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Day baseball is alive and well in Las Cruces, with a 3 p.m. game today (Tuesday, May 16) at Presley Askew Field on the New Mexico State University campus.
After concluding its conference schedule, NM State will have a quartet of home games to close out the regular season, starting with the Tuesday matchup against in-state rival UNM. The Aggies are 1-2 on the season against the Lobos, most recently falling 14-6 in a shortened eight-inning affair in the Duke City.
Action against New Mexico begins Tuesday afternoon at 3 p.m. at Presley Askew.
The Aggies will close out the season with a three-game series against St. Thomas May 18-20. The series breaks form by opening Thursday. Games Thursday and Friday start at 6 p.m., and the Saturday game begins at 11 a.m. NM State is 12-35 on the year, and finished 9-21 in Western Athletic Conference play.
SCOUTING THE LOBOS
UNM is currently 26-21 on the year, with a 13-14 record in the Mountain West. Most recently, the Lobos split a four-game home series with the Nevada Wolfpack.
Benjamin Baker-Livingston is set to take the mound on Tuesday for New Mexico, sporting a 0-3 record on the year with a 8.18 ERA over 22 innings of work.
Reed Spenrath paces the Lobos in home runs with 18, while chipping in ten doubles and four triples. Dylan Ditzenberger leads the team in batting average with a .437 clip, collecting 59 hits and nine doubles on the year.
HISTORY VS NEW MEXICO
The Aggies are 25-28 against the Lobos since 2004, though both teams have gone on lengthy win streaks in recent years. The Lobos won each of the four games played between the teams last season, and NM State won six in a row over UNM from 2017-2019.
In Tuesday’s game, the Aggies will try to regain their form of this March 21, when they traveled to Albuquerque and shut out the Lobos 2-0.
Offensively, NM State is led by Keith Jones II in batting average, with .362; Christian Perez leads the team with 10 homers; and Kevin Jimenez tops the Ags with 37 RBI.
From the mound, Noah Estrella leads NM State with three pitching victories; Treyjen Meza leads with 65 strikeouts; Matthew Maloney has a pair of saves and a 3.99 ERA over 38 innings.
