It is the week of the year in which my attention is fixated on the eternal struggle between good and evil, and so here is a scoresheet of one battle in that war. This 2005 game was in the first round of the Big Ten Tournament. The Buckeyes scored two runs in the second, but a ninth inning run by UM tied the game. In the twelfth, OSU regained the lead on Matt Angle’s two-out single, but back-to-back Wolverine doubles tied the game, and Angle’s error made it a runner at third and one out. After Ohio walked the bases loaded, Rory Meister coaxed a 323 double play and the threat was averted.
In the thirteenth, Jason Zoeller drove home Jacob Howell with a double and Paul Farinacci cracked a three-run homer to make it 7-3. Rory Meister struck out the side in the bottom of the frame (albeit while allowing two singles), and the Bucks were staying in the winner’s bracket. They would go on to defeat Minnesota for the Big Ten Tournament championship, thanks in large part to this defeat of the evil maize-clad hordes.
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