Please note that Saturday's game has been moved up from 1:00 p.m. to 12:00 p.m.
Projected Starting Pitcher Matchups
Thursday, May 16 - 6:00 p.m. - Mountain West Network
SDSU: RHP Justin Goossen-Brown (5-4, 3.84 ERA)
UNM: RHP Drew Gillespie (2-6, 8.84 ERA)
Friday, May 17 - 6:00 p.m. - Mountain West Network
SDSU: TBA
UNM: RHP Justin Slaten (4-5, 2.72 ERA)
Saturday, May 18 - 12:00 p.m. - Mountain West Network
SDSU: TBA
UNM: RHP Nathaniel Garley (5-4, 5.37 ERA)
Aztec Storylines
REGULAR SEASON FINALE: San Diego State concludes the 2019 regular season this weekend, hosting New Mexico for a three-game series starting Thursday at 6:00 p.m.
All three games will air on the Mountain West Network. Links to watch and follow along with live stats are available on GoAztecs.com.
SENIOR WEEKEND: San Diego State will honor its five seniors, Chad Bible, Justin Goossen-Brown, Harrison Pyatt, Angelo Armenta, and Brad Wegman during a pregame ceremony on Saturday. Over the last four years, SDSU has won a pair of Mountain West Championships and compiled a record of 133-101 (.568).
SERIES HISTORY WITH THE LOBOS: With SDSU leading the all-time series with New Mexico 116-81, SDSU's 116 all-time wins against the Lobos mark as the most wins against any other program.1
SDSU's most wins vs. opposing programs
1. New Mexico 116
2. Air Force 111
T3. Utah 102
T3. Fresno State 102
5. UNLV 94
SDSU won the series in Albuquerque earlier this season, winning each of the first two games before falling in the series finale. In the middle game, SDSU recorded a 19-3 win that features season-highs in runs (19), hits (20), RBIs (18), and total bases (32).
30-WIN MARK: SDSU secured its sixth 30+ win season in the last seven years in a 10-5 win over Brigham Young on May 6. The Aztecs are the only team in the Mountain West to have won 30 or more games six times in the last seven years.
SDSU's run of six 30+ wins over the last seven years marks the first time since 1992-98 that the Aztecs have recorded six 30+ win seasons over a seven-year span.
GAME NO. 300 FOR MARTINEZ: Friday's game marks as head coach Mark Martinez's 300th game at the helm for SDSU. Below is a list of where Martinez ranks among the other four head coaches in SDSU history in regards to win total through their first 300 games at SDSU.
Charlie Smith (1936-64) 183
Mark Martinez (2015-present) 174*
Lyle Olsen (1965-71) 168
Jim Dietz (1972-2002) 166
Tony Gwynn (2002-14) 141
*currently at 298 career games as head coach at SDSU
HOME SWEET HOME: After setting a Tony Gwynn Stadium record with 25 home wins last season, SDSU has continued to play well on its home field in 2019 and enters this weekend having won nine of their last 10 home games. Overall, SDSU is 20-10 at home this season.
The Aztecs have an identical .281 batting average in both home games and away games, but the Aztec pitching staff has recorded a 3.91 ERA and .247 opponent batting average in comparison to a 4.71 ERA and .286 opponent batting average in road games.
Matt Rudick leads the team with a .364 batting average and .468 on-base percentage in home games. In addition, Rudick has reached base in 23 consecutive home games -- the longest streak since Chase Calabuig ended his career last season with a Tony Gwynn Stadium record 54-game on-base streak in home games.
RUDICK MAKING HISTORY: Matt Rudick has reached base in 38 consecutive Mountain West games, marking the longest in-conference on-base streak for the Aztecs since Quintin Berry reached base in 48 consecutive Mountain West games from 2005-06. Berry, who went on to play parts of five seasons in Major League Baseball, reached base in every single one of his Mountain West games played.
Earlier this season, Rudick posted a 21-game hitting streak -- the third-longest hitting streak by an Aztec since 2000. Rudick's 21-game hitting streak marks as the sixth longest streak in the nation this season.
