Baseball Drops Series Finale to San Diego, 6-2

Sunday, March 12

Greer Field at Turchin Stadium

1:00 p.m.

Tulane University

3-12

San Diego

10-3

San Diego

Tulane

Photo by: Parker Waters

Baseball Drops Series Finale to San Diego, 6-2

Mar 12, 2017 | Baseball

Box Score

Box Score

NEW ORLEANS – Ross Massey was solid for 6.2 innings, but Tulane baseball mustered two runs and five hits in a 6-2 defeat to San Diego Sunday afternoon to close out the four-game series at Greer Field at Turchin Stadium.

Massey struck out six and allowed two earned runs, four runs in total, scattering seven hits and just two walks. He was saddled with the loss to fall to 0-3 on the season as the Green Wave fell to 3-12. Redshirt freshman Jonathon Artigues, who received his first start behind the plate, went 2-for-2 with a walk in three plate appearances. Lex Kaplan hit an RBI single in the third inning to score Jake Willsey, and Hunter Hope homered in the ninth.

"(Massey) is moving in the right direction, which is a positive," Tulane head coach Travis Jewett said. "I told him and the team that we're going to need that evolution forward for us to have a chance. He did a good job for us, and did what you'd ask any starting pitcher to do. I was proud of his effort."

Willsey reached on a one-out infield single up the third base line for Tulane's first hit of the game in the third inning. Artigues followed with a walk, and Kaplan drove a two-out base hit through the right side to score Willsey and cut the deficit to 2-1. Down to its last at bat, Hope crushed a solo home run with two outs in the ninth inning off the top of the video board in left center to make the score 6-2.

San Diego (10-3) scored single runs in the second and third innings to take a 2-0 lead. A catcher's interference, followed by a pair of two-out singles, including an RBI base hit by Connor Doyle scored the first run. An RBI double by Jay Schuyler scored a run in the third inning, and Paul Kunst singled in the fifth, then scored on an error and sacrifice fly to make it 3-1.

The Toreros added two runs in the seventh, on three walks, a passed ball, three wild pitches and a single, making the score 5-1. A base hit and RBI groundout in the top of the ninth made it 6-1.

San Diego starter Paul Richan (1-0) allowed a run on three hits with seven strikeouts in 6.0 innings to earn the win, and Jonathan Teaney pitched the final three frames for his first save of the season.

The Green Wave returns to action Wednesday at Nicholls State. First pitch is 6 p.m. The game can be heard on 88.3 FM WRBH and the TuneIn Radio app.

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San Diego 6, Tulane 2 (Mar 12, 2017 at New Orleans, La.)
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San Diego........... 011 010 201 - 6 11 0 (10-3)
Tulane.............. 001 000 001 - 2 5 2 (3-12)
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Pitchers: San Diego - RICHAN, Paul; TEANEY, Jonathan(7) and ADAMS, Riley. Tulane -
MASSEY, Ross; ANDREWS, Ted(7); BJORNGJELD, Sam(8); HOGAN, Jack(9) and ARTIGUES, Jonathon.
Win-RICHAN, Paul(1-0) Save-TEANEY, Jonathan(1) Loss-MASSEY, Ross(0-3) T-2:47 A-1682
HR TLN - HOPE, Hunter (4).
Weather: 54 Cloudy, Wind NE @ 11 mph