NEW YORK – The Yale baseball team got four hits from Teddy Hague in a doubleheader Saturday at Columbia, as the designated hitter extended his hitting streak to five games. But the Lions rallied late for a 5-4 win in game one, then broke open a 3-0 game with four runs in the fifth en route to winning game two 11-2.
 
Hague's sac fly in the first inning of game one started a three-run outburst that also included an RBI single by Carson Swank and an RBI double by Jake Gehri. The Bulldogs responded after Columbia scratched out a run in the second, as Alec Atkinson scored on a wild pitch in the fourth to get the lead to 4-1.
 
Starter Mike Walsh almost made that lead stand up, but he got into trouble in the seventh and left after 6.1 innings having struck out five. In the seventh the Lions pieced together three RBI singles to tie the game, then went ahead 5-4 on a bases-loaded walk. 
 
Swank opened the eighth with a double but was stranded at second. A two-out single by Hague in the ninth got runners to first and second, but a groundout ended the game.
 
Columbia (21-13, 12-2 Ivy League) scored three runs in the first of game two, but Yale starter Grant Kipp settled down after that and allowed only two hits in the next three innings. The fifth inning proved costly for the Bulldogs this time around, as back-to-back two-out homeruns – a three-run shot by Weston Eberly and a solo shot by Hayden Schott – made the score 7-0. 
 
Yale (17-13, 7-7 Ivy League) got runs in the sixth (Swank drove in Hague with a single) and eighth (Ben Metzner's sacrifice fly scored Jimmy Chatfield) for the 11-2 final.
 
Hague had not played in a game until Mar. 26, but he has been on a roll since then. In nine Ivy League games, he is hitting .355 with a .421 on-base percentage and a .613 slugging percentage. 
 
The Bulldogs and Lions play the final game of the three-game set Sunday at noon.