Box Score
SAN ANTONIO — This was not St. Mary's night.
No. 3-ranked St. Mary's Baseball was anything but its usual self Tuesday night, falling to Texas A&M-Kingsville 12-3 in non-conference action at Dickson Stadium.
Missed opportunities and miscues plagued the Rattlers all night, and the Javelinas pounced on those mistakes throughout the nine-inning affair.
A&M-Kingsville (11-7) scored 11 of their 12 runs with two outs on the board, a recipe from which the Rattlers (17-5) could not recover.
St. Mary's woes began out of the gate, as a base runner was picked off at first base in the first inning. The very next batter,
Brooks Orton, tripled down the right-field line for what would have driven in the Rattlers' first run if not for the pickoff.
Later, in the fourth, the problems crept into StMU's defensive play. On a lazy, two-out blooper to shallow left field, miscommunication in the Rattler infield led to the easy out dropping safely for a base hit between three Rattlers.
After taking a 1-0 lead in the second, the Javelinas tacked on two-plus runs in each of the fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh innings to break open a 12-1 lead before St. Mary's countered with two more in the bottom of the seventh.
Starter
Greg Dobb was hung with the loss for St. Mary's, dropping to 1-2 on the season.
Scott Jones was 2 for 4 with a double, two RBIs and a run scored, while
Al Gonzalez drove in the other run on a 1-for-4 night.
St. Mary's will be back on the diamond this weekend for a Heartland Conference series at Arkansas-Fort Smith.
The series gets underway at 1 p.m. Friday in Fort Smith, Ark.
