San Diego Toreros (11-24, 6-3 WCC)  • Portland Pilots (17-20, 9-3 WCC)

Fowler Park (1,700) • San Diego, California

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SAN DIEGO — Winners of five in a row and fresh off a dominant WCC sweep, San Diego baseball (11-24, 6-3 WCC) is set to return home this weekend for a crucial West Coast Conference series, hosting Portland (17-20, 9-3 WCC) at Fowler Park from April 17-19.

First pitch in the series opener on Thursday night is set for 6:00 p.m., followed by another 6 p.m. start on Friday. Saturday's finale is set for 12:00 p.m.

All three games will be streamed live on ESPN+ with Braden Surprenant on the call. A live audio simulcast will be available alongside live statistics on USDToreros.com.

FIVE WINS IN A ROW
USD enters Thursday night's action on a five-game win streak. That streak includes...

• A 4-3 win in 14 innings at No. 14 UCLA

• A walk-off win over crosstown rival UC San Diego at Fowler Park

• Three wins at Saint Mary's

LAST TIME OUT: A BIG SWEEP IN MORAGA
• The Toreros prevailed in all three games at Saint Mary's over the weekend (April 11-13) to earn their first sweep of 2025, prevailing by a 10-1 margin in game one before securing a 23-8 run-rule victory in seven innings on Saturday and earning a 7-2 comeback win on Sunday.

A REMARKABLE FIRST INNING; A HIGH-SCORING AFTERNOON
• Each of the Toreros' first 13 batters reached base in Saturday afternoon (April 12)'s opening frame at Saint Mary's, hammering out 11 hits and drawing five walks as 49 minutes ticked by and 19 total batters came to the plate.

• Jack Gurevitch set the tone with a leadoff home run before eight different Toreros drove in a run in the top of the first. Connor Meidroth accounted for two of those RBIs by singling twice. 

• Eleven USD players teamed up to total 21 hits for San Diego on the afternoon, including four (AJ Beltre, Rex Watson, AJ Anzai, and Meidroth) with three apiece. Beltre led the way with five RBIs and five runs scored, while Anzai drove in four, and Smith and Watson both plated three.

• Gurevitch, Isaiah Lane, and Austin Smith all crossed the plate three times, headlining a group of 10 Toreros that came around to score.

• USD's 23-run effort on Saturday afternoon marked the Toreros' most runs scored in a single game since March 5, 2019, when they beat UC Riverside 31-3.

• It marks San Diego's highest-scoring effort under head coach Brock Ungricht, surpassing the Toreros' 22-run, 19-hit effort against Portland on May 27, 2022 in the second round of the WCC Tournament at Banner Island Ballpark.

REX WATSON EARNS SECOND WCC FRESHMAN OF THE WEEK HONOR
• Rex Watson has been named the WCC Freshman of the Week for April 14, 2025, the West Coast Conference announced on Monday afternoon.

• Watson helped San Diego put together an undefeated week by notching hits in all four of the Toreros' games, batting .316 (6-for-19) with five runs scored, two home runs, 11 RBI and a walk.

• He began his week by hammering a game-tying grand slam against crosstown rival UC San Diego on Tuesday night, and then drove in three runs on Friday at Saint Mary's, launching another homer.

• He was 3-for-6 with three more RBI in USD's 23-8 romp over the Gaels on Saturday.

• Watson finished strong by notching an RBI single and scored in the finale from Moraga.

• This is Watson's second conference Freshman of the Week award (March 17) and USD's fifth weekly WCC honor this season after Hayden Cody (April 7) and Logan Reddemann (March 10) were named the WCC Pitcher of the Week and Austin Smith (April 7) was named the WCC Player of the Week.

THE KID CAN DRIVE IN RUNS
• Watson's 34 RBIs in 2025 are tied with Austin Smith for the most on the USD roster, and he enters Thursday night's action on a four-game hit streak.

• Watson's 10 multi-RBI games in 2025 are the most of any Torero. He's driven in two runs four times, three runs three times, and four runs three times.

REX IS GRAND
• Eight of Watson's 34 RBIs in 2025 have come via two grand slams. Both of them have come in pivotal moments for USD.

• His first one came on March 16 against Columbia, breaking a 2-2 tie at Fowler Park as he put the Toreros ahead by a 6-2 margin.

• Watson's second grand slam was on April 8, when he tied the game with a seventh-inning homer that helped USD beat crosstown rival UC San Diego at Fowler Park.

SMITH'S STREAK
• Senior left-handed pitcher/designated hitter/outfielder Austin Smith enters Thursday night's action on a 26-game hit streak that dates back to March 1 and includes 14 multi-hit performances.

• He is 41-for-110 (.372) during this hit streak with 12 doubles, one triple, six home runs, and 29 RBIs.

• The longest hit streak in USD baseball history is 31 games, achieved by Josh Harris in 2000; research on historical Torero hit streaks prior to 2021 is ongoing.

GUREVITCH STAYS HOT
• Junior infielder Jack Gurevitch is batting .346 (17-for-49) in his last eight games, scoring 15 runs, smashing four home runs, and driving in 13 runs while drawing eight walks in that span.

• He leads USD with a .365 (50-for-137) batting average in 2025 and is pacing the team with eight homers and 86 total bases. His 29 RBIs this season rank third on the San Diego roster.

• In January, Gurevitch was selected to the 2025 WCC Preseason Team and was named the 2025 Perfect Game WCC Preseason Player of the Year.

USD BASEBALL ALUM CHASE MEIDROTH MAKES MLB DEBUT
• San Diego baseball alum Chase Meidroth was recalled by the Chicago White Sox from Class AAA Charlotte last Friday (April 11) and made his Major League debut the same day.

• He has appeared in five games for the White Sox as of Wednesday (April 16) evening and is 4-for-12 (.333) at the plate with three runs scored and four walks while appearing at both second base and shortstop.

• Meidroth helped lead the Toreros to a WCC Tournament Championship and an upset win over Vanderbilt in the NCAA Corvallis Regional as a junior in 2022.

• A two-time WCC Player of the Week, he was selected to the 2022 All-WCC First Team after appearing in 56 of San Diego's 57 games that season, including 49 starts at second base and seven at third. He batted .329 (85-for-228) with 53 runs scored, 19 doubles, 10 home runs, 47 RBIs,  a team-high 40 walks, and six stolen bases as USD posted a 37-20 (17-10 WCC) record.

• Meidroth, already one of 138 Toreros to either be drafted by or sign with a MLB team, is the 26th player in program history to reach the Major Leagues.

• He is the fourth Torero on an active MLB roster in 2025, joining Riley Adams (Washington Nationals), Paul Sewald (Cleveland Guardians), and Connor Joe (San Diego Padres).

• Chris Murphy, who prior to Meidroth was the most recent former USD player to reach the big leagues when he got the call from the Boston Red Sox in 2023, is currently on the 60-Day Injured List.

• Torero Legend and USD Athletics Hall of Famer Kris Bryant (Colorado Rockies) is currently on the 10-day Injured List.

• Meidroth is the first player to have played under Brock Ungricht as head coach at USD to make his MLB debut.

GOOD WEEKEND TO BE A MEIDROTH
• As his older brother — former Torero standout Chase Meidroth — made his MLB debut with the Chicago White Sox, San Diego infielder Connor Meidroth put together a highly productive weekend for the Toreros up in Moraga.

• Connor was 5-for-9 (.555) across five games at Saint Mary's from April 11-13 with six runs scored, his first college homer, and five RBIs.

• The series saw Meidroth set career highs in runs scored (four, April 11) and hits (three, April 12).

TRIPLE THREAT
• Seven different Toreros (Isaiah Lane, Jack Gurevitch, Austin Smith, Nico Libed, Gabe D'Arcy, Jayden Lobliner, and Rex Watson) have notched a triple in 2025.

• Lane (two) is the only USD player (and just one of six players in the WCC) with more than one.

• San Diego's eight total triples through 35 games this season are the second-most in the WCC (LMU, 13), and are just one shy of the final tally of nine triples the Torero achieved across 56 games in 2024.

LIFE IN THE FAST LANE
• Isaiah Lane, who is hitting .324 (36-for-111) overall so far this season with five home runs and 16 RBIs, has recorded 11 multi-hit games in 2025 and has hit safely in 25 of his first 31 games as a Torero.

• He has compiled five multi-RBI games in 2025 including a two-home run performance on March 1 against Cal State Bakersfield.

• A native of nearby Chula Vista, California and a graduate of Eastlake High School, Lane joined USD as a transfer after spending his freshman year at Oklahoma.

OUCH!
• Freshman outfielder Rex Watson has been hit by 12 pitches across 33 games so far in 2025, which is the most of any Torero and is tied for the fourth-most HBPs among all WCC players.

• In total, San Diego has been hit by 63 pitches this season, which ranks third in the WCC.

ALL-TIME SERIES AGAINST PORTLAND
• The Toreros are 67-33 against the Pilots all-time, and have won four of their last six matchups against UP dating back to 2023.

• USD last faced Portland in last season's WCC Tournament at Las Vegas Ballpark. San Diego defeated the Pilots in back-to-back games in the event's Semifinal (May 24) and Championship (May 25) by scores of 7-5 and 8-6 to secure the 2024 WCC Tournament title.

• San Diego dropped two of three at Portland during the 2024 regular season (April 12-14), falling to the Pilots 5-1 and 13-4 at Joe Etzel Field after prevailing 10-4 in the series opener.

• The Toreros most recently hosted Portland at Fowler Park in 2023, when it also won just one of three games against UP. USD was defeated by 8-7 and 9-5 margins in game one and two before earning a thrilling 7-6 walk-off win in the Sunday finale.

• Jack Gurevitch delivered the game-winning hit that afternoon, sending an RBI single to left field  in the bottom of the ninth inning to complete a three-run comeback.

FOR STARTERS (PROBABLE)
THURSDAY: Sophomore righty Logan Reddemann, the reigning WCC Freshman of the Year and a 2024 NCBWA Freshman Second Team All-American and 2024 All-WCC First Team selection, is set to take the mound for USD in the series opener versus Portland on Thursday night.

• Reddemann (2-1, 1.74 ERA) last pitched on April 11 at Saint Mary's, when he held the Gaels to just one earned run on four hits across seven innings while striking out two and walking only one. He entered for Austin Smith in the second inning that day in what marked his first relief appearance since March 28, 2024.

• His 1.74 ERA leads the WCC in 2025 and ranks ninth nationally. His 0.90 WHIP leads the WCC and ranks 12th nationally and his 5.00 strikeout-to-walk ratio leads the WCC and is the 40th-best mark in the country. His average of 6.31 hits allowed per nine innings leads the WCC and ranks 56th nationally.

•Thursday will mark the second time in 2025 that Reddemann has started a series opener for San Diego after also doing so last Friday (April 11) at Saint Mary's.

• He started three series-opening games for USD in 2024.

• Reddemann was named the WCC Pitcher of the Week for March 10, 2025 after throwing six shutout innings at No. 8 Oregon State on March 8. He scattered six hits in his outing against the Beavers, walked none, and struck out seven as he stranded six runners to keep the home team off the board.

• He threw five solid innings in his 2025 debut against No. 23 TCU at Fowler Park (February 15), striking out eight while giving up three earned runs on just three hits.

• This offseason, Reddemann was also named the 2025 Perfect Game Preseason WCC Player of the Year, to the 2025 Perfect Game Preseason All-WCC Team, and to the 2025 WCC Baseball Preseason Team.

• He made 13 starts for USD in his dominant debut season in 2024, accumulating a 7-4 record with a 4.01 ERA and a 1.31 HIP in 15 total appearances.

• In a team-high 76.1 innings last year, Reddemann struck out a team second-best 66 hitters, as well as starting two games that ended in shutouts.

• He was one of two players with seven wins for the Toreros on the mound in 2024, as he limited opposing players to a .224 batting average

• Reddemann was also one of two Toreros in 2024 to go eight total innings without allowing a run (May 4 vs Santa Clara)

• He became one of two USD players to strike out 10 hitters in a single outing in 2024 when he threw seven shutout frames on March 28 at Pacific while allowing just two hits and one walk.

• Reddemann pitched three innings in game two of San Diego's series versus Arizona at Fowler Park last year, allowing three runs (two earned) on five hits while walking just one and striking out six. USD went on to win that game by a score of 6-4.

• Hailing from Palmdale, California, Reddemann attended Quartz Hill High School in Lancaster, California, where he batted .420 across his prep career and compiled a 1.62 ERA. He earned First Team All-CIF Southern Selection honors in 2022 and 2023 and threw a perfect game during his senior season that included 11 strikeouts while going 3-for-4 at the plate with two doubles.

• Reddemann is a switch-hitting two-way player who can play middle infield and outfield and is an option as a pinch runner in addition to pitching. He has totaled 25 at-bats across 18 games in 2025, and has recorded a double, a single, two walks, two hit by pitches, and a stolen base.

• Despite his youth, Reddemann brings big-game experience to the Torero rotation, having started in two postseason games in 2024: one against Portland in the WCC Tournament Championship , and one against the Gauchos in a 2024 NCAA Santa Barbara Regional elimination game.

FRIDAY: Redshirt freshman RHP Cal Scolari (2-2, 5.30 ERA) is scheduled to start for San Diego in game two on Friday.

• Scolari last pitched on Saturday, April 12 in game two at Saint Mary's, throwing four innings while allowing six earned runs on eight hits, walking three, and striking out two.

• He started each of San Diego's first four Friday contests in 2025 before pitching in the Toreros' next two Sunday afternoon matchups. This week will mark his second start in game two of a series this season.

• He shined in his collegiate debut in USD's season opener vs No. 23 TCU on February 14, striking out nine through five one-hit shutout innings.

• Scolari was inactive for the entirety of his true freshman year at USD and his final year of high school while recovering from an arm injury.  He attended Bishop Manogue Catholic High School in Reno, Nevada, where he last pitched as a junior, posting a 2.50 ERA across 50.1 innings on the mound.

• As a high school sophomore, he earned Second Team All-Region honors, followed by First Team All-Region honors as a junior

• Scolari was ranked the No. 7 player in Nevada and was one of Collegiate Baseball Newspapers'  Top High-School Players list  in 2023.

SATURDAY: Junior right-hander David Horn Jr. (0-1, 7.11 ERA) is set to start on the mound for USD in Saturday's series finale at Fowler Park in what will mark his seventh appearance and fifth start as a Torero.
• Horn last pitched in game three at Saint Mary's (April 13) last week, allowing four runs (two earned) on four hits and two walks while striking out one.

• His longest college outing is three innings, a distance that he has gone three times: May 9, 2023 at Louisville while with Vanderbilt, on March 15, 2025 against Columbia at Fowler Park with USD, and on April 6, 2025 as a Torero at No. 14 UCLA.

• Horn, a native of nearby Mission Viejo, California and a graduate of JSerra High School, transferred to USD for the 2025 season after spending the first two years of his college career at Vanderbilt.

• He made 18 appearances that spanned 24 innings with the Commodores in 2023 and 2024, posting a 3-0 career record at VU with a 7.13 ERA while striking out 26 batters and walking 24.