UH baseball closes series with walk-off win against CSUF
All the right moves ended with the Wright timing in the Hawaii baseball team’s 6-5 victory over Cal State Fullerton at Les Murakami Stadium. An announced sold-out crowd — there were 2,258 through the turnstiles — saw Gabe Wright deliver the bases-loaded, walk-off single as the Rainbow Warriors took two of three to win this Big West series. Ben Zeigler-Namoa smacked a two-run homer, Mana Lau Kong came off the bench to deliver a clutch run-scoring double, and the ’Bows solved CSUF closer Andrew Wright.
In the 10th, UH head coach Rich Hill had to decide between switch-hitter Taylor Tanaka, who had scored the go-ahead run in the eighth inning or utility player Noah Rodriguez. Figuring that Andrew Wright was left-handed and Tanaka had not batted right-handed this season, Hill summoned Rodriguez as a pinch-hitter to open the 10th. “Noah takes a really tough at bat,” Hill said.
“He’s a high-contact guy. And (assistant) Coach (Dave) Nakama talked me into it. ” Rodriguez delivered a single to right field.
“The energy was huge in the dugout,” Rodriguez said. “Once I got my name called, the boys were behind me, and I felt good. That’s our culture.
When you get called, you have to be ready to go. … I believe it was a fastball out. It could have been a changeup.
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