{"id":2152,"date":"2023-03-28T19:33:42","date_gmt":"2023-03-28T23:33:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/dragon-chronicle\/?p=2152"},"modified":"2023-03-28T19:33:42","modified_gmt":"2023-03-28T23:33:42","slug":"cortland-baseballs-bounce-back-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/dragon-chronicle\/2023\/03\/28\/cortland-baseballs-bounce-back-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Cortland Baseball\u2019s Bounce Back Week"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

            The historically dominant Cortland Baseball Team had a slow start to their season. After being nationally ranked in preseason polls, the Red Dragons underperformed in their opening games. Going into the week of March 20th<\/sup>, Cortland was 7-7 and hosting their first home game and a 3-game series against conference rival Oswego.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

            On Tuesday, March 21st, Cortland faced Cobleskill in a roller coaster of emotions for their initial home game. After getting out to an early lead, thanks in large part to a 4-hit game from 3rd<\/sup> baseman Dylan Mackenzie, the game was tied going into the 9th<\/sup> inning following a rough outing from the bullpen. A sigh of relief came as outfielder Mitchell Kelly hit a walk-off solo home run.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The nail-biter was just what Cortland needed to get on track, as they regrouped for a 3-game weekend series against Oswego.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Friday was a two-game doubleheader, that had Cortland firing on all cylinders. Dylan Beers headlined the 7-inning contest in which he threw the 21st<\/sup> no-hitter in Cortland\u2019s history finishing with 12 strikeouts in the 10-0 rout and Hunter Holliday had his first home run on the season in a pinch-hit appearance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI just got into a groove and rode with it, I was ready to pitch all 9 innings but a win is a win,” Beers said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Red Dragons didn\u2019t miss a step in game 2. 2 sport athlete (football) Will McCarthy started game 2 and was cruising early on. He was relieved by his football teammate, freshman flamethrower, Shane Van Dam who made quick work in his 2 innings of relief. Matt Bruno headlined the offense as he had a 2-home run game, the last of which implemented the league\u2019s new 10-run rule in conference games, resulting in a 15-4 win.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After an Off-day Saturday. Cortland kept their foot on the gas. A phenomenal outing from the bullpen and a great deal of small ball helped Cortland slowly pull away. Dylan Mackenzie and Chris Bonacci led the offense in a third straight \u201cMercy Rule\u201d win.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe just needed to find a groove,” said outfielder Matt Bruno.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Red Dragons outscored the Lakers by a combined 35-4 score, with all three wins ending by the 10-run rule in seven innings.\u00a0And look back on track to finish their season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

            The historically dominant Cortland Baseball Team had a slow start to their season. After being nationally ranked in preseason polls, the Red Dragons underperformed in their opening games. Going into the week of March 20th, Cortland was 7-7 and hosting their first home game and a 3-game series against conference rival Oswego.             On […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":301,"featured_media":2155,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","entry"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/dragon-chronicle\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2023\/03\/P1010118-scaled.jpg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/dragon-chronicle\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2023\/03\/P1010118-scaled.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"kyle.stracher","author_link":"https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/dragon-chronicle\/author\/kyle-stracher\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/dragon-chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/dragon-chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/dragon-chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/dragon-chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/301"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/dragon-chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/dragon-chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/dragon-chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/dragon-chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/dragon-chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/dragon-chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}