BASEBALL DROPS SLUGFEST AT SAN FRANCISCO

Athletics News


Apr 18, 2017





SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – After Sacramento State belted three home runs in a 9-5 home win over San Francisco on Monday, Vinny Esposito and Kody Reynolds both homered again on Tuesday but the Dons rallied from a 6-1 deficit with 13 unanswered runs to record a 14-6 win on their home field.
San Francisco (19-19) scored six runs in the sixth inning with the big blow a Brady Bate grand slam and added five more runs in the seventh. The game began a five game road swing for Sacramento State (18-19), which opens a three-game WAC series at Seattle U on Friday.
Esposito and junior Andrew McWilliam both had two hits as the Hornets tallied two home runs and three doubles among their seven hits. Esposito hit his team-leading seventh home run of the season, equaling the most homers a Hornet has hit in a season since he hit eight as a freshman in 2015.
The Hornets scored a run in each of the first three innings of the game. Esposito hit a solo home run with two out in the first, McWilliam doubled to lead off the second inning and stole home after a PJ Floyd single moved him to third, and McWilliam doubled in James Outman with two away in the third.
San Francisco got on the board with a run in the fourth but in the top of the fifth Outman and Esposito reached and Reynolds hit a three-run homer to left field. Bate had an RBI double in the bottom of the fifth but the Hornets still led 6-2.
In the sixth, USF scored six runs despite recording just one hit. The Dons drew two walks, had two hit batters, and benefited from a Hornet throwing error to score two runs before Bate hit a grand slam to left field all before an out was recorded.
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