By FHSU Sports Information<\/b><\/p>\n
Photo courtesy FHSU SID<\/p>\n
ST. CHARLES, Mo. – The Fort Hays State baseball team dropped game three of the series with Lindenwood on Sunday, 10-5 thanks to a five-run eighth inning from the Lions. The Tigers dipped to 13-30 overall and 5-24 in MIAA play, while the Lions moved to 22-20 on the season and 14-16 in conference play.<\/p>\n
In a back-and-forth game between the two teams, there were three ties and six lead changes.<\/p>\n
The Tigers struck first when Cody Starkel<\/a> reached base on a fielder’s choice, plating Alex Weiss<\/a> in the second inning. The Lions evened things up in the home half. Weiss continued his hot streak with an RBI single to left center, bring around Ryan Grasser<\/a> to give the Tigers a 2-1 lead in the third. Lindenwood matched that in the bottom of the inning with a run of their own.<\/p>\n Lindenwood picked up another run, changing the lead for the third time in the contest, taking a 3-2 lead after four innings of play. Weiss obliterated a baseball over the left center wall for a two-run home run and his eighth long ball of the season.<\/p>\n The Lions grabbed the next two runs in the fifth frame and picked up the lead once more, this time 5-4 over the Tigers. FHSU tied the game up in the sixth after Starkel crossed home on a wild pitch, knotting the score at 5-5. Lindenwood blew the game wide open in the eighth with a five-spot and solidified the lead for good.<\/p>\n Ryan Ruder<\/a> drew the no decision after giving up four runs on eight hits in 4.0 innings of work. Tanner Smith<\/a> was charged with the loss after giving up six runs (one earned) in 3.2 innings. Weiss went 3-for-4 from the plate with a home run, three RBI and two runs scored. Grasser also picked up two hits on the day, going 2-for-4 in the contest.<\/p>\n The Tigers are back in action Wednesday (April 25) as they host Nebraska-Kearney for the final time in the series history. First pitch from Larks Park is slated for 6 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By FHSU Sports Information Photo courtesy FHSU SID ST. CHARLES, Mo. – The Fort Hays State baseball team dropped game three of the series with… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":162,"featured_media":37943,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4540,7349],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-baseball-sports","category-sports"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tigermedianet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/base-5.jpg?fit=300%2C167&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/162"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37942"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37944,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37942\/revisions\/37944"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/37943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}