Nevada frustrates Rainbows, 3-1
Advertiser Staff
Mateo Miramontes continues his mastery of the University of Hawai'i baseball team.
The junior right-hander spaced seven hits in eight innings to lead Nevada over the Rainbows, 3-1, yesterday in a Western Athletic Conference game at Peccole Park in Reno, Nev.
Miramontes (9-2) — who beat the Rainbows on March 21 at Les Murakami Stadium, the third time in as many seasons he won at UH — walked two with nine strikeouts. The only run he gave up was a sixth-inning, two-out RBI single by Brian Bock, who continued his hitting tear in road games by batting 3-for-4. Zachary Basch pitched a scoreless ninth for his eighth save.
The Wolf Pack (25-19 overall,13-5 WAC) pulled to 4 1/2 games behind idle Rice (40-7, 19-2).
Ricky Bauer (3-4) allowed three runs — one unearned — on 10 hits and one walk with two strikeouts in eight innings for UH (26-21, 7-15). It was his second complete game of the season. He has allowed only seven earned runs in his last six starts totaling 46 innings (1.37 ERA).
"Ricky pitched great," UH coach Mike Trapasso said. "For some reason the last couple of years, we don't seem to score runs for him."
Offensively, the Rainbows got the lead-off batter on six times, but half were erased by the next batter on double plays. Once the runner was stranded on second, and the other time was when Matt Inouye led off the ninth with a walk and one out later was doubled off first after Kevin Gilbride flied out to right. The only time the lead-off batter scored was when Jaziel Mendoza walked, took second on a wild pitch, advanced to third on Miramontes' errant pick-off throw, and scored on Bock's single. Bock is now 16-for-35 (.457) in UH's road games.
"We had our opportunities," Trapasso said. "We just need to do a better job. We just couldn't execute, couldn't get the hits when we needed them."
Missing yesterday was right fielder Josh Green, who was 2-for-5 with a double and home run at Sacramento State on Wednesday. He was excused from the game to be with his girlfriend, who gave birth to a girl yesterday at a Reno hospital.
