April 7, 2018
San Jose, Calif. --- The San Jose State University baseball team (10-18, 3-9 MW) held an 8-5 lead over the Mountain West leader Nevada (16-11, 10-3 MW) through four innings until Dillan Shrum (5-for-5, 2R, 5RBI) homered to left field in the top of the fifth inning with one out and shifted momentum in favor of The Pack.
"We did a lot of things well today," said interim head coach Brad Sanfilippo. "We had 15 hits, executed plays, and had zero errors. We did a lot of things right today, but Nevada is a good team."
Kellen Strahm had his second three hit game of the season. He went 3-for-5 with one walk in game one against Nevada. In the last eight games, Strahm is 13-for-35 (.371) with five doubles and a .514 slug percentage.
The Spartans got off to a hot start recording five runs with one out in the first inning. With one out David Campbell (2-for-4, 2R) was hit by pitch and scored Brett Bautista (1-for-5, R, 3RBI). Kyle Morrison (2-for-5, R, 2RBI) doubled over the center fielder Cole Krzmarzick to drive home Chris Williams (2-for-5, R) and Shane Timmons (1-for-4, R) to make it 3-0. Johnny Mendoza (2-for-4, 2RBI) singled on a safety squeeze to bring home Campbell.
One of the biggest plays of the game was the spin move Morrison put on catcher, Kaleb Foster to score the fifth run of the game. Connor Konishi (1-for-5, R) bunted to third base on a safety squeeze and Morrison escaped the tag running from third to home plate with a spin move to put the Spartans up 5-0.
In the last three games, Connor Konishi is 3-for-9 with two walks and two runs.
In the Spartans fourth, Bautista singled to left field to score Aaron Pleschner (1-for-3, 2R, BB) and Konishi to go up 7-4.
Bautista helped score the Spartans final run of the day when he flied out to left field to bring home Pleschner to make it 9-8.
Nevada scored in innings seven and eight to win the game 10-9.
The winning pitcher on the day was Jordan Jackson (3-1) and the save went to Keone Cabinian (5). Jackson allowed two hits in 2.0 innings Saturday.
The Spartans play a doubleheader tomorrow starting at 12:00 p.m. The second game will start 30 minutes after the first.