Sunday, March 20
San Luis Obispo, Calif.
1:00 p.m.
California State University at Northridge
10-9, 0-3
4
at
6
Cal Poly
10-9, 3-0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
R
H
E
CSUN
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
3
4
14
1
Cal Poly
0
0
0
2
3
1
0
0
X
6
6
1
Team Stats
Pitching:
W: Sheedy, Kaden (2-2)
L: Granados, Sebastian (0-1)
Batting:
2B: Simons, Jakob 1 ; Gonzalez, Gabe 1
RBI: Gonzalez, Gabe 3 ; West, Bart 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Moody, Kai 2 ; Sojka, Andrew 1 ; Bohning, Brandon 1
SB: Simons, Jakob 1 ; West, Bart 1
HBP: Simons, Jakob 1
Batting:
2B: Stafford, Ryan 1 ; Villegas, Collin 1
RBI: Stafford, Ryan 1 ; Lee, Brooks 1 ; Villegas, Collin 1 ; Corio, Taison 1
SF: Stafford, Ryan 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Samuelson, Tate 1 ; Villegas, Collin 2 ; Lagattuta, John 2 ; Doss, Reagan 1
HBP: Yorke, Joe 1 ; Samuelson, Tate 1
Game Leaders
AB
5
R
1
H
2
RBI
0
AB
5
R
0
H
2
RBI
3
Players Mentioned
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Photo by: Braden Villanueva
Matadors' Ninth-Inning Rally Falls Short at Cal Poly
3/20/2022 4:26:00 PM | Baseball
SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif.---CSUN Baseball (10-9, 0-3 Big West) fell to Cal Poly 6-4 in the series finale on Sunday at Baggett Stadium. The Matadors scored three in the bottom of the ninth and brought the tying run to the plate before ultimately coming up short. CSUN out-hit the opposition 14-6 in the game but stranded 11 runners on base.
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Sebastian Granados earned the Sunday start against the Mustangs. Granados kept Cal Poly hitless through the first two innings before working out of a bases-loaded jam in the bottom of the third.Â
Cal Poly though broke through in the fourth, taking advantage of a CSUN error to plate two runs. Granados issued two walks to begin the inning before Ryan Stafford reached on an infield single with two outs. On the play, a throwing error at shortstop allowed two runs to come across, making it a 2-0 game. Diego Guttierrez would finish the inning, eventually leaving three Mustang runners on base.
The Matador offense would have base runners in eight of nine innings on Sunday, but only managed a run through the first eight innings.
CSUN would cut the Cal Poly lead to 2-1 in the top of the fifth when Gabe Gonzalez drove in Kai Moody with an RBI single. The Matadors though settled for the one run after Bart West and Graysen Tarlow were retired to end the threat.
The Mustangs quickly answered back in the home half of the fifth with a big three-run inning to push the lead to 5-1. Cal Poly drew two more walks in the frame before Taison Coro drove in a run on a fielder's choice and Stafford hit a sacrifice fly. Brooks Lee capped off the inning with an RBI single.
The lead would grow to 6-1 an inning later on a Collin Villegas RBI double that plated Tate Samuelson.
After leaving a runner on base in the seventh and eighth innings, the Matadors mounted one final rally in the top of the ninth. Brandon Bohning led off the frame with a single before Moody and Sojka singled as well to load the bases. Gonzalez followed with a two-run double in the gap in right-center field. West would cut the deficit to 6-4 on an RBI groundout but Tarlow was retired on a flyout to right field for the final out.
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GAME NOTES
Gonzalez drove in three of the Matadors' four runs on Sunday to push his team-high RBI total to 18. The group of Moody, Sojka, Gonzalez, West and Tarlow had two-hit games.
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Three Matador pitchers saw action on the mound with Xavier Martinez earning the most time with 3.1 innings pitched and one run allowed. Diego Gutierrez worked 1.2 innings, surrendering three runs while Granados worked three-plus innings with two runs allowed. Matador pitching issued out nine walks in the game.
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ACCORDING TO COACH DAVE SERRANO
"This weekend didn't go as we planned for our team. Overall, we had breakdowns on defense that cost us, too many walks as a staff and we left too many guys on base all weekend long. In the end, it all resulted in us getting swept. As I shared with our guys after today's game, I'm behind them when our results have been good, and I will be behind them now that we have hit a skid. We just have to keep working."
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UP NEXT
CSUN returns home on Tuesday for a midweek game against Dixie State at 2 p.m.
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#UniteTheValley
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Sebastian Granados earned the Sunday start against the Mustangs. Granados kept Cal Poly hitless through the first two innings before working out of a bases-loaded jam in the bottom of the third.Â
Cal Poly though broke through in the fourth, taking advantage of a CSUN error to plate two runs. Granados issued two walks to begin the inning before Ryan Stafford reached on an infield single with two outs. On the play, a throwing error at shortstop allowed two runs to come across, making it a 2-0 game. Diego Guttierrez would finish the inning, eventually leaving three Mustang runners on base.
The Matador offense would have base runners in eight of nine innings on Sunday, but only managed a run through the first eight innings.
CSUN would cut the Cal Poly lead to 2-1 in the top of the fifth when Gabe Gonzalez drove in Kai Moody with an RBI single. The Matadors though settled for the one run after Bart West and Graysen Tarlow were retired to end the threat.
The Mustangs quickly answered back in the home half of the fifth with a big three-run inning to push the lead to 5-1. Cal Poly drew two more walks in the frame before Taison Coro drove in a run on a fielder's choice and Stafford hit a sacrifice fly. Brooks Lee capped off the inning with an RBI single.
The lead would grow to 6-1 an inning later on a Collin Villegas RBI double that plated Tate Samuelson.
After leaving a runner on base in the seventh and eighth innings, the Matadors mounted one final rally in the top of the ninth. Brandon Bohning led off the frame with a single before Moody and Sojka singled as well to load the bases. Gonzalez followed with a two-run double in the gap in right-center field. West would cut the deficit to 6-4 on an RBI groundout but Tarlow was retired on a flyout to right field for the final out.
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GAME NOTES
Gonzalez drove in three of the Matadors' four runs on Sunday to push his team-high RBI total to 18. The group of Moody, Sojka, Gonzalez, West and Tarlow had two-hit games.
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Three Matador pitchers saw action on the mound with Xavier Martinez earning the most time with 3.1 innings pitched and one run allowed. Diego Gutierrez worked 1.2 innings, surrendering three runs while Granados worked three-plus innings with two runs allowed. Matador pitching issued out nine walks in the game.
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ACCORDING TO COACH DAVE SERRANO
"This weekend didn't go as we planned for our team. Overall, we had breakdowns on defense that cost us, too many walks as a staff and we left too many guys on base all weekend long. In the end, it all resulted in us getting swept. As I shared with our guys after today's game, I'm behind them when our results have been good, and I will be behind them now that we have hit a skid. We just have to keep working."
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UP NEXT
CSUN returns home on Tuesday for a midweek game against Dixie State at 2 p.m.
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#UniteTheValley
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