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SACRAMENTO, Calif. \u2014 Fresh off its second-straight Western Athletic Conference series win, the Sacramento State baseball team stays local for its next contest, heading across the Causeway to take on UC Davis in a Mother Nature-delayed midweek affair on Wednesday (April 22) at 6 p.m. at Phil Swimley Field at Dobbins Stadium.<\/p>\n
PLAY BALL! GAME NOTES: UC Davis<\/a>\u00a0| Western Athletic Conference<\/a><\/p>\n ABOUT THE AGGIES SERIES NOTES CONFERENCE CALL MIDWEEK MADNESS LOOKING AHEAD HORNET SHORT HOPS
\nWHAT: Sacramento State (18-23, 5-4 WAC) at UC Davis (17-20, 8-13 Big West)
\nWHEN: Wednesday, April 22, 2026
\nTIME: 6 PM PT
\nWHERE: Davis, Calif.
\nSTADIUM: Phil Swimley Field at Dobbins Stadium
\nWATCH: ESPN+<\/a>
\nLIVE STATS: UCDavisAggies.com<\/a><\/p>\n
\n\u2022\u00a0UC Davis enters the week with a 17-20 overall record and an 8-13 mark in Big West Conference play
\n\u2022 The Aggies are coming off a road series loss at CSUN, winning the opening game by an 11-3 score before falling 11-2 in game two and 5-3 in game three
\n\u2022 UC Davis is 8-7 at home this season, winning four of its last five within the friendly confines
\n\u2022 Junior outfielder Tyler Howard leads the team with a .294 average, scoring 30 runs, slugging 16 extra-base hits, and driving in 18
\n\u2022 As a team, the Aggies are batting .246 with 25 home runs and averaging 4.86 runs per game
\n\u2022 The UC Davis pitching staff sports a 4.96 ERA, striking out 286 over 321 innings, allowing a .288 average to opposing batters<\/p>\n
\n\u2022 Sacramento State holds a 149-94-1 lead in the series with UC Davis, including a 47-40 lead as Division I rivals
\n\u2022 The Aggies, however, have won five of the last seven head-to-head meetings
\n\u2022 The Hornets’ last win in the series came on April 15 of last season, posting an 8-2 victory on the road
\n\u2022 Sacramento State is 61-53 on the road against UC Davis, but the Aggies have defended their home field by winning three of the last four
\n\u2022 Four of the last seven meetings have been decided by two runs or fewer, including three one-run decisions
\n\u2022 Wednesday marks the 245th all-time meeting between Sacramento State and UC Davis according to available records that date back to 1949 \u2014 by far the longest running series (in terms of games played) in the program’s history ahead of Pacific (191), Nevada (187), and Fresno State (182)
\n\u2022 The 149 wins against the Aggies are the most for the Hornets against any one opponent, ahead of the 116 wins against Chico State and the 107 against Pacific<\/p>\n
\n\u2022 Sacramento State is a combined 303-382-3 (.443) against the current Big West Conference lineup
\n\u2022 UC Davis is the second Big West opponent for the Hornets this year after they hosted UC Irvine in a three-game series to open the 2026 campaign
\n\u2022 Sacramento State has lost its last four against Big West opponents dating back to a three-game sweep of UC Riverside on April 25-27 at home
\n\u2022 Although the Hornets will be moving to the Big West beginning next season, Sacramento State and UC Davis will not be conference rivals as the Aggies are moving on to the Mountain West Conference<\/p>\n
\n\u2022\u00a0Wednesday’s contest marks the 11th midweek game of the year for the Hornets, who are 5-5 in their previous 10 this season
\n\u2022 Sacramento State has won five of its previous seven midweek games, posting wins over Pacific (10-0 in seven innings on March 11), San Francisco (8-3 on March 17 and 12-2 in seven innings on April 14), splitting a pair at Kansas with an 11-1 loss on March 24 and a 7-4 win on March 25, and handing Nevada an 11-2 defeat on April 6
\n\u2022 Wednesday marks the sixth midweek road game this season where the Hornets are 2-3
