The No. 12 Florida State Seminoles faced off against St. John’s in the first game of the Tallahassee Regional after a two-hour rain delay, and were defeated, 6-5.
After St. John’s didn’t get on the board in the first inning, on the first pitch for Florida State, John Stuetzer hit a homer to deep left field to give the Seminoles an early 1-0 lead.
In the bottom of the second, St. John’s would tie it up with a homer to center field by Adam Agresti. Gabe Fraiser would hit his first homer of the season for FSU in the bottom of the second to deep left field to make it a 2-1 game.
No scoring in the third, but a Brayden Dowd single to center field in the bottom of the fourth allowed Fraiser to score again, this time from second base.
In the top of the fifth, Cristian Bernardini singled to right field and Will Cowan scored for St. John’s to make it 3-2 FSU.
In the bottom of the sixth, Cal Fisher singled, and Carter McCulley scored off a fielding error to extend FSU’s lead to two. St. John’s nearly robbed Dowd of a homer later in the inning, but he was unable to make the catch, and it became a double, allowing Fisher to score and making it 5-2 FSU.
The eighth was not good for FSU. A solo homer by Dylan Fitzsimmons, Jon LeGrande scoring on a wild pitch, and Jayde Raifstanger scoring on a passed ball tied the game at 5-5.
In the top of the ninth, Raifstanger singled to center field, and Fitzsimmons scored to give St. John’s their first lead of the game and put FSU on the brink of being sent to the losers’ bracket.
Three outs later, the Seminoles now find themselves one loss away from their season ending early.
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