The Muhlenberg baseball team ran into a buzzsaw in Johns Hopkins and dropped a pair of games in Baltimore.

The Blue Jays (32-3, 13-1) who are ranked second in one Division III poll and fourth in the other, clubbed nine home runs in the doubleheader. They also held the Mule offense in check, winning 15-1 in the first game and 17-5 in the second.

Muhlenberg's only run of the first game came in the fifth, when junior Jack Kent legged out his fourth triple of the season and scored on a groundout. That made the score 4-1, but Hopkins broke the game open with seven runs in the bottom of the inning. 

Sophomore Pete Tronosky (pictured above) closed out the game for the Mules (13-21-1, 6-8) by pitching three hitless innings in relief, striking out two batters.

Muhlenberg was shut out on only three hits in the first seven innings of the nightcap before plating five runs in the eighth. The first came in on a bases-loaded walk to sophomore James Hopke. Freshman JJ Foti followed with an RBI single, and sophomore Brendan Hughes cleared the bases with a double down the right-field line.

Hughes also made an incredible catch in the first inning of the second game, flopping over the fence to catch a foul pop.

Sophomore Jake Braet doubled in the first game and nearly hit his first career home run in the nightcap, only to be robbed at the wall by the Hopkins centerfielder.