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The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com

Wolverines lose second straight 'M'working too hard

By ISABELLAACHENBACH
Daily Sports Writers

This was supposed to be an
easy win. Instead, the Michigan
baseball team lost decisively to
Toledo, 6-2, at Ray Fisher Stadium
yesterday evening.
Start-
ing on the W. MICHIGAN 1
mound for MICHIGAN 0
the Wolver-
ines was junior right-hander Ben
Ballantine, who statistically could
be considered the best Michi-
gan pitcher this season. Between
him, senior right-hander Brandon
Sinnery and redshirt junior left-
hander Bobby Brosnahan, Ballan-
tine has the lowest ERA, 3.40. He
hasn't been tagged with a loss yet
this season, and he's struck out a
team-high 33 batters.
But lately, the Napa, Calif.
native hasn't been playing as well
as his numbers indicate.
Two weekends ago, the Wol-
verines matched up against Min-
nesota in a three-game series.
Ballantine started on the mound
on the final day of the series, but
he was taken out after a mere two
innings pitched. In those two
innings, he gave up four hits and
three runs, two of which were.
earned.
Last weekend fared similarly
for Ballantine. Once again, he
started the conclusion of the
three-game series, and once
again, he was pulled out early.
Pitted against Michigan State, he
lasted L2 innings and gave up four
hits and three earned runs.
Michigan coach Rich Malo-
ney gave him another chance in
Wednesday's game against Tole-
do, but continuing the pattern,
he was taken out after only two
innings. But this time, he pitched
nearly flawlessly, giving un iust

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Redshirt sophomore pitcher Logan McAnallen allowed no runs in five innings.

one hit and no runs.
"Ballantine did alright," Malo-
ney said. "Webelieved in him. The
first five or six games he pitched,
he had quality starts."
After two scoreless innings,
Maloney inserted redshirt senior
right-hander Kolby Wood for Bal-
lantine, and then made another
switch, putting junior right-hand-
er Kyle Clark on the mound.
Toledo (4-5 MAC, 15-18 overall)
quickly added four runs - three
off of Wood - to the scoreboard.
The Wolverines (2-4 Big Ten,
15-19 overall), responded to Tole-
do's lead with one run, scored by
freshman shortstop Dylan Del-
aney after senior third baseman
John Lorenz got a hit to left field.
But Maloney shook things up
once more and decided to pitch
redshirt sophomore left-hander
Logan McAnallen, who allowed
no runs in five innings.
"My big goal tonight was to
limit freebies: walks and hits by
pitches," McAnallen said. "I made
that a priority, and that's what I
did. In the past. that's where I've

gotten in trouble, when I just give
things away."
Freshman right fielder Zach
Zott, who has started in the past
five games, is another one of those
players who is stepping up.
"We weren't even sure if we
were going to be able to keep him
on the roster, from a numbers
standpoint," Maloney said.
"We knew he was going to
be a talent in the future, but we
thought maybe he was going to
redshirt. But he just kept getting
better and better, and we said 'No,
we've got to keep that guy.' And
he's getting his opportunity now.
I really think he's going to be a
star."
One of the team's other stars,
freshman outfielder Will Drake,
injured his ankle while running,
to first base in the bottom of the
fourth.
"I don't know the extent of it,
but he was hurt pretty bad when
he was coming off, soI have a feel-
ing he's out for awhile," Maloney
said.
The number of olavers with

injuries are stacking up. Wood has
been injured for the past two sea-
sons. Every time Maloney tries to
play him, like in yesterday's game,
he is taken out almost immedi-
ately.
"He's fighting hard to come
back, and he just hasn't been able
to yet," Maloney said. "No one
hurts more than he does. We all
root for him because he works so
hard."
Junior outfielder Michael
O'Neill has sat out the past five
games due to a thumb injury that
he sustained diving for a ball
against Central Michigan last
week. It's unclear when he will be
able to return to the plate.
"The bottom line is, we've got
to play good defense with all the
guys that are injured," Maloney
said. "We're not an offensive jug-
gernaut now. Three of our best
players are out."
Maloney subbed freshman
catcher Kevin White in for Drake
in the top of the fifth. He also used
redshirt freshman right-hander
Jay Perry and then senior right-
hander Kevin Vangheluwe on the
mound for the final inning.
Freshman infielder Mike Doll-
off got an RBI in the eighth, but
Toledo ended the game's scoring
in the ninth with a home run that
brought in two players.
It was a disappointing loss for
Michigan.
"I was predicting we would
win," McAnallen said. "It sucks
to drop these midweeks that we
need to get us in the groove going
into the weekend."
Though yesterday's loss was
unexpected, the team is gearing
up for its face-off with Penn State
this weekend.
"We don't want to lose any
games, but the reality is, it's all
about the Big Ten," Maloney said.

to fill in after injuries

By GLENN MILLER JR.
Daily Sports Writer
There are several reasons
to explain the Michigan base-
ball team's two midweek losses:
too many errors, a lack of hit-
ting, inconsistent relief pitching,
etc. Yet Wolverines' coach Rich
Maloney feels his squad's down-
fall may stem from a less obvious
problem: too much effort.
"I think everyone's trying
so hard, and that's the problem
- the other guys try to do too
much," Maloney said.
The team has suffered due to
injuries to sophomore right field-
er Michael O'Neill, junior short-
stop Derek Dennis, and freshman
left fielder Will Drake.
"And now with (them) out of
the lineup, (we) just have to relax
and let the game come to them
rather than putting that much
pressure on themselves."
O'Neill, who missed both
games this week, sustained a
bruised left hand after diving for
a ball in Sunday's loss to Michi-
gan State. The sophomore out-
fielder has been one of the only
consistent hitters for Michigan,
batting .322 with 37 hits on the
season. The Wolverines' starter at
shortstop last season, Dennis, has
missed the majority of this year
with an arm injury. Dennis' most
recent action for Michigan was in
a series against Indiana-Purdue
Fort Wayne, when he entered the
game as a pinch runner.
The injury bug took another
Wolverine during yesterdays's
matchup against Toledo, when
Drake went down with a lower-
leg injury after speeding down

the first base line. Drake, who
has undoubtedlybeen Michigan's
most impressive freshman, leads
the team with 43 hits.
The injury bug has forced the
youth of the Wolverine squad to
step up both on the mound and
at the plate. Maloney has utilized
the midweek games as an oppor-
tunity to test out Michigan's
young talent, but he believes the
increased pressure may be hurt-
ing the team.
"We're making strides, and
we're improving - we don't have
as many strikeouts as we used to
have," said redshirt sophomore
second baseman John DiLaura.
"We need to try and hit more
groundballs and more line drives,
because lazy pop ups are easy
outs at the college level.'
In Wednesday's loss to the
Rockets, Michigan's bats fell
silent without O'Neill, and even
more so after Drake's departure.
The Wolverines had nine hits in
the game but left 14 runners on
base. The team squandered sever-
al opportunities to take the lead,
but they were unable to get the
"timely hit" Maloney has stressed
all season. One such chance came
in the bottom of the eighth, when
senior catcher Coley Crank ilied
out with the bases loaded to fin-
ish the inning.
It's apparent that the losses of
O'Neill and Drake in the lineup
will hurt the Wolverines' hitting
production, but the team can't
bear the entire weight of such
injuries as they attempt to find
replacements for the sluggers.
"With all the guys who ark:
injured, we're not an offensive'
juggernaut," Maloney said.

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