Seven-Run Inning Spells Friday Night Defeat for Anteaters

Friday, March 27

Long Beach, Calif.

6:05 PM

UC Irvine

9-16, 1-6

Long Beach State

9-16, 4-6

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	Runs R	Hits H	Errors E
UC Irvine	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	5	0
Long Beach State	0	0	0	1	7	0	0	2	X	10	8	0

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Photo by: Robert Huskey

Seven-Run Inning Spells Friday Night Defeat for Anteaters

March 27, 2026 | Baseball

Box Score

By: Alex Roberts-Croteau

LONG BEACH, Calif. --- UC Irvine baseball opened its Black and Blue Rivalry Series at Long Beach State and Blair Field with a 10-2 loss Friday night.

Things started strong on the pitching end for both sides led by Trevor Hansen retiring the first eight batters of the game and striking out four through three shutout innings
- LBSU's Caleb Anderson was through two innings allowing just one baserunner, and held things together through 100 pitches and five innings
The 'Eaters struck first with a run in the third
- A single and a walk with one out set the table, and then Alonso Reyes singled home the run against his old squad with two outs for the 1-0 lead
LBSU tied things up in the fourth while still leaving two runners in scoring position before getting to the 'Eaters in the fifth inning
- The first three hitters reached including an infield single chopped to the third baseman to allowing the go-ahead run to score and make it 2-1
- Another groundball scored the second run of the inning before his the third free pass allowed in the innings loaded the bases
- Trevor Hansen remained in looking to close the inning, but allowed a two-run single to end his night trailing 5-1
- Reliever Peyton Rodgers was unable to get either of the three batters he faced allowing three more runs to come in before Jack Ross got the final out now trailing 8-1
A two-run home run in the eighth put the icing on the cake for the game finishing in a win for Long Beach State

Long Beach State 10, UC Irvine 2

For Hansen, he's now dropped two straight starts responsible for seven runs on just four hits walking and striking out five
- Jack Ross was spotless in relief retiring all four hitters he faced and adding the only other strikeout
The offense put up five hits and scored another run in their half of the ninth
- Zach Crandall recorded three hits for a second straight game scoring the 'Eaters' first run and adding an RBI in the ninth

The series continues Saturday with Ricky Ojeda and Luke Howe squaring off. First pitch is at 6:05 p.m. with no ESPN+ broadcast of the game.

Postgame Thoughts with head coach Ben Orloff
"It's just the same game that we've played - we get a couple chances on offense that we're not able to capitalize or sustain, we'll pitch it pretty good and pretty good defense for seven or eight innings and then in one inning we just can't get a stop. We've seen that exact game a lot of times this month and tonight was another one of those."

"If you look at this team, they do a good job of earning the walk, earning the hit by pitch on offense, and we gave them / they earned a lot of those tonight. This place can be hard to score in especially at night and the value of an offense like this, you've got to be able to earn some of those free bases because this isn't a place that's conducive to a lot of hits and extra-base hits. That's the way that they play and they've done a good job with it the stats say this year and it was definitely a problem for us tonight."

"Crandall has been playing great. He's a guy that got off to a slow start in a small sample size and he worked, and it would have been easy to get discourage and let up and he didn't do any of that, and he's reached base six of eight times the last three games and he's been great for us recently."