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Drew Thorpe struck out 13 Cal State Fullerton batters and combined with two other pitchers on a four-hitter as Cal Poly earned its fifth straight victory, 13-4, Friday night.
Photo by: Owen Main | Cal Poly Athletics
Slam by Lee, 13 Strikeouts by Thorpe Spark Cal Poly to 13-4 Victory
5/13/2022 11:27:00 PM | Baseball
FULLERTON, Calif. -- Brooks Lee smashed the second grand slam of his Cal Poly career, Drew Thorpe struck out 13 and Ryan Stafford notched another four-hit game as Cal Poly defeated Cal State Fullerton 13-4 in the opener of a Big West Conference baseball series Friday night at Goodwin Field.
Lee's four-bagger in the sixth inning was his 11th of the year and broke open a 5-2 contest. Now with 46 RBIs this season, Lee's other slam was also against Cal State Fullerton, almost exactly a year ago -- May 15, to be precise -- in Baggett Stadium.
Thorpe (8-1) earned his eighth win with his 12th quality start, reaching double digits in strikeouts for the eighth time this season and 12th of his Cal Poly career. He walked one and scattered four hits over 7 2/3 innings. Only one of the three runs he gave up was earned.
Stafford produced his third four-hit game of the season, one double and three singles, and the reigning Big West Conference player of the week has gone 14-for-20 (.700) with 11 RBIs in his last five games since he was moved from the leadoff spot in the batting order to fourth or fifth.
Stafford is 21 of 46 (.457) at the plate over his last 11 games with two doubles, one triple, a home run and 12 RBIs to lift his average 39 points to .320.
Cal Poly has won five straight games, averaging 10.6 runs and 14.2 hits a contest, improving to 29-20 for the year and 15-7 for second place in the Big West, 1.5 games ahead of third-place Hawai'i and two games in front of fourth-place CSUN.
Cal State Fullerton, which lost to the Mustangs at Goodwin Field for the first time since 2015, has lost eight of its last 12 games, falling to 19-28 and 11-11.
Cal Poly, now 19-0 when outhitting its opponent, scored a run in the first inning on Stafford's infield single to third base and added two more in the third on back-to-back RBI doubles by Joe Yorke and Stafford.
Ahead 3-2, the Mustangs broke the game open with a six-run sixth-inning rally, all of the runs unearned because of a pair of Titan errors. One of the errors allowed the first run to score, Reagan Doss was hit by a pitch with the bases loaded and Lee hit a 1-0 pitch to the arboretum beyond the right-field wall for a 9-2 Cal Poly lead.
Yorke, who extended his hitting streak to 15 games and reached base safely streak to 23 with his third-inning double, the fifth in his last five games, also singled to drive in two more runs in the eighth.
The Mustang first baseman, who produced five-hit games last Friday against CSU Bakersfield and Tuesday versus Pepperdine, is 16-for-29 (.552) with nine RBIs over his last six games and 32-for-70 (.457) during his 15-game hitting streak to bump his average up 78 points to .330.
Cal Poly added its final two runs in the ninth, both unearned, on the Titans' third error of the game and a sacrifice fly by Doss.
Stafford with four hits and Yorke, Collin Villegas and Matt Lopez with two each sparked Cal Poly's 14-hit offensive attack. Designated hitter Austin Schell had half of Cal State Fullerton's four hits and is now hitting .404 for the year.
The loss went to Titan starter Tyler Stultz (4-4) as he allowed five runs (three earned) and seven hits over 5 1/3 innings with no walks and three strikeouts.
Second game of the series will be played Saturday at 6 p.m. with Cal Poly junior southpaw Travis Weston (4-3, 4.69 ERA) to face Cal State Fullerton freshman right-hander Evan Yates (3-1, 4.63 ERA).
Sunday's series finale starts at 1 o'clock.
Lee's four-bagger in the sixth inning was his 11th of the year and broke open a 5-2 contest. Now with 46 RBIs this season, Lee's other slam was also against Cal State Fullerton, almost exactly a year ago -- May 15, to be precise -- in Baggett Stadium.
Thorpe (8-1) earned his eighth win with his 12th quality start, reaching double digits in strikeouts for the eighth time this season and 12th of his Cal Poly career. He walked one and scattered four hits over 7 2/3 innings. Only one of the three runs he gave up was earned.
Stafford produced his third four-hit game of the season, one double and three singles, and the reigning Big West Conference player of the week has gone 14-for-20 (.700) with 11 RBIs in his last five games since he was moved from the leadoff spot in the batting order to fourth or fifth.
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Cal Poly has won five straight games, averaging 10.6 runs and 14.2 hits a contest, improving to 29-20 for the year and 15-7 for second place in the Big West, 1.5 games ahead of third-place Hawai'i and two games in front of fourth-place CSUN.
Cal State Fullerton, which lost to the Mustangs at Goodwin Field for the first time since 2015, has lost eight of its last 12 games, falling to 19-28 and 11-11.
Cal Poly, now 19-0 when outhitting its opponent, scored a run in the first inning on Stafford's infield single to third base and added two more in the third on back-to-back RBI doubles by Joe Yorke and Stafford.
Ahead 3-2, the Mustangs broke the game open with a six-run sixth-inning rally, all of the runs unearned because of a pair of Titan errors. One of the errors allowed the first run to score, Reagan Doss was hit by a pitch with the bases loaded and Lee hit a 1-0 pitch to the arboretum beyond the right-field wall for a 9-2 Cal Poly lead.
Yorke, who extended his hitting streak to 15 games and reached base safely streak to 23 with his third-inning double, the fifth in his last five games, also singled to drive in two more runs in the eighth.
The Mustang first baseman, who produced five-hit games last Friday against CSU Bakersfield and Tuesday versus Pepperdine, is 16-for-29 (.552) with nine RBIs over his last six games and 32-for-70 (.457) during his 15-game hitting streak to bump his average up 78 points to .330.
Cal Poly added its final two runs in the ninth, both unearned, on the Titans' third error of the game and a sacrifice fly by Doss.
Stafford with four hits and Yorke, Collin Villegas and Matt Lopez with two each sparked Cal Poly's 14-hit offensive attack. Designated hitter Austin Schell had half of Cal State Fullerton's four hits and is now hitting .404 for the year.
The loss went to Titan starter Tyler Stultz (4-4) as he allowed five runs (three earned) and seven hits over 5 1/3 innings with no walks and three strikeouts.
Second game of the series will be played Saturday at 6 p.m. with Cal Poly junior southpaw Travis Weston (4-3, 4.69 ERA) to face Cal State Fullerton freshman right-hander Evan Yates (3-1, 4.63 ERA).
Sunday's series finale starts at 1 o'clock.
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