Nevada 19, Washington State 0
Thursday, April 17, 2025
Pullman, Wash. - Bailey-Brayton Field

WP: Peyton Fosher (3-4)
LP: Nick Lewis (3-5)

PULLMAN, Wash. - Peyton Fosher was dialed in on the hill Thursday afternoon, tossing six scoreless innings while Nevada blew the game open late to shut out Washington State, 19-0, in the series opener.

Nevada will go for the series win in Friday's 4:05 p.m. contest.

Fosher struck out five and allowed just three hits while earning his third win of the campaign. He held firm through the first six innings as Nevada clung to a 1-0 lead, then got a big cushion thanks to a six-run seventh making it 7-0. After the Wolf Pack (21-16, 9-7 MW) added a run in the eighth, it exploded for 11 runs in the ninth behind five RBIs and a grand slam from Billy Ham and a three-run homer from Taylor Holder.

Holder would go 3-for-3 with four RBIs Friday, coming up just a double shy of the cycle. Ham was 0-for-4 until the ninth, when he went 2-for-2 with an RBI double and capping it with a line-drive grand slam to right for the Wolf Pack's final four runs. Jackson Waller and Michael Ball also had three hits apiece.

The 19-0 shutout was the second-largest in Nevada's recorded history, dating back to 1974, behind only a 22-0 win at Seattle University in 2010.

Holder's third-inning RBI single was the difference through the first six innings, until Washington State miscues played a big role in the Wolf Pack opening up a seven-run lead in the seventh. After Jacob Doyle's bases-loaded walk opened the scoring in the frame, Junhyuk Kwon drove in two with a single up the middle, with a throwing error to third by Coug centerfielder Lance Johnstone ending up in the dugout, allowing a third run to score and Kwon to take third. Kwon would come in on a wild pitch in the next at-bat to make it 6-0. A Sean Yamaguchi walk and two more errors by Washington State (14-22, 7-9 MW) led to the sixth run of the inning as Billy Ham's grounder to first was booted, allowing Yamaguchi to score.

In the ninth, one-out singles from Jayce Dobie and Yamaguchi set up Ham's first hit of the frame, a double the opposite way into the left-field corner that scored Dobie to make it 9-0. Waller plated Yamaguchi and Ham with a single up the middle, and, after a base hit from Ball, Holder smashed a three-run homer to left field to make it a 14-0 Wolf Pack lead.

Nevada loaded the bases with two out, leading to Dobie being hit by a pitch to force in a run. That set up Ham's laser shot to right, the grand slam wrapping the scoring at 19-0.

Dominic Desch tossed two scoreless innings in relief for the Pack, and Ryan Oakes finished off the ninth to preserve the shutout.

For Washington State, Nick Lewis fell to 3-5 with the loss, giving up three runs on eight hits over 6.1 innings.