Daniel Cuvet homered, Griffin Hugus gave Miami another strong start and the Hurricanes earned their fourth consecutive win on Friday night, 4-2 over Georgia Tech. Miami scored two in the first inning and one in the fourth to take a 3-0 lead. Both teams scored in the fifth and the score remained 4-1 through eight innings.
Jake Ogden reached on a fielder's choice to give Miami a 1-0 lead and Max Galvin got on after an error by Georgia Tech to score another run to give the Hurricanes a 2-0 lead. A Renzo Gonzalez RBI single in the fourth inning extended the Miami lead to 3-0.
Hugus pitched 4.1 innings, allowing one unearned run on four hits with four walks and eight strikeouts to improve to 5-4. Michael Fernandez, Carson Fischer and Jake Dorn held Georgia Tech scoreless over 2.2 combined innings to get the ball to closer Brian Walters in the eighth.
Walters allowed three hits and one unearned run with two strikeouts in two innings to earn his fourth save. Georgia Tech rallied in the ninth inning with a Caleb Daniel RBI single, cutting the Yellow Jackets deficit to 4-2. The Yellow Jackets had two runners on base in the ninth inning when Walters got Vahn Lackey to fly out to center field to end the game.
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The HR by Cuvet in the fourth proved critical as it re-extended the Miami lead to two runs and forced Georgia Tech to get a baserunner to bring the tying run to the plate. As it was, Georgia Tech had the tying run on base in the ninth inning and the go-ahead run at the plate.
Michael Torres was the only Miami batter with two hits on Friday night out of the ninth spot in the batting order. Tate McKee pitched seven innings, allowing four runs, two earned, on seven hits with two walks and four strikeouts, taking the loss and falling to 5-1.
Miami earned maybe its biggest win of the season over Georgia Tech, who entered the weekend in first place in the ACC. The Hurricanes go for their third straight series win on Saturday. Brady Jones (4-0) will start for Georgia Tech versus AJ Ciscar (1-1) for Miami.