Tulane baseball scored eight runs on 13 hits, but it was not enough as Purdue evened up the weekend series with a 12-8 win Saturday at Greer Field at Turchin Stadium.
The Green Wave (7-8) and Boilermakers (9-3) will play a rubber match at 1 p.m. Sunday.
In a rain shower to start the game, each team scored two runs in the first inning. The Boilermakers then scored three runs in the second, one in the third and five in the sixth to move ahead, 11-2. The Green Wave countered with four runs in the bottom of the sixth and one in the seventh to cut it to 11-7, and each team added a run in the ninth.