Box Score The Basics
• Score: Hopkins 5, Gettysburg - 2
• Records: #18 Johns Hopkins (17-5, 3-0 CC) • Gettysburg (11-10, 0-3 CC)
• Location: Gettysburg, PA • Kirchhoff Field
• Pitching Decision: W – Jack Bunting (6-0)  • L – Myles Burbank (2-3) • S – Josh Hejka (3)
• The Short Story: The Johns Hopkins baseball team fell behind early but four unanswered runs helped propel the Blue Jays to a 5-2 victory on the road against Gettysburg College on Tuesday afternoon.

How it Happened
• Gettysburg got on the board first in the second inning, taking advantage of a Hopkins throwing error to score Andrew Decker and take a 1-0 lead.
• Tim Kutcher walked and advanced to third on a Mike Eberle double and a sacrifice fly from Chris DeGiacomo scored Kutcher and tied the game at one in the fifth inning.
• After Bullets scored in the second, Bunting retired the next 13 Gettysburg batters in order heading into the seventh.
• JHU took the lead in the seventh as the Bullets intentionally walked Eberle to bring up DeGiacomo with the bases loaded and one walk. The graduate student made the Bullets pay as he laced a double down the right-field line to plate Adam Kohl and AJ King to give the Blue Jays a 3-1 lead. Austin Sacks later walked with the bases loaded to force in the fourth Hopkins run of the day.
• Gettysburg got to Bunting in the seventh as GC opened the inning with back-to-back singles. Bunting then got a strikeout, however, Decker singled to left to make the score 4-2. Jaspar Carmichael entered the game and struck out the first batter he faced, and after a passed ball put runners on second and third, the freshman got Dominick Gasparro to pop up to end the inning and keep JHU in the lead.
• The Blue Jays added an insurance run in the eighth on a Kutcher single to right that plated King and made the score 5-2.
• With a runner on first and two outs, Josh Hejka took over for Carmichael with a 1-2 count on Sean Murphy and his first pitch got Murphy swinging to end the inning. Hejka allowed a lead-off single in the ninth but retired the next three batters to seal the 5-2 Blue Jay victory.

Team Leaders
Johns Hopkins:
Hits: Four tied (2)
RBI: DeGiacomo (3)
Strikeouts: Bunting (4)

Gettysburg:
Hits: Decker, Shane Maniere (2)
RBI: Decker (1)
Strikeouts: Dan Ball (3)

What it Means
• Bunting now has 102 strikeouts as a Blue Jay and in his career, he has 135 as he struck out 33 during his one season at Middlebury.
• The Blue Jays are 57-51-1 all-time against the Bullets and have won the last eight meetings. JHU has outscored GC 70-36 in the victories.
• Hopkins has allowed two runs or fewer in five straight games while the offense has collected 10 or more hits in seven consecutive games.

Inside the Box Score
• All nine of the Blue Jay starters reached base in the game with six of the nine recording a hit in the contest.
• Kutcher went 2-2 with a run, walk and RBI from the leadoff spot while Eberle went 2-4 with a run in the two hole.
• With his three RBI day, DeGiacomo now has 17 on the season which is one off the team lead.
• Matthew Ritchie and AJ King each collected two hits in the game as Ritchie finished 2-3 with a walk while King went 2-4 with two runs scored.
• Bunting improved to 6-0 on the year as the senior went 6.1 innings allowing seven hits and two runs (one earned). He struck out four and posted his second start on the year where he did not surrender a walk. For the year he has walked just five batters while recording 42 strikeouts.
• Carmichael went 1.1 innings and did not allow a hit or a walk and got one strikeout. Hejka came in and pitched the final 1.1 innings allowing just one hit and getting two strikeouts for his third save of the season. For his career, the right-hander has 11 saves which is three away from tying the program record of 14.

Up Next
• The Blue Jays and Bullets will conclude their two-game conference series on Friday, April 5 at Babb Field. First pitch is scheduled for 3:30 pm.