Long Beach State baseball will have a familiar face running its pitching staff next season after former coach Troy Buckley left his job with the Pittsburgh Pirates to return to the Dirtbags. Buckley’s reunion with Long Beach State as pitching coach has its pitchers looking forward to working with one[Read More…]
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Buckley rejoins Dirtbag coaching staff
One-time Long Beach State pitching coach Troy Buckley will return to the Dirtbags for the 2009-10 season after spending two years in the Pittsburgh Pirates organization, the program announced today. While with the Pirates, Buckley worked as the coordinator of minor league pitching. He is expected to replace Jon Strauss,[Read More…]
Ruiz closing in on Major League dream
Dirtbag closer Charlie Ruiz was in control during many pressure situations this past season, often pitching in the eighth and ninth innings to secure wins for his team. The Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft was a little different for Ruiz, however, because he could hardly control anything. His play[Read More…]
Three Dirtbags one step closer to big leagues
The phone calls from baseball scouts started ringing in and Dirtbag Adam Wilk knew he would be one step closer to reaching his dream of playing for a Major League Baseball team. Wilk received news that he was the 330th player taken overall in the 11th round of the 2009[Read More…]
Dirtbags are victims of their own success
As the names were called, and the school Long Beach State was so often attached, the sting of last year’s regional exit was softened but the stark reality of 2009 began to set in. Such was the case of the 2008 MLB Draft. A school-record 11 Dirtbags were selected as[Read More…]
Dirtbags end season on wrong end of sweep
Box score FULLERTON — The way Long Beach State lost to rival Cal State Fullerton on Sunday seemed to sum up the way the up-and-down season went for the Dirtbags. An 11-run third inning by the Titans that included eight unearned runs allowed CSF to complete the sweep. “It’s frustrating,[Read More…]
Ramirez hurls gem to deal Dirtbags 7-1 loss
FULLERTON — Dirtbags coach Mike Weathers summed it up best at the end of his postgame interview. “Its the same old adage: pitching wins. When they don’t let you on base you’re just not going to score.” LBSU (25-28, 11-12 Big West Conference) managed just four hits on Saturday night[Read More…]
Dirtbags drop series opener to Titans
Going into Friday night’s match-up between Long Beach State and Cal State Fullerton, all signs pointed to a lopsided Titans win. Adam Wilk and the Dirtbags had other plans. Two of the top pitchers in the Big West Conference went toe-to-toe as LBSU (25-27, 11-11 Big West) was knocked off[Read More…]
LBSU drops series, home finale to Cal Poly
Box score Blair Field has become known as anything but a hitter’s park with its 387-foot power alleys. Yet, after this weekend No. 18 Cal Poly might be thinking about moving in. Long Beach State dropped the final game of the weekend series with the Mustangs, 9-3, in the Dirtbags’[Read More…]
Singer’s walk-off single caps monster day
Box score Kirk Singer had just one RBI as a Dirtbag before Saturday’s game started. Now he has eight. The freshman infielder had seven RBIs — the most in 11 years for the Dirtbags — including the game-winning single with the bases loaded in the ninth to carry LBSU to[Read More…]