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Tuesday, April 20, 2004
How "Bad" is Long Beach State's Road Record?  As Dr. Dan points out here, for the Dirtbags the "road record is a modest 9-7 and some experts offer hopeful words but with a caution on the question of whether the Beach is over rated". Actually, if you count the neutral site games at Petco Park in San Diego, the road record is 11-8. Sometimes numbers are bit deceiving. The Dirtbags have not lost a single three game series, at home, on the road or at Petco (though this was against three different teams, so I am not sure whether to call it a series). One loss was against Cal, at the time a ranked team, in a 2-1 series win at Berkeley. The Beach also won 2 of 3 at Houston, losing one. And lost only one of three at Petco. They also won 2 of 3 at Fullerton. This account for half of their road losses. Another two of the road losses were in the sweep at Irvine. UCI has a very good team, ranked in all of the polls. Because of the midweek matchup with Wichita State for two games just before the road games at Irvine, the Dirtbag pitching rotation was out of synch with our number 2 pitcher (Cesar Ramos) and spot starter freshman Brandon Villalobos facing the Irvine nos. 1 and 2. This last weekend, when the pitching staffs matched up, the Beach won all three. But each game was close. The Dirtbags are better, but not by a huge margin! That leaves the road losses at USC and UCLA. These were midweek games against between midweek starters. Not exactly the best measure. A loss is a loss, and I do not intend this to be excuse making. The Dirtbags have not won a Sunday road game all season, and that obviously needs to be remedied. But as pointed out above, there are some extenuating circumstances that explain the road record, at least in part. I will wager that we are about to see a very substantial improvement in these numbers.
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