{"id":220967,"date":"2026-03-15T16:51:22","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T16:51:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/220967\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T16:51:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T16:51:22","slug":"dirtbags-drop-series-opener-to-hawaii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/220967\/","title":{"rendered":"Dirtbags Drop Series Opener To Hawai\u2018i"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONG BEACH, Calif. \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/longbeachstate.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/jake-evans\/8534\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"8534\" target=\"_blank\">Jake Evans<\/a> gave Long Beach State an early spark with a first-inning solo home run, but Hawai&#8217;i answered with six runs in the second inning and pulled away for an 11-1 win Friday night in Big West action at Bohl Diamond at Blair Field.<\/p>\n<p>Evans accounted for the Dirtbags&#8217; lone run with his first homer of the season, while <a href=\"https:\/\/longbeachstate.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/trevor-goldenetz\/9955\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"9955\" target=\"_blank\">Trevor Goldenetz<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/longbeachstate.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/smith-chandler\/9950\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"9950\" target=\"_blank\">Smith Chandler<\/a> each collected two hits in the loss. Hawai&#8217;i starter Isaiah Magdaleno held Long Beach State to one run over six innings and struck out nine.<\/p>\n<p>After <a href=\"https:\/\/longbeachstate.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/jake-fields\/8535\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"8535\" target=\"_blank\">Jake Fields<\/a> started and recorded two strikeouts in the opening inning, the Dirtbags turned to <a href=\"https:\/\/longbeachstate.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/joey-iglesias\/8537\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"8537\" target=\"_blank\">Joey Iglesias<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/longbeachstate.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/caleb-anderson\/9947\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"9947\" target=\"_blank\">Caleb Anderson<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/longbeachstate.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/ka-imi-kahalekai\/8538\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"8538\" target=\"_blank\">Ka&#8217;imi Kahalekai<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/longbeachstate.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/mason-tymick\/9966\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"9966\" target=\"_blank\">Mason Tymick<\/a> out of the bullpen. Anderson worked 4.1 innings and struck out five, while Tymick closed the final two innings without allowing a hit and added two strikeouts.<\/p>\n<p>In the eighth inning, <a href=\"https:\/\/longbeachstate.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/damon-valdez\/9967\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"9967\" target=\"_blank\">Damon Valdez<\/a> came off the bench to bat against his brother, Hawai&#8217;i reliever Derek Valdez, grounding out in the family matchup.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Long Beach State will look to bounce back in Game 2 of the series Saturday, with first pitch set for 6:05 p.m. on ESPN+.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONG BEACH, Calif. \u2014 Jake Evans gave Long Beach State an early spark with a first-inning solo home&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":220968,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-220967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220967","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=220967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}