Notre Dame Baseball: Irish win back-to-back midweek games
Notre Dame may be struggling in the ACC, but they just got a couple of out of conference home midweek wins.
A win is a win is a win. There’s no doubt about it — the Notre Dame baseball team is massively struggling with its ACC schedule this year, and just dropped a home series over the weekend to Boston College. Still, that doesn’t mean we can’t enjoy some midweek wins from the Irish, and this week, Notre Dame took out Central Michigan and Milwaukee in back-to-back days.
4/28 Irish Take Down Chippewas SOUTH BEND, Ind. – The Notre Dame baseball team took a 5-3 win over visiting Central Michigan on Tuesday night at Frank Eck Stadium. Central Michigan pushed a pair of runs across in the top of the first.
The Irish got on the scoreboard in the bottom of the opening frame. Drew Berkland reached on an error and moved into scoring position on a ground out. Berkland advanced 90 feet on an errant throw on a pick-off attempt, and Dylan Passo drove in Berkland with a sacrifice fly to make it 2-1.
Ty Uber retired the side in order in the top of the second and capped off the inning with back-to-back strikeouts. Uber continued his solid outing by retiring the side in order in both the third and fourth innings on the hill as the righty amassed five strikeouts on the night. Chase Van Ameyde got the runner leaning the other way as the Irish closed out a scoreless fifth inning.
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