{"id":828,"date":"2011-03-11T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-11T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lbpost.com\/articles\/sports\/gagnon-leads-dirtbags-past-rice-in-2-1-victory\/"},"modified":"2011-03-11T19:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-11T19:00:00","slug":"gagnon-leads-dirtbags-past-rice-in-2-1-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/gagnon-leads-dirtbags-past-rice-in-2-1-victory","title":{"rendered":"Gagnon Leads Dirtbags Past Rice in 2-1 Victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=UTF-8\"> <meta http-equiv=\"Content-Style-Type\" content=\"text\/css\"> <title><\/title> <meta name=\"Generator\" content=\"Cocoa HTML Writer\"> <meta name=\"CocoaVersion\" content=\"949.54\">    <\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong>1:05pm |<\/strong> Playing in the home park of the San Francisco Giants earlier today, the Dirtbags got a big-league type performance from Andrew Gagnon, who allowed one run over eight innings, striking out six and walking one to earn his second win in 2011.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Gagnon was matched against Owls starter Anthony Kubitz, who struck out seven over six innings pitched. In what was a classic Friday battle between aces, Long Beach State and Rice answered each other pitch-for-pitch over the course of five scoreless innings, where only one batter between the teams reached third base.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Long Beach State got on the board in the sixth inning, as Jeff McNeil reached on an infield single, and Brennan Metzger hit his team-high fourth double to put two runners on with no outs. An RBI single by Matt Duffy brought home one run, and then Metzger came around to score on a single by Ino Patron to give the Dirtbags a 2-0 lead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Rice answered back in the top of the eighth, as Shane Holscher reached on a single and then stole second during a strikeout by Derek Hamilton.&nbsp;A single by Keenan Cook then brought home Holscher, but Gagnon responded with a groundout to first base to end the threat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Eddie Magallon pitched a scoreless ninth inning to record his second save as Long Beach State took a fourth straight win.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">AT&#038;T Park will be the field for two more games this weekend for Long Beach State. The Dirtbags play San Francisco at 3 p.m. Saturday before closing the weekend by playing No. 20 Cal at 4 p.m. Sunday.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Playing in the home park of the San Francisco Giants earlier today, the Dirtbags got a big-league type performance from Andrew Gagnon, who allowed one run over eight innings, striking out six and walking one to earn his second win in 2011.<\/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-828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828","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=828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=828"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=828"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}