Georgetown baseball (11-14, 3-6 BE) traded leads with cross-town rival George Washington (15-11, 4-2 A-10) for much of the afternoon on Wednesday, but a bullpen collapse in the latter innings cost the Hoyas the game and snapped their three-game win streak.
After taking two out of three against conference foe South Florida in a weekend series and routing Coppin State on Tuesday, Georgetown had all the pre-game momentum. But sophomore Alex Meyer, who got the start for the Hoyas, struggled early—Meyer beaned freshman Brendon Kelliher before committing a throwing error on a pick-off attempt to advance him to second. Sophomore Curtis Eward opened up the scoring with a two run blast to give the Colonials the early 2-0 lead. Meyer would settle down after the early setback for a solid 4 1/3 inning, four earned runs and six strikeout performance.
Georgetown rallied in the third, as junior Sean Baumann singled with the bases loaded to tie the game at 2-2. The Hoyas took the lead two innings later when junior Greg Puztissi’s sacrifice bunt scored freshman Sean Lamont. Georgetown gave the lead back to the Colonials in the bottom of the fifth, only to knot it back up at 4-4 in the sixth off of a sacrifice fly from senior Matt Harrigan.
George Washington retook the lead again in the bottom of the sixth with an RBI bunt single from sophomore Tom Zebroski. The Colonials would add another in the seventh before junior Tim Reeves blew the game open with a grand slam in the eighth, sealing the 11-4 GW victory.
The Hoyas will travel to Villanova on Friday for a three-game conference series against the Wildcats.
