2018 LMU Baseball Game Notes - GON

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LMU BASEBALL NOTES

2018 SCHEDULE ALL: 19-22 | WCC: 11-7 | HM: 12-8 | RD: 7-12 | NEU: 0-2

Page Stadium | One LMU Drive | Los Angeles, Calif. 90045 | www.LMULions.com | @LMULions @LMLionsBaseball | Baseball Contact: Tyler Geivett | tgeivett@lmu.edu | (310) 338-7638

Date Day Opponent

LMU LIONS (19-22, 11-7 WCC) AT GONZAGA BULLDOGS (20-18, 10-8 WCC) Friday, April 27 - Sunday, April 29, 2018 | Patterson Baseball Complex | Spokane, Wash. GAME 42-44 OF 52

ROAD GAME 20-22 OF 26

LMU: Snapped a three-game skid with win over USF on 4/13, but has now dropped four of the last six overall ... has lost 10 of the last 16 ... won seven straight games from 3/9 - 3/20 ... seven-game win streak was longest since winning eight straight from 3/24/17 - 4/4/17 ... started the season 3-10 for the first time since 2010 ... 2010 squad then won its next five straight and 10 of next 11 ... LMU went 9-2 over next 11 this year ... is 38-for-56 in stolen bases, and started the year 11-for-11 ... had a string of eight of nine games decided by two runs or less from 2/18 - 3/3 (2-6 in those eight) ... is 5-6 in one-run games this season and 3-2 in extra-inning affairs ... played consecutive extra-inning affairs on 2/18 and 2/20 for the first time since playing 10 and 9 (scheduled for 7) at UCSB and at Texas on March 4 and March 11, 2012 ... last played consecutive 10+-inning extra-inning affairs on April 30 and May 1, 2011 at San Francisco ... has played for the WCC Championship three of the last four years (losses to Pepperdine in 2014 and 2015, loss to BYU in 2017) ... last earned an NCAA berth in 2000 ... is picked to finish fifth in the WCC Preseason Coaches’ Poll ... is also picked fifth according to D1Baseball.com. LION TRACKS: Trevin Esquerra launched his fifth homer of the year, and LMU used six pitchers to piece together nine innings of one-run baseball, as the Lions turned in an efficient 4-1 victory over CSU Bakersfield on Tuesday night ... freshman Josh Robins was credited with the win after tossing 2.0 innings of relief ... Robins surrendered one run on two hits in the fifth inning, but moved to 2-1 with the win ... freshman CJ Fernandezees entered in the ninth with the Lions leading 4-1, and converted his first career save with a scoreless frame ... the 2:12 game is the fastest game of the year for LMU ... Isaac Meza impressed in a losing effort on Tuesday, allowing three runs on six hits with four strikeouts over 7.0 innings in the start for CSUB ... Holden Christian dealt 3.0 scoreless innings as LMU’s starter, issuing just one walk as the only blemish on his line.

THIS WEEK: LMU will travel to Spokane, Wash. this weekend to play a critical three-game West Coast Conference series at Gonzaga ... live links to follow the action can be found at LMULions.com. NIKO DECOLATI: Has managed 12 multi-hit games, including five of the last 10 games ... has hit safely in 8 of the last 10 ... batting .333 (13x39) with 10 runs scored, two doubles, a triple, two homers and four RBI over the last 10 games ... first on the team in runs scored (29) and slugging percentage (.452), and second in homers (4), triples (3) and doubles (9), and is third in steals (6). TREVIN ESQUERRA: Has managed seven runs scored, three doubles, a homer and six RBI while hitting .400 (14x35) over the last 10 games. KENNY OYAMA: Is hitting .364 (4x11) with four RBI over the last 5 games. NIKO PACHECO: Has managed three doubles and nine RBI in WCC play. JAMEY SMART: Named a candidate for Senior CLASS Award ... has hit safely in 31 of 41 games this year with 11 multi-hit games ... had multiple hits in 7 games over 12-game hit streak from 3/9-3/29 ... batted .444 (24x54) with 3 R, 5 2B and 21 RBI over hit streak ... batted .571 (8x14) with a run scored, a double and five RBI in the sweep over Valpo ... named Rawlings WCC Player of the Week on 3/26 after batting .312 with two doubles and seven crucial RBI in helping LMU to a 3-1 week the previous week ... leads the team in RBI (35), and is second in doubles (9), and third in home runs (2) ... batting .312 with six doubles, two homers and 20 RBI through 18 WCC games ... returns after being named first team All-WCC in 2017.

