The Gauchos Have been Held to Three Hits
After grinding out two shut wins to open a three-game slate with Fresno State, the UC Santa Barbara baseball group dropped the collection finale to the Bulldogs, 2-1, on Sunday afternoon at Caesar Uyesaka Stadium.
The Gauchos struggled mightily on the plate with solely three hits as a group and squandered a strong outing on the mound by beginning pitcher Calvin Proskey in addition to relievers Nic Peterson and Raymond Olivas.
\u201cFresno has a superb group. They did a superb job,\u201d stated UC Santa Barbara coach Andrew Cheketts. \u201cWe\u2019ve acquired some stuff to work on. We didn\u2019t do what we will do offensively the final 17 or 18 innings there.\u201d
Proskey struggled to search out the strike zone within the early innings as he walked the leadoff batter in every of his first two innings. However the UC Santa Barbara protection was up for the problem.
Catcher Ian Fernandez threw out a Fresno State base runner making an attempt to steal third base within the first inning. Within the second inning, the Gauchos turned a double play to erase the leadoff stroll and one other double play erased a one-out single by Fresno State within the prime of the third.
The Bulldogs lastly put a run on the board within the prime of the fourth inning when Bobby Blandford drove in Eddie Saldivar from third with a sacrifice fly to take a 1-0 lead. That was the lone earned run that Proskey surrendered in his 5.1 inning on the mound.
It appeared that UC Santa Barbara would take management of the sport within the backside of the fourth as a Jack Holman stroll and Nate Vargas single put runners on first and third with no outs.
Nevertheless, the following batter, Cole Kosciusko grounded right into a double play, which scored Holman to tie the sport, however erased the potential for an enormous inning.
The Bulldogs took the lead for good within the prime of the sixth inning with an unearned run. Blandford singled via to left area to convey residence Lee Trevino with two outs within the inning.
UC Santa Barbara had its possibilities to get again into the sport with Xavier Esquer reaching base on a success by pitch to steer off the underside of the sixth inning and LeTrey McCollum main off the underside of the seventh with a double to proper area. However the clutch hits to drive them in by no means got here.
Kosciusko almost tied the sport with one out within the backside of the ninth inning however his excessive fly ball was caught on the warning observe in proper area.
\u00a0With the loss the Gauchos, who’re at present ranked No. 20 or No. 21 within the nation relying on the ballot, dropped to 9-2 general this season and can hit the highway for a non-conference sport at USC on Tuesday, starting at 6 p.m.
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