The Arizona baseball team lost its third straight game, falling to New Mexico 6-3 at Hi Corbett Field on Tuesday night.
The Wildcats (7-13) have lost lost four of their last five games; their lone win in that span was a game that went 11 innings at Utah on Friday.
Arizona was held scoreless apart from a three-run inning and only had more than one base runner three times on seven hits. Defensively, the Wildcats had two errors in the first two innings while giving up 11 hits.
“We didn’t play good defense to start the game and then we didn’t sustain good at bats,” coach Chip Hale said. “I’m not a big fear coach but at some point, guys have to understand it. If you’re not producing and you’re not playing the game the way we expect here at Arizona that someone else can get the opportunity.”
New Mexico (14-7) had lost seven of its last eight games entering the game. The Lobos are coached by former Sabino and Arizona pitcher Tod Brown.
“I mean, there’s a lot of ups and downs with this team obviously; I think we’ll pick it up soon,” freshman catcher Caleb Danzeisen said. “We’ll just keep rolling and stacking days on each other and hopefully get more wins coming up.”
The Lobos started the game getting two batters on the base due to an error by Mathis Meurant and a single by Karsen Waslefsky. Gene Trujillo hit a single that brought in Anthony Diaz to give New Mexico the lead.
Arizona rallied back in the second starting with a double to right field that got to the wall by Maddox Mihalakis before being brought in by Roman Meyers with an RBI single.
The scoring continued — after another single and a sacrifice bunt — on a fielder’s choice hit by Meurant that brought in Meyers. Danzeisen came in shortly after on a wild pitch.
The Lobos retook the lead in the third the lead, scoring four times with Luke Mansy and Khalil Walker hitting a single to bring in Shane Miller and Akili Cariss in back-to-back at bats after loading the bases.
Brodey Williams got home from third on a wild pitch followed by a flyout by Diaz that brought in Mansy from third.
New Mexico kept it up in the fifth with another Diaz sacrifice fly that brought in Mansy again.
Arizona will look ahead to its series against Texas Tech (13-7) this weekend at Hi Corbett Field, starting Friday at 6 p.m. The Red Raiders have lost their last two games.
“They swing the bats; they’re aggressive,” Hale said of Texas Tech. “Pitchers (have) pitched a couple years there.”
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