FRESNO, Calif. — The New Mexico Lobos, one out and one strike away from a Mountain West Conference baseball victory, gave up a two-out, two-RBI, ninth-inning single and fell 9-8 on Saturday to the Fresno State Bulldogs.
The Lobos are 11-7 on the season, 2-3 in conference play.
Fresno State has won the first two games of a three-game series, to be completed at 2:05 p.m. on Sunday.
New Mexico jumped in front with a four-run second inning, all four runs provided by Devon Dixon’s grand slam.
Fresno State tied it at 7 with three runs in the sixth, but UNM went back ahead in the seventh on Dylen Ditzenberger’s RBI single.