SAN DIEGO - The [3] San José State baseball team (22-31, 16-14 MW) opens the 2024 Mountain West Baseball Championship against [2] New Mexico (28-24, 17-13 MW) in the double elimination tournament. The Spartans first game is Thursday at 1:30 p.m. from Tony Gwynn Stadium on the campus of San Diego State and it can be seen on the Mountain West Network.
POTENTIAL PITCHING MATCHUP:
THURSDAY: TBA vs. TBA
NEWS AND NOTES:
- The Spartans are looking for back-to-back Mountain West Championships for the first time and are also looking for their third trip in a row to the MW Championship game
- The Spartans have 20 wins in a season for the third season in a row for the first time since 2012
- SJSU and New Mexico went 3-3 against each other during the regular season
- SJSU is third in the Mountain West with 68 home runs and first in the MW with 21 triples
- The 68 home runs are a SJSU single-season record
- The Spartans have the second-best ERA in the MW with a 6.19
- Hunter Dorraugh hit a home run at USF (5/7) and has 14 for the season which is good for fourth in the MW
- Dorraugh tied the single-season home run mark with Jeff Ball (1990) of 15 in 2022 and is one away from tying his own record now
- Dorraugh is the SJSU home run king with 39 home runs and has 43 for his career
- Dorraugh also leads the Spartans this season with 23 multi-hit games
- In his last nine conference games, Dorraugh has hit .368 with three home runs, nine RBIs, two doubles, 14 hits and seven runs scored with a .658 slugging pct.
- Dalton Bowling passed Kyle Bellows (146) as the all-time SJSU RBIs leader on 5/4 and has 158 career RBIs
- Bowling has 35 career home runs which is good for second in SJSU history and a career-high 13 this season
- In his last nine conference games, Bowling has hit .359 with three home runs, four doubles, two triples, 14 hits, 12 RBIs, nine runs scored with a slugging pct. of .795
- Bowling has tied the SJSU career doubles record with 55
- At Air Force (5/3-5), Theo Hardy hit .429 with two home runs including his first inside-the-park HR, one double, eight RBIs and three runs scored with a .929 slugging pct.
- Against UNM (5/16-18), Hardy had three hits and scored five runs
- Robert Hamchuk is on a career-best 19-game hit streak
- Hamchuk leads the MW in triples with five and leads the Spartans with 69 hits
- Jared Lewis during the three games at Air Force (5/3-5) hit .545 with six hits, his first career double, his first career triple and four runs scored with a .818 slugging pct. and a .545 on-base pct.
- In his last seven conference games, Sebastian Orduno has led the Spartans hitting .435 with 10 hits, two home runs, two doubles, one triple, six RBIs, four runs scored and a .870 slugging pct.
- Against UNM (5/16-18), Orduno hit .538 with one home run, seven hits, three RBIs, two doubles, three runs scored and a .923 slugging pct.
- LHP Micky Thompson pitched the game of his career against UNM (5/17) on the way to being named Mountain West Player of the Week (5/20) for the first time in his career and the second time this season for the Spartans (Dorraugh, 4/22)
- Thompson threw his first complete game in the 5-1 win over UNM (5/17) while striking out seven and only letting in one run on five hits and two walks
- Thompson threw a career-best 131 pitches which is the most under a Brad Sanfilippo coached team at SJSU
UP NEXT: The Spartans will play at a time to be determined on Friday from Tony Gwynn Stadium.
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