Hawaii baseball team runs into hot pitching staff
The Hawaii baseball team’s best efforts added up to zilch in Friday’s 2-0 loss to Cal State Bakersfield at Hardt Field on the Kern County, Calif. , campus. Before a crowd of 509, the Rainbow Warriors had opportunities but no answers to the 1-2 pitching of Ryan King and Jacob Gutierrez nor a Roadrunner defense led by shortstop Elijah Pelayo and catcher Kanoa Morisaki.
“King was fantastic,” CSUB assistant coach Bailey Montgomery told ESPN+ reporters. And Guti was in control, as usual. ” King allowed three hits in six scoreless innings.
Gutierrez, who was the Roadrunners’ Sunday starter a year ago, earned the nine-out save. “The story of the night was offense or lack of it,” UH head coach Rich Hill said. “As coaches, we need to go back to the drawing board and be better and put guys in position to where they’re more prepared at the dish.
Totally my fault. ” The Rainbow Warriors could not capitalize after placing five runners at third base. In the UH third, Jake Redding drew a leadoff walk and went to second on Kody Watanabe’s single.
On a wild pitch to Taylor Takata, Morisaki threw out Watanabe at second base as Redding sped to third. On an attempted squeeze, Redding was caught between third and home. He eventually was tagged out.