Riverside—The UC Riverside Baseball Team is back at The Plex for its final four home games of the 2016 season, beginning Tuesday with a 6 pm PT start against San Diego State, and concluding with a three-game conference series against Cal Poly.
The Big West is still jam packed with three games separating second through eighth place. The Highlanders lost two of three at Hawai'i over the weekend, dropping them into a tie for seventh. The Mustangs and UC Santa Barbara—UC Riverside's season-ending opponent—are just ahead of the Highlanders in the standings, giving UCR the opportunity to climb past the pair, and finish with a winning conference record for the first time since 2010.
| Big West Baseball Standings |
| Team |
W |
L |
| Cal State Fullerton |
11 |
4 |
| Long Beach State |
11 |
7 |
| UC Santa Barbara |
10 |
8 |
| Cal Poly |
9 |
9 |
| CSUN |
10 |
11 |
| Hawai'i |
10 |
11 |
| UC Irvine |
8 |
10 |
| UC Riverside |
8 |
10 |
| UC Davis |
4 |
14 |
San Diego State took three of four from Air Force over the weekend, but are still just 17-34 overall and 12-18 in the Mountain West.
The Aztecs team ERA is 5.24, and teams are hitting .298/.363/.436 against them on the season. Offensively, just one San Diego State regular—Alan Trejo—is hitting better than .300. Justin Wylie leads the team with a .383 on base percentage, and Spencer Thornton is the top power threat on the squad with a .472 slugging percentage.
The Highlanders are 23-41-1 all-time against the Aztecs (
view results), but UC Riverside upended San Diego State on March 22 of this year, 3-2 (
box score/
recap).
