A day after the Youngstown State baseball team was beaten 15-1, a pair of Phil’s helped the Penguins respond with a doubleheader sweep of Butler on Saturday afternoon and win the series.

Starting pitcher Phil Klein won his fourth straight start in game one of the double dip and led YSU to a 5-1 victory.  Phil Lipari‘s walk-off single in the ninth capped a series of late heroics in game two as YSU won 4-3.

The pair of wins improved YSU’s Horizon League record to 3-3, and Butler dropped to 4-5 with the pair of defeats.

“I’m happy for our guys because we showed a lot of character to come back and win two today after how we lost last night,” YSU head coach Rich Pasquale said.  “It was a long day mentally and physically, and for us to win in the last at bat was awesome.”

After Klein allowed one unearned run on four hits in seven innings in game one, the Penguins had to rally from a three-run deficit in game two.

In the second game, Lipari (top photo) had a game-high three hits, and four of his teammates added two hits apiece.

“Klein is putting us on his back, and we’re going with him,” Pasquale said. “He located his fastball tremendously well, and he was dominant for us again against a team that had 18 hits last night.”

Klein struck out 10 batters in his seven innings. He became the seventh player in school history to strike out at least 200 batters over a career.