Thursday, May 26
Honolulu, HI
9:35 p.m.
36-20, 0
5
at
3
Hawai'i
27-23, 0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
R
H
E
Cal Poly
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
4
0
5
11
0
Hawaii
3
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
3
6
1
Team Stats
Pitching:
W: Thorpe, Drew (10-1)
L: Dalton Renne (4-3)
S: Franks, Jason (10)
Batting:
HR: Borgogno, Brett 1
RBI: Lopez, Matt 1 ; Doss, Reagan 1 ; Lagattuta, John 1 ; Borgogno, Brett 2
SH: Borgogno, Brett 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Stafford, Ryan 1 ; Villegas, Collin 2 ; Lopez, Matt 1 ; Borgogno, Brett 1
CS: Stafford, Ryan 1
HBP: Villegas, Collin 1 ; Doss, Reagan 1
Batting:
2B: Cole Cabrera 1 ; Jacob Igawa 1
RBI: Matt Wong 1 ; Jacob Igawa 2
Base Running:
RUNS: Cole Cabrera 1 ; Kyson Donahue 1 ; Matt Wong 1
Game Leaders
Hitting
AB
5
R
1
H
2
RBI
0
AB
3
R
2
H
2
RBI
0
AB
5
R
1
H
2
RBI
1
AB
4
R
0
H
2
RBI
1
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Brett Borgogno (12) is greeted in the dugout after smashing a tie-breaking two-run home run in the eighth inning Thursday night, sparking Cal Poly to a 5-3 win over Hawai'i in Les Murakami Stadium.
Photo by: Owen Main | Cal Poly Athletics
Cal Poly Rallies for 5-3 Win over Hawai'i; Clinches 2nd in Big West
5/27/2022 2:22:00 AM | Baseball
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Borgogno's fourth home run of the season over the left-field wall on the first pitch he saw from Connor Harrison capped a four-run eighth-inning Mustang rally that accounted for the first runs of the game since the second inning.
Thorpe (10-1) regained the national lead in strikeouts and shattered the school record for strikeouts in a single season with 10 over eight innings in his 14th consecutive quality start of the year. He walked one and bounced back from a first-inning Hawai'i rally that netted three runs on four hits.
After throwing 113 pitches, Thorpe yielded to Franks, who struck out two of the three Hawai'i batters he faced for the save.
With its 12th straight win, equalling the 12-game streak by the 2014 squad, Cal Poly clinched second place in the Big West with a 21-7 record, three games ahead of Hawai'i (18-10) with two games remaining in the regular season for each team. The Mustangs are 36-20 for the year and Hawai'i fell to 27-23.
The 12-game winning streaks by the 2014 and 2022 clubs are the longest by a Mustang team in a single season in program history. A 14-game winning streak was jointly compiled by the 2012 team at the end of the season (seven games) and the 2013 squad at the beginning of the year (seven games).
Reagan Doss' grounder to shortstop pushed across the tying run and, after a strikeout for the second out of the inning, Borgogno gave Cal Poly the lead for the first time in the game with his two-run blast to left.
Thorpe picked up his ninth and 10th strikeouts of the game in a 1-2-3 eighth and Franks fanned two more in the ninth to close it out.
Thorpe finished the year with 149 strikeouts, surpassing the school single-season strikeout mark of 140 set by Erik Bratlein in 1988. He also is No. 4 in career strikeouts with 284, 12 shy of Dan Chergey's record set during the 1990-93 campaigns.
Thorpe's 149 strikeouts place him atop Shemar Page (143) of Grambling and Parker Messick (140) of Florida State on the national strikeouts list after Thursday's games.
The come-from-behind win marked only the third time this season that Cal Poly had rallied for a victory when trailing after six innings. The others were a 6-4 triumph over CSUN when the Mustangs scored five times in the eighth inning to wipe out a 4-1 deficit and a 4-3 win over UC Irvine as Cal Poly tallied four in the ninth to erase a 3-0 deficit.
Thorpe recovered from the three-run first-inning Hawai'i uprising by retiring 11 straight, 14 of 15 and 22 of 24 Rainbow Warrior batters before giving way to Franks in the ninth. He retired the side in order five times.
Thorpe is Cal Poly's first 10-game winner since Casey Bloomquist earned 12 victories and Matt Imhof added 10, both in 2014.
Franks' 10 saves are the most by a Mustang since Michael Clark notched 11 saves in 2017.
Cal Poly, now 25-0 when outhitting the opposition this season, compiled an 11-6 advantage over Hawai'i on Thursday as Stafford, Villegas, Lopez and John Lagattuta all collected two hits. Lagattuta knocked in Cal Poly's first run with a second-inning single.
Matt Wong and former Mustang outfielder Cole Cabrera, now a graduate student at Hawai'i, each had two hits for the Rainbow Warriors. Wong singled in a run in the first inning and Jacob Igawa doubled to drive in the other two.
Hawai'i closer Dalton Renee (4-3) suffered the loss, allowing Lopez, who scored the go-ahead run in the eighth, to reach base on his RBI single. Rainbow Warrior starter Andy Archer allowed a run and five hits in a season-high 5 2/3 innings with five strikeouts and one walk.
Second game of the series will be played Friday night at 9:35 p.m. Pacific with Cal Poly to start junior southpaw Travis Weston (6-3, 4:03 ERA) against Hawai'i junior right-hander Blaze Koali'i Pontes (5-0, 3.05 ERA).
Saturday's series and regular season finale will start at 4:05 p.m. Pacific.
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