Andrew Kittredge sealed one Washington (6-5) comeback Friday night and enabled another Sunday afternoon at Blair Field. The sophomore UW pitcher went seven and two-thirds innings, striking out ten and yielding just one earned run (four total) as the Huskies held on for a 6-4 win. After falling behind 6-0 and 9-4 in Friday night’s series opener, Kittredge came on in the ninth to save an 11-9 Huskies win.

Sunday he fell behind 2-0 in the bottom of the first when Devin Lohman doubled then scored on a Steve Tinoco triple. Joey Terdsolavich struck out but went all the way to second on a passed ball allowing Tinoco to score easily. But Kittredge kept the Dirtbags (4-6) bats at bay again until the eighth and by that time the Huskies had staked him to a 6-2 lead. 

After the two Dirtbags runs in the first, Kittredge scattered just three Long Beach hits over the next six and two-thirds innings before a two-out eighth inning error enabled Tinoco to reach and Matt Duffy – with his first hit as a Dirtbag in his ninth plate appearance – doubled to left center.

TJ Mittlestaedt chased Kittredge with a two-run double to cut the margin to 6-4 but Juan Avila’s sharp grounder in the hole was snagged by Washington shortstop David Bentrott and his throw beat Avila to the first base bag.

Washington freshman Andrew Cimber worked a 1-2-3 ninth for his third save. The Huskies got all the clutch hits when they needed them, scoring five of their six runs with two outs. 

UW cut the lead to 2-1 after Caleb Brown hit a solo homer with two outs in the second. Bradley Boyer’s base hit in the third tied the game at two.

The Huskies put the game out of reach in the fifth. A one-out single by leadoff man Julien Pollard plated Miles Kizer and Pollard and Boyer scored on the biggest hit of the game, a two-out double off the wall in left center from Troy Scott. 

Brown was hit by a pitch to lead off the sixth – the last batter Dirtbags starter Branden Pinder would face – and scored on a Bentrott base hit to round out the scoring.

Pinder dropped to 0-3 with the loss. The sophomore transfer from Santa Ana community college gave up six runs and seven hits in five innings while striking out three. Four Dirtbag relievers – Eddie Magallon, Josh Corrales, Kenny Arnerich and David Brown – each worked a scoreless inning of relief to give LBSU a chance to mount a comeback.

They just couldn’t come all the way back. Mittelstaedt was the only LBSU starter with two hits and Tinoco scored a pair of runs. The loss drops The Beach to just 2-5 at home in 2010.

The Dirtbags continue a season-high, nine-game homestand when they host the San Diego State Aztecs Tuesday night at Blair Field. First pitch is scheduled for 6:30 p.m.