Following a 9-2 loss to the Huskies on Saturday, the Hoosiers were looking for revenge on Sunday but quickly watched as the game got away from them, ballooning into a 13-4 loss.
The Hoosiers drew first blood in the bottom of the first as shortstop Cooper Malamazian delivered a two-RBI single to left-center, which gave the Hoosiers an early 2-0 lead.
After a rough first couple of innings offensively, the Huskies responded in the third, when Huskies catcher Colton Bower smashed a solo home run, which Braeden Terry followed up with an RBI triple to tie the game at 2-2.
The Hoosiers found their rhythm again in the bottom of the third, as Jake Hanely responded with a solo home run of his own, and a throwing error in the fourth allowed another Hoosier to score as Indiana reclaimed a 4-2 lead.
This was the end of the Hoosiers’ offense, however, as the Washington bats continued to heat up and stay hot. Colton Bower hit his second solo home run of the game in the fifth, and on the very next pitch, his teammate Landon Young hit his own solo shot to the same part of the ballpark, tying the game.
By the sixth inning, it was all Washington, as Bower hit his third home run of the game, a two-run shot that put the Huskies up 6-4.
Washington continued to pour on the runs in the seventh inning, as Sam DeCarlo hit a two-run triple, which extended the lead to 8-4.
The final nail in the coffin came during the ninth inning when Washington’s red-hot bats combined for 5 more runs. Bower put an exclamation point on his historic day with a two-RBI triple that could have easily been scored as his 4th home run of the day when a Hoosiers’ throwing error allowed him to reach home. By the time the top of the 9th was over, Washington had a 13-4 lead, nearly run-ruling the Hoosiers.
Bower finished the day 4-for-5 with three home runs, a triple, four runs scored, and six RBIs, tying the Washington program record for home runs in a single game.
The loss drops the Hoosiers to 6-9 on the season as they lose their first series of Big Ten Conference play. The Hoosiers will look to bounce back against Wright State on Thursday before heading out west to play a weekend series against Oregon.