Lobos Head to SDSU Looking for Another Series Win
New Mexico Lobos (10-12-1, 4-5 MW) at No. 23 San Diego State Aztecs (17-7, 6-2 MW)
Thursday – 7 p.m. (RHP Justin Slaten 1-5, 5,74, vs. LHP Jacob Erickson 1-1, 1.91)
Friday – 7 p.m. (LHP Robert Gasser 1-1, 4.68 vs. RHP Harrison Pyatt 1-1, 4.45)
Saturday – 2 p.m. (RHP Cody Dye 2-3, 6.09 vs. RHP Garrett Hill 5-0, 1.32)
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The New Mexico Lobos have won four of six. Now they will try to keep that going against one of the Mountain West’s hottest teams … San Diego State. The Lobos and San Diego State open a three-game series Thursday night at 6 p.m. in San Diego (7 p.m. in Albuquerque). The series is moved up a day due to the Easter Sunday holiday.
B11 | COllier’s HR walks it off, and it’s a cycle!! #GoLobos pic.twitter.com/OzpxWLwwVY
— UNM Baseball (@UNMLoboBaseball) March 25, 2018
New Mexico is coming off a series win over Air Force, losing 10-4 in the opener before a crazy 12-11 10-inning win on Saturday which saw UNM win when Danny Collier hit a walk-off home run that completed the cycle. UNM won the finale 7-4 behind a 133-pitch performance from Cody Dye. San Diego State, which won a midweek game at Long Beach State 5-2. Over the weekend, the Aztecs defeated No. 24 UNLV in two of three games.
The Rebels got the opener 4-3, but that was the last time over the weekend that SDSU’s bats weren’t awake. The Aztecs hammered UNLV in the final two games 17-8 and 22-7. The weekend series win moved SDSU into the national polls, as high as No. 23.
All-time, UNM is 70-229 when facing ranked foes, but just 29-147 on the road. UNM over the last four years are 12-20 against ranked teams, and it went 2-11 last year. The last time UNM faced off with a ranked San Diego State squad was in 2009, and the Lobos took two-of-three against the No. 15 Aztecs.
UNM will have to tame SDSU’s bats, and that will fall on UNM’s weekend rotation of Justin Slaten, Robert Gasser and Cody Dye. UNM’s bullpen went 1-0 with a save last weekend, and the pen has been a bright spot for the Lobos.