Box Score (Game 1)
Box Score (Game 2)

NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- A walk-off home-run in game one and a three-run seventh inning in game two were enough to send the Cornell baseball team to defeat in both ends of a doubleheader at Yale on Saturday afternoon. The Big Red fell in the opener, 4-3, before dropping the second game by a 7-5 margin.

Mickey Brodsky led the Big Red offense on the day, going 5-for-8 with a pair of doubles and three runs scored. Frank Hager was 4-for-9 with two doubles and a triple and three RBI, while Matt Langseth was 3-for-7 with a double. Kyle Groth hit a home run in game one, while Brian Billigen had an inside-the-park home run in game two.

On the mound, Corey Pappel got the start in game one, working seven seven-hit innings and allowing three runs while striking out six. Taylor Wood came on for the eighth and got the loss, allowing a walk-off home run to Yale's Trygg Larsson-Danforth with one out. In game two, Tony Bertucci worked five innings in the start, allowing two runs, only one of them earned. Brodsky worked a pair of innings and took the loss, allowing five runs on three hits and two walks. Rick Marks worked a one-hit eighth.

Cornell drew first blood in game one, with Brodsky getting a two-out single and scoring on Hager's triple to right-center. Groth's home run in the second made the score 2-0 in favor of the Big Red, but Yale began its comeback in the fourth. A pair of singles and a hit batter loaded the bases, and Andrew Moore drove in a pair with a single to right-center. A balk then pushed the go-ahead run across, but Pappel settled down and got a pair of strikeouts to escape the jam without further damage.

Brenton Peters scored the tying run in the fifth, hitting a one-out double down the line in right, then moving to third on a passed ball. He then scored on Billigen's groundout to short, knotting the score at three. Cornell nearly scored the go-ahead run in the sixth, as Brodsky and Hager reached third and second, respectively, with one out, but a bunt double play got Brodsky thrown out at home, and Nate David's groundout to short ended the rally with Hager stuck on second.

In the eighth, Cornell had another shot to take the lead, as Brodsky reached second on a one-out ground rule double, but a strikeout by Hager and a pop-out by Brandon Lee ended the rally, setting up Larsson-Danforth's heroics in the bottom half of the eighth.

Game two started out in much the same way, with Cornell scoring once in each of the first two innings to take the early 2-0 lead. In the first, Brodsky singled to left and scored on Hager's double to deep center, and in the second, it was Conor McCabe reaching on a fielder's choice, advancing to second on an error, moving to third on Langseth's bunt single to second and scoring on a sacrifice fly by Billigen.

The score would remain 2-0 in favor of Cornell until the fifth when Yale scored twice to tie the game. A one-out single, a throwing error and a walk put runners on first and third with two outs, and Larsson-Danforth singled home the first run. Ryan Brenner then reached on a dropped fly ball by Marshall Yanzick, allowing Matt Schmitt to score the tying run.

Billigen then regained the lead for Cornell with his inside-the-park home run in the sixth, and Brodsky came on in the bottom half of the sixth in relief of Bertucci. After retiring the first two batters, he walked and hit a batter, putting two men on, and Gant Elmore doubled home both runs down the right field line as Yale took a 4-3 lead. The Bulldogs then expanded the lead in the seventh, as a walk and two singles loaded the bases. Then, a pair of wild pitches allowed two runners to score, and a third came home on Moore's sacrifice fly to right, making the score 7-3 in favor of the Bulldogs.

Cornell rallied in the ninth to draw closer. Peters hit a pinch-hit single to right, and Brodsky moved him to second with his own single through the right side. Hager then doubled down the line in left, scoring Peters and moving Brodsky to third. A pinch-hit sacrifice fly by Jadd Schmeltzer scored Brodsky and moved Hager to third, but Yale reliever Greg Lyons got out of the inning by a strikeout and a pop out.

Cornell will try to gain a split on the weekend when it travels to Providence, R.I., for a doubleheader against Brown. First pitch of game one is slated for 12 p.m.