Box Score

GETTYSBURG, Pa. – Senior Ryan Taylor (Eldersburg, Md./Loyola Blakefield) broke the school record for career innings pitched, but the Gettysburg College baseball team lost 6-1 to Franklin & Marshall College in a Centennial Conference match-up Friday afternoon at Kirchhoff Field.

Taylor worked eight innings and with his second out in the seventh, he passed Marc Favieri '90 for the all-time mark. Taylor has now thrown 252 1/3 innings for his career.

Junior Al Posch (Hopedale, Mass./Hopedale) finished 3-for-5 at the plate for the Bullets (15-8, 2-2 CC) while senior Pat Cody (Chesapeake, Va./Great Bridge) went 2-for-4 and broke into the school's all-time top-10 list for career hits. He is now 10th with 147 hits, and he also extended his hitting streak to 11 games. Junior Nate Simon (Gwynedd Valley, Pa./Abington Friends School) singled to push his hitting streak to 10.

Paul Giulio earned the win on the mound for F&M (12-10, 3-1 CC), tossing seven innings while allowing one run on five hits and four walks. Pat Andrews went 2-for-3 with a pair of runs as the Diplomats swept the season series.

Franklin & Marshall took a 2-0 lead in the second, when Rob Anderson delivered a one-out sacrifice fly before a second run scored on an error. F&M made it 4-0 in the fourth thanks to a two-run single from Alex Vescera.

Gettysburg put runners on base in each of the first four innings against Giulio (1-2), but stranded all six. The Bullets broke through in the fourth, when junior Austin Davis (New York, N.Y./Riverdale Country School) led off with a walk before coming around to score on back-to-back singles from Posch and Cody to make it 4-1. But Giulio escaped with an inning-ending double play.

Taylor settled in during the middle innings and retired 12 of 13 batters at one stretch. But with two outs in the eighth, the Dips loaded the bases on a pair of singles and a walk before Aaron Gillette stroked a two-run double into right-center.

Andrew Green worked a scoreless eighth for the Diplomats, working out of a two-out, bases-loaded jam, before the Bullets threatened in the bottom of the ninth against Gareth Farcher. Gettysburg loaded the bases with no outs following singles from sophomore Cory Karagjozi (Robbinsville, N.J./Robbinsville), Posch, and Cody, but Farcher was able to pick up the final three outs without allowing a run.

Taylor (3-2) yielded six runs (five earned) on nine hits and four walks while striking out six. Junior Chris Yoda (Wall, N.J./Wall) came on to fire a three-up, three-down ninth.

Gettysburg returns to Centennial Conference action on Saturday, when it travels to Swarthmore College for a doubleheader starting at 12:30 p.m.