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This probably shouldn’t come as a surprise—two days ago, the Dirtbags one the first of their three-game series against Wichita State (the first time this season they’d won the first game of a series). <\/span>Yesterday, they fell back to earth, taking an early lead, losing it, coming back again<\/i> to take the lead, and ultimately falling 7-5. <\/span>Kellen Hoime and Steve Tinoco each drove in two runs for Long Beach State.<\/span><\/p>\n Jordan Casas got the Dirtbags on the board in the first. The right fielder led off the game with a hit, and after a sacrifice and a wild pitch, he would score on a grounder from Devin Lohman. <\/span>Wichita State would recover to take a 2-1 lead in the third. A two-out rally by the Shockers would negate two early strikeouts by starter Jake Thompson as Ryan Jones and Chris O’Brien each came up with RBI singles.<\/p>\n A solo homer from Tyler Grimes would place the Shockers on top 3-1, but Long Beach State recovered in the sixth inning. TJ Mittelstaedt started off the inning after being hit for a team-leading sixth time, and Devin Lohman singled to put two runners on. After a sacrifice bunt by Derek Legg, Tinoco drove in two runs to tie the game. A third single by Rylan Sandoval and a sacrifice fly from Hoime allowed Long Beach State to reclaim the lead.<\/p>\n After setting the side down in order in the bottom of the sixth, Thompson returned for a seventh inning of work, and allowed a home run to Cody Lassley to tie the game. The Shockers would go from there to put up a big inning, scoring four runs in the bottom of the seventh. <\/span>Long Beach State pulled back one run in the eighth, taking advantage of some wildness from Chance Sossamon, but Sossaman would settle down, getting a two-inning save to close the game for Wichita State.<\/p>\n The Dirtbags and the Shockers will play one final game for the series tomorrow. First pitch at Eck Stadium is scheduled for 11am our time.<\/p>\n From LBSU reports<\/i><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Despite grabbing the lead twice, the Dirtbags fell to the Shockers 7-5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","inline_featured_image":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":"","_":"","_author_alias":"","cap-aim":"","cap-description":"","cap-display_name":"","cap-first_name":"","cap-jabber":"","cap-last_name":"","cap-linked_account":"","cap-newspack_employer":"","cap-newspack_job_title":"","cap-newspack_phone_number":"","cap-newspack_role":"","cap-user_email":"","cap-user_login":"","cap-website":"","cap-yahooim":"","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_email_html":"","newspack_email_type":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_hide_page_title":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_show_share_buttons":"","newspack_sponsor_byline_prefix":"","newspack_sponsor_disclaimer_override":"","newspack_sponsor_flag_override":"","newspack_sponsor_only_direct":"","newspack_sponsor_url":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-4365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4365"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=4365"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}