Coming off convincing wins over Texas A&M-Corpus Christi on Sept. 17, the 4-0 Texas A&M club baseball team prevailed over DFW Post Grad in a 4-3 walk-off win in the early window, followed by a 17-7 lights-out loss — literally — at Edible Field on Oct. 6.
Friday’s win in the first game wasn’t sustainable in the second, which got off to a 7 p.m. start that doomed the home side to the loss in a shortened 5-inning contest due to the stadium lights turning off. Officials called off the game for a 17-7 final. The Aggies clinched their dramatic first-game win thanks to a walk-off double by general studies sophomore Tyler Dickerson in the bottom of the seventh inning, down to their last out.
The right field laser hit for the walk-off capped a big day for Dickerson as he went 2-for-4 with a walk and the game-winning RBI. Biology senior Spencer Thompson also starred with a solo home run in the second inning to get the scoring started.
“The pressure kinda was off me because the game was already tied and if I messed up, we’d still go to extra innings,” Dickerson said. “I was swinging for the fence, but I ended up piecing one to right field and that ended up scoring the winning run.”
The success of Dickerson’s bat was aided by finance junior Matt Janak, who led the A&M pitching staff with a clutch performance. Five A&M arms racked up eight strikeouts and delivered crucial outs late in the game.
“Our pitching in the first game was very phenomenal,” Dickerson said.
The feel-good vibes were not present for long in the second game, though, as DFW Post Grad led throughout the nightcap. The first inning ended with the Aggies down 9-0, and a six-run fourth inning by DFW Post Grad put the home team in a 15-3 hole it could not dig out of.
“We definitely need to work on our hitting, because in the first game and this game, they outhit us by far,” Dickerson said.
The Aggies will look to rebound when they take the field against SMU at home on Oct. 14-15.
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Sourav Dhar is a management information systems senior and contributed this from the course JOUR 359, Reporting Sports, to The Battalion.