SANTA CLARA, CALIF. — San Diego baseball (23-8, 9-4 WCC) stormed back for a 2-1 victory at Santa Clara (12-21, 5-11 WCC) on Friday afternoon, completing a ninth-inning comeback to earn a win in game one of the series on the road.

Sophomore Caleb Ricketts began the top of the ninth with a sharp single to deep right field, then true freshman Kevin Sim (Torrey Pines High School) laced a single into the left-center field gap that skipped past Broncos centerfielder Coleman Brigman, advancing Sim to third and scoring Ricketts to tie the game at one.

Sim scored the go-ahead run on graduate student Paul Kunst's sacrifice fly a batter later, and the Toreros had a 2-1 lead they would not relinquish.

Sophomore righty Jake Miller started the game on the mound for San Diego, firing 5.2 innings while allowing zero earned runs and just two hits, striking out four Santa Clara batters along the way.

He was relieved by a trio of redshirt sophomore Ryan Robinson, true freshman Ivran Romero, and graduate student Kieran Shaw on the mound, who combined for 3.1 scoreless innings to conclude the contest and finalize USD's 2-1 victory. Robinson has now thrown an even 15 innings this season while allowing only one run, Romero received the win on Friday to move to 3-1 on the year, and Shaw earned his team-leading sixth save of 2021 after he recorded the final out.

Sim and freshman Will Worthington paced the San Diego offense with two hits apiece, going 2-for-4 and 2-for-3, respectively, Ricketts was 1-for-3 with a run scored, and freshman Michael Dixon II notched his first hit of the 2021 season (a single) on Friday to go 1-for-1.

The series continues tomorrow afternoon at 1 p.m. at Stephen Schott Stadium.