{"id":268562,"date":"2026-04-15T05:02:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T05:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/268562\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T05:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T05:02:09","slug":"no-12-usc-baseball-falls-on-the-road-at-long-beach-state-5-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/268562\/","title":{"rendered":"No. 12 USC Baseball Falls on the Road at Long Beach State, 5-3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES \u2013 The No. 12 USC baseball team fell on the road at Long Beach State on Tuesday night, dropping a 5-3 decision despite a late push.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/usctrojans.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/augie-lopez\/17998\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"17998\" target=\"_blank\">Augie Lopez<\/a> homered in the eighth inning to close the game, but is wasn&#8217;t enough as the Trojans fell to 30-8 on the season. The Dirtbags improve to 12-23.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/usctrojans.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/jack-basseer\/17987\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"17987\" target=\"_blank\">Jack Basseer<\/a> plated USC&#8217;s first run of the game with a pinch-hit double in the seventh inning and then Lopez hit a two-run shot in the eighth, but that was it for the Trojan offense.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nLong Beach State scored a pair of runs in both the first and fourth innings, and matched USC&#8217;s run in the eighth.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nFor Lopez, it was his team-high 11th homer of the year and seventh long ball in his last 11 games.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nCOMING UP<br \/>\nThe Trojans head Nebraska for a three-game series starting on Friday, with all three games broadcast on B1G+.<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES \u2013 The No. 12 USC baseball team fell on the road at Long Beach State on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":268563,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-268562","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\/268562","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=268562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}