⚾: Noles Fall in Walk-Off Fashion

BRIGHTON, MASS. – Parker Messick struck out 12 batters – a career-best in a road game – and lowered his season ERA to 2.56, but Boston College (19-28, 5-20 ACC) topped Florida State (26-17, 11-11) 3-2 Friday night at Harrington Village Athletic Park.

Messick allowed just five hits in a career-high-tying 8.0 innings, with no walks. For the season, Messick leads the country with 128 strikeouts and just 12 walks. He has double-digit strikeouts in 13 career games and eight this season.

Florida State tallied four hits in the first inning against Joe Mancini (4-3), scoring a pair of runs on singles from James Tibbs and Reese Albert. Mancini retired the next 23 batters before Brett Roberts singled in the ninth inning. It was the first complete game against the Seminoles since 2019.

A leadoff hit batter came around to score in the second inning for the Eagles, and BC tied the game on a two-out infield single in the fifth inning.

Boston College started the ninth inning with a hit batter by Conner Whittaker (2-2), followed by a single and walk to load the bases against Jonah Scolaro. With no outs, Davis Hare entered and struck out his first batter before walking Daniel Baruch for the walk-off walk.

SCORING SUMMARY:

T1 | FSU 1, BC 0      Tibbs singled, Carrion scored
T1 | FSU 2, BC 0      Albert singled, Tibbs scored
B2 | FSU 2, BC 1      Baruch grounded out, Vetrano scored
B5 | FSU 2, BC 2      Harrington singled, Baruch scored
B9 | FSU 2, BC 3      Baruch walked, Gold scored

UP NEXT:

Game two between Florida State and Boston College is Saturday at 2:00 p.m. The game will air nationally on ACC Network, and Carson Montgomery (4-1) will take the mound for the Seminoles.

OF NOTE:

• Parker Messick struck out 12 batters, a career-best for a road game. His 8.0 innings pitched tied a career-high, and Messick continues to lead the country with 128 strikeouts and just 12 walks.
• James Tibbs had an RBI single in the first inning. He has reached safely in 31 of his 32 starts and extended his team-high on-base streak to 16 games.
• Jordan Carrion opened the game with a single, stolen base and scored FSU’s first run. Over his past 14 games, Carrion is hitting 22-for-52 with 15 runs, 9 RBI, 5 doubles, a home run, 9 walks and 3 stolen bases.
• Carrion now leads FSU with seven stolen bases on the season.
• Jaime Ferrer’s first-inning double was his team-best 14^th of the year. He also leads FSU with 48 hits this year.
• Reese Albert had an RBI single in the first inning. He leads FSU with a .323 batting average.

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