UMSL Gets Shutout Win to Avoid Sweep

Lantzy Throws Six-Hit Shutout Against Indianapolis

Indianapolis, Ind. – The Missouri-St. Louis baseball team avoided a weekend sweep at Indianapolis with a shutout win over the Greyhounds in the second game of Sunday’s doubleheader. UMSL lost both games on Saturday, losing 5-2 and 6-4, and lost the opener on Sunday 11-6 before capping off the weekend with a 4-0 victory.

On Saturday, UMSL dropped the opener 5-2 and lost the second game 6-4. In the first game, Indianapolis scored a run in the first and got all five runs in the first four innings to the quick lead. UMSL would get on the board in the sixth inning with two runs. Steven McCoy (Potosi, Mo./Potosi) led off with a single to left and later scored on a ground out. Jonathan Pate (Wildwood, Mo./Eureka) added an RBI double later in the inning for the second run in the 5-2 loss.

In the second game, Indianapolis again got a run in the bottom of the first for the quick lead before UMSL took the lead. The Rivermen got two runs in the third inning, as Josh Morgan (St. Louis, Mo./St. Mary’s) got a base hit and later scored on a fielding error by the Greyhounds and Mark Sanders (Creve Coeur, Mo./Parkway North) had an RBI single for a 2-1 UMSL lead. Adam Whitehead (Festus, Mo./Festus) brought in a run in the fourth with a sacrifice fly, and Jonathan Pate scored a run on a groundout in the fifth for a 4-2 UMSL lead. The Greyhounds took the lead back in the bottom of the sixth with three runs and added two more in the seventh for the 6-4 win.

UMSL salvaged a split on Sunday, losing the first game 15-6, but came back to win the second game 4-0. Indianapolis scored single runs in the first two innings, but the Rivermen got two runs in the top of the third, one coming on an RBI single by Jonathan Pate to make it a 2-2 game. The Greyhounds took control in the bottom of the third by scoring five runs to lead 7-2. Josh Morgan knocked in a couple runs with a two-run double in the fourth, cutting it to a 7-4 game, but Indianapolis got four of their own in the bottom half of the inning. After UMSL got single runs in the fifth and sixth innings, both on RBI groundouts, the Greyhounds scored four more runs in the sixth for the 15-6 win.

The Rivermen got an outstanding pitching performance from Mike Lantzy (St. Louis, Mo./Parkway North) in the second game as he threw a complete game, six-hit shutout in a 4-0 win. The game was scoreless through five when UMSL got and RBI double from Tom Anderson (Bridgeton, Mo./Hazelwood West) in the sixth for a 1-0 lead. Josh Morgan then hit a solo home run in the seventh, his team best eighth homer of the season, for a 2-0 Rivermen lead. UMSL got a few insurance runs in the top of the ninth as Adam Whitehead hit a two-run double for a 4-0 cushion, but that was more than enough for the Rivermen. Mike Lantzy pitched the full 9.0 innings, limiting Indianapolis to just six hits in the game while striking out four and walking just one. He retired seven straight at one point and allowed just one base runner to reach third base in the game while improving his record to 4-6 on the season. The win also snapped a 12-game losing skid for the Rivermen.

UMSL is now 15-24 on the season and 7-21 in the Great Lakes Valley Conference. The Rivermen will be at home on Tuesday for a conference doubleheader against Southern Indiana.