Tennessee baseball powers through Indiana despite struggling bullpen

 

 

 

Tennessee baseball is sitting in the driver’s seat of the Knoxville Regional after its 12-6 win over Indiana. The win set up the Vols to be one win away from earning a spot in the Super Regionals. Tennessee would host the winner out of the Greenville bracket for a spot in Omaha.

The Hoosiers struggled to slow down the Vols at the plate. They didn’t sit the Vols down 1-2-3 until the seventh inning. Tennessee’s bats totaled 12 runs on 13 hits, with five home runs throughout the game.

Drew Beam and the pitching staff struggled to keep Indiana at bay for moments throughout the game. A Devin Taylor three-run home run in the third inning gave the Hoosiers some life, followed by a run scored off a base hit in the fourth inning and two runs scored in the

eighth.

Andrew Behnke took over for Beam in the fourth and carried the Vols throughout the heart of the game, getting the Vols to the eighth inning with an eight-run lead. The bullpen struggled to finish off Indiana in the game’s final two innings.

In the eighth inning, Marcus Phillips came in relief but didn’t last long. Dylan Loy became the second Tennessee pitcher to take the mound in the eighth inning after Phillips gave up an earned run and only recorded one out