NEW HAVEN, Conn. – The Yale baseball team split a home doubleheader with Harvard on Saturday afternoon at George H.W. Bush '48 Field. The Crimson topped the Bulldogs 5-3 in the opening game. The Elis responded with a 9-6 win in the tail end of the doubleheader.
After the split, Yale's record sits at 18-10 overall. The Bulldogs are currently in first place in the Ivy League with an 8-3 record. Harvard moved to 6-18 overall with a 5-5 mark in conference play.
Game 1 – Harvard 5, Yale 3
Top Performer
• Starting pitcher Jack Ohman threw well for the Bulldogs, pitching 7.0 innings while tying a career high with 11 strikeouts.
Scoring Summary
• B3 | The Bulldogs scored a pair of runs in the third after Jack Dauer grounded to short, resulting in an error. 2-0 YALE
• T5 | Harvard tallied four runs in the fifth to take the lead. 4-2 HARVARD
• B6 | After Chris DiPrima singled, Colin Sloan doubled off the wall, resulting in the Bulldogs' third run. 4-3 HARVARD
• T9 | The Crimson added an insurance run when Gio Colasante grounded into a double play, scoring Jack Rickheim. 5-3 HARVARD
Game Notes
• The loss snapped a six-game conference winning streak for the Bulldogs.
• Ohman tossed seven innings while allowing four earned runs. Tate Evans pitched in relief, allowing one run over two innings.
• DiPrima collected two hits.
Game 2 – Yale 9, Harvard 6
Top Performers
• Daniel Cohen started on the bump for the Bulldogs, tossing 5.0 strong innings while allowing two earned runs.
• First year Jackson Hays went 2-for-3 with two RBIs.
• Alex Hwang recorded a four-out save to seal the victory for Yale.
Scoring Summary
• B1 | The Bulldogs scored two runs in the first. DiPrima hit a sac fly, and Garrett Larsen scored on a passed ball. 2-0 YALE
• B3 | Yale plated three runs in the third. Sloan hit a sac fly to deep left that scored DiPrima from third and Dauer from second. Later in the inning, Chace Chaplin singled to right, scoring Jackson Hays. 5-0 YALE
• T6 | Harvard got on the scoreboard thanks to a two-run home run by Rickheim. 5-2 YALE
• B6 | Yale responded with three more runs in the bottom half of the inning. Jack Dauer singled to right, scoring Larsen. The next batter, Hays, blooped a single over first, scoring two more runs. 8-2 YALE
• T7 | Harvard picked up two runs in the seventh. 8-4 YALE
• B7 | Kaiden Dossa singled home Chaplin for another Bulldogs run. 9-4 YALE
• T8 | The Crimson tallied a pair of runs on RBI hits by Liam Wilson and Aidan Colasante. 9-6 YALE
Game Notes
• Yale and Harvard have been evenly matched over the past several years, playing to a 5-5 record over the past 10 games.
• The first five hitters in the Bulldogs lineup recorded multi-hit games. Larsen leads the team with 15 multi-hit games this season.
• Dossa extended his on-base streak to 21 games. DiPrima has hit safely in 12 consecutive games.
• Larsen stole his team-leading 20th base of the season. He leads the Ivy League in that category.
• Cohen earned his fourth victory of the season. Hwang picked up his first collegiate save.
Up Next
The Bulldogs will host Quinnipiac in a non-conference matchup on Wednesday, April 15 at 3 p.m.
