Long Beach State beats WSU baseball 3-1

For the second straight game, Long Beach State broke a 1-1 tie with late runs in a 3-1 victory over Wichita State on Saturday in Long Beach, Calif.

Richard Prigatano led off the seventh with a base hit and scored on Colton Vaughn?s two-out single, breaking a 1-1 tie. On Friday, the Dirtbags struck for three runs in the eighth to break a 1-1 tie.

Of the seventh runs scored by Long Beach State in the first two games of the series, six have come with two outs.

Shocker pitchers, coming into the game averaging eight strikeouts, could muster just two strikeouts, tying a season low.

Long Beach State scored in the first when Jeff McNeil tripled and scored on Jeff Yamaguchi?s single. It was the only run Long Beach State has scored with less than one out.

WSU tied it in the third when Dayne Parker led off with a single, was sacrificed to second by Parker Zimmerman and sped home on Daniel Kihle?s single. With Kihle at third, Taylor Doggett struck out to end the threat.

The Shockers missed a good opportunity to score in the fourth. Casey Gillaspie singled to open the inning and Johnny Coy followed with a single. Erik Harbutz sacrificed them to second and third. Micah Green struck out and Parker grounded out. To that point, WSU had stranded three, all in scoring position.

From the fifth to the end of the game, WSU got only one baserunner to second base, Parker in the seventh. Parker had reached on an error and went to second on Zimmerman?s single.

Ryan Millison, who earned his first save of the season, retired all six batters he faced in the eighth and ninth.

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Notes: A. J. Ladwig (2-1, 3.86) will pitch for WSU today against David Hill (0-1, 4.60).? McNeil was hit by a pitch twice by WSU starter Kris Gardner. Long Beach State batters have been hit 33 times. WSU batters have been hit 12 times.? Harbutz went 0 for 3 and is now 0 for 17 career against Long Beach State, having struck out seven times.? Long Beach State pitchers did not allow a walk, the first game this season WSU batters have not walked.? Gillaspie stretched his hitting streak to seven games. During that time, he?s 10 for 26 (.385).? Gardner allowed six hits in seven innings and did not walk a batter, striking out one. Of his 18 pitches, 54 were strikes, a .667 strike-ball ratio.

Wichita State	ab	r	h	bi	bb	so	avg
Kihle rf	3	0	2	1	0	0	.389
Bayliff rf	1	0	0	0	0	0	.318
Doggett cf	4	0	0	0	0	1	.319
Gillaspie 1b	4	0	1	0	0	2	.333
Coy dh	4	0	1	0	0	2	.246
Harbutz 3b	3	0	0	0	0	0	.317
Green lf	3	0	0	0	0	1	.333
Mucha ph	1	0	0	0	0	1	.220
Parker 2b	3	1	1	0	0	0	.304
Zimmerman c	2	0	1	0	0	1	.385
Kirk ss	3	0	0	0	0	0	.214
Totals	31	1	6	1	0	8
Long Beach State
McNeil cf	2	1	1	0	0	0	.303
Rivera dh	3	0	0	0	0	1	.250
Yamaguchi 1b	4	0	2	1	0	0	.292
Patron lf	4	0	1	0	0	0	.239
Guerra lf	0	1	0	0	0	0	.129
Prigatano rf	3	1	1	0	1	0	.264
Hill ss	4	0	1	1	0	0	.339
Serven 3b	4	0	0	0	0	1	.227
Miller c	3	0	1	0	0	0	.200
Vaughn 2b	3	0	1	1	0	0	.333
Totals	30	3	8	3	1	2

Wichita State	001	000	000	?	1
Long Beach St.	100	000	11x	?	3

E ? Hill. LOB ? WSU 5, LBS 7. 3B ? McNeil (2). S ? Zimmerman, Harbutz, Rivera. SB ? Buerra (3). CS ? Kihle, McNeil.

Wichita State	ip	h	r	er	bb	so	era
Gardner L,1-2	7	6	2	2	0	1	4.00
McGreevy	2/3	1	1	1	1	0	3.67
LaBrie	1/3	1	0	0	0	1	1.22
Long Beach State
Stassi W,1-1	7	6	1	1	0	6	3.94
Millison S,1	2	0	0	0	0	2	3.42

HBP ? McNeil 2 (by Gardner). Umpires ? Bill Barnes, home; Rob Hansen, first; Brad Hungerford, third. T ? 2:10. A ? 1,004.

Source: http://www.kansas.com/2013/03/16/2719806/long-beach-state-beats-wsu-baseball.html

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