HUNTINGTON — Junior third baseman Tyler Ratliff blasted a solo walk-off home run to left field in the ninth inning, lifting the Marshall baseball team to a 4-3 win over the Morehead State Eagles on Tuesday at the George T. Smailes, Sr. Baseball Field at the YMCA Kennedy Center on Rt. 2 north of the Marshall campus. The Thundering Herd improves to 16-15 overall and has won four of its last five games, is 5-2 in its last seven games and Marshall is in a four-way tie for fourth in Conference USA with a 6-6 mark.
Ratliff, who is third in hitting for the Herd this season with a .