Iowa walks off against Ohio State for second straight Big Ten tournament

OMAHA, Neb. – Mason McCoy's bases-loaded single in the bottom of the 10th capped an Iowa rally and sent the Hawkeyes to Saturday's Big Ten baseball tournament semifinals with a 5-4 victory Friday at TD Ameritrade Park.

It's the second straight postseason the Hawkeyes scored a walk-off win against the Buckeyes after Nick Day's 9th-inning homer in last year's first round.

'My first walk-off ever,' McCoy said on BTN. 'It's an incredible feeling.'

No. 8 seed Iowa scored four runs in the bottom of the ninth to tie it, with senior Devin Pickett's first career RBI scoring Austin Guzzo from second to send it to extras.

McCoy hit the fourth straight single to begin the inning, scoring Tyler Peyton. Nick Roscetti scored when Daniel Aaron Moriel grounded into a double play, but the Hawkeyes continued the rally with two outs.

Guzzo's RBI single scored Joel Booker, pinch-hitter Jimmy Frankos was hit by a pitch, then Pickett, a .175 hitter this season, delivered before Robert Neustrom struck out.

One word: AMAZING. May 27, 2016

One word: AMAZING. @UIBaseball's Devin Pickett gets his first RBI of the year, tying the game after trailing 4-0! https://t.co/uDnkXNnFCg

— Big Ten Network (@BigTenNetwork)

'It says a lot about this team. They just don't give up,' Rick Heller, who won his 100th game as Iowa coach, said on BTN after the game. 'They kept finding a way.'

'The guys took a big, deep breath and the ball just started to fall for us.'

Ohio State got two runners on in the top of the 10th but couldn't come up with a clutch hit.

It was just the fourth-seeded Buckeyes' second loss in their last 10 games. OSU and Michigan play in an elimination game at 9 p.m. Friday.

Iowa will play Maryland at 9 a.m. Saturday, with a win there sending it to Sunday's championship. A loss would mean a second semifinal game against the Terrapins later Saturday.