Box Score


On Friday night in Bakersfield, California, the Dallas Baptist Patriots (20-18, 7-6) outhit the CSU Bakersfield Roadrunners (26-13, 10-3) twelve to eleven but it went for naught as CSUB outscored the Patriots, 10-4. Three Patriot errors and six hit batsmen opened the floodgates for the WAC-leading Roadrunners as they scored six in the third and two in the fourth to outlast DBU in the opening game of the three game set. Jake Johansen (5-4) was saddled with the loss after throwing four innings and giving up eleven hits while surrendering eight earned runs and striking out none. Jay Calhoun closed out the game for DBU with four innings of hitless baseball, giving up only one unearned run and striking out four.

It was the six run third that proved to be the difference in the ballgame. The Roadrunners picked up six hits in the frame to go along with a DBU error and two hit batters to pick up the bulk of their runs in the contest. DBU was never able to overcome the early deficit - even though they had four players collect multi-hit games, including Michael Miller who led with three. Miller and Austin Listi had the only extra-base hits for the Patriots on the night as they both doubled and Miller led the offense with two RBI.

The Patriots had opportunities to crawl back in the game against CSUB starter, Jeff McKenzie, but ended up stranding 11 baserunners in the ballgame. The two teams will square off again Saturday night as Cy Sneed will take the hill for DBU. First pitch is slated for 8:00 pm CST with Brendan Smith and Reagan Ratcliff calling the action on dbupatriots.com/showcase.