Day and night. Yin and yang. Hope and despair. All of these terms roughly approximate the consistency that has been shown by the Ohio State baseball team on a game-to-game basis in 2017. A day after beating Purdue by 11 runs, the Buckeyes suffered a thorough loss of their own on Saturday evening, 6-1, at Bill Davis Stadium in Columbus.
In a near-perfect reversal of game one of the series, Purdue scored early and often, building a big lead that would ultimately stand up. The Boilers got a run in the first, three in the second, and one more in both the third and fourth in knotting the series at a game apiece.