From LBPOSTSports.com: Sunday fun-day, Sunday sweep-day. Yeah, that’s a fragment sentence, but it says it all for the Dirtbags.
Blair Field was the place to be this weekend, and if there was anywhere better to spend a Sunday afternoon, please let this writer know. A picturesque day, good-looking crowd and some pretty darn good baseball are what get us through that reality check called Monday.
However, UC Davis might be thinking about the Dirtbags well into the week, especially junior outfielder TJ Mittelstaedt.
With deuces across the board in the seventh Mittelstaedt drove a Scott Lyman fastball deep to right to score sophomore Kellen Hoime and freshman Brennan Metzger for the go-ahead runs in the Dirtbags’ 3-2 win. Hoime and Metzger did their part for the team, each one was hit-by-a-pitch twice in the game.
Long Beach State (23-20, 10-5) was outhit seven to five by the Aggies (7-35, 1-14) and had some trouble stringing hits against Lyman, who was effectively wild in his first career start. But, the Dirtbags grinded out the win to complete their second consecutive weekend sweep and eight of nine against Big West rivals Northridge, Pacific and the Aggies.
“We were going for 8-1, 7-2 (record wise)” coach Mike Weathers said of the past three weekend series. “You figure you’re going to have a stumble somewhere and we did, but then after the Northridge stumble we swept two weekends in a row. I don’t care who you’re playing, it’s hard to do.”
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