Baseball profit series with a 25-game conference grabbed

Honolulu -The Ides of March were not friendly to the UC Santa Barbara Baseball team of the UC Santa Barbara (15-3, 4: 1 Big West) when the Gauchos and Hawai’i (13-5, 2-3 Big West) played a game on Saturday evening. On Saturday evening, which was the polar opposite the polar played, the teams were played in front of 22 runs. The Rainbow Warriors made four of these mistakes, but also achieved 15 of these runs to win the game and even the series. The loss also ended Santa Barbara’s run of 25 consecutive victories in Big West Games.

How it happened

In contrast to Fridays, Pitchers’ duel, in which the Gauchos Hawai’i stopped from the board and distributed the first game, Santa Barbara was thanks to a walk, goal, single, Fielder’s Choice and single with 2: 0. The base had been pushed and a drained fly ball did not help and put runners in the corner without outs. Despite the Gaucho starter Jackson Flora Three singles recorded two strikes in the inning and raised two runs for Hawai’i.

However, Santa Barbara immediately gathered in the fourth. Isaac Kim And Letrey McCollum Both mets to get to the base and request an additional 90 feet thanks to an incorrect pick -up attempt. From there Jeremiah Crain drove home both McCollum and Kim with his two-out double and Cole Kosciusko Deforted crain with an RBI single, which makes the deficit only one at 4-3.

But the game was only wilder from there. The Gauchos had the opposite of a standstill on the hill in the bottom of the fourth, with 12 rainbow warriors coming to the plate and Hawai’i scored six runs in the inn. They met six singles and a Homerun in the inning, while the Gauchos also made two passed balls and a mistake, went a dough and beat another.

Santa Barbara’s crime dipped in her 10: 3 deficit in the top of the fifth, with a walk and a mistake that appeared two gauchos with two outs. A wild pitch and then a worry error allowed Kim and Jonathan Mendez To come home when McCollum safely reached this faulty throw and made the score 10-5.

The eight -sugar AJ Kodel Santa Barbara recorded all three outs in the frame and corresponded to the game and scored more runs in the sixth. After Crain was hit by a field to lead the inning, Xavier Esquer drove it to the left with an RBI double and Jack Holman Platted Esquer with a one-out single.

Raymond Olivas Came to the relief of toilet to start the end of sixth place, and finally calmed down the Hawai’i bats, causing the arches to reduce both in the sixth and seventh place. At the same time, Oliva’s Rainbow Warrior -Gegenktück kept the Gaucho bats just as quiet.

Hawai’i came in eighth place for the last two runs of the game in Olivas after beating the leading dough and the closest. A bullet error with a victim -colored attempt saw how the ball came all the way into the right field and made it possible for the two runners on the basis of coming and scoring.

Carson Timothy Came out of the bullpen to extinguish the fire and did exactly that in his collegiate debut and recorded three outs to end the inning. Unfortunately, the Gauchos could not attach a rally in the ninth.

According to the numbers

• The defeat on Saturday was the first time since April 7, 2024 that the UC Santa Barbara lost a large west game and ended a run of 25 wins in successive conferences, including eight sweeps of the conference series. The 25-game run is the longest winning streak in UC Santa Barbara Baseball story.
• Carson Timothy’s A job on Saturday evening was his college debut; The redefine newcomer recorded a groundout, its first career strike and a flyout and only needed 10 parking spaces to do this.
• With her three runs in the fourth inning, UC Santa Barbara was the first team against Hawai’i -Starter Liam O’Brien this season. Before the game on Saturday, O’Brien had not allowed a run and only given up four hits; The Gauchos had four goals from him and scored three runs.

Next on

Santa Barbara and Hawai’i will play the rubber game of this three-game series on Sunday, March 16, at 4:05 p.m. Pacific Time. It will be the last Big West game that the Gauchos will play in the Les Murakami Stadium. The Rainbow Warriors visit Santa Barbara next season before traveling to the mountain vest. The gauchos start with the right -handed pitcher Calvin Proskey on Sunday; Hawai’i has not yet announced who will oppose him. A free audio transmission of the game will be available at UCSBGGAUCHOS.com/badio, and live statistics can be found at ucsbgauchos.com/bsblivestats.