Indiana has some fight in middle innings, but Purdue bats too much for Hoosier pitching
By Carl James @jovian34 May 10th, 2026
Indiana Hoosiers 8, Purdue Boilermakers 11
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After beating up on the Hoosier’s key bullpen arms this weekend, Purdue’s hitters exploded Sunday against the less consistent Indiana arms. IU’s hitters made it interesting scoring 8 runs on the Purdue bullpen between the 4th and 8th innings, but it wasn’t enough.
Conner Linn has been a different pitcher when pitching on the weekend. He has three huge successful starts at Vanderbilt, at Louisville, and at Indiana State in midweeks, but has been lit up in B1G play. Today on full rest, the hope was he may turn to that midweek form. That was not the case. Linn was hammered for 5 runs on 8 hits and had to be lifted with two outs in the third inning.
Indiana did the bulk of its damage in the 6th inning scoring five runs with a two-run homer by right fielder Owen ten Oever and then a three-run homer by second baseman Landen Fry. Fry and shortstop Cooper Malamazian each had two hit days. This gave the Hoosiers a very short lived 1-run lead before Kaden Jacobi and Michael Sarhatt combined for 4 runs given up.
Indiana is now mathematically eliminated from qualification for the B1G Tournament. Indiana had the active record for most conference tourney appearances and that is now snapped. This in turn guarantees at 21-30 that Indiana will end with a losing season, the first since 2022 and the second in head coach Jeff Mercer’s 8 season’s in Bloomington. Indiana has three more games, all against Illinois at Bart Kaufman Field. Thursday and Friday will be at 6pm, and Saturday at 2pm. Indiana seniors will be honored before the Friday game.