UH baseball team suffers road loss at UC Davis
The Hawaii baseball team had too much unfinished business in Saturday’s 4-2 road loss to UC Davis at Dobbins Stadium on the UCD campus. A crowd of 547 saw the Rainbow Warriors strand five runners in scoring position, hit into two momentum-deflating double plays and yield a two-run homer that proved to be the margin. “Two-out hits are golden,” said Hill, whose ’Bows were 1-for-7 with two outs.
“We got one with Benny (Zeigler-Namoa) at the end, which was great. I think we left a lot of guys on base. It was tough to score runs.
The team that deserved to win the game won the game, in my opinion. ” The outcome evened this three-game series at a win apiece, and dropped the Rainbow Warriors to 25-20 overall and 14-12 in the Big West. The ’Bows remain in a fourth-place tie with Cal State Fullerton, two games ahead of sixth-place UC Irvine, with four games remaining in the regular season.
The top five teams qualify for the Big West Tournament. The Aggies took a 1-0 lead in part because of two debatable calls in the third inning. Joey Wright was ruled to have been struck by a pitch with one out in the third.
Wright scooted to third on Zach Story’s double to left. There were no “official” replays, but ESPN+ appeared to show that Wright avoided being hit by the pitch, and UH left fielder Draven Nushida threw out Story at second on the double. Tyler Howard’s RBI grounder produced the game’s first run.