BYU vs. San Diego game 3 box score

PROVO, Utah – An offensive display from San Diego dropped BYU baseball 9-5 on a windy Saturday at Larry H. Miller Field.

"They got hits off good pitching; we didn't," BYU head coach Mike Littlewood said. "I think they got three two-out RBIs and I don't think we got any. We didn't get the big hits."

The Toreros (20-24, 9-12 West Coast Conference) knocked 13 hits, including six extra-base hits, to take the series-deciding finale against the Cougars (19-19, 8-10 WCC).

BYU drew first blood in the second inning, with Noah Hill’s two-run double to right field. The San Diego right fielder initially came in and then retreated as the ball fell in behind him. Nate Favero and Casey Jacobsen, who reached on singles, came around for the 2-0 lead.

Jay Schuyler got San Diego on the board in the third with a double down the left field line. In the fourth, the Toreros evened the score on Kevin Collard’s RBI double. They took a 3-2 lead when Cougar fielders lost a ball in the sun and it fell in by the left field line for a double.

San Diego scored two more in the fifth after BYU pitchers walked the bases loaded. A single up the middle off the bat of Adam Kerner made it 5-2 for the Toreros.

Kyle Dean blasted a two-run homer in the bottom half of the fifth that landed in the street in front of the Marriott Center steps.

With a sacrifice fly off the bat of Schuyler, San Diego went up 6-4 in the seventh. After the stretch, Keaton Kringlen skied a sacrifice fly for BYU to score Daniel Schneemann and bring the Cougar deficit back to one run.

A Torero double and single kept BYU at arm’s length, once again, as San Diego scored one in the eighth and led 7-5. The Toreros added two more in the ninth when Brhet Bewley smashed a two-run over the left field fence.

The Cougars play at Cal on Tuesday before a three-game series at Saint Mary’s beginning on Thursday.

BYU vs. Utah, San Diego Game Notes

Parity is reflected for BYU baseball this week as it returns to league play following Tuesday’s rubber match when it hosts Utah.

The Cougars, 18-16 overall and 7-8 in the West Coast Conference, are three-and-one-half games out of first place with 12 league games remaining. How BYU emerges from hosting four games this week could jump start a bid to get one of four spots in the league tournament next month.

Utah, now 9-28, is also looking for a rebound, having won two of its last 10 games since evening the series against BYU, 4-3, earlier this month in Salt Lake City. The run differential is tied at 10 apiece in the Deseret Duel baseball standings, with a fourth game scheduled May 8 in Salt Lake City. BYU beat Utah 7-6 in 10 innings last month in Provo.

BYU starting pitcher is Bo Burrup (2-1, 6.84) for Tuesday’s 6 p.m. MDT game in Provo which will be televised live locally over KBYU-TV (channel 11).

The University of San Diego, 18-22 overall and 7-11 in the WCC, is looking to halt a five-game skid in league play following its Tuesday game at UC Irvine. USD and BYU start a three-game series on Thursday and Friday at 6 p.m. The games Thursday and Saturday (1 p.m.) will be televised live by BYUtv.