Santiago walks, Thomas flies out, then a pitching change for IU. RHP Kade Krzysko replaces Manous, whose day is done after 1 1/3 innings pitched and 29 pitches.
Krzysko gets Bumpass to fly out to center for the final out of T7.
Haberkorn singles to left, then Mottice walks to advance Haberkorn to second. A sac-fly by McVey puts runners on the corners for Cincinnati with one out.
Wow, that was close. Gorski flies out to center, and that ball looked close to being gone. Cincinnati's center and right fielders nearly collided but the right fielder still made the catch.
I had to run after about 3 innings, but looks like a good old butt kicking. We are now 2-4 against Cincy since 2014. Small sample size, but they certainly seem to have our number.
FINAL: IU drops its home-opener to Cincinnati 8-3. Bearcats with 15 hits to Hoosiers' 5. Indiana moves to 9-3 on the season, will host Pacific for a three-game series this weekend.
I'm glad our new scoreboard wasn't ready yet and was spared from displaying our numbers. Four games out in San Diego and the long trip back and then a one day turnaround, but still........We have some key midweek games down the road and we are certainly going to need better pitching from our midweek staff.