COLLEGE BASEBALL ROUNDUP: LMU SAVES IT FOR KAHN.Byline: Daily News Stephen Kahn's best outing of the season almost went for naught, but Loyola Marymount relievers worked out of jams in the eighth and ninth innings to preserve a 6-4 victory over visiting San Diego San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. in a West Coast Conference baseball opener Friday. Kahn (2-1), who entered the game with a 5.87 ERA, held the Toreros to four hits with nine strikeouts in seven innings. The junior right-hander left the game with a 6-3 advantage, but saw San Diego (16-12-1) score a run on an error in the eighth inning before loading the bases with one out. The Toreros again put the tying run in scoring position In the sport of baseball, a baserunner is said to be in scoring position when he is on second or third base. The distinction between being on first base and second or third base is that a runner on first can usually only score if the batter hits an extra base hit, while a runner on in the ninth, but reliever Erik Reyes induced a ground out by the only batter he faced - pinch-hitter Logan Gelbrich - to end the rainy, four-hour affair. The victory is just the second in the last eight games for the defending WCC WCC n abbr (= World Council of Churches) → COE m (Conseil œcuménique des Églises) WCC n abbr (= World Council of Churches) → Weltkirchenrat m Coast Division Lions (6-12), who continue the three-game home series at 1 p.m. today. Joe Frazee, Kyle Mura and Evan Shahak each had two hits for LMU LMU Ludwig Maximilians Universität (München) LMU Loyola Marymount University LMU Leeds Metropolitan University (UK) LMU Lincoln Memorial University LMU Location Measurement Unit , with Shahak adding two RBI RBI abbr. Baseball runs batted in Noun 1. rbi - a run that is the result of the batter's performance; "he had more than 100 rbi last season" run batted in . Elvis Herrera had a two-run single to cap the Lions' three-run fifth. Former Westlake High standout Justin Blaine (5-2) had eight strikeouts in six-plus innings for San Diego, including striking out the side in order in the second inning. - Heather Gripp --USC 6, Nevada 5: Cyle Hankerd's RBI single in the bottom of the 10th inning gave the Trojans (11-6), who had trailed by four runs, the win in the opening round of the OCYSF-UC Irvine tournament. Reliever Paul Koss (2-0) took the win with two no-hit innings. USC An abbreviation for U.S. Code. starter Ian Kennedy For the British academic, lawyer and bioethicist, see . Ian Patrick Kennedy (born December 19, 1984 in Long Beach, CA) is a right-handed pitcher for the New York Yankees in Major League Baseball. He is 6' 0" tall, and weighs 190 pounds. gave up four runs in the second on two two-run homers. It was the first time in Kennedy's USC career that he gave up five runs in an outing. He finished with eight strikeouts in five innings with three walks. Hankert went 3 for 4 with 2 RBI for USC. --CSUN 10, New Mexico State 9: Erik Hagstrom singled home the go-ahead run in the top of the 10th inning as the Matadors (9-8-1) rallied after blowing a 6-1 lead in the eighth inning against New Mexico State (10-12) in Las Cruces, N.M. |
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