Huskies Drop Game Two Against Rutgers On Saturday

Saturday, March 29

Piscataway, NJ

1:00 PM

University of Washington

12-15, 5-3

Rutgers

12-15, 3-5

Washington

Rutgers

March 29, 2025 | Baseball

Box Score

By: UW Athletic Communications

PISCATAWAY, N.J. – Washington fell to Rutgers in the second game of the series, 4-13.

The Huskies fall to 12-16 and 5-3 in the Big Ten while Rutgers improves to 12-15 and 3-5 in conference play.

Rutgers got on the board first, putting up two runs in the first inning and adding a third in the second.

Sam DeCarlo opened the scoring for Washington in the third, launching his fourth home run of the season. The solo shot cut into the Scarlet Knights' lead as the Huskies trailed 3-1 at the end of the third.

Rutgers added four runs in the fifth and three more in the sixth, however. The Huskies fought back with three runs in the seventh, but ultimately couldn't complete the comeback.

Braeden Terry led all Husky hitters, going three-for-three on the day. AJ Guerrero also had a multi-hit day, recording a single and an RBI double in the seventh inning. Casen Taggart also recorded an RBI single in the seventh and Blake Wilson added a sacrifice fly for the fourth RBI on the day.

Jackson Thomas pitched 5.0 innings as the starter, allowing eight hits and seven runs in his outing. Sawyer Parkin took over for the sixth while Charlie Denomme took the seventh and one third of the eighth. Peysen Sweeney then closed out the final two outs in the eight inning.

Washington returns to action on Sunday with a chance to claim its third-straight Big Ten series win. First pitch is set for 9:00 a.m. PT and the game will be broadcast on Big Ten Network.

DAWG BITES

Sam DeCarlo hit his fourth homer of the season on Saturday, the second-most on the team
Max Banks tossed 6.0 innings of one-hit ball on Friday night, the least hits he's allowed in a game in his Washington career
Banks and Yeager combined to allow only two hits in the series-opener against Rutgers, tying Washington's least hits allowed in a game this season (vs. PLU 3/19)
12 Huskies have produced 56 multiple hit games (Kole - 8, DeCarlo - 7, Guerrero - 7, Bower - 6, Taggart - 5, Wilson - 5, Terry - 5, Knight - 4, Whitton - 3, Sanders - 2, Hotchkiss - 2, Henning - 2)
12 Huskies have generated 33 multi-RBI games, with Trevor Kole leading the way with six (Kole – 6, Taggart – 5, Guerrero – 4, Knight – 4, Wilson - 3 Hotchkiss - 2, Terry - 2, Bower - 2, Whitton - 2, Blanchard - 1, Sanders - 1, DeCarlo - 1)
Guerrero's home run against Texas Tech moved him into a tie for fourth in the Husky home run record book with 36 career home runs (T-1. 42, Kyle Conley, 2006-09; T-1. 42, Ed Erickson, 1997-00; 3. 41, Zach Clem, 2003-06; 4. 36, Will Simpson, 2020-23)
The Huskies have turned 21 double plays this season, ranking 16th in the NCAA
53 of Washington's 138 RBIs have come from new transfer players (Trevor Kole – 18, Casen Taggart – 17, Malakhi Knight – 14, Julian Sanders – 8, Carson Crawford- 1)
19 Huskies have made their program debuts (Banks, Brandenburg, Bronzini, Bujacich, Crawford, Curran, Denomme, Gilbert, Henning, Hotchkiss, Knight, Kole, Nichols, O'Neal, Sanders, Taggart, Thomas, Tims, W. Woodward)