San Jose State 3, Stanford 2
STANFORD, Calif. – (SJSU Media Relations) Michael Gerlach’s eighth-inning, two-out RBI single Tuesday allowed San Jose State to defeat No. 10 Stanford for the first time since 2007, as the Spartans won their seventh straight road game with a 3-2 win over the Cardinal at Sunken Diamond.
Two consecutive four-pitch walks with one out started the Spartans’ rally in the eighth. San Jose State (18-14) tried a double steal but had the lead runner thrown out, leaving Matt Lopez at second with two down. That’s when Gerlach sent a 2-0 pitch into center field, scoring Lopez and giving the Spartans the lead for good.
“I was just looking for a pitch to hit. He finally offered one and I took a good hack at it,” said Gerlach. “It was basically just ‘see ball, hit ball,’ in that situation, don’t try to do too much. Just stay through it and get on top.”
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Sacramento State 8, UC Davis 5
DAVIS, Calif. – (Sacramento State Media Relations) The Sacramento State baseball team rallied from an early deficit to defeat rival UC Davis, 8-5, on Tuesday afternoon at Dobbins Stadium to sweep the season series with the Aggies.
The win gave Sacramento State a two-game sweep of UC Davis this season and gave the Hornets another 2.5 points in the Causeway Cup standings. After being down 35-5 following football’s loss on Nov. 19, the Hornets have outscored the Aggies 35-10 and are now down just five points at 45-40 with three sports left to meet. The Causeway Cup still has 15 left to be decided with men’s golf on April 17 (five points) plus men’s and women’s track and field (10 combined points) on April 27. Since the 2004-05 season, the Causeway Cup awards 100 total points based on meetings between the two schools’ 17 common sports.
The Hornets (20-18) tallied eight runs on 13 hits with one error while the Aggies (13-19) scored five runs on eight hits with three errors, which led to three unearned runs for Sacramento State.
Sacramento State was down 4-1 entering the fourth inning when freshman Rhys Hoskins led off the frame with a double and scored two batters later on the Aggies’ first error of the game. Freshman Scotty Burcham hit an RBI ground out to plate another run in the fourth.
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Nevada 10, San Francisco 5
RENO, Nev. – (Nevada Media Relations) University of Nevada (20-16) head baseball coach Gary Powers won his 900th game as the Wolf Pack defeated San Francisco (16-24) 10-5 today at Peccole Park. Powers is in his 30th year at Nevada and all 900 wins have come directing the program.
Trailing 4-3 heading to the bottom of the sixth inning Nevada exploded for seven runs to take the lead for good 10-4. Right fielder Brooks Klein’s seventh home run of the season was grand slam that closed out the scoring for the Pack in the big inning.
Elliott Van Gaver (1-0), the fifth Pack pitcher of the game, earned the win as he did not allow a run in his inning and a third. Joradan Haseltime (0-2) suffered the loss giving up four runs in his time on the mound.
Kewby Meyer (3-for-4,2R,RBI) led the Pack with three hits that included a pair of triples. Jay Anderson (2-for-3,R,RBI) collected two hits, scored a run and drove in one. Klein had four RBI coming on his grand slam in the sixth inning.
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Fresno State 5, Cal Poly 3
SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. - (Fresno State Media Relations) The Fresno State baseball team earned a thrilling 5-3 come-from-behind road victory over the Cal Poly Mustangs on Tuesday night for head coach Mike Batesole's 600th career win.
After Cal Poly took a 1-0 lead in the bottom of the third, Fresno State catcher Austin Wynns opened the fourth by poking a single down the right field line and later scored on Jordan Luplow's RBI single to tie the game at 1-1.
The Mustangs added a run in both the fourth and fifth to take a 3-1 lead until the Bulldogs scored four times in the top of the ninth.
Taylor Garrison tossed a scoreless ninth inning to close out Cal Poly (21-14) and post his seventh save of the season.
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