Hoosiers Defeat Kentucky on Eustace's RBI Walk-Off Single

Tuesday, May 10

Bloomington, Ind.

5:00 P.M.

Indiana University

29-17

Kentucky

29-20

Kentucky

Indiana

Hoosiers Defeat Kentucky on Eustace's RBI Walk-Off Single

5/10/2016 8:46:00 PM | Baseball

Box Score

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – Sophomore Laren Eustace's pinch hit walk-off single in the bottom of the ninth gave Indiana baseball (29-17) a 3-2 win over the Kentucky Wildcats on Tuesday night.

Junior Luke Stephenson tossed 2.2 hitless innings with three strikeouts in relief of Indiana starter Jonathan Stiever, who allowed three hits over 2.1 innings of work. Sophomore B.J. Sabol worked around one run and picked up two strikeouts in his two innings on the mound. Junior Thomas Belcher earned his fourth win in two scoreless innings.

Junior Alex Krupa led the Hoosiers with two hits and scored one run. Freshman Ryan Fineman grabbed Indiana's other RBI in the effort.

After trading two scoreless innings, Kentucky capitalized off a leadoff walk in the top of the third to take a 1-0 lead, but three hits in the bottom half would tie the game at one-all. Junior Alex Krupa led off with a single back up the middle and went first-to-third on junior Craig Dedelow's single that broke through the right side. Two-out hitting by Fineman plated the Hoosiers' answering run to tie the game.

Krupa tagged his second single back up the middle in as many at bats in the bottom of the fifth before a leadoff home run for the Wildcats in the top of the sixth gave Kentucky back a 2-1 advantage. Two errors on Kentucky in the home half of the sixth placed junior Austin Cangelosi on second base. He came around to score on freshman Scotty Bradley's pinch-hit RBI single to left field.

Belcher worked out of a jam in the top of the eighth and forced Gunner McNeil to fly out to center, leaving the potential go-ahead run on second base. Kentucky put the go-ahead run 90 feet from home in the top of the ninth but a higher-bouncer to sophomore Tony Butler at second wiped out the first and third situation.

Cangelosi stroked a leadoff double to left field in the final frame of regulation and scooted to third on freshman Luke Miller's groundout. From there, with five infielders and two outfielders, Eustace stroked a line drive single to centerfield to score Cangelosi from third.

Indiana finishes out its home slate this weekend with a three-game set with the Illinois Fighting Illini. First pitch for game one is set for 6:05 p.m. on Friday.