Spider Baseball Rally Falls Short Against Saint Louis

Saturday, April 26

Richmond, VA

11 AM

University of Richmond

26-15, 7-13

Saint Louis

25-17, 13-7

Saint Louis

Richmond

Spider Baseball high fives a teammate coming off the field

Spider Baseball Rally Falls Short Against Saint Louis

04/26/2025 | Baseball

Box Score

RICHMOND, Va. – Richmond Baseball had three home runs in Saturday's Atlantic 10 Conference contest against Saint Louis, but the Spiders fell 6-4 to the Billikens at Pitt Field.

Richmond, 26-15 on the year and 7-13 in league action, and Saint Louis, 25-17 on the season and 13-7 in conference play, will close out the series Sunday at 11 a.m. at Pitt Field.

Spiders scored first when Jordan Jaffe hit a solo home run in the first inning. Brady O'Brien followed two batters later with an RBI double to left center to put the Spiders up 2-0.

Esteban Rodriguez tossed two scoreless frames against the Billiken offense, working around one hit while getting a strikeout to end the second. SLU started to chip away at the Spiders lead in the third with a solo home run and added a two-run home run in the top of the fourth for a 3-2 lead. Rodriguez (2-3) allowed four runs on seven hits, two hit batter and a walk while striking out four.

First out of the pen for Richmond, Sam Young got the final out of the sixth after allowing a hit. Jason Shockley faced four batters in the seventh, allowing one run on two hits and a walk and getting a strikeout before Brian Reinke got a strikeout and a ground out to end the frame. Reinke allowed one run in the eight on two hits and picked up a second strikeout.

O'Brien launched the first of his two home runs to left field in the seventh to make it 5-3. He put out his team-leading 15^th of the year in the ninth inning to right field.