UPCOMING SCHEDULE | PROBABLE STARTERS DATE

OPPONENT

TIME

LMU PROBABLE

OPPONENT PROBABLE

Fri., 4/27 Sat., 4/28 Sun., 4/29 Tue., 5/8

at Gonzaga at Gonzaga at Gonzaga at CSU Bakersfield

6:00 p.m. 6:00 p.m. 12:00 p.m. 6:00 p.m.

RHP Codie Paiva (4-4, 3.98 ERA) RHP Tyler Cohen (1-1, 1.50 ERA) TBA TBA

RHP Daniel Bies (4-3, 2.51 ERA) RHP Alek Jacob (3-4, 2.98 ERA) LHP Mac Lardner (4-2, 2.63 ERA) TBA

PRESEASON POLL

AHEAD IN THE WEST COAST CONFERENCE THURSDAY, APRIL 26

San Diego at BYU

SATURDAY, APRIL 28

5:00 p.m.

FRIDAY, APRIL 27

Santa Clara at San Francisco Utah Valley at Saint Mary’s San Diego at BYU LMU at Gonzaga Pacific at Portland

3:00 p.m. 3:00 p.m. 5:00 p.m. 6:00 p.m. 6:00 p.m.

Utah Valley at Saint Mary’s San Diego at BYU Santa Clara at San Francisco Utah Valley at Saint Mary’s LMU at Gonzaga Pacific at Portland

SUNDAY, APRIL 29

10:00 a.m. 12:00 p.m. 1:00 p.m. 3:00 p.m. 6:00 p.m. 6:00 p.m.

2018 WEST COAST CONFERENCE STANDINGS SCHOOL

WCC %

GB

San Francisco Pepperdine LMU Saint Mary's Gonzaga BYU Portland San Diego Pacific Santa Clara

12-6 .667 12-6 .667 11-7 .611 10-8 .556 10-8 .556 7-8 .467 8-10 .444 7-11 .389 6-12 .333 4-11 .267

- - 1 2 2 3.5 4 5 6 6.5

OVERALL % STRK

23-18 .561 21-17 .553 19-22 .463 22-17 .564 20-18 .526 18-17 .514 15-24 .385 18-23 .439 15-24 .385 17-21 .447

L1 W7 W2 W2 L2 L3 L2 L4 L2 W1

LMU at Gonzaga Pacific at Portland Santa Clara at San Francisco Utah Valley at Saint Mary’s

12:00 p.m. 12:00 p.m. 1:00 p.m. 1:00 p.m.

NO

SCHOOL (1ST)

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

BYU (5) San Diego (4) Saint Mary's (1) Gonzaga LMU San Francisco Pepperdine Santa Clara Pacific Portland

PTS

74 71 66 57 53 36 35 27 19 12

WCC PLAYER OF WEEK

WCC PITCHER OF WEEK

DATE PLAYER

DATE PLAYER

2/19 2/26 3/5 3/12 3/19 3/26 4/2 4/9 4/16 4/23

2/19 2/26 3/5 3/12 3/19 3/26 4/2 4/9 4/16 4/23

Jake Brodt (SCU) Tora Otsuka (USD) Brock Hale (BYU) Beau Brundage (POR) Jake Brodt (SCU) Jamey Smart (LMU) Riley Helland (USF) Kevin Collard (USD) Jackson Thoreson (SMC) Jordan Qsar (PEP)

Paul Richan (USD) Paul Richan (USD) Codie Paiva (LMU) Ken Waldichuk (SMC) Daniel Bies (GON) Chris Murphy (USD) Alek Jacob (GON) Riley Ornido (USF) Connor Knutson (POR) Daniel Bies (GON)

