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Photo by: Austin Perryman/MSU Athletics
Baseball Drops Series Opener at Long Beach State
February 28, 2020 | Baseball
Koestler throws 6 1/3 innings in second start of the season
LONG BEACH, Calif. – The first road trip of the season got off to a tough start, as the Mississippi State baseball team dropped a 4-0 decision to Long Beach State on Friday (Feb. 28) evening at Blair Field.
Long Beach State (7-2) opened the scoring with two runs in the first inning, before the Dirtbags added the final two runs of the game in the seventh. Mississippi State (6-3) had four base runners in the game, while Long Beach State used eight hits – seven singles – and two walks to amass their four runs.
After allowing the two runs in the first, MSU starting pitcher Carlisle Koestler (0-1) retired 16 of the next 17 batters – including 15 straight – to get the Diamond Dawgs into the seventh inning. He threw 6 1/3 innings and allowed four runs on six hits. He struck out two and didn't walk a batter in the loss.
His counterpart, Adam Seminaris (1-0), tossed eight innings and allowed just three base runners. The Bulldogs got one base hit and walked twice against the left-hander, while he struck out 10 Bulldogs.
Junior Tanner Leggett collected the lone hit of the game for MSU, a sixth-inning single, while junior Rowdey Jordan walked twice and junior Jordan Westburg reached base for the 29th straight game with a first inning walk.
Scoring Recap
Bottom First
Long Beach State got the offense started early with a pair of singles putting two runners on base with one out. A groundout accounted for the second out, but runners moved to second and third, before Aidan Malm delivered the two-out, two-RBI single against MSU starting pitcher Carlisle Koestler.
Long Beach State 2, Mississippi State 0
Bottom Seventh
Koestler allowed a single to start the inning before getting a flyout for the first out. Tyler Porter followed with an RBI double into left-center field. Porter come in to score after stealing third base
Long Beach State 4, Mississippi State 0
Up Next
Mississippi State and Long Beach State will return to the diamond at 5 p.m. CT on Saturday, February 29 for the second game of the three-game set.
Long Beach State (7-2) opened the scoring with two runs in the first inning, before the Dirtbags added the final two runs of the game in the seventh. Mississippi State (6-3) had four base runners in the game, while Long Beach State used eight hits – seven singles – and two walks to amass their four runs.
After allowing the two runs in the first, MSU starting pitcher Carlisle Koestler (0-1) retired 16 of the next 17 batters – including 15 straight – to get the Diamond Dawgs into the seventh inning. He threw 6 1/3 innings and allowed four runs on six hits. He struck out two and didn't walk a batter in the loss.
His counterpart, Adam Seminaris (1-0), tossed eight innings and allowed just three base runners. The Bulldogs got one base hit and walked twice against the left-hander, while he struck out 10 Bulldogs.
Junior Tanner Leggett collected the lone hit of the game for MSU, a sixth-inning single, while junior Rowdey Jordan walked twice and junior Jordan Westburg reached base for the 29th straight game with a first inning walk.
Scoring Recap
Bottom First
Long Beach State got the offense started early with a pair of singles putting two runners on base with one out. A groundout accounted for the second out, but runners moved to second and third, before Aidan Malm delivered the two-out, two-RBI single against MSU starting pitcher Carlisle Koestler.
Long Beach State 2, Mississippi State 0
Bottom Seventh
Koestler allowed a single to start the inning before getting a flyout for the first out. Tyler Porter followed with an RBI double into left-center field. Porter come in to score after stealing third base
Long Beach State 4, Mississippi State 0
Up Next
Mississippi State and Long Beach State will return to the diamond at 5 p.m. CT on Saturday, February 29 for the second game of the three-game set.
Team Stats
Pitching:
W: Seminaris, Adam (1-0)
L: Koestler, Carlisle (0-1)
Batting:
2B: Porter, Tyler 1
RBI: Malm, Aidan 2 ; Porter, Tyler 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Estrada, Calvin 1 ; Kokx, Connor 1 ; Pimentel, Alex 1 ; Porter, Tyler 1
SB: Kokx, Connor 1 ; Jones, Leonard 1 ; Porter, Tyler 1
HBP: Kokx, Connor 1
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