Nebraska baseball implodes in Saturday doubleheader losses to Louisiana
Nebraska baseball (3-4) had a Saturday to forget in Lafayette. After a strong Friday night performance to open the weekend against Louisiana, the Huskers collapsed in games two and three of the series.
The Ragin’ Cajuns only used three arms on the day as Nebraska’s bats went ice cold. The Huskers mustered just nine hits and three runs in both games combined. In the second contest, Louisiana pitcher Andrew Herrmann threw a stellar complete game despite the rainy conditions. He held Nebraska to two runs on five hits for his first win of the season.
Poor offensive outing spoils Horn’s day
Husker right-hander Ty Horn‘s outing was one of the few positive developments on Saturday. The sophomore went six innings — allowing only four hits — but the offense spoiled a strong day. Nebraska struck out 13 times, including three each from Dylan Carey and Joshua Overbeek. Cael Frost’s slow start to his Husker career continued with two more strikeouts. The SDSU transfer has yet to tally a hit this season.
Nebraska remained scoreless in the first game until the ninth inning when freshman Devin Nunez hit a pinch-hit leadoff single. Carey brought him home with an RBI double, but the momentum was quickly stamped out as back-to-back swinging strikeouts ended the contest.
The Huskers fell 4-1 in the first game, but had a chance to bounce back at the plate in the second. However, not only did their bats fail to heat up, the defense completely imploded too.
Ragin’ Cajuns ‘pour’ it on
The rain started to come down in the bottom of the second, coinciding with Nebraska’s utter collapse.
Right-hander Will Walsh got his second start after a dominant outing last weekend, but his day only lasted two innings this time around. After giving up a leadoff single and hitting a batter, Mark Collins stepped to the plate for Louisiana. It was all downhill from there.
Walsh mishandled Collins’ bunt and his throw to first sailed over Case Sanderson‘s head. Two runs scored as Collins made it all the way to third. A double immediately followed, giving the Ragin’ Cajuns an early 3-0 lead.
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Louisiana continued to bunt in the sloppy conditions, and Walsh dropped another one to allow a fourth run to come home. Before Walsh got out of the inning, a passed ball and sacrifice fly put the Ragin’ Cajuns up 5-0.
Drew Christo relieved Walsh but did not fare any better. He committed a fielding error of his own on a bunt, eventually allowing Louisiana to score three more runs in the bottom of the fourth. Christo was pulled after just 1.2 innings.
Nebraska’s lone runs came from a Will Jesske RBI triple and a solo bomb from Nunez, who had an outstanding day given the circumstances. The Huskers used seven pitchers in the second game and ultimately fell 10-2 after giving up runs in the fifth and sixth innings as well.
