{"id":179651,"date":"2026-02-16T01:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T01:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/179651\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T01:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T01:58:08","slug":"spartans-take-series-over-long-beach-state-after-late-rally-sjsu-athletics-official-athletics-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/179651\/","title":{"rendered":"Spartans Take Series Over Long Beach State After Late Rally &#8211; SJSU Athletics &#8211; Official Athletics Website"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONG BEACH, Calif. \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/sjsuspartans.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/player\/rhone-klein\" title=\"Rohne Klein\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rohne Klein<\/a> hit the go-ahead RBI double with two outs in the ninth to lead the San Jos\u00e9 State baseball team (2-1, 0-0 MW) in a 3-2 win over Long Beach State (1-2, 0-0 Big West) Sunday afternoon from Bohl Diamond at Blair Field in the final game of a three game series.<\/p>\n<p>Trailing 2-1 entering the ninth, San Jos\u00e9 State delivered in the clutch. After a one-out walk and a fielder\u2019s choice put a runner in scoring position, <a href=\"https:\/\/sjsuspartans.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/player\/rocco-caballero\" title=\"Rocco Caballero\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rocco Caballero<\/a> lined a double to left field to tie the game. Moments later, Klein doubled to center to bring home the go-ahead run, giving the Spartans their first lead since the third inning.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sjsuspartans.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/player\/tyler-albanese\" title=\"Tyler Albanese\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tyler Albanese<\/a> earned the win in relief, improving to 1-0 on the year. Albanese worked the final 1.2 innings, allowing just one hit and no runs to close out the contest. The Spartans\u2019 pitching staff combined for six strikeouts and held the Beach to two runs.<\/p>\n<p>San Jos\u00e9 State struck first in the third inning. <a href=\"https:\/\/sjsuspartans.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/player\/jc-osorio-agard\" title=\"JC Osorio-Agard\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">JC Osorio-Agard<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/sjsuspartans.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/player\/peyton-rowles\" title=\"Peyton Rowles\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Peyton Rowles<\/a> recorded back-to-back singles before <a href=\"https:\/\/sjsuspartans.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/player\/alex-fernandes\" title=\"Alex Fernandes\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alex Fernandes<\/a> delivered an RBI single to plate the game\u2019s first run. Long Beach State answered with a run in the bottom half of the inning and added another in the fifth to take a 2-1 lead.<\/p>\n<p>The Spartans\u2019 defense proved pivotal throughout the afternoon, turning two double plays and committing no errors.<\/p>\n<p>The Spartans take the series over the Dirtbags for the first time since 1994<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/sjsuspartans.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/player\/jesse-gutierrez\" title=\"Jesse Gutierrez\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jesse Gutierrez<\/a> earned his first start since returning from injury, pitching two innings, allowing no runs or hits<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/sjsuspartans.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/player\/peter-herrick\" title=\"Peter Herrick\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Peter Herrick<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/sjsuspartans.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/player\/luka-pintar\" title=\"Luka Pintar\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Luka Pintar<\/a> made their Spartan debuts on the mound<br \/>\nPintar pitched 4.2 innings, striking out four and allowing just one run<br \/>\nAlbanese\u2019s win was the sixth of his career<br \/>\nFernandes batted 7-for-11 in the series<\/p>\n<p>UP NEXT: The Spartans will hold their home opener against Cal Poly on Tuesday, Feb. 17 at 1:05 p.m. from Excite Ballpark. The game can be watched on Mountain West Network.<\/p>\n<p>#AllSpartans<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONG BEACH, Calif. \u2013 Rohne Klein hit the go-ahead RBI double with two outs in the ninth to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":179652,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-179651","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-long-beach","8":"tag-long-beach","9":"tag-long-beach-headlines","10":"tag-long-beach-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}