Dartmouth sophomore pitcher Kyle Hendricks threw a complete-game shutout and allowed only two Crimson hits to earn his fourth win of the season for the Big Green. Hendricks, who was drafted by the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim while playing in high school, struck out four Harvard batters and faced only one more than the minimum while ending the Crimson’s division title hopes.

“[Hendricks] shut us down pretty good,” Albright said. “We weren’t able to make good, solid contact with him.”

Dartmouth started the scoring early and kept it up throughout the game, as the Big Green put runs on the board in every inning but the first.

The offensive onslaught commenced with Brooks’ three-run home run, his fifth of the season and one of his three hits in the game. He followed it up with an RBI double in the third and a triple that scored two more in the fifth to finish with six RBI. The junior was only a single short of the cycle.

Zailskas pitched a perfect first inning for Harvard, striking out two of the first three Dartmouth batters he faced, before he ran into trouble in the second. The senior pitcher took the loss—his first of the season—after surrendering four runs in three innings of work.

—Staff writer Evan J. Zepfel can be reached at ezepfel@fas.harvard.edu.