Jan. 23, 2005
Box Score
(San Diego, CA) - The University of San Diego Toreros committed five errors and surrendered an early four-run lead in losing its third straight to visiting Cal Poly SLO 10-6 Sunday afternoon at USD's Cunningham Stadium. No. 36 Cal Poly SLO (3-0) and No. 48 San Diego (0-3) both brought preseason national rankings into the weekend series, the first Division I baseball games in the nation this season.
USD standout C/DH Jordan Abruzzo hit his second homerun of the weekend Sunday and finished the series with six RBIs, going 5-for-12 with three extra-base hits.
Mustang starter Gary Daley began the game by throwing 14 consecutive balls, walking in a run before being pulled during the fifth batter he faced. San Diego went on to score four first-inning runs and led 5-1 after two complete frames.
San Diego starting pitcher, right-hander Josh Butler (0-2) lasted just two and two thirds innings, thanks in large part to three costly fielding errors by the USD defense behind him. Cal Poly scored six third-inning runs off Butler (five unearned) without registering an extra-base hit. In fact the Mustangs would not post an extra-base hit all afternoon, but still managed to score 10 runs on 13 singles.
San Diego manufactured a run on a Matthew Weston groundout, pulling the Toreros to within one, 7-6, in the bottom of the seventh.
Much like the two previous games Friday and Saturday, Cal Poly scored late and often- scoring three unearned runs off Torero reliever Sean Warlop in the top of the eighth.
Abruzzo, who hit a towering solo homerun in the second inning, was the only Torero to have a multi-hit afternoon, going 2-for-3 and scoring two of San Diego's six runs.
