Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 ITHACA, N.Y. – Sophomore Jordan Winawer hit a two-run, two-out single in the ninth inning in his first collegiate at-bat, lifting the baseball team to a 6-4 victory over Yale in the second game of a Saturday doubleheader at Yale Field. The Bulldogs won the opener, 1-0, in an extra inning.
 
It was the fourth consecutive doubleheader split for Cornell (11-11, 3-3 Ivy League). The Big Red closes out interdivision play with a noon Sunday twin bill at Brown.
 
Game 1: YALE 1, CORNELL 0 (8 innings) | Box Score
Sophomore starter Michael Byrne tossed seven shutout innings and surrendered just two hits, but it wasn't enough in the extra-inning affair.
 
Senior Tom D'Alessandro mustered the Big Red's only two hits off Yale starter Chasen Ford, who lasted six innings. Chris Moates earned the victory in relief. D'Alessandro was 2-for-4 with a stolen base.
 
Two errors allowed the first two Bulldogs batters to reach in the bottom of the eighth. A fielder's choice moved the winning run to third. After a walk re-loaded the bases, junior Eric Upton came on from the bullpen and got the second out with a swinging third strike. A two-out base hit – just the third of the game for Yale – drove in the winner. It was the Big Red's third extra-inning loss in just the last eight days.
 
Game 2: CORNELL 6, YALE 4 | Box Score
Senior Chris Cruz hit a two-run home run in the Big Red's three-run first inning. It was his fourth homer of the season and the program-record 23rd of his collegiate career – two ahead of Gary Kaczor '80 and current head coach Bill Walkenbach '98.
Cruz's blast also scored junior Ryan Karl after Karl's RBI single earlier in the frame plated junior JD Whetsel.
 
Staked with the three-run lead, junior Nick Busto worked seven-plus innings in his first Ivy start of the season. Yale cut its deficit to one run in the second inning, but Busto stranded the potential tying run in scoring position. The Bulldogs then had runners at the corners with no out in the fourth before Busto fanned the next three batters to end the threat.
 
Winawer scored the Big Red's fourth run in the top of the eighth after entering the game as pinch-runner on second base after senior Ryan Plantier and Cruz were hit by pitches. Junior Kevin Tatum stroked a single to right field, driving in Winawer to give the visitors a two-run cushion.
 
But Yale tied the game with two runs in the bottom of the eighth, setting the stage for a dramatic ninth inning. Junior Spencer Scorza led off as a pinch hitter, hitting a double before exiting the game in favor of pinch runner Ben Swinford. A groundout moved Swinford to third. Whetsel was a hit by a pitch before the Bulldogs got the second out of the inning. Karl was then intentionally walked to load the bases. Winawer, who stayed in the game after his pinch-running appearance an inning earlier, came through with a base hit to center, scoring both Swinford and Whetsel.
 
Yale (10-13, 3-3 Ivy) got the tying run on base in the ninth, but junior Kellen Urbon ended the game by getting the final out with a strikeout. Urbon earned the victory, his first of the season.