DURHAM — Duke’s Kaden Smith hit a 3-run homer to left off Charlie Hoagland (0-1) in the bottom of the ninth inning to give the Blue Devils a 9-8 win over East Carolina on Tuesday.

A 2-run homer by Grady Lanahan had given the Pirates (15-10-1) an 8-4 lead in the seventh.

“We didn’t do enough offensively and we didn’t throw enough strikes,” said ECU coach Cliff Godwin on the Pirate radio network.

ECU left 13 runners on base compared to five for Duke (17-10). Four Pirate pitchers issued six walks and hit two batters.

Brooks Perez walked to start the bottom of the ninth and went to second on a wild pitch. Tyler Albright singled to center to put runners at first and third.

Hoagland got a strikeout before Smith connected on the next pitch.

The Pirates tied the score at 1-1 in the third when Lanahan came home on a grounder to short by Carlos Jacome. The Blue Devils had taken the initial lead on an RBI single by Collin Anderson in the first.

R.J. Hamilton had a 2-run homer for a 3-1 Duke lead in the third.

The Pirates went up, 4-3, in the fourth on Jack Herring’s 3-run double. Nick Parham’s RBI ground out in the fifth extended the lead to 5-3.

Coltin Quagliano singled to score a run for Duke in the sixth.

A ground out by Braden Burress brought in a run before Lanahan’s homer in the seventh. The Devils scored a pair of runs on a triple by Matthew Strand in the seventh to draw within 8-6.

Caleb Anderson (1-0) pitched the last two and one-third innings for the win. He allowed one hit and no runs with no walks and four strikeouts.

The Pirates start a 3-game American Conference series at Texas-San Antonio on Friday at 7 p.m. (ESPN+).