It was a classic Big Ten baseball series with one blunder.

There were home runs, records set, players thrown out at the plate, coaches ejected, squeeze bunts with two strikes, pitchers winning the game following an emergency surgery -- and when all dust settled the two teams had split the series.

Penn State baseball team (16-21, 10-10 Big Ten) won the game on Friday, 6-5, and the finale yesterday, 6-4, against Michigan (21-18, 9-9) at Ray Fisher Stadium in Ann Arbor, Mi.

The Wolverines won both games of the doubleheader, 4-2 in the first game and 6-5 in the second game. The Lions should have won the second game if it wasn't for two calls, Penn State coach Joe Hindelang said.

In the sixth inning Zack Smithlin singled and then stole second base -- the 57th of his career, tying him with Michael Campo -- then tried to score on Derrick Barr's bunt single, but was called out at the plate. Wes Reohr, who went 11-for-21 over the weekend including 3-for-5 with four RBIs yesterday, ripped a double into the right center field gap, and pinch runner Brett Showalter stopped at third base. Clint Eury popped out to center field and for the second time in the inning, a Penn State runner was thrown out at the plate. And for the second time in the inning Hindelang argued with home plate umpire -- it was the last time -- Hindelang was ejected from the game.

"I haven't been so upset in three years," Hindelang said. "It was a horrible and terrible call. It was the third one of the day." Hindelang said that a Michigan official had quality videotape showing clearly that the both Smithlin and Showalter were safe at the plate.

Smithlin said that he didn't feel the tag before crossing the plate, and that Penn State had tape to prove it.

The problem compounded for Penn State in the bottom of the inning with a pinch hit single and home run by leadoff hitter Gino Lollio, giving Michigan a 6-5 lead, which it wouldn't relinquish.

Even with the controversy surrounding the second in the first game, the Nittany Lions trailed 2-0 in the first game on Saturday, but tied the game in fifth inning, on a RBI single by Clint Eury. The Wolverines responded in the bottom of the inning with back-to-back home runs by Brock Koman and Jake Fox, off starter Josh Palm. With a tied game on Friday, Penn State's Mike DeRenzo suicide squeezed in the game-winning run with a one out in the top of the ninth. With a one and two count, Hindelang put on the squeeze call, and was confident that DeRenzo could get the job done.

"If it works you're the hero," Hindelang said. "When it doesn't work then you're the goat. But it worked."

Hindelang said he never would have called it, until five years ago when someone did it to him, to win a game.

Hindelang's decision paid off on Friday.