Box Score
LOS ANGELES – Cal State L.A.'s baseball team saw a late-inning rally fall painfully short Friday night in a California Collegiate Athletic Association game at Reeder Field.
The Golden Eagles scored three runs in the eighth inning to pull to within one run and had the bases loaded with no one out before three straight strikeouts led to a 10-9 loss to Cal State Dominguez Hills. Cal State L.A. (13-14, 11-7 CCAA) had a seven-game conference winning streak snapped with the defeat.
It was a sloppy game by both teams. The two teams combined for seven errors, several base-running miscues, 10 walks, three hit batters and 19 runners left on base.
Cal State Dominguez Hills (20-10, 14-7 CCAA) led 7-2 after innings and 9-5 after six innings and then had to hold off the late Cal State L.A. surge.
Cliff Quick had a pair of hits and hit a home run for the Golden Eagles, while Kyle Pond and Derrek Duarte hit home runs for the Toros.
The Golden Eagles had a chance to gain the lead in the eighth after an error, a walk to
Sam Wiley and a bunt single by
Jesus Campos loaded the bases with the score 10-6.
Joe Park singled in a run to make it 10-7 and the Toros brought in stopper Matt Phillips. Quick walked to force in a run to make it 10-8 and
Chris Matzner was hit by a pitch to draw the Golden Eagles to within 10-9. Phillips, though, gathered himself and struck out
Mario Ramirez,
Matt Miraldi and
Max Moya to end the threat.
Cal State L.A. went out in order in the ninth inning and Phillips picked up his eighth save of the season.
The Golden Eagles, who picked up 16 runs in a 16-2 win on Thursday, picked up 13 more hits on Friday. The Toros also had 13 hits and drew seven walks.
Moya had three hits and drove in a pair of runs for the Golden Eagles, while Quick, Matzner, Ramirez and Campos had two hits each. Quick, Matzner and
Jordan Castro scored two runs each.
Cal State Dominguez Hills starter Shane Youngdale gave up 11 hits and six runs, four of them earned, in six innings and got the win. Cal State L.A. starter
Camron Collard gave up nine hits and nine runs, six of them earned, in five innings and got the loss.
Cal State L.A. scored only one run in the first inning, but should have had more. A shot by Miraldi with two on that bounced high off the right-centerfield wall resulted in only a single to load the bases and Moya's single gave the Golden Eagles the only run they would score in the inning.
The Toros got single runs in the second and third innings to take the lead and a two-run double by Pillar and a two-run home run by Duarte highlighted a five-run fourth that made it 7-1.
The Golden Eagles got an unearned run in the bottom of the fourth, but had a runner picked off third to end the inning. The Golden Eagles then struck for three runs in the fifth to make it 7-5 thanks to a Toro error, only to see the inning end when a runner was doubled off second on a line drive out to center.
The Toros got two more runs in the sixth and another in the seventh to make it 10-5 and Cal State L.A. got one back in the seventh on Quick's solo home run, but had a runner picked off first to short-circuit a potential rally.
That set the stage for the Golden Eagles' three-run rally in the eighth that came up one run short.
The two teams will conclude the four-game conference series at Cal State Dominguez Hills with a doubleheader on Saturday.
