March 28, 2018
San Jose, Calif. --- The San José State University baseball team will travel to Colorado Springs for a three game conference series against the Air Force Falcons.
San José State (9-14, 2-6 MW) vs Air Force (9-14, 3-6)
Thursday • March 29 • 1:00 p.m. (MT) • USAFA
Friday • March 30 • 1:00 p.m. (MT) • USAFA
Saturday • March 31 • 12:00 p.m. (MT) • USAFA
Live Stats:
Live Video: Mountain West Network
Pitching Staff
This season, the 11 Spartan newcomers that have pitched on the roster have accounted for 113 of the 169 strikeouts this season. They have also recorded four of the teams nine wins.
Big innings (four or more runs) have plagued the San José State baseball team this season. The team has given up 13 big innings this season, but has been able to cut those down the last few weeks. In the last eight games, the Spartans have only allowed three big innings. The Spartans have given up 79 runs in innings 4-6, but only 75 through innings 1-3 & 7-9.
POSSIBLE STARTERS FOR GAME
Thursday
RHP Josh Goldberg (2-2) vs RHP Nick Biancalana (1-1)
Friday
LHP Andrew Mitchel (2-0) vs RHP Matt Hargreaves (1-3)
Saturday
RHP Josh Zanger (1-1) vs RHP Tyler Mortenson (0-4)
Flash
After going 3-for-30 (.100 avg) through the first 10 games of the season, Kellen Strahm, has returned to his 2017 form, going 19-for-35 (.345 avg) the last 13 games. He also leads the team in walks with 13, triples with two, and stolen bases with four. Kellen Strahm is one of the fastest players in the Mountain West. He was the 2017 MW leader in steals with 18. He had three multi-steal games including a season-high three steals versus New Mexico 3/11/17.
Shane "Timbo" Timmons
The three-time letter winner from Mission Viejo, California has started in 125 of the last 127 games for the Spartans. No San José State baseball player has more homers the last four seasons than Timmons with 20. He is currently tied for fourth in all-time home runs with Kyle Bellows. The current record was set nearly 20 years ago by John Fagan with 25 home runs. The 2017 second team All-Mountain West first baseman finished in the top-10 in several MW conference categories: ninth in slugging percentage (.648), tied for seventh in triples (2), fifth in home runs (7), tied for sixth in hit by pitches (6), first in sacrifice flies (5) and tied for eighth in stolen bases (5).
He is the first Spartan to lead the team in batting average two consecutive seasons since Kevin Frandsen in 2003 and 2004 seasons. Frandsen would become a 12th round pick in the 2004 MLB Draft, and play nine seasons of major league baseball. He would later be inducted into the San José State Sports Hall of Fame in 2014.
Bautista is Back
After Bautista redshirted the 2017 season and played only 10 games of 2016, the senior returns to the Spartan lineup without missing a step. Bautista, who had not recorded a hit since March 1, 2016, has a team leading batting average of .457 through 18 games with 32 hits and 14 RBI's.
This season, the senior has seven three hit games (four of them being consecutive). In Nevada he hit his first home run in nearly three years...then he hit another the very next day.
2018 Mountain West Standings
Team Mountain West Overall
W L T PCT W L T PCT
Nevada 7 2 0 .778 13 8 0 .619
an Diego State 6 2 0 .750 17 7 0 .708
UNLV 6 3 0 .667 21 5 0 .808
New Mexico 4 5 0 .444 10 12 1 .435
Fresno State 4 8 0 .333 14 10 0 .583
Air Force 3 6 0 .333 9 14 0 .391
San José State 2 6 0 .250 9 14 0 .391