NEW YORK – A red-hot Columbia baseball team scored seven times in the first two innings Sunday against Yale, and the Lions went on to top the Bulldogs 16-4 for their 15th straight win.
Max Imhoff hit his first career home run and
Dylan Kim got his first career RBI for Yale.
Yale (17-14, 7-8 Ivy League) got one run back in the third after Columbia's early outburst, as a sacrifice fly by captain
Mason LaPlante plated
Alec Atkinson.
Colton Shaw came on in relief of starter
Ben Gibbs in the bottom of that inning and retired the side in order, culminating with a strikeout of Jacob Phelps.
In the bottom of the fourth the first seven batters for Columbia (22-13, 13-2 Ivy League) reached base, and the Lions went on to score six runs. They added three more in the bottom of the sixth.
Imhoff led off the seventh with a blast to left center for Yale's second run, and an RBI groundout by
Teddy Hague later in the inning scored
AJ Gaich. A flyout ended the inning with a man on second.
Kim's RBI groundout with one out in the eighth scored
Ben Metzner. That wound up being the final run of the game.
Mark Capell pitched two scoreless innings in relief for Yale.
The 15 game winning streak ties the school record for Columbia.
Yale plays at UConn Wednesday.
