SAN DIEGO – Behind an eight-run sixth inning and Justin Goossen-Brown's first win of the season San Diego State baseball team finished off the Tony Gwynn Legacy with a 10-7 win over Kansas State on Sunday afternoon at Tony Gwynn Stadium. The Aztecs improve to 5-2 on the young season, while the Wildcats fall to 3-5.
After falling into a 3-0 hole after the top of the third, SDSU responded with a single run in both the third and fourth innings to cut the deficit to 3-2. Angelo Armenta scored Jaden Fein with a bloop single to right field in the third, while Fein later returned the favor and recorded a two-out RBI single to score Brian Leonhardt in the fourth.
SDSU broke through with an eight-run sixth inning, beginning with a run of five consecutive batters safely reaching base. Leonhardt, Fein, Jacob Maekawa, and Matt Rudick all logged RBIs in the inning before Chad Bible pushed the SDSU lead to 10-4 after a bases-clearing two-out 3 RBI double.
With SDSU starter Brad Wegman exiting the game after the first inning, SDSU relied mostly on Justin Goossen-Brown, who recorded three innings of shutout, one-hit relief to earn his first win of the season. Goossen-Brown finished his outing with four strikeouts and one walk allowed against the 11 batters he faced.
Notes
· SDSU improves to 5-2 this season. Both of SDSU's losses this season have come by a one-run margin.
· SDSU improves to 28-1 when scoring 10 or more runs since the start of the 2017 season.
· Julian Escobedo reached base in his 31st consecutive game, good for the longest on-base streak since Chase Calabuig reached base in 32 consecutive games in 2015.
· Justin Goossen-Brown earned his first win of the season and the sixth win of his career. Making his third appearance of the week, Goossen-Brown logged a 1.08 ERA in 8.1 innings pitched with a .111 opponent batting average, three hits allowed, seven strikeouts, and two walks.
· SDSU's eight-run sixth inning marks as biggest single-inning offensive outburst since scoring 10 against Fresno State in the first inning on May 25, 2017.
· SDSU snapped a three-game losing streak when playing Kansas State. It was the first meeting with the Wildcats since 2012.
· Brian Leonhardt, Jacob Maekawa, and Jaden Fein all recorded two-hit performances. The multi-hit effort for Leonhardt marks as his team-high fourth multi-hit game of the season, while Maekawa logged his second consecutive multi-hit game. With two career starts, Fein has recorded two hits in each of his first pair of collegiate starts.
- With eight strikeouts today, this marks as the first game this season SDSU had not struck out 12 or more opposing batters.
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