Baseball Falls to Yale 5-2 in Ivy Tournament

Baseball Falls to Yale 5-2 in Ivy Tournament

5/16/2026 7:50:00 PM | Baseball

**NEW HAVEN, Conn. –**A four-run sixth inning doomed the Brown baseball team in a 5-2 loss to Yale on Saturday afternoon in the Ivy League Tournament.

The Bears will now face Columbia on Sunday at noon in an elimination game. The winner of that game will face Yale at 4 p.m. in the championship round, but would have to win Sunday's second game, followed by a winner-take-all matchup on Monday to win the tournament title.

Senior

Dylan Reidwent 8.0 innings on the mound, allowing five earned runs on eight hits with five strikeouts. Four of the runs and four of the hits came in the sixth inning, and he threw a career-high 123 pitches. Sophomore

Matt Wilmarthworked a scoreless eighth inning with a strikeout.

Sophomore

Christian Buterahad two hits for Brown, senior

DJ Dillehayhad a hit and an RBI, and senior

Mika Petersenadded a solo homer.

Yale took a 1-0 lead in the top of the first inning on a triple that dropped in down the right field line, followed by an RBI single. The Bears answered in the bottom of the inning with

Matt Luigsleading off with a hit-by-pitch, and Dillehay driving a two-out single to right-center to tie the game.

Dillehay provides the answer in the bottom of the first!

— Brown Baseball (@BrownU_Baseball)

Tied up 1-1

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Brown stranded two runners in the second, and one more in both the third and fifth innings.

Yale took control of the game with four runs on four hits in the sixth inning, which included three straight RBI hits, the last of which was a two-run homer that made it 5-1.

Brown stranded three runners in the sixth inning, loading the bases with two walks and a single, but a strikeout thwarted the rally and ended the inning.

Brown got one run back with a two-out solo homer from Petersen in the ninth to make it 5-2.

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Team Stats

Pitching:

W: Tate Evans (7-1)

L: Reid, Dylan (4-4)

Batting:

2B: Jack Dauer 1

3B: Garrett Larsen 1

HR: Davis Hanson 1

RBI: Chris DiPrima 1 ; Jack Dauer 1 ; Colin Sloan 1 ; Davis Hanson 2

SH: Chris DiPrima 1 ; Brady Ruiz-Weiss 1

Base Running:

RUNS: Garrett Larsen 2 ; Jack Dauer 1 ; Colin Sloan 1 ; Davis Hanson 1

SB: Garrett Larsen 1

CS: Owen Turner 1

HBP: Jackson Hays 1

Brown

Batting:

HR: Petersen, Mika 1

RBI: Petersen, Mika 1 ; Dillehay, DJ 1

Base Running:

RUNS: Luigs, Matt 1 ; Petersen, Mika 1

SB: Luigs, Matt 1 ; Meusy, Logan 1

HBP: Luigs, Matt 1 ; Petersen, Mika 1 ; Meusy, Logan 1

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