Baseball takes on champs
By DARRELL COPELAND / The Collegian
With a 1-5 record, the Fresno State baseball team is headed to southern
California for a three-game series against defending national champion
Cal State-Fullerton.
The Titans (2-1) come into the series having opened up their season with
a series win over Stanford, a team that swept Fresno State when the Bulldogs
opened their own season in Palo Alto.
But that doesn’t mean the Fresno State-Fullerton series is over
before it starts.
Last season, the Titans came to Fresno, losing the opener before winning
the final two games of the series.
In those three games, the six returning Fresno State starting position
players: DeAndre Miller, David Gomez, Christian Vitters, Nick Moresi,
Kent Sakamoto and Chase Moore, combined for a .309 average and two home
runs to go with seven runs and 10 RBIs. The 17 hits they tallied were
nearly half (35) of the hits the Bulldogs totaled during the weekend.
Moore accounted for both of the home runs and four of the RBIs, but has
yet to see significant playing time so far this season.
This season, Vitters has two total hits, four fewer than the six he had
in last season’s series with the Titans.
With the pitching staff having a few struggles of its own, the Bulldogs
might make some shake-ups in the pitching rotation.
The rotation for this weekend’s series in Fullerton — which
through two series’ has been Ryan Penn, Brandon Miller and Matt
Garza — had not yet been announced as of mid-week.
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