JERSEY CITY, N.J. – The Manhattan baseball team has started MAAC play on the right foot, taking down the Saint Peter's Peacocks 7-1 Friday afternoon.
The series will wrap up on Sunday with a doubleheader. Game one is scheduled to begin at 11 a.m. Manhattan improved to 7-17 on the year with the win.
Daniel Perez opened the scoring for the good guys, lifting a home run to right field for the redshirt freshman's fifth long ball of the season.
The third inning featured the Green and White capitalizing on multiple Peacock miscues. The Peacocks catcher overthrew an attempt to catch
Pete Durocher stealing, allowing him to get to third while
Frankie Marinelli managed to score from third on the play and Durocher assumed Marinelli's spot 90 feet from home. Later in the inning, the Peacocks failed to throw out
Alfredo Delgado which let Durocher cross home plate.
In the seventh,
Trevor Santos took a pitch to the body with the bases to move everyone 90- feet and score
Nick Plue.
Jacob Radziewicz followed that up with a 2 RBI single for the catcher's ninth and tenth RBI of the season.
Jaspers starter
Will Hesslink (1-5) turned in his second quality start while also punching out 12 Peacocks, tying a career-high for the lefty when he also sat 12 down against the Presbyterian Blue Hose last season. In the third and fourth innings, all three outs came off of strikeouts.
Jack Mahoney entered the game and earned his first save of the year, presiding over three hitless innings while sitting four down on strikes.
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