Friday, March 15
San Luis Obispo, Calif.
6 P.M.
9-8, 1-0
5
vs
4
CSUN
9-8, 0-1
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
R
H
E
CSUN
0
0
2
0
1
0
1
0
0
0
4
6
2
Cal Poly
2
0
0
1
0
1
0
0
0
1
5
9
2
Team Stats
Pitching:
W: Sagouspe, Tanner (3-0)
L: Hall, Hayden (1-1)
Batting:
2B: Neighbors, Kamau 1
RBI: Neighbors, Kamau 1 ; Simons, Jakob 2 ; Barraza, Nathan 1
SH: Le, Mason 2 ; Wilkinson, Bren 1
SF: Neighbors, Kamau 1 ; Simons, Jakob 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Neighbors, Kamau 1 ; Sakaino, Shunsuke 1 ; Sojka, Andrew 1 ; Wilkinson, Bren 1
SB: Simons, Jakob 1
CS: Simons, Jakob 1
HBP: Sakaino, Shunsuke 1 ; Linberg, Will 1
Batting:
2B: Fenn, Ryan 1 ; Garza, Alejandro 1 ; Murray Jr., Casey 1
RBI: Fenn, Ryan 3 ; Casillas, Aaron 1
SF: Casillas, Aaron 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Steels, Jake 2 ; Stafford, Ryan 1 ; Garza, Alejandro 1 ; Murray Jr., Casey 1
Game Leaders
Hitting
AB
4
R
2
H
2
RBI
0
AB
4
R
1
H
2
RBI
0
AB
4
R
1
H
1
RBI
0
Players Mentioned
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Photo by: Owen Main | Cal Poly Athletics
Fenn's Walk-Off Seals Opening Big West Victory Over CSUN
3/15/2024 10:00:00 PM | Baseball
SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. — On a picture-perfect Friday with optimal baseball weather, the Cal Poly Mustangs baseball program kicked off its 28th Big West Conference slate by gifting the Baggett Stadium crowd a 5-4 walk-off win in extra innings.
Tanner Sagouspe's 4 strikeouts in 2 ? innings of relief work took the right-hander to a 3-0 record as the Mustangs snatched a 10th-inning game winner thanks to Ryan Fenn, who went 2-of-5 on the day with 3 RBIs.
Jakob Wright made his fourth starting appearance of 2024 to open the weekend, putting CSUN away with ease in the first two innings. During the top of the 2nd, Ryan Fenn performed an athletic sliding grab that brought the crowd to its feet early before Wright slammed the door shut on CSUN with a runner in scoring position later that inning.
A lead-off hit by Jake Steels bounced right above the second base bag and into center field. Ryan Stafford followed him up by splitting the third and shortstop gap, advancing both Steels and Stafford into scoring position on a bobble by the left fielder. Fenn went right back to the same spot, hitting a stand-up 2-RBI double across his body to deep left, putting Cal Poly ahead 2-0 in the second inning.
One of the conference's best starting pitchers, Thomas Bainton, settled down in the third inning and limited Cal Poly's bats for the next two frames. The one-hole hitter, Kamau Neighbors, hit his own stand-up RBI double to the left field corner. Leading Matador hitter Jakob Simons singled an RBI with a hard-hit ground to left field before Nathan Barraza tied the game in the next set of pitches.
Cal Poly responded with its own 1-2-3 inning in the fourth as Wright pitched lights-out, causing CSUN to ground out three straight times. In the bottom half, Casey Murray Jr.'s double to left field saw him eventually score unearned on a throwing error, giving Cal Poly the 3-2 lead again.
In the fifth, a failed pick-off attempt for Cal Poly led to a throwing error, which sent a CSUN base-runner to third. Neighbors hit the runner in with a sac fly to right field, tying the game up for the second time.
Later, in the sixth, the Mustangs flipped the script again. Alejandro Garza smacking a lead-off double just over first base and into the deep right field corner. Dylan Kordic responded in-kind, splitting the first and second base gap with an unplayable hard grounder, which put Mustangs on the corners. Aaron Casillas sacrified a fly ball to deep center field, scoring Garza for the 4-3 lead.
Jake Torres relieved Wright in the sixth and pitched well into the seventh before CSUN had suddenly loaded the bases thanks to a few walks, but Torres slammed the door shut to keep the Matadors at bay. Two inning later, Tanner Sagouspe took the mound during the eighth after an extended break in appearances. He wasted no time forcing CSUN to take strikeouts left-and-right through two closing innings in regulation.
