COLLEGE BASEBALL: PEPPERDINE FALLS SHORT IN COMEBACK BID LMU 6, PEPPERDINE 4.Byline: Daily News MALIBU - Jeff Stevens, a junior right-hander, allowed two runs over eight innings INNINGS, estates. Lands gained from the sea by draining. Cunn. L. Dict. h. t.; Law of Sewers, 31. of work Friday for visiting Loyola Marymount in a 6-4 victory over Pepperdine to open a three-game West Coast Conference series at Eddy D. Field Eddy D. Field is home of the Pepperdine University Waves' baseball team located in Malibu, California. It was originally built in 1973, but underwent renovations in 1980 and 1999. It now holds up to 2,000 spectators, all box seats. Stadium. The Waves (26-15, 12-6) had 13 hits, including 12 singles, but were unable to come up with clutch hits as they suffered their fifth conference loss in their last seven games to fall 2 1/2 games behind In sports, the phrase games behind, often abbreviated as GB in tables, is a common way to reflect the gap between a leading team and another team in a sports league, conference, or division. West Division leader San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden (31-12, 15-4). The Lions (18-23, 8-10) jumped out to an early lead, scoring three runs in the first inning. Pepperdine came back in the bottom half of the first and loaded the bases. The Waves could only manage a run, however, on a Luke Salas sacrifice fly. Loyola Marymount increased its lead to 5-1 with a pair of runs in the fifth. The Waves countered with a run of their own in the bottom of the inning Noun 1. bottom of the inning - the second half of an inning; while the home team is at bat bottom inning, frame - (baseball) one of nine divisions of play during which each team has a turn at bat to make the score 5-2. The Lions added a run in the seventh for a 6-2 lead before the Waves scored twice in the bottom of the ninth. Pepperdine will attempt to even the series in today's 3 p.m. game. |
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