FAIRFIELD, Conn. – The Fairfield University Baseball team dropped their first home game of the season by a final 9-3 score against visiting Hofstra on Tuesday.
Mike Becchetti led the Stags with a 3-for-5 day including two double and a home run in the setback.
The Stags grabbed an early 2-0 lead as they plated a pair of runs in the third inning. With the bases loaded,
Mike Caruso was hit by a pitch to force in the game's first run. The wildness for the Pride would continue in the next batter as a run was forced in on a passed ball.
Besides getting nearly 10 baserunners through the first four innings, the Stags could not find the big hit as they stranded eight runners in those first four innings and 11 baserunners overall.
Hofstra would tie the game with a Michael Florides two-run single in the fifth, part of a four-run frame. The Pride would score all nine of their runs in a three-inning span which was capped by a grand slam off the bat of Kevin Bruggeman.
Fairfield would get a single run back in the ninth as Becchetti launched the ball the other way for his fifth homer of the spring.
After the grand slam,
Mike Marella and
Billy Fitzgerald would settle things down and toss 2.2 combined scoreless innings out of the bullpen.
The loss snaps Fairfield's seven-game home winning streak and seven-game winning streak in midweek contests.
Fairfield will look to get back in the win column tomorrow when they travel to Fordham to face the Rams at 4pm.