Eagles Upset No. 24 Miami in Extra Innings

Friday, March 6

Coral Gables, FL

7:00 PM

Boston College

8-5, 1-0

Miami

11-3, 0-1

Boston College

Miami FL

Eagles Upset No. 24 Miami in Extra Innings

March 07, 2026 | Baseball

Box Score

MIAMI - Boston College Baseball (8-5, 1-0 ACC) defeated Miami (11-3, 0-1 ACC) on Friday night, 8-7, to open up ACC play.

A.J. Colarusso started for the Eagles and went three innings with two strikeouts, while giving up five earned runs. He was replaced by Cesar Gonzalez, who went another three while matching his career high in strikeouts with six. Chase Hartsell and John Kwiatkowski combined to get Boston College to the ninth inning, and that is when Sean Hard took over. Hard pitching three innings of scoreless ball, only allowing one hit while striking out two.

The Hurricanes got the scoring started right away when a single to left brought in two runs, making it 2-0 after one inning.

Miami would make it 5-0 after two when they launched a three-run homer to deep center field.

The Eagles cut into the deficit at the top of the third inning when Ty Mainolfi launched a double down the left field line, which helped bring in Owen DeShazo from second to make it 5-1 in favor of the Hurricanes. The next at-bat, then, saw Nick Wang launch his fourth home run of the season to cut the deficit to 5-4.

Miami would push the lead back to two in the bottom of the third, when a single to right field brought in a run.

The game settled down after that as both pitchers settled into the game until the bottom of the seventh when the Hurricanes drove a single to center to bring a runner in from second.

The Eagles returned the deficit to two runs when Wang hit a sacrifice fly to left field, which allowed Julio Solier to score from third.

Boston College got two more runs in the top of the ninth when the Eagles put runners on first and second before Luke Gallo drove in a run on a single to right field. Kyle Wolff then hit a sacrifice fly to right field, which tied the game up at seven.

In the bottom of the ninth inning, Hard retired the first two batters he faced before allowing a single. He then struck out the final batter to force extra innings.

In the tenth, the Eagles went quickly, and after Hard walked, his first batter was aided by a double play from Gallo to help him out of the inning.

In the top of the 11th, Boston College loaded the bases and was able to get a run across the plate when Esteban Garcia took him on a dropped third strike to Solier that made its way to the backstop.

In the bottom of the 11th, following a walk to start the inning, Hard retired the side to seal the win for the Eagles.

Up Next: The Eagles will return to action tomorrow night in Miami for game two of their series with the Hurricanes, beginning at 6:00 p.m. on ACC Network Extra.