There are almost 20 current Major League Baseball players with ties to Long Beach, and plenty more in the minor leagues ready to make their names in The Show. Wilson High alum Chase De Jong has already made his MLB debut with the Seattle Mariners, but he was traded to the Minnesota Twins organization on […]
Garrett Hampson made history today by getting called up by the Colorado Rockies. He is the 50th Long Beach State Dirtbag to make a Major League Baseball roster. The Dirtbags now have 12 former players on MLB rosters, and have had more former players in the league than any other college or university since 2010. […]
No one who voted on the 2018 Big West Baseball Pitcher Of The Year award tried to get a hit off of Clayton Andrews. I think that needs to change. Andrews was one of the best two-way players in the country for the Long Beach State Dirtbags. The junior southpaw led the Big West with […]
Long Beach State Dirtbags junior lefthander Clayton Andrews pitched a complete game shutout with 11 strikeouts in a 1-0 win over visiting Cal State Fullerton on Friday night at Bohl Diamond at Blair Field. Andrews has won the last three Big West Pitcher of the Week awards. LBSU (27-29, 12-11 Big West) and rivals Cal […]
The Long Beach State Dirtbags dropped the series opener to Cal State Fullerton 9-3 on Thursday at Bohl Diamond at Blair Field. CSUF (31-22, 17-5 Big West) scored in six different innings and had seven extra-base hits. LBSU (26-29, 11-11 Big West) got three hits from leadoff hitter Clayton Andrews, but stranded nine runners on […]
I hate Fullerton. It is a sad, land-locked concrete jungle with delusions of seaside grandeur that thinks a few bars on the same street deserves to be called “downtown” unlike any other city ever. The arboretum is nice though. Many other Long Beach State alums correctly feel the same way. That is what having a […]
The Long Beach State Dirtbags kept their slim Big West title hopes alive for at least one more day by riding a stellar start from junior Clayton Andrews in a 8-0 win at Hawaii on Saturday. Conference-leading Cal State Fullerton’s magic number is now one. The Titans visit LBSU for the final series of the […]
The Long Beach State Dirtbags beat No. 11 UCLA for the second time this season on the road Tuesday night with a 5-1 victory. LBSU (22-26) scored all five runs in the fourth inning while and Wilson High alum Tyler Radcliffe picked up the win on the mound. It is the fourth consecutive road victory […]
The 2018 Long Beach State Dirtbags season isn’t over quite yet, but fans witnessed the death rattle at Bohl Diamond at Blair Field over the weekend while the Dirtbags (18-26, 4-8) dropped a Big West Conference series to UC Davis in familiar fashion. The loss moves defending conference champion LBSU into last place. After Zak […]
The frustrations of the 2018 Long Beach State baseball season reached an all-time high at Bohl Diamond at Blair Field on Saturday where the Dirtbags lost to UC Davis 3-0 in 10 innings. LBSU (18-25, 4-7) wasted another stellar starting pitching performance, lost a team leader due to a disciplinary issue and left 15 runners […]