Brown’s Offense Breaks out in 23-5 Rout at Rhody

Tuesday, April 12

Kingston, R.I.

3:00 PM

Brown University

Rhode Island

Brown’s Offense Breaks out in 23-5 Rout at Rhody

4/12/2022 9:10:00 PM | Baseball

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KINGSTON, R.I. – The Brown baseball team capped its non-league schedule with a big 23-5 rout of URI on the road on Tuesday afternoon in Kingston.

The 23 runs scored by Brown is the most since scoring 25 against the University of Hartford on March 22, 2008, and the first time the Bears scored 20 runs in a game since hanging 22 on Harvard back on April 21, 2012.

It is also the second-most runs scored by an Ivy League team this season.

INSIDE THE BOX SCORE

Brown's offense totaled 15 hits, 20 RBIs and drew 18 walks on the afternoon, as every member of the lineup who had a plate appearance reached base.
Sophomore Reece Rappoli had a career-high five hits in seven at bats with four RBIs and two runs scored.
Junior Ray Sass went 3-for-6 with five runs scored and one RBI.
Senior Chris Lang went 1-for-2 with four walks, five RBIs and scored three runs, including a grand slam for his first career home run.
Freshman Gunner Boree had two hits, three RBIs and scored twice.
Three Bears – Lang, Derian Morphew and Jared Johnson all drew four walks each.
Freshman Santhosh Gottam earned the win by firing 3.0 innings of one-run ball, while allowing just three hits.
Morphew struck out two batters while making his collegiate debut on the mound in the ninth inning.

HOW IT HAPPENED

Brown sent eight men to the plate and scored two runs in the top of the first to take the early lead. Marra led off with a walk, stole second, and came in on a single by Sass, who later scored himself on a wild pitch.
URI got one run right back with the help of three singles in the bottom of the first.
Brown doubled down once more in the second with a big two-out, two-run single by Rappoli to plate two more unearned runs.
The Bears broke it open with a big seven-run third inning to push the lead to 11-1, pounding out five hits in the frame. Marra tagged a two RBI single to right center, Sass immediately followed with a RBI single of his own, and two batters later, Rappoli roped a run-scoring single to left field. With two outs and the bases loaded, Boree lined a hit to right field that the fielder misplayed allowing three runs to score, with Boree getting tagged out at home to end the inning.
The Bears used a five-run fifth to extend the lead to 16-1, highlighted by an RBI single from Jacob Burley and a grand slam to right field with two outs by Lang.
URI got two runs back without the benefit of a hit in the home half of the fifth, and added two more on two hits in the sixth to make it 16-5.
Brown piled it on with a six-run eighth inning courtesy of Rappoli's fourth hit of the day, four straight bases loaded walks, and an RBI groundout by Lang.
Morphew added an RBI ground ball in the top of the ninth to cap Brown's scoring, before taking the mound to close out the game in the bottom of the ninth, striking out two to end the game.

QUOTES FROM THE COACH: GRANT ACHILLES

"I was proud of our guys today being able to put pressure on them."
"Derian was high school pitcher and was recruited as a two-way guy, and it was good to see him work back into it on the mound. He's a guy that we've wanted to get a chance out there, and this was a good intro."
"Reece has been putting together quality at bats all year and 5-for-7 is not something you see every day. It was a really good day for him."
"Chris Lang has as much pop as anyone on our team. We saw some really good at bats out of him today and I'm proud of how he took advantage of his start."

Brown will head out on the road to face Yale for a three-game Ivy League series this weekend, starting with a doubleheader on Saturday, and concluding with one game on Sunday.

Gallery: (4-12-2022) Baseball at URI

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