Saturday, April 16
Irvine, CA
1 p.m.
22-13, 9-3
7
at
6
UC Irvine
21-13, 9-6
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2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
R
H
E
Cal Poly
0
0
1
2
4
0
0
0
0
7
11
2
UC Irvine
0
0
0
0
6
0
0
0
0
6
4
1
Team Stats
Pitching:
W: Button, Zach (6-0)
L: Wheeler, Cameron (2-3)
S: Franks, Jason (1)
Batting:
2B: Marinconz, Nick 1 ; Haas, Matthias 1 ; Lagattuta, John 1
RBI: Stafford, Ryan 1 ; Marinconz, Nick 1 ; Haas, Matthias 2 ; Samuelson, Tate 1 ; Lagattuta, John 2
SH: Doss, Reagan 1
SF: Stafford, Ryan 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Yorke, Joe 1 ; Villegas, Collin 1 ; Marinconz, Nick 1 ; Haas, Matthias 2 ; Samuelson, Tate 2
HBP: Doss, Reagan 1
Batting:
RBI: Church, Nathan 1 ; McCaffrey, Thomas 2 ; Smith, Myles 2
SF: Church, Nathan 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Fitzgerald, Ben 1 ; Gleed, Dub 1 ; McCaffrey, Thomas 1 ; Kendle, Caden 1 ; Smith, Myles 1 ; Nakawake, Taishi 1
CS: Church, Nathan 1
HBP: Fitzgerald, Ben 1 ; McCaffrey, Thomas 1 ; Hadeen, Woody 1
Game Leaders
Hitting
AB
5
R
2
H
2
RBI
2
AB
3
R
2
H
2
RBI
1
AB
4
R
0
H
1
RBI
1
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Jason Franks earned his sixth save of the season Saturday by retiring all seven UC Irvine batters he faced in a series-clinching 7-6 victory.
Photo by: Owen Main | Cal Poly Athletics
Cal Poly Clinches Big West Series at UC Irvine with 7-6 Victory
4/16/2022 5:24:00 PM | Baseball
VIDEO HIGHLIGHTS
IRVINE, Calif. -- Jason Franks retired all seven batters he faced for his sixth save as No. 26 Cal Poly, which let almost all of a 7-0 lead slip away, held on for a 7-6 victory over UC Irvine on Saturday at Anteater Ballpark, clinching the three-game Big West Conference baseball series, two games to one.
Franks, who earned his fifth save in Friday's dramatic 4-3 win, entered Saturday's game with the bases loaded and two outs in the seventh inning, Cal Poly leading by one, and struck out Taishi Nakawake to end the frame, then retired the side in order in both the eighth and ninth innings for the save.
Cal Poly opened up a 7-0 lead with a run in the third, two in the fourth and four in the fifth. UC Irvine climbed back into the game in the bottom of the fifth, sending 11 batters to the plate for six runs on just two hits but four walks and a hit batter.
Neither team scored the rest of the way.
With the win, Cal Poly improved to 22-13 overall, nine games above the .500 mark for the first time this season, and 9-3 for second place in the Big West. UC Irvine, the defending Big West champion, fell to 21-13 and 9-6.
First-place UC Santa Barbara raised its conference record to 13-2 with an 8-7 win over UC San Diego, snapping a 6-6 tie with two runs in the eighth inning.
Cal Poly scored an unearned run in the third inning on Ryan Stafford's sacrifice fly to center field and led 3-0 following John Lagattuta's two-run double to right-center field in the fourth.
The four-run fifth-inning Mustang rally was highlighted by Nick Marinconz's RBI double into the left-field corner, a two-run double by Matthias Haas off the right-field wall and a run-scoring single through the left side of the UC Irvine infield by Tate Samuelson.
The 7-0 lead was short-lived as UC Irvine scored six times, three of them unearned due to a two-out Mustang error in the infield.
Freshman outhpaw Noah Larkin struck out the second batter he faced, Nakawake, to end the inning and tossed two scoreless frames before turning things over to Franks.
The win went to Zach Button (6-0) as be pitched 3 1/3 innings in relief, allowing no hits and striking out three before running into trouble in the fifth. The five Mustang pitchers used in the game allowed just four hits, but also issued nine walks and hit three Anteater batters.
Haas, Samuelson and Joe Yorke each collected a pair of hits for Cal Poly while Haas and Lagatutta both produced a pair of RBIs.
Cal Poly won a series at UC Irvine for the first time since 2017.
For the series, Haas was 4-for-7 while Marinconz, Stafford, Brooks Lee and Collin Villegas each had three hits. Cal Poly hit .238 in the series while the pitching staff compiled a 4.50 ERA.
Cal Poly hosts Stanford on Tuesday night before resuming Big West play next weekend at UC Riverside.
IRVINE, Calif. -- Jason Franks retired all seven batters he faced for his sixth save as No. 26 Cal Poly, which let almost all of a 7-0 lead slip away, held on for a 7-6 victory over UC Irvine on Saturday at Anteater Ballpark, clinching the three-game Big West Conference baseball series, two games to one.
Franks, who earned his fifth save in Friday's dramatic 4-3 win, entered Saturday's game with the bases loaded and two outs in the seventh inning, Cal Poly leading by one, and struck out Taishi Nakawake to end the frame, then retired the side in order in both the eighth and ninth innings for the save.
Cal Poly opened up a 7-0 lead with a run in the third, two in the fourth and four in the fifth. UC Irvine climbed back into the game in the bottom of the fifth, sending 11 batters to the plate for six runs on just two hits but four walks and a hit batter.
Neither team scored the rest of the way.
With the win, Cal Poly improved to 22-13 overall, nine games above the .500 mark for the first time this season, and 9-3 for second place in the Big West. UC Irvine, the defending Big West champion, fell to 21-13 and 9-6.
First-place UC Santa Barbara raised its conference record to 13-2 with an 8-7 win over UC San Diego, snapping a 6-6 tie with two runs in the eighth inning.
Cal Poly scored an unearned run in the third inning on Ryan Stafford's sacrifice fly to center field and led 3-0 following John Lagattuta's two-run double to right-center field in the fourth.
The four-run fifth-inning Mustang rally was highlighted by Nick Marinconz's RBI double into the left-field corner, a two-run double by Matthias Haas off the right-field wall and a run-scoring single through the left side of the UC Irvine infield by Tate Samuelson.
The 7-0 lead was short-lived as UC Irvine scored six times, three of them unearned due to a two-out Mustang error in the infield.
Freshman outhpaw Noah Larkin struck out the second batter he faced, Nakawake, to end the inning and tossed two scoreless frames before turning things over to Franks.
The win went to Zach Button (6-0) as be pitched 3 1/3 innings in relief, allowing no hits and striking out three before running into trouble in the fifth. The five Mustang pitchers used in the game allowed just four hits, but also issued nine walks and hit three Anteater batters.
Haas, Samuelson and Joe Yorke each collected a pair of hits for Cal Poly while Haas and Lagatutta both produced a pair of RBIs.
Cal Poly won a series at UC Irvine for the first time since 2017.
For the series, Haas was 4-for-7 while Marinconz, Stafford, Brooks Lee and Collin Villegas each had three hits. Cal Poly hit .238 in the series while the pitching staff compiled a 4.50 ERA.
Cal Poly hosts Stanford on Tuesday night before resuming Big West play next weekend at UC Riverside.
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