Box Score

BALTIMORE – Brian Linn hit a walk-off two-run home run and Centennial Conference-leading Johns Hopkins University rallied for a 6-4 win over Gettysburg Thursday afternoon.
 
It was the second game in a row that the two teams engaged in a down-to-the-wire affair, as Tuesday's contest at Gettysburg resulted in a 7-7 tie that was called due to darkness after 12 innings.
                               
The Bullets (21-12-1, 7-4-1 CC), who were one out away from a victory, entered the day trailing the Blue Jays (22-9-2, 9-2-1 CC) by just one game for first place in the conference standings. Gettysburg now finds itself in third place, trailing Hopkins by two games.
 
Junior Eric Brown (Marriottsville, Md./Marriotts Ridge) threw seven strong innings in a no-decision for the Bullets, scattering three runs on five hits while tying a season-high with six strikeouts. Senior Andy Kelley (Newtown, Conn./Newtown) went 2-for-3 with a home run to lead Gettysburg at the plate.
 
Mitch Weaver finished 3-for-4 for the Blue Jays, who are undefeated over their last 11 games.
 
The Bullets led for the entire game before Hopkins rallied with a three-run ninth. With junior Rich Power (Toms River, N.J./Monsignor Donovan) on the mound for his second inning of relief, Weaver led off with a single before Power induced a pair of groundouts. However, Zach Jaffe tied the game with an RBI-single to center before Lin – Hopkins' No. 9 hitter – followed up with his game-winning blast – a line drive over the leftfield wall.
 
Gettysburg got on the scoreboard in the second inning versus lefty starter Nick Burns. Junior Connor Tom (Reinholds, Pa./Conrad Weiser) led off with a double and was bunted to third by Kelley before scoring on a groundout by Moffitt.
 
The Bullets made it a 3-0 game in the fourth, when senior Henry Klimowicz (Allenhurst, N.J./Christian Brothers Academy) led off with a walk before Kelley launched an opposite-field, two-run homer to right – the second long ball of his career.
 
Hopkins broke up Brown's shutout in the fourth with a two-run homer from Daniel Albert. However, Brown would blank the Jays in the fifth and sixth.
 
Gettysburg nudged its lead to 4-2 in the sixth on a Tom walk, Kelley single, and another Moffitt RBI-groundout.
 
Weaver led off the seventh with a solo shot for Hopkins to make it a one-run game, but Brown went on to retire the side, striking out two of the final three batters he faced.
 
Power (6-3) came on in the eighth and worked out of a jam, getting an inning-ending popout after a pair of singles put runners on the corners.
 
Four pitchers combined for an eight-hitter for the Blue Jays, with Wyatt Lam (2-0) earning the win after tossing a pair of shutout innings.
 
Gettysburg continues its season on Saturday, when it hosts Muhlenberg College at 12:30 p.m. in a Centennial Conference doubleheader on Senior Day and Project ALS Day.