SAN DIEGO — San Diego baseball (28-9, 14-5 WCC) dropped a 6-4 decision against conference foe BYU (18-23, 10-9 WCC) in ten innings late Thursday night at Fowler Park, snapping USD's eight-game win streak.
The Cougars pushed across the game's decisive runs in the top of the 10th when Andrew Pintar sent a two-run homer to left field to move the score to 6-4 in favor of BYU.
The Toreros plated four runs by way of RBI singles from freshman
Will Worthington and junior
Tora Otsuka, a solo home run to deep left field by senior
Adam Lopez, and an RBI double into the right-center field gap by graduate student
Thomas Luevano.
Junior catcher
Shane McGuire joined Luevano as the only other San Diego player with multiple hits in the contest, going 2-for-5 with a run scored and two singles.
Sophomore right-hander
Jake Miller started the game on the mound for USD and twirled a gem, setting a new career high in strikeouts (14) while allowing just two earned runs across seven innings of work. He walked none in his outing and scattered only four hits.
The WCC series continues tomorrow evening at Fowler Park. First pitch is set for 6 p.m.