While 42-year-old Boston Red Sox pitcher Rich Hill retired the primary 12 Orioles on Friday evening in 4 good innings in Baltimore, one other pitcher in Maryland took it a step additional. Quite a bit additional.
Terps junior left-hander Ramsey threw an ideal sport in a 13-0 victory over Northwestern in College Park, the primary for a Maryland pitcher in additional than 60 years and solely the thirty fourth in NCAA Division I historical past. Fittingly, Terps pitcher Dick Reitz was the primary to do it on April 10, 1959, towards Johns Hopkins. Ramsey’s is simply the twentieth nine-inning particular person good sport in Division I historical past and the primary since Duke’s Bryce Jarvis threw one towards Cornell on Feb. 21, 2020.
There have solely been 23 good video games in Major League Baseball historical past.
“I definitely could sense it all around me” heading to the mound to begin the ninth inning, Ramsey told The Diamondback, Maryland’s student newspaper, after the game. “Honestly, the first part of the season I haven’t been able to command a lot of offspeed pitches, have everything together and feel the way I did tonight. Tonight was one of those nights where I was able to lock-in.”
Ramsey was lights out Friday evening, permitting no hits and no walks whereas putting out 10 on 118 pitches. After getting the ultimate batter to floor out to 3rd, his teammates flooded from the dugout and mobbed the New Jersey native on the mound.
“Overwhelming,” Ramsey stated of the celebration. “My shoe came off.”
According to The Diamondback, the 6-foot, 195-pound left-hander changed Nick Dean as the same old Friday beginning pitcher. He matched up towards Northwestern’s Sean Sullivan, who was pummeled because the Terps took a 9-0 lead into the fourth inning.
Ramsey was a second-team All-Big Ten Conference choice in 2021, showing in 16 video games with one begin and main the crew in ERA (1.67) over 37 2/3 innings. Entering Friday, he had a 2.77 ERA by way of 10 begins with 59 strikeouts and 43 hits allowed in 61 2/3 innings. He had a 13-strikeout efficiency in a win over Cornell and 11 towards Siena six days later in mid-March. In Ramsey’s final begin, at Illinois on Saturday, he allowed six hits and three earned runs in six innings to earn the win for the No. 23 Terps.
The win improves Maryland’s document to 34-8. They at the moment are 18-1 at house and 10-3 in convention play.
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Source: www.bostonherald.com