The Rebels added two more in the fifth. Nin Burns II singled in Marcos Rosales, and Jayden Hertel drove in Burns with a groundout to make it 6-1.<\/p>\n
Then the game flipped. Fresno State sent 12 batters to the plate in the bottom of the fifth, scoring eight runs on seven hits. Marcus Nolen delivered the biggest blow, a three-run homer that gave the Bulldogs a 9-6 lead.<\/p>\n
Rebels punch back late<\/p>\n
Fresno State stretched the lead to 11-6 in the seventh on back-to-back homers from Michael Boyd and Owen Faust, but UNLV was not done.<\/p>\n
Hertel opened the eighth with a double, and Salmon followed with a two-run homer to cut the deficit to 11-8. Gunnar Myro singled, Bussey walked, and Drew Barragan tied the game with a three-run homer to deep center.<\/p>\n
Barragan reached on an error in the first inning, keeping his season-long on-base streak alive, then delivered the swing that pulled UNLV all the way back.<\/p>\n
Fresno State answers again<\/p>\n
The tie did not last. In the bottom of the eighth, Faust hit his second homer of the game, a two-run shot that put Fresno State back in front. Austin Young later added an RBI single, pushing the Bulldogs\u2019 lead to 14-11.<\/p>\n
UNLV still made one final run in the ninth. Rodriguez homered to right to make it 14-12, and Myro singled in Hertel to cut it to one. But Fresno State escaped with the tying run aboard.<\/p>\n
J-Rod keeps rolling<\/p>\n
Rodriguez continued his huge weekend, finishing 2-for-4 with a homer, a double, two runs and an RBI. After his three-homer game Saturday, Rodriguez finished the Fresno State series with five home runs and 13 RBI.<\/p>\n
Taylor drove in three with his homer, Barragan finished with four RBI, Salmon added two RBI, and Hertel and Myro each had two hits.<\/p>\n
Up next<\/p>\n
UNLV returns home for its final regular-season series, hosting San Diego State from Thursday through Saturday at Earl E. Wilson Stadium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Rebels added two more in the fifth. Nin Burns II singled in Marcos Rosales, and Jayden Hertel…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310677,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-310676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310676","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=310676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}