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FORT MYERS, Fla. – Pitted against the defending World Series champions on Friday, the Northeastern baseball team did its best while trying to contain the Boston Red Sox, despite the pro club prevailing, 6-0, on the grounds of its spring training facility, JetBlue Park.
 
Redshirt-junior Kyle Murphy made the most of his prized start against the Red Sox, posting a scoreless first inning of work. The right-handed Murphy retired Tzu-Wei Lin, Blake Swihart and Christian Vazquez in order after 10 pitches – six of which went down as strikes.
 
John Mazza opened the second inning with a leadoff base hit for Northeastern against Mike Shawaryn – one of three singles the Huskies' bats managed to swing against the Boston pitching staff. Corey DiLoreto added the middle hit during the top of the sixth inning and stole a base while Scott Holzwasser pegged one through the left side of the infield during the top of the seventh inning.
 
David Stiehl took over for Murphy during the bottom of the second inning, bouncing back from Bobby Dalbec's leadoff home run to post three successive outs, including back-to-back, inning-ending strikeouts (Chad De La Guerra, Tate Matheny).
 
Northeastern surrendered two-run frames to Boston during both the third and fourth innings. Jagger Rusconi and Matheny came through with the key RBI, extra-base hits for the Red Sox, knocking a third-inning triple and a fourth-inning double off Tom Githens, respectively.
 
Boston tacked on a final insurance run during the bottom of the sixth inning against freshman arm Owen Langan, who made his first career live-action appearance for Northeastern.
 
Friday's game marked the 17th overall meeting between the Huskies and the Red Sox. Both sides met for the first time on April 11, 1977, at Fenway Park, and have opposed each other annually during spring training since 2004.
 
Northeastern baseball alum and 14-year MLB veteran Carlos Peña (1997-98), served as the color analyst during Boston 25's telecast of Friday's game.