Big Ten Tournament: Day 3
The preliminaries are over and the big show begins
Game 1 Purdue 8 Iowa 1 Starting Pitchers: · Purdue — RHP Austin Klug (6-3, 5. 57 ERA) · Iowa — RHP Cole Moore (3-0, 5. 09 ERA) Fourth time is a try for the Purdue Boilermakers as they finally got a win over Iowa this season.
Last weekend they were swept on the road by the Hawkeye, but today they got ‘em. Even though Iowa put a runner on base every inning but the first, their offense was for the most part inept as they could not string anything together. Iowa is at the best when they get runners on base and create chaos.
That didn’t happen today. Purdue starter Austin Klug went 4. 2 innings today and lefty Jarvis Evans went the rest of the way.
Klug did a solid job though Iowa did take a lead in the fourth inning thanks to Miles Risley reaching on an error and scoring two batters later when Jaixon Frost drove a single to leftfield. It was a little surprising that Klug was pulled with two outs in the fifth, but apparently coach Greg Goff saw something casual fan didn’t. Hawkeyes take the advantage 👊 pic.
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