Late Rallies Lift BYU Over Cal Poly for Second Straight Night, 4-3

Friday, February 21

6 pm

2-4

BYU

4-2

Brigham Young

Cal Poly

Late Rallies Lift BYU Over Cal Poly for Second Straight Night, 4-3

2/21/2020 12:00:00 AM | Baseball

Box Score

SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. -- Brigham Young rallied from a 3-1 deficit to beat Cal Poly 4-3 in the second game of a four-game non-conference baseball series Friday night inside Baggett Stadium.

A wild pitch and an RBI double by Mitch McIntyre accounted for the two BYU runs in the seventh, tying the game at 3-3, and a sacrifice fly by Danny Gelalich tallied the go-ahead run in the eighth.

Cal Poly had the tying run at second base in the ninth as Nick DiCarlo drew a one-out walk and advanced 90 feet on a groundout, but a foul pop-up outside of first base ended the game.

The loss, Cal Poly's third in a row, all at home this week, dropped Coach Larry Lee's Mustangs to 2-4 on the season. Brigham Young improved to 4-2.

Bryce Robison (1-0), the last of three BYU pitchers used in the game, earned the win with three scoreless innings. Starter Cy Nielson allowed two runs and four hits over five innings with seven strikeouts in a no-decision.

Mustang junior southpaw Andrew Alvarez (pictured above) gave up just one run and two hits over six innings and left the game with Cal Poly holding a 3-1 lead. He struck out a career-high eight Cougar batters and sports an 0.84 ERA for the season.

Bryan Woo allowed the tying runs in the seventh and Kyle Scott (0-1) gave up BYU's go-ahead run in the eighth in suffering the loss. Scott struck out four over 2 2/3 innings.

After BYU grabbed a 1-0 lead in the first inning on Austin Deming's sacrifice fly to center field, Cal Poly answered with two runs in the fourth and another in the sixth. Senior center fielder Bradlee Beesley (pictured at left) ignited both Cal Poly rallies.

Beesley opened the fourth with a double to the gap in left-center field. Catcher Myles Emmerson's double down the left-field line scored Beesley and DiCarlo tripled to right field, bringing home Emmerson.

In the sixth, Beesley tripled to right field and scored on a wild pitch for a 3-1 lead.

BYU tied the game in the seventh and went ahead in the eighth. Cal Poly had two base runners in the seventh and one more in the ninth, but couldn't regain the upper hand against Robison.

Beesley and Emmerson each had two of Cal Poly's seven hits. Shortstop Andrew Pintar had a single and double for BYU.

Cal Poly has 17 hits in three home games this week for a .175 average, dropping the overall batting average for six games to .216.

The Mustangs and Cougars will play a doubleheader Saturday at 1 p.m. Freshman right-hander Drew Thorpe (0-0, 2.57 ERA) will start the opener for Cal Poly while the starter for the nightcap has not been announced.

Photo of Andrew Alvarez at top of page courtesy of Owen Main | www.fansmanship.com
Photo of Bradlee Beesley above at left courtesy of Darryl Webb | www.ifotouwebb.com