Box Score RENO, NEV. - The Nevada baseball team (10-17) outlasted the Seattle Redhawks (12-14) in a 2-0 pitcher's duel that lasted just one hour and 57 minutes. With one out in the bottom of the eighth and Waylen Sing Chow on first, Carlos Escobar Jr. broke up a 0-0 with a two-run shot to deep left center. The home run was Escobar's third in four games, and extended his hit streak to 11 games.
LHP Brock Stassi was stellar in his third start of the season, holding the Redhawks scoreless through four frames and allowing just two hits. He also struck out a season-high six batters, two of them looking and four swinging.
Jeremy Cole (2-2) relieved Stassi after he walked the leadoff hitter in the fifth, and held Seattle scoreless through five innings to earn his second win of the season. Cole allowed just two base runners (one single, one hit by pitch), lowering his team-best ERA to 3.24.
The Pack had managed only one hit until Escobar's homer, when Brian Barnett doubled to right center in the second. Barnett was thrown out at home on a Curtis Frisbie fielder's choice.
Stassi and Cole held the Redhawks to a combined three hits in the Pack's best pitching performance of the season. Today was the second consecutive victory in which Nevada was outhit by its opponent.
Nevada takes on San Francisco State this Tuesday at 2 p.m. in its final non-conference game of the 2011 season.
