board in game two, his third double of the year.
• Jackson Baumeister made his first career start and tied career-highs with 3.2 innings pitched and five strikeouts.

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