NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Vanderbilt secured the series over Marist with a 12-1, seven-inning win Saturday at Hawkins Field.
All five of Vandy’s wins this season have come by run-rule. In four home games this week, Vanderbilt has posted 57 runs on 59 hits with 12 homers and nine doubles. As a team the Dores are batting .465 with 24 walks to 22 strikeouts.
Austin Nye set the tone on the mound, tossing five scoreless innings of three-hit ball. Nye totaled six strikeouts and didn’t issue a walk. He hasn’t allowed a run over his first nine innings this season.
At the plate, Vandy put up four runs in each of the first two innings and scored two more in the third to take a commanding 10-run lead. Marist got on the board in the top of the sixth but the Dores scored two more times in the home half of the inning and got a double play in the top of the seventh to win by run-rule.
Tommy Goodin continued his hot start at the plate, clobbering a three-run homer in the first inning before adding a two-run double in the second. Goodin’s first five hits of his collegiate career have been a grand slam, two three-run home runs, a two-run double and a single.
Logan Johnstone, who homered to end the game on Friday, hit another two-run blast in Saturday’s win to give him three long balls on the season. He finished the game 2-for-3 with three RBI and three runs scored.
Braden Holcomb was 2-for-4 with an RBI double and is hitting a blistering .588 (10-for-17) over the last four games with eight runs driven in.
Vanderbilt will go for the series sweep on Sunday at 1 p.m. on SECN+ and 102.5 The Game.
