The Bulldogs remained hot at the plate during the early stages of Saturday's game and Yale starter Kumar Nambiar was solid again.

However, it was the late innings proved to be the difference in an 8-5 win for Richmond. 

A day after scoring 11 runs, Yale (3-10) scored a run in the top of the first on a Griffin Dey sac fly to score Tim DeGraw.  The Bulldogs added three more in the third. on a Simon Whiteman RBI single and Alex Boos two-run double.  

Whiteman singled home DeGraw, while Boos scored Whiteman and Dey.  DeGraw has a four-game hit streak and has scored six runs over the last three games.

The Bulldogs led 4-1 after three.

In the sixth, Yale added to its lead on a Harry Hegeman run-scoring single to score Alex Stiegler to give the Bulldogs a 5-1 edge.

Nambiar, who won his first two decisions in 2018, pitched the first six innings and allow three runs (one earned).  He struck out eight and walked one.  

In 26 innings this season, Nambiar has struck out 28 and walked only four. 

The Spiders scored two unearned in the sixth and five in the eighth to overcome the Bulldogs in a come-from-behind victory. 

Mason Kukowski pitched a scoreless seventh before Richmond did its damage at the plate in the eighth.  The Spiders (10-8) scored five runs off of Tyler Sapsford and Griffin Dey.  

The Bulldogs close out the Spider Invitational tomorrow against Lehigh at 10 a.m.

Report filed by Ernie Bertothy, Yale Sports Publicity