Nevada baseball season ends with 15-6 defeat

Nevada’s 2022 marketing campaign got here to an finish Saturday on the Mountain West Championship in San Diego, because the Wolf Pack fell, 15-6, to San José State.

Nevada (29-26) left 14 runners on base within the contest, together with six over the primary three innings. The missed alternatives gave San José State (30-28) a gap which it exploited by scoring 4 instances within the third, and three extra instances within the fourth to take management, 8-1.

After Pack starter Peyton Stumbo struck out the aspect within the prime of the primary, Nevada had a main likelihood to take an early lead. Ryan Jackson led off the primary with a single, adopted by Pat Caulfield’s stroll, and the pair moved up a bag on a deep fly ball to heart from Joshua Zamora. However the Pack would come away empty-handed, as Matt Clayton fouled out behind the plate, and, after Dario Gomez loaded the bases with a stroll, Landon Wallace grounded out to quick.

The groups traded runs within the second, every scoring on a sacrifice fly. Nevada as soon as once more put its first two batters on, and had runners at second and third with one out after a sacrifice bunt, however obtained only one throughout as Jackson’s one-out fly ball scored Anthony Flores.

San José State broke issues open within the third. Jack Colette hit a three-run homer to proper because the Spartans put up 4 within the body to take a 5-1 lead. An inning later, a Pack error gave the Spartans an additional out to work with, and San José State capitalized, getting two-out, RBI extra-base hits from Theo Hardy, Robert Hamchuk, and Colette over three-straight at-bats.

That spelled the top of the day for Stumbo, who fell to 5-2, giving up eight runs (5 earned) on 5 hits whereas hanging out seven.

Darren Jansen obtained the win in aid for the Spartans, his ninth of the season, going 2.2 innings after San José State starter Aaron Eden was lifted with two outs within the fourth.

San José State upped its result in 12-2 within the sixth earlier than Nevada confirmed indicators of a rally, getting a run within the sixth, earlier than and RBI double from Flores and an RBI single from Tyler Bosetti pulled the Pack to inside six at 12-6.

However the Spartans instantly quelled any hopes of a Pack comeback, scoring thrice within the prime of the eighth to get the lead again to 9.

Jackson, Stinson, and Bosetti every completed the day with three hits for Nevada, which out-hit the Spartans 15-14. However San José State obtained three hits apiece from Hamchuk and Colette, and totaled 9 extra-base hits on the day.