STOCKTON, Calif. – The Pacific baseball program turns the page to a new calendar month, opening May continuing an eight-game homestand with a three-game set against LMU at 6 p.m. on Friday from Klein Family Field.

Winners of three straight West Coast Conference series for the first time since 2014, the Tigers (17-25, 9-9 WCC) host the Lions (12-34, 3-15 WCC) this weekend sitting currently in a tie for fifth place in the league standings with Portland and Seattle, and two games back of second place. The top six WCC teams at the end of the regular season will qualify for the conference tournament, which will take place at Scottsdale Stadium in Scottsdale, Arizona from May 20-23.

Pacific has found some consistency in the form of its starting pitching, led by a sharp southpaw in redshirt junior Garret Plata. In the month of April, Plata posted a 3-1 record with a 1.44 earned run average and 21 strikeouts in 25.0 innings. With an overall earned run average of 1.52, Plata ranks first in the WCC and second in the nation in that category.

Redshirt junior Zach Todd and graduate student Adan Perez have complimented Plata nicely in the rotation, looking to carry over their quality starts from their last home outings where the Tigers earned a sweep of Santa Clara two weekends ago.

Home run pop has been a theme of the Tigers over the last pair of weeks. Pacific brings an eight-game home run streak into Friday, tying the longest such streak since April 26, 2022, to May 12, 2022. That stretch is the longest by the baseball program since the Tigers joined the WCC in 2014.

A pair of key power hitters in the Pacific lineup, junior Braeden Schnabel and senior Grant MacArthur each crushed a home run in the last victory in San Francisco where the Tigers took two of three from the Dons. Schnabel turned in a hot week at the plate on the Hilltop, going 4-for-11 with four extra-base hits, four runs and three RBIs while MacArthur has hit a homer in consecutive games.

The middle infield tandem of redshirt sophomore Robert Orr and graduate student Brendan O'Sullivan have done their jobs setting the table at the top of the order. The former leads the Tigers in home runs with