{"id":163414,"date":"2026-02-21T02:39:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T02:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/163414\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T02:39:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T02:39:08","slug":"rockets-drop-series-opener-at-jacksonville-state-5-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/163414\/","title":{"rendered":"Rockets Drop Series Opener at Jacksonville State, 5-0"},"content":{"rendered":"

JACKSONVILLE, Ala. \u2013 The Toledo baseball dropped\u00a0its weekend series opener with Jacksonville State, falling in a 5-0 defeat at Rudy Abbott Field at Jim Case Stadium on Friday.
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\nThe Rockets (1-3) and Gamecocks (3-2) were scoreless into the third, before a two-run double gave Jax State the lead. JSU then tacked on single runs in the fifth, seventh and eighth innings.
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\nSophomore Brady Sasse<\/a> delivered another quality start despite taking the loss, allowing just three runs on six hits and striking out four in 6.0 innings.
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\nThe Rockets and Gamecocks continue their series tomorrow at 3:00 p.m. ET\/2:00 p.m. CT.
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\nQuoting Head Coach Rob Reinstetle<\/a>
\n“Credit to Jax State’s pitching. They threw the ball well and kept us off-balance. We hit the ball okay at times, with some hard hit balls right at them, but we couldn’t string together hits to score, while their offense did.”
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\n“I thought we pitched pretty well overall, but we left a few up in the zone and they made us pay. Nothing to be down about, we have the makings to win a lot of games and have stayed competitive in all four. Just have to tweak a few things and get hitting on all cylinders.”
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\nTop Rocket Hitters<\/p>\n

Pitching Lines<\/p>\n


\n\tBrady Sasse<\/a> (L, 1-1) \u2013 6.0 IP, 6 H, 3 R, 3 ER, 2 BB, 4 Ks
\n\tMichael Fliss<\/a> \u2013 2.0 IP, 3 H, 2 R, 2 ER, 1 BB, 1 K
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\n\t\tPicked off runner in eighth inning
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How It Happened<\/p>\n


\n\tJacksonville State put two runners on with one out in the third and brought both home for a 2-0 lead. A double followed by an RBI single in the fifth made things 3-0.
\n\tThe Rockets put the first two runners on in the sixth, but a ground ball double play and a flyout ended the threat.
\n\tJSU tacked on runs in the seventh and eighth innings, both on RBI singles.
\n\tToledo loaded the bases in the ninth, but a strikeout ended the game. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Ala. \u2013 The Toledo baseball dropped\u00a0its weekend series opener with Jacksonville State, falling in a 5-0 defeat…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":163415,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-163414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}