Rudick has recorded a hit in 47 of his 52 games this season and has reached base in 50 of 52 games in 2019. Interestingly enough, the Aztecs are just 1-4 in games where Rudick does not record a hit.
TALE OF TWO SEASONS: Over the last 27 games, San Diego State relievers have combined for a 2.52 ERA, .240 opponent batting average, and have struck out 133 batters in 128.1 innings.
Over the first 25 games of the season, the SDSU bullpen owned a 5.17 ERA and .265 opponent batting average.
SCHMITT CLIMBING SDSU'S ALL-TIME SAVES LEADER CHART: With eight saves this season, Casey Schmitt is in a tie for fifth in program history with Mark Williamson with 17 career saves. In his second season as the Aztecs closer, Schmitt owns a career 2.40 ERA over 40 career appearances.
Royce Ring (2000-02) 26
Addison Reed (2008-10) 24
CJ Saylor (2014-17) 24
Michael Cederoth (2011-14) 20
Casey Schmitt (2018-present) 17
Mark Williamson (1981-82) 17
THE INJURY BUG: The Aztecs, who started the season with Logan Boyer, Harrison Pyatt, and Brad Wegman as their three weekend starters have needed to use 11 different starters in the 2019 season due to injuries suffered by all three. SDSU's 11 different starting pitchers used are their most since using 12 in 2012.
CALIFORNIA LOVE: Since 2014, the Aztecs lead all Division I California programs in win total. Also, over that span, SDSU is 107-53 (.669) when playing teams based in California.
Team Wins
San Diego State 216
Stanford 215
UC Santa Barbara 209
Cal State Fullerton 206
Sacramento State 201
SEEING DOUBLE: SDSU leads the nation with 60 double plays turned this season. Since the start of the 2017 season, SDSU's 186 double plays turned are the most among any team in the nation.
STRANGE BUT TRUE: The Aztecs are going through an uncharacteristic season in terms of fielding, owning a .963 fielding percentage in 2019 -- the program's lowest since a .959 mark in 2012. However, the Aztecs have found ways to win games despite defensive miscues, as the Aztecs are 8-1 this season when recording three or more errors.
ADRIAN MARDUENO IS REALLY GOOD: Including Collegiate Baseball National Player of the Week, Perfect Game National Pitcher of the Week, and Mountain West Pitcher of the Week awards received on April 8-9, Marudeno has been the Mountain West's most dominant arm during the 2019 season, leading the conference in ERA (1.46) and opponent batting average (.176).
Mardueno, who led the Aztecs in inherited runners stranded percentage as both a freshman and sophomore, leads the Aztecs once again as a junior, having stranded 78.2 percent (25 of 32) of his inherited base runners this season. Since April 2, Mardueno has stranded 16 of his last 17 inherited runners and each of his last 11.
Mardueno's ERA also stands as seventh best in the country, while his 5.46 hits allowed per nine innings is 12th best in the country. Mardueno is one of just five pitchers in the country to be in the top 12 of both ERA and hits allowed per nine innings, joined by Georgia's Emerson Hancock, UCLA's Ryan Garcia, Navy's Noah Song, and Mississippi State's Ethan Small.
Mardueno, who logged a 4-0 record and 0.82 ERA over 22 innings pitched in the month of April, was named a San Diego Sports Association Star of the Month for his efforts.
STRIKEOUTS GALORE: SDSU has recorded 24 games with 10 or more strikeouts this season, marking the most double-digit strikeout performances for the Aztecs in the Mountain West era (since 2000). SDSU passed the previous MW-era record of 23 set in 2009 in last Saturday's 10-6 win at Fresno State.
The Aztecs are 16-8 in their 24 games when striking out 10 or more batters.
SDSU has recorded 455 strikeouts, averaging 8.9 strikeouts per nine innings this season. Should the Aztecs continue that pace for the remainder of the regular season, SDSU would enter the Mountain West Championships with 482 strikeouts over 55 games.
SDSU has not posted a 500+ strikeout season since 2015, where SDSU logged 510 punchouts over 64 games. The Aztecs have had five previous seasons with 500 or more strikeouts in its 83-year history, including a program record of 581 in 1997.
Baseball Wraps Up 2019 Regular Season This Weekend
