Feb. 25, 2008
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - San Diego State senior Garett Green and sophomore right-hander Stephen Strasburg have been named Mountain West Conference Player and Pitcher of the Week, respectively. This is the second career weekly honor for Strasburg and the first for Green.
Green, from Anaheim Hills, Calif., batted .615 (8-for-13) from the plate, with two home runs, two doubles, one triple, eight runs scored and seven RBI, as the Aztecs went 2-1 vs. fifth-ranked San Diego last week. In the 11-2 season-opening win over the Toreros, Green went 1-for-4 with one RBI and one run scored. In the first game of Saturday's doubleheader, he went 4-for-5, with a pair of homers, a double and a triple, just missing hitting for the cycle. Green also scored four times, while knocking in three RBI.
In Saturday's second game, he just missed hitting for the cycle again, going 3-for-4 with a triple, double and a single. Green scored SDSU's first run of the game after doubling in the second inning. He then tripled in a run and scored another in the next inning. For the doubleheader, he was 7-for-9 with two doubles, a triple and a pair of home runs. From the field, Green had six putouts, while assisting on eight others and committing no errors.
In the season opener, Strasburg held No. 5 San Diego to just a pair of runs on five hits in the Aztecs' 11-2 win. After walking the first batter he faced in the game, the San Diego, Calif., native did not allow another walk, while striking out seven for the game. After giving up two runs in the third, he retired nine in a row over the middle innings. In his final six innings of work, he retired 17 of 19 batters faced. Strasburg held the Toreros to a .185 batting average for the game.
After defeating the University of San Diego twice in three games over the weekend, San Diego State finds itself ranked 22nd in the nation in Baseball America's poll that was released Monday morning.
The Aztecs and Toreros are scheduled to meet today (Monday, Feb. 25) at 2:00 p.m. at USD's Cunningham Stadium in the makeup contest of the one that was postponed on Sunday due to rain.