Two late four-run innings turned a close game into a rout as the Muhlenberg baseball team won its second straight game, 15-8 at Lebanon Valley.

Coming on the heels of an 18-5 win at Rutgers-Newark on Sunday, it was the first time the Mules (2-1) scored at least 15 runs in back-to-back games since 2008. They had never reached the 15-run mark in back-to-back games on the road in the 106-year history of the program.

Muhlenberg trailed 4-1 after three but scored four runs in the fourth to take a 5-4 lead. After the Dutchmen (1-3) tied it in the bottom of the fifth, the Mules plated two runs in the sixth to go back ahead. 

It was 7-5 in the seventh when junior Thomas Pranzo came up with the bases loaded and two outs and broke open the game with a grand slam, his second career home run.

Muhlenberg added four more runs in the eighth, with the big hit coming off the bat of reigning Centennial Conference player of the week Marc Quarrie. The last Mule to hit a grand slam, Quarrie belted a two-run double as part of a 3-for-5 game. 

Pranzo (pictured above) added an RBI single in the eighth to cap off his five-RBI game. 

Every player in the starting lineup scored at least one run, except for senior Brendan Hughes, who went 3-for-6 with a triple and two RBI. Senior Brendan Bussiere also hit a triple and stole a base.

Sophomore Charlie Siper pitched a scoreless 1.2 innings in relief to earn the win. Sophomore Frank Kern came into a tie game in the bottom of the fifth with two on and nobody out and worked out of the jam, starting with a pickoff of the runner at second.