{"id":263627,"date":"2026-04-12T06:16:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T06:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/263627\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T06:16:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T06:16:11","slug":"titans-drop-game-two-at-long-beach-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/263627\/","title":{"rendered":"Titans Drop Game Two at Long Beach State"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>                    &#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1770529988_198_long_beach_state.png\" alt=\"Long Beach State \"\/><\/p>\n<p>                Next Game:<\/p>\n<p>at Long Beach State <\/p>\n<p>4\/12\/2026 | 2:05 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                    Apr. 12 (Sun) \/ 2:05 p.m.&#13;\n                <\/p>\n<p>                    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sidearm-story-template-next-game-opponent-logo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1770529988_198_long_beach_state.png\" alt=\"Long Beach State \"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                        at\u00a0Long Beach State &#13;\n                    <\/p>\n<p>                             &#13;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">LONG BEACH, Calif. \u2013 Cal State Fullerton came up short in game two against Long Beach State, losing 4-3 on a walk-off in the ninth inning Saturday night at Blair Field. With the loss the Titans are 16-17 on the year and 10-7 in Big West play.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The Titans got on the board early in game two, scoring one run in the top of the first on a double by <a href=\"https:\/\/fullertontitans.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/niko-lombardi\/5696\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"5696\" target=\"_blank\">Niko Lombardi<\/a> that scored <a href=\"https:\/\/fullertontitans.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/cameron-kim\/5683\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"5683\" target=\"_blank\">Cameron Kim<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Lombardi gets the Titans on the board in the first inning!<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TusksUp?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#TusksUp<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SdZD6fsBrk\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/SdZD6fsBrk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Titans Baseball (@FullertonBSB) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FullertonBSB\/status\/2043136563396444182?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">April 12, 2026<\/a> <\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Long Beach State responded with two runs in the bottom half of the first to take a 2-1 lead.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Lombardi tied the game at 2-2 in the fourth on a solo home run to right field, his first home run of the season.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Lombardi ties this game up with his 1st home run of the season ??<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TusksUp?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#TusksUp<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bdHkDqXm47\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/bdHkDqXm47<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Titans Baseball (@FullertonBSB) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FullertonBSB\/status\/2043147495421972759?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">April 12, 2026<\/a> <\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Long Beach State took a 3-2 lead in the bottom of the seventh on a throwing error by the Titans at home plate. With a runner at third the Titans played the infield in and got a perfect groundball to throw the runner out at home but an errant throw sailed over the catcher to give up the go-ahead run.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Fullerton came back to tie the game in the top of the eighth. Kim got the inning going with a one-out single before <a href=\"https:\/\/fullertontitans.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/andrew-kirchner\/5688\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"5688\" target=\"_blank\">Andrew Kirchner<\/a> drove him on a double to the gap in right center.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">C&#8217;mon Kirch ??<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TusksUp?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#TusksUp<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pSYmHLSL7H\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/pSYmHLSL7H<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Titans Baseball (@FullertonBSB) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FullertonBSB\/status\/2043171962621768137?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">April 12, 2026<\/a> <\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The Titans had a golden opportunity to take the lead in the ninth following a one-out triple by <a href=\"https:\/\/fullertontitans.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/cade-o-hara\/5712\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"5712\" target=\"_blank\">Cade O&#8217;Hara<\/a>. However, a strikeout and a called out by the home plate umpire on the base path ended the top of the inning.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Long Beach State went on to walk the game off in the bottom of the ninth inning on a bases loaded single.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The two teams will meet for the rubber game Sunday afternoon at Blair Field. First pitch is scheduled for 2:05 p.m. The game time has been changed due to rain in the forecast in the morning.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">SUPPORT THE TITANS!<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nFans can purchase tickets for various Cal State Fullerton athletic events by visiting\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/fullertontitanstickets.com\/tickets\/events\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FullertonTitansTickets.com<\/a>. The Athletic Ticket Office can also be contacted by phone at 657-278-2783 or by email at athletictixs@fullerton.edu.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">FOLLOW THE TITANS!<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nFans can keep up with the latest in Titan Athletics by following us on Facebook (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/fullertontitans\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook\/FullertonTitans<\/a>), X (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FullertonTitans\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@FullertonTitans<\/a>) Instagram (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/fullertontitans\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@FullertonTitans<\/a>), YouTube (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@FullertonTitansAthletics\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FullertonTitansAthletics<\/a>) and TikTok (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@fullertontitans?lang=en\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@FullertonTitans<\/a>). In addition, the baseball team has established its own Instagram (@<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/fullertonbsb\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">fullertonbsb<\/a>), X (@<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FullertonBSB\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FullertonBSB<\/a>) and TikTok (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@fullertonbsb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@fullertonbsb<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">WATCH THE TITANS ON ESPN+<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nTitans fans can now watch every home event exclusively on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.espn.com%2Fespnplus%2F&amp;data=05%7C01%7Cbfreese%40Fullerton.edu%7C11db07169ec547fe4ef008da6066c7b5%7C82c0b871335f4b5c9ed0a4a23565a79b%7C0%7C0%7C637928291795829684%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=VtfTGtnrsyYCJg1%2BmZUtGY%2FVtHtmfL1QKdSz5VphGag%3D&amp;reserved=0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ESPN+<\/a>. Cal State Fullerton has built a top-tier production studio to give the viewers an ESPN quality production for all games at Titan Stadium. Additionally, all schools in the Big West Conference are committed to producing ESPN quality streams which will allow fans to watch the Titans on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.espn.com%2Fespnplus%2F&amp;data=05%7C01%7Cbfreese%40Fullerton.edu%7C11db07169ec547fe4ef008da6066c7b5%7C82c0b871335f4b5c9ed0a4a23565a79b%7C0%7C0%7C637928291795829684%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=VtfTGtnrsyYCJg1%2BmZUtGY%2FVtHtmfL1QKdSz5VphGag%3D&amp;reserved=0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ESPN+<\/a>\u00a0for all road conference games.<\/p>\n<p>                <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; &#13; Next Game: at Long Beach State 4\/12\/2026 | 2:05 p.m. &#13; Apr. 12 (Sun) \/&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":263628,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-263627","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\/263627","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=263627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263627\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}