Bulldogs open Coast series with 19-1 rout at CCSF

SAN FRANCISCO — The College of San Mateo baseball team scored 19 runs on 14 hits Tuesday, rolling past City College of San Francisco 19-1 at Maloney Field to open a three-game Coast Conference North Division series.

The Bulldogs sent 46 batters to the plate and took advantage of six Rams errors and four balks to turn a close game into a blowout by the late innings.

San Mateo jumped out to a 4-0 lead in the first, with Carter Bleeker delivering an RBI single and Leandro Pena adding a sacrifice fly. Two San Francisco balks handed the Bulldogs two more runs before the inning was through.

The game's defining sequence came in the seventh, when San Mateo sent 11 batters to the plate and scored seven times. Three Rams errors fueled the rally. Tyler Harrison's two-run double was the key hit of the frame, pushing the lead to 10-1.

The Bulldogs added five more in the eighth, capped by a pinch-hit, bases-clearing triple from Jacob Ryan that brought home three runs and extended the lead to 16-1. Carter Bleeker followed with an RBI single. San Mateo added two insurance runs in the ninth on a Zach Murray triple and a Rams error.

Bleeker went 3-for-5 with a double, two RBIs and two runs scored. Harrison finished 1-for-2 with a double, three RBIs and two runs while reaching base in every plate appearance. Jeremy Wrona was 3-for-4 with two runs and a stolen base at the top of the order.

Right-hander Elliot Webb earned the win, allowing one earned run on four hits over five innings with three strikeouts. Toby Trotter, Luke Ulrich, Jake Belloni and Nico Orozco-Davey combined to shut out the Rams over the final four frames.

CSM won for the fourth time over its past five games and improved to 13-7 overall as well as 1-0 in the Coast North. The series resumes on Thursday (Mar. 12) with Game 2 in San Mateo, starting at 2:30 p.m. The three-game set wraps up on Friday, back at San Francisco State at 2:30 p.m.