COLLEGE STATION, Texas — Vanderbilt dropped both games of a doubleheader at No. 20 Texas A&M Friday at Blue Bell Park, losing 8-4 in Game 1 and 12-0 in Game 2.
Vanderbilt and Texas A&M traded blows in the first game of the day. After clubbing five home runs on Thursday, the Commodores hit four more in Game 1 of Thursday’s doubleheader.
Every time Vandy left the yard, however, the Aggies responded with runs of their own and scored in each of the final five frames to win 8-4.
Texas A&M took a 3-0 lead in the bottom of the first on a wild pitch followed by a two-run home run.
Vanderbilt entered the scoring column in the top of the third with back-to-back solo homers by Korbin Reynolds and Mike Mancini.
Texas A&M used an error to go up 4-2 in the fourth but another solo shot by the Commodores, this time Brodie Johnston, pulled the Dores back within a run in the fifth.
The Aggies singled home a run in the home half of the fifth to take a 5-3 advantage.
Mike Mancini homered again in the sixth, his second of the game and Vandy’s fourth, to once again make it a one-run deficit.
The Aggies added runs in the sixth, seventh and eighth innings to pull away and win 8-4.
Vanderbilt doubled up Texas A&M in hits, 10-5, but the Aggies took advantage of 13 walks and three errors.
Mancini finished the game 3-for-4. Tommy Goodin and Reynolds tallied two hits apiece.
Texas A&M got off to another hot start in Game 2 of the day.
The Aggies hit two-run homers in the first and second innings, a three-run shot in the third and another two-run home run in the fourth to take a 9-0 lead after the first four frames.
Texas A&M was kept off the board in the fifth but three runs in the sixth set the home side up for a 12-0 run-rule win in seven innings.
Vanderbilt (19-14, 6-6 SEC) returns home to host Eastern Kentucky on Tuesday before No. 11 Oklahoma comes to town for a three-game series beginning Thursday at Hawkins Field.
