Baseball

Dirtbags take series from Cal Poly behind clutch hitting

Box score Timely hitting carried the Long Beach State Dirtbags to a 5-2 victory as they won the three-game series over the Cal Poly Mustangs Sunday afternoon at Blair Field. With the Dirtbags (21-19, 8-7 Big West Conference) trailing 1-0, LBSU shortstop Kirk Singer started the bottom of the third[Read More…]

Patron stands ‘a head above the rest’

With 17 freshmen on the 2011 Long Beach State Dirtbags’ roster, Ino Patron should not feel alone, but his statistics with nearly three-fourths of the regular season completed suggest that the stocky first baseman is a head above the rest. Patron currently leads the Dirtbags in three major offensive categories,[Read More…]

Mustangs tee off on Dirtbags in 10-0 rout

Behind two big innings, the Cal Poly Mustangs made a statement against the Long Beach State baseball team at Blair Field Friday night, taking the first contest of a three-game series, 10-0. Coming into the game, the Dirtbags (20-19, 6-7 Big West Conference) sat two games behind Cal Poly (19-17,[Read More…]

LBSU’s bats come alive in romp of USC

Box score Long Beach State baseball head coach Troy Buckley may have opted to give his regular starting pitchers some much-needed rest Tuesday, but the Dirtbags didn’t show any signs of taking the night off. LBSU rallied from a one-run deficit and piled on seven unanswered runs, including four in the[Read More…]

Dirtbags drop third consecutive game

Box score Freshman Jeff McNeil collected three hits for the Long Beach State baseball team, but it wasn’t enough as UC Santa Barbara’s pitching staff threw its second straight complete game Friday in a 7-2 win over the Dirtbags at Caesar Uyesaka Stadium. The loss marked the third in a[Read More…]

Dirtbags unravel late, lose to Gauchos

Box score Long Beach State starting pitcher Andrew Gagnon threw a complete game Thursday, but judging by the final score, you would never know it. Gagnon allowed just five hits. But three unearned runs on two errors proved to be the difference as the Dirtbags squandered a two-run lead in[Read More…]

Highlanders crush Dirtbags’ bid for a sweep

Box score The Long Beach State baseball team’s push for a series sweep was heavily denied in a 14-2 loss to UC Riverside Highlanders on Sunday at Blair Field. The Highlanders hit and scored more than the two previous games against the Dirtbags (18-16, 5-4 Big West Conference) combined as[Read More…]

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