SAN JOSE, Calif. – The San José State baseball team (18-24, 13-11 MW) heads to Saint Mary's (25-16, 10-5 WCC) for the rubber match in their three-game non-conference series on Tuesday at 3:00 p.m. from Louis Guisto Field in Moraga, Calif.
POTENTIAL PITCHING MATCHUPS:
TUESDAY: RHP Tyler Albanese (1-1, 6.33 ERA) vs. RHP Preston Howey (3-2, 4.70 ERA)
SAN JOSÉ STATE:
- The Spartans are coming off a series win against UNLV and have won six of their last seven games overall
- SJSU and SMC have split the first two games of this three-game non-conference series
- Matt Spear has hit a home run in eight of his last 14 games this season and his eight home runs this season are a career-best
- Robert Hamchuk has a season-best eight-game hitting streak and hit .333 against UNLV with three hits including two doubles
- His 39 hits during Mountain West play leads the conference
- Hunter Dorraugh led the Spartans against UNLV hitting .462 with a .692 slugging pct.
- Dorraugh hit his 40th career home run and 36th career home run at SJSU which is a program record
- Dorraugh also collected six hits and four RBIs over the weekend
- Sebastian Orduno hit .375 with a home run, a triple and three RBIs with a 1.000 slugging pct. against UNLV
- Orduno also made SportsCenter's Top Ten list with the fifth best play of the day on Saturday.
- SJSU is second in the MW with 56 home runs and first with 17 triples
UP NEXT: The Spartans head back to Mountain West play with a huge series at Air Force starting Friday at 2:00 p.m. (PT) on the Mountain West Network.
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