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(May
6, 2008) - UC Riverside dropped a 10-4 non-conference game
to #13 UC Irvine at the Riverside Sports Complex Tuesday night.
Tony Nix picked up a two-run singled for the Highlanders (16-26)
who surrendered four runs in the sixth and three more in the
ninth before seeing their four-game winning streak come to
an end.
The
Anteaters (31-12) built a 3-0 lead with two runs in the first
and one more in the second off of Highlander starter Eddie
Orozco. Nix’s base-hit in the bottom half of the second
brought home Aaron Wible and Jordan Opdyke to cut the lead
to 3-2. Joey Gonzales then tied the game up at 3-3 in the
third, with his fourth home run of the season, a one-out solo
blast off the scoreboard in right center.
After
D.J.Smith worked scoreless fourth and fifth innings, before
UCR reliever Ryan Platt ran into some trouble in the sixth.
UCI brought four runs across on three hits, a walk, and a
hit-by-pitch in the inning to take a 7-3 lead after six complete.
In
the seventh, the Highlander put runners on first and third
with two outs, after consecutive singles by Trevor Hairgrove
and Carl Uhl. Anteater reliever Crosby Slaught fired over
to first base in an attempted pick off of Uhl but the UCI
first baseman had backed off the bag, allowing the ball to
go down the right field line, and Hairgrove to score easily.
But after Uhl had moved to second base, the Anteater shortstop
Ben Orloff, made a brief stop at the pitchers mound after
the ball had been thrown back in, and somehow obtained the
ball. As the pitcher stood off the dirt of the mound and on
the grass for a brief moment, Orloff then returned to his
position and slowly moved behind Uhl at second base. Uhl took
two steps off the bag and Orloff ran over and tagged him out
to end the threat with the Highlander’s leading hitter,
Drew Garcia at the plate.
UCR
could not get past UCI closer Eric Pettis in the eighth and
ninth innings and saw Irvine tack on three more in the ninth.
Platt (2-3) suffered the loss after allowing three earned
runs in the sixth and Slaught picked up the win after his
three innings of relief. Pettis picked up his 12th save.
The
Highlanders return to Big West play with a three-game home
series against UC Davis, beginning at 7:00 p.m. on Friday. |
