WVU Baseball Dominates Backyard Brawl with 11-1 Win Over Pitt

WVU Baseball stretched their winning streak to four games on Wednesday, April 2, punishing the rival Pittsburgh Panthers with an 11-1 run rule victory in the Backyard Brawl at Kendrick Family Ballpark.

As they have for much of the season, the Mountaineers (24-4, 4-3 Big 12) didn’t need much power in order to put up lofty offensive numbers. Jace Rinehart’s fourth inning ground rule double was their lone extra base hit to plate a run, and one of just three in all on the day.

West Virginia took a 5-0 lead in the second, their rally beginning with an RBI single from Gavin Kelly. The Mountaineers then walked in two runs with the bases loaded, and a Logan Sauve single scraped another pair of baserunners across.

Pitt got a run back in the fourth, loading the bases with one out before Benjamin Hudson — who pitched five innings in relief, striking out four batters — forced a double play to escape the jam. Kelly singled home two more runs to make it 8-1 following Rinehart’s double.

Grant Hussey led off the seventh with a triple, but the Mountaineers’ offense couldn’t manage any more than an RBI single from Armani Guzman. Hussey then tacked on a sacrifice fly in the eighth to make it 11-1 and trigger the run rule.

Grant Hussey triple 💨 pic.twitter.com/EbH35Wa0IW

— WVU Baseball (@WVUBaseball) April 3, 2025

Up next, WVU Baseball will host Utah for a three game homestand beginning at 6:30 p.m. on Friday, April 4.