{"id":297427,"date":"2026-05-03T02:59:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T02:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/297427\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T02:59:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T02:59:09","slug":"lanman-sharp-as-acu-walked-off-by-sacramento-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/297427\/","title":{"rendered":"Lanman Sharp as ACU Walked Off by Sacramento State"},"content":{"rendered":"

SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Brett Lanman<\/a> delivered one of his best outings of the season as Abilene Christian baseball was dealt a 4-3 loss to Sacramento State on Saturday. The Hornets scored in each of the final two innings to walk off the Wildcats at John Smith Field.<\/p>\n

ACU aims to capture its second Western Athletic Conference series victory in Sunday’s rubber game. The weekend wraps up at 12:30 p.m. (CT), with Evan Whiteaker<\/a> set to start on the mound for the Wildcats. Sunday’s finale can be streamed on ESPN+.<\/p>\n

Lanman matched his season high with seven innings and struck out 10 batters. He allowed two runs on a season-low two hits while facing the minimum in five of his seven frames. It’s Lanman’s third outing with double-digit strikeouts.<\/p>\n

After Sacramento State grabbed a 2-0 lead through four frames, Maddox Miesse<\/a> evened the score with his third home run of the season. Kanon Sundgren<\/a> led off the top of the fifth inning with a single, one of his team-high three hits, before Miesse went deep to left field to tie the game at 2.<\/p>\n

Grant Watkins<\/a> put ACU in front in the following inning after a leadoff double by JT Thompson<\/a>. Reese Borho’s<\/a> sacrifice bunt moved Thompson to third, and Watkins roped an RBI single to center field to bring him home. It’s Watkins’ 45th RBI of the season.<\/p>\n

Batting eighth and ninth in the lineup, Sundgren and Miesse combined to go 5 for 7 with half of the Wildcats’ 10 hits. Thompson elevated his hitting streak to 10 games, while Nick Arias<\/a> raised his to eight. Both batters reached base safely for the 16th consecutive game. Diego Cardenas<\/a> walked twice to raise his streak to 13 games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Brett Lanman delivered one of his best outings of the season as Abilene Christian baseball…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":297428,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,123,122],"class_list":["post-297427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297427","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=297427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297427\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}