{"id":203559,"date":"2026-03-04T07:39:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T07:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/203559\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T07:39:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T07:39:07","slug":"spartans-fall-to-pacific-in-midweek-matchup-sjsu-athletics-official-athletics-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/203559\/","title":{"rendered":"Spartans Fall to Pacific in Midweek Matchup &#8211; SJSU Athletics &#8211; Official Athletics Website"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"line-height: 1.4;\">SAN JOSE, Calif. &#8211; Despite an early home run from <a href=\"https:\/\/sjsuspartans.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/player\/rocco-caballero\" title=\"Rocco Caballero\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rocco Caballero<\/a>\u00a0and a late-inning rally, the San Jos\u00e9 State baseball team (4-8, 0-0 Mountain West) fell to the Pacific Tigers (6-6, 0-0 WCC) by a score of 11-5 on Tuesday night at Excite Ballpark.<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 1.4;\">The Spartans jumped out to an early lead in the bottom of the first inning when\u00a0Caballero launched a solo home run to left field. Pacific tied the game in the second, but SJSU regained momentum in the third. <a href=\"https:\/\/sjsuspartans.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/player\/rhone-klein\" title=\"Rohne Klein\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rohne Klein<\/a> sparked the inning with a double to left field and later scored on a sacrifice fly by Caballero to bring the score to 3-2 in favor of the Tigers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 1.4;\" data-path-to-node=\"5\">SJSU added another run in the sixth inning when <a href=\"https:\/\/sjsuspartans.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/player\/alex-fernandes\" title=\"Alex Fernandes\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alex Fernandes<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/sjsuspartans.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/player\/jake-mccoy\" title=\"Jake McCoy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jake McCoy<\/a> hit back-to-back singles. <a href=\"https:\/\/sjsuspartans.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/player\/alan-ramirez\" title=\"Alan Ramirez\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alan Ramirez<\/a> then drove Fernandes home with a sacrifice fly to right field, cutting the deficit at the time to 5-3.<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 1.4;\" data-path-to-node=\"5\">The Spartans refused to go quietly in the ninth inning, scoring two runs on two hits. After Ramirez singled and advanced on an error, <a href=\"https:\/\/sjsuspartans.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/player\/matteo-mendoza\" title=\"Matteo Mendoza\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Matteo Mendoza<\/a> reached on a fielding error that allowed Ramirez to cross the plate. Klein followed up with an RBI single up the middle to score Mendoza, though the comeback effort ultimately fell short.<\/p>\n<p>Caballero: Accounted for much of the Spartans&#8217; early production, finishing with his first home run of the season in the first inning and a sacrifice fly in the third inning to total two RBIs, and now has a team-leading 11 on the season to go along with 12 hits.<br \/>\nFernandes: Reached base safely in three separate plate appearances, finishing 3-for-4 with a run scored and leads the team with a .444 batting avg. and a .533 slugging pct., plus leads the team with 20 hits and 13 runs scored.<br \/>\nKlein: Had a 2-for-4 day, including a double and an RBI single in the ninth inning.<\/p>\n<p>UP NEXT: The Spartans host Pitt for three games starting on Friday at 3:05 p.m. from Excite Ballpark.<\/p>\n<p>#AllSpartans<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN JOSE, Calif. &#8211; Despite an early home run from Rocco Caballero\u00a0and a late-inning rally, the San Jos\u00e9&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":203560,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[88,90,89],"class_list":{"0":"post-203559","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-jose","8":"tag-san-jose","9":"tag-san-jose-headlines","10":"tag-san-jose-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203559","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=203559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}