\n\u2022 This season’s five midweek victories are the most since the 2024 team finished with six midweek wins
\n\u2022 Of the team’s last 33 midweek games, a little less than half (15) have been decided by two runs or fewer, with 11 of those 15 decided by a single run<\/p>\n
\n\u2022 Following Wednesday’s contest, the Hornets head to Southern California for one of it’s biggest series of the season, taking on top-ranked UCLA in a three-game series on April 24-26 at Jackie Robinson Stadium
\n\u2022 First pitch for the series opener is set for 6 p.m. on Friday, followed by a 2 p.m. start on Saturday, and a Noon opener for Sunday’s series finale
\n\u2022 The Bruins are the second top-five opponent for the Hornets this season following a trip to Baton Rouge to take on then-No. 2 LSU (March 6-8)
\n\u2022 This weekend also marks the first time that Sacramento State will meet the No. 1 team in the nation since traveling to Tucson to face No. 1 Arizona in a three-game series on Feb. 29-March 2 in 2008<\/p>\n
\n\u2022 Sacramento State enters the week having won seven of its last 10 and is coming off its second consecutive Western Athletic Conference series victory after taking 2-of-3 at UT Arlington over the weekend
\n\u2022 The Hornets won the opener by a 2-1 scored before posting a seven-inning run-rule win by an 11-1 score in game two
\n\u2022 It was a historic weekend for the program as Sacramento State posted its 1,000th Division I victory with the win in the series opener against the Mavericks
\n\u2022 Three of Sacramento State’s last six games have ended in a run-rule decision with the Hornets winning two of those
\n\u2022 Overall, Sacramento State is 4-4 in run-rule games this year
\n\u2022 Four Hornets who have played in at least half of the midweek games this season are hitting better than .300 in those contests: Ryan Ellis<\/a> (.438), Erick Dessens<\/a> (.386), Jace Jeremiah<\/a> (.345), and Jakob Poturnak<\/a> (.324)
\n\u2022 As a team, Sacramento State is batting .269 in midweek games, outscoring opponents, 59-41
\n\u2022 Meanwhile, the Hornets’ pitching staff continues to be stingy, limiting opponents to a .212 average with eight pitchers posting an opponents batting average under .200
\n\u2022 Poturnak (18) and freshman Sam Harry<\/a> (10) have combined to drive in 28 of the team’s 59 runs during midweek contests and have hit six of the team’s nine home runs in those games
\n\u2022 Dessens leads the team with 17 midweek hits, adding nine runs, three doubles, and four home runs in midweek games
\n\u2022 Ellis leads the team with 11 runs scored and has walked a team-high 10 times in seven midweek appearances, posting a 1.467 OPS (.813 slugging and .654 on-base percentage) to pace the squad
\n\u2022 Dessens finished with multiple hits in three of the team’s four games last week, bringing his team-high total to 18 multi-hit games to go along with his team-high 14 multi-RBI contests
\n\u2022 Half of those multi-hit performances have been three-hit days or better while Dessens has driven in three-or-more runs nine times
\n\u2022 Dessens, Jace Jeremiah<\/a>, and Cameron Sewell<\/a> enter Tuesday’s game at UC Davis riding five-game hitting streaks
\n\u2022 Freshman Sam Harry<\/a> has reached base safely in each of his last six games
\n\u2022 As a team, the Sacramento State offense has posted 10-or-more hits in four of its five games and 18 games overall this year
\n\u2022 The Hornets are 14-6 this year when they out-hit their opponents
\n\u2022 Of Sacramento State’s 18 wins, the Hornets have scored first in 17 of those and they are 8-2 when they score in the first inning
\n\u2022 The Hornets’ 2-1 win in the opener against UT Arlington marked the team’s 10th one-run game of the year and the 17th contest decided by two runs or fewer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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