San Diego Rallies For 9-6 Win Tuesday

Tuesday, March 12

San Diego, Calif.

8 p.m.

TCU

9-6

San Diego

13-4

TCU

San Diego

San Diego Rallies For 9-6 Win Tuesday

3/13/2019 1:45:00 AM | Baseball

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Frogs finish California trip with 2-2 record

SAN DIEGO – No. 21 San Diego rallied with eight unanswered runs to steal a 9-6 victory over No. 20 TCU on Tuesday night at Fowler Park. Josh Watson went 2-for-4 at the plate with 2 RBIs to lead the Horned Frogs' offense.

The Rundown
The Horned Frogs built an early 5-0 lead in the game, scoring in each of the first three innings. Back-to-back two-out singles from Austin Henry and Johnny Rizer in the first gave the Frogs a 2-0 advantage.

Two more runs followed in the second as the lead grew to 4-0. Adam Oviedo's double kick-started the inning. He scored on a Josh Watson base knock. An Alex Isola hit drove in Porter Brown with the final run of the frame.

Conner Shepherd's one-out triple led to the fifth run of the game as he scored on an Oviedo sacrifice fly.

San Diego started the comeback with a two-out run in the fourth. But that tally was answered by the Frogs in the sixth. Brown walked to open the inning and scored on a Watson double to restore the five-run lead, 6-1.

The Torero bats came to life in the sixth as they sent 11 men to the plate and scored six times to take a 7-6 lead. The first six batters reached base and all six scored. An error with two on allowed the tying runs to score. Shane McGuire's one-out single drove in the go-ahead run. San Diego took advantage of a walk and two errors in the seventh to score an insurance run. Three walks and a hit batter in the eighth turned into the final run of the contest.

Jared Janczak started for the Frogs and allowed just a run on four hits in 3 1/3 innings. Augie Mihlbauer (1-1) took the loss after being touched for a pair of unearned runs in his 1 2/3 innings on the mound.

Stat of the Game:
6 – San Diego scored six runs in the sixth inning to rally from a 5-1 deficit. The Toreros scored in each of their last three at-bats.

Notes:

• TCU tallied double-digit hits for the eighth time this season.
• TCU scored multiple runs in an inning twice.
• TCU committed a season-high four errors.
• TCU allowed two unearned runs in the game.
• Jake Guenther has reached base safely in all 14 games.
• Guenther has hit safely in six straight games.
• Josh Watson has reached base safely in 21 straight games dating back to last year.
• Watson posted his fourth multi-hit game of the year and the 53rd of his career.
• Watson collected his fifth multi-RBI game of the season and the 36th of his career.
• Alex Isola picked up his third multi-hit game of the season and the fourth of his career.

Next Up:
With the loss, TCU falls to 9-6 on the season. The Horned Frogs return home to start a three game series against Eastern Michigan starting Friday night at 6:30 p.m.