In the top of the ninth's final out, Stafford tracked a high foul ball all the way to the netting, bobbling the fly as Yorke caught the falling ball right underneath the catcher's glove, giving the Baggett Stadium crowd another highlight-reel play to stand up and cheer about.
The Mustangs couldn't finish it off in the ninth's bottom frame, but Sagouspe's back-to-back outs started extra innings off on the right foot as a fly-out ended the frame, allowing a game-ending opportunity to the Mustangs.
Steels' lead-off walk got the potential game-winning run on-base. Stafford showed bunt on the very next at-bat but pulled back just in time to crack a shot right at the third baseman, who was unable to make a play on the ball, moving Steels into scoring position. Fenn then crushed a low line drive straight through the first and second gap that allowed Steels to easily make the two-base sprint for the walk-off RBI.
After successfully starting off 1-0 in the Big West, the Mustangs will now turn to Game 2 of the series on Saturday with first pitch set for the usual 3:00 p.m. time slot.
Tanner Sagouspe's 4 strikeouts in 2 ? innings of relief work took the right-hander to a 3-0 record as the Mustangs snatched a 10th-inning game winner thanks to Ryan Fenn, who went 2-of-5 on the day with 3 RBIs.
Jakob Wright made his fourth starting appearance of 2024 to open the weekend, putting CSUN away with ease in the first two innings. During the top of the 2nd, Ryan Fenn performed an athletic sliding grab that brought the crowd to its feet early before Wright slammed the door shut on CSUN with a runner in scoring position later that inning.
A lead-off hit by Jake Steels bounced right above the second base bag and into center field. Ryan Stafford followed him up by splitting the third and shortstop gap, advancing both Steels and Stafford into scoring position on a bobble by the left fielder. Fenn went right back to the same spot, hitting a stand-up 2-RBI double across his body to deep left, putting Cal Poly ahead 2-0 in the second inning.
One of the conference's best starting pitchers, Thomas Bainton, settled down in the third inning and limited Cal Poly's bats for the next two frames. The one-hole hitter, Kamau Neighbors, hit his own stand-up RBI double to the left field corner. Leading Matador hitter Jakob Simons singled an RBI with a hard-hit ground to left field before Nathan Barraza tied the game in the next set of pitches.
Cal Poly responded with its own 1-2-3 inning in the fourth as Wright pitched lights-out, causing CSUN to ground out three straight times. In the bottom half, Casey Murray Jr.'s double to left field saw him eventually score unearned on a throwing error, giving Cal Poly the 3-2 lead again.
In the fifth, a failed pick-off attempt for Cal Poly led to a throwing error, which sent a CSUN base-runner to third. Neighbors hit the runner in with a sac fly to right field, tying the game up for the second time.
Later, in the sixth, the Mustangs flipped the script again. Alejandro Garza smacking a lead-off double just over first base and into the deep right field corner. Dylan Kordic responded in-kind, splitting the first and second base gap with an unplayable hard grounder, which put Mustangs on the corners. Aaron Casillas sacrified a fly ball to deep center field, scoring Garza for the 4-3 lead.
Jake Torres relieved Wright in the sixth and pitched well into the seventh before CSUN had suddenly loaded the bases thanks to a few walks, but Torres slammed the door shut to keep the Matadors at bay. Two inning later, Tanner Sagouspe took the mound during the eighth after an extended break in appearances. He wasted no time forcing CSUN to take strikeouts left-and-right through two closing innings in regulation.
In the top of the ninth's final out, Stafford tracked a high foul ball all the way to the netting, bobbling the fly as Yorke caught the falling ball right underneath the catcher's glove, giving the Baggett Stadium crowd another highlight-reel play to stand up and cheer about.
The Mustangs couldn't finish it off in the ninth's bottom frame, but Sagouspe's back-to-back outs started extra innings off on the right foot as a fly-out ended the frame, allowing a game-ending opportunity to the Mustangs.
Steels' lead-off walk got the potential game-winning run on-base. Stafford showed bunt on the very next at-bat but pulled back just in time to crack a shot right at the third baseman, who was unable to make a play on the ball, moving Steels into scoring position. Fenn then crushed a low line drive straight through the first and second gap that allowed Steels to easily make the two-base sprint for the walk-off RBI.
After successfully starting off 1-0 in the Big West, the Mustangs will now turn to Game 2 of the series on Saturday with first pitch set for the usual 3:00 p.m. time slot.
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