Feb. 16 Feb. 17 Feb. 18 Feb. 20 Feb. 23 Feb. 24 Feb. 25 Feb. 27 Mar. 1 Mar. 2 Mar. 3 Mar. 4 Mar. 6 Mar. 9 Mar. 11 Mar. 11 Mar. 13 Mar. 15 Mar. 16 Mar. 17 Mar. 20 Mar. 23 Mar. 24 Mar. 25 Mar. 27 Mar. 29 Mar. 30 Mar. 31 Apr. 3 Apr. 6 Apr. 7 Apr. 8 Apr. 10 Apr. 13 Apr. 14 Apr. 15 Apr. 17 Apr. 18 Apr. 20 Apr. 21 Apr. 22 Apr. 24 Apr. 27 Apr. 28 Apr. 29 May. 8 May. 11 May. 12 May. 13 May. 15 May. 18 May. 19 May. 20 May. 24 May. 25 May. 26

Fri. Sat. Sun. Tue. Fri. Sat. Sun. Tue. Thu. Fri. Sat. Sun. Tue. Fri. Sun. Sun. Tue. Thu. Fri. Sat. Tue. Fri. Sat. Sun. Tue. Thu. Fri. Sat. Tue. Fri. Sat. Sun. Tue. Fri. Sat. Sun. Tue. Wed. Fri. Sat. Sun. Tue. Fri. Sat. Sun. Tue. Fri. Sat. Sun. Tue. Fri. Sat. Sun. Thu. Fri. Sat.

Time/Result

vs. Oregon ! L, 6-1 vs. Indiana State ! L, 8-2 at UNLV ! L, 11-10 (10) UC Irvine L, 6-5 (11) Oregon W, 4-2 Oregon L, 2-1 Oregon L, 9-7 (8) at USC L, 3-2 at Hawai’i W, 3-0 at Hawai’i W, 4-2 at Hawai’i L, 5-3 at Hawai’i L, 4-0 at #11 UCLA L, 12-1 Valparaiso W, 10-3 Valparaiso (1) W, 7-4 Valparaiso (2) W, 15-5 USC PSTPND (Fog) at BYU * W, 7-4 at BYU * W, 9-8 (12) at BYU * W, 9-4 Long Beach State W, 5-4 (10) Pepperdine * L, 6-2 Pepperdine * W, 5-3 Pepperdine * W, 4-3 at UC Irvine L, 10-2 at Pacific * W, 13-4 at Pacific * L, 3-2 at Pacific * L, 7-5 #20 UCLA L, 13-1 at San Diego * W, 4-3 at San Diego * L, 11-4 at San Diego * L, 18-6 at UC Santa Barbara L, 13-4 San Francisco * W, 6-3 San Francisco * W, 6-3 San Francisco * W, 4-3 (11) at Long Beach State L, 9-6 USC L, 6-1 Portland * L, 6-1 Portland * L, 2-1 Portland * W, 8-2 CSU Bakersfield W, 4-1 at Gonzaga * 6:00 p.m. at Gonzaga * 6:00 p.m. at Gonzaga * 12:00 p.m. at CSU Bakersfield 6:00 p.m. at Santa Clara * 6:00 p.m. at Santa Clara * 1:00 p.m. at Santa Clara * 12:00 p.m. Grand Canyon 6:00 p.m. Saint Mary’s * 6:00 p.m. Saint Mary’s * 6:00 p.m. Saint Mary’s * 1:00 p.m. WCC Championship Series TBA WCC Championship Series TBA WCC Championship Series TBA

Home Games | ! - Marucci Desert Classic (Las Vegas) | * - WCC Game

LMU VS. GONZAGA

OVERALL HOME ROAD

All-Time Record 41-44 28-16 11-27 Current Streak L2 L3 L1 Last 5 1-4 1-4 3-2 Last 10 3-7 4-6 5-5 Notable LMU has L 7 of last 9 after W previous 5 straight DATE SITE RESULT

5/26/17 5/14/17 5/13/17 5/12/17 5/15/16 5/14/16 5/13/16 3/29/15

WCC Champs GON GON GON LMU LMU LMU LMU

L, 3-1 L, 6-5 W, 4-0 L, 6-3 L, 9-7 L, 4-0 L, 4-1 W, 4-2


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