The UMBC Baseball team wraps-up its five-game, non-conference, homestand when it hosts Maryland on Tuesday. Due to forecasted cold temperatures the game has been moved up to 4 p.m. There will be a winter hat giveaway for fans.
Last time out, UMBC saw its seven-game winning streak end as it dropped the series finale, 4-3, to Iona in ten innings on Saturday.
UMBC had bases loaded in the second inning for Joe Lomangino who would get an RBI walk to score Danny Orr.
Anthony Mascuilli had a lead-off double in the third inning before Iona would load the bases for
Kyle Eddington. Eddington hit an RBI sacrifice fly to right field to make it 2-0.
Iona answered back in the fourth to make it 2-1 before they took the lead in the fifth, 3-2. Chris Harbert came in relief for Brady LeJeune-DeAcutis in the sixth inning and sat down all nine batters he faced with four strikeouts. Brady Fox came in the ninth inning to close and retired the side with two strikeouts.
Lomangino had a lead-off walk in the bottom of the ninth. Luke Buscaglia pinch ran and then stole second base before Dylan Melton had a bunt single which would score Buscaglia to tie the game at three. In the tenth inning, Iona scored a run to take the lead. UMBC had bases loaded at the bottom of the inning but couldn't score. Dylan Melton had three hits while Mascuilli also had a hit for the Retrievers.
Scouting Maryland:
The Terps got blanked 7-0 by Ohio State on Sunday afternoon in the final game of their weekend series. Maryland's bullpen was strong against the Buckeyes, but the Terps fell to 13-18 (2-10 Big Ten) in 2026.
Ohio State's (17-13, 7-5 Big Ten) five-run second inning proved to be the difference on Sunday. The Buckeyes loaded the bases before a walk, a two-run double, and a two-run single gave the home squad an early lead.
Brayden Martin had two of Maryland's six hits to extend his on-base streak to 61 straight games. The Terps had ample scoring opportunities — and more hits than the Buckeyes — but stranded 12 runners on base in the loss.
Maryland used five arms in the final game of the weekend series. Austin Weiss made his first career start before the Terps benefited from scoreless outings from both Andrew Koshy and Jake Yeager.
