DURHAM –No. 10 Florida State (34-8, 13-7 ACC) got three home runs from its offense and a stellar performance from starting pitcher Carson Dorsey to beat No. 6 Duke (29-14, 13-10), 7-6 , Saturday afternoon at Jack Coombs Field. Freshman John Abraham earned his first career save with two outs in the ninth inning, entering with runners on second and third and FSU leading by a run.
Dorsey made his fourth start of the season, and FSU improved to 4-0 in those games. Dorsey allowed two runs on seven hits over 6.0 innings and struck out eight batters over 102 pitches.
FSU led 7-2 when Dorsey exited, but the Blue Devils clawed back with three runs in the eighth inning and a leadoff home run in the ninth. Duke had runners on second and third when Abraham relieved Andrew Armstrong; Abraham forced a pop-up and a hard-line drive right to second baseman Cal Fisher to secure the win.
Fisher opened the scoring with a solo home run in the third inning, his fourth of the year. Jaime Ferrer homered for the second straight game, and Marco Dinges gave FSU a 5-2 lead with a three-run homer in the fifth inning, his 11th of the year.
Cam Smith had two hits and drew two walks to extend his on-base streak to 52 games, the ninth-longest in program history.
SCORING SUMMARY:
T3 | FSU 1, Duke 0 Fisher home run (4th410 ft)
T4 | FSU 2, Duke 0 Ferrer home run (14th)
B4 | FSU 2, Duke 2 Obee home run, Stone scored
T5 | FSU 5, Duke 2 Dinges home run (11th), M. Williams and Smith scored
T6 | FSU 6, Duke 2 Lodise doubled, Fisher scored
T6 | FSU 7, Duke 2 Smith singled, Lodise scored
B8 | FSU 7, Duke 3 Obee reached on fielder’s choice, Gracia scored
B8 | FSU 7, Duke 5 Krewson singled, Bravo and Obee scored
B9 | FSU 7, Duke 6 Miller home run
OF NOTE:
- Starting pitcher Carson Dorsey picked off a runner in the first inning, his team-high fifth of the year. He has five of FSU’s nine on the season.
- Florida State improved to 4-0 in Dorsey’s starts this season, all coming in the last four weeks against ACC competition. Dorsey earned his first win as a starter.
- Freshman Cal Fisher hit his fourth home run of the season to give FSU a 1-0 lead. The Seminoles have hit a home run in 17 consecutive games, the second-longest streak in school history and one shy of the school record set in 1983. FSU has a home run in 38 of 42 games this season.
- Fisher also scored on Alex Lodise’s double, his first career game with multiple runs.
- Cam Smith went 2-for-3 with an RBI single and a double that was just inches from hitting a home run. Smith’s 52-game on-base streak is tied for the ninth-longest in FSU history (Jerrod Brown, 2002-03).
- Jaime Ferrer hit a solo home run, his second consecutive game with a home run and 14th of the season. Ferrer leads FSU with nine home runs in ACC play.
- Ferrer and Dinges lead FSU with active six-game hitting streaks. Dinges has reached safely in 15 straight games, a career-high.
- Freshman John Abraham earned his first career save; he is the seventh Seminole with a save this year.
UP NEXT:
Florida State and Duke wrap the series Sunday at 1:00 pm Neither team has announced a starting pitcher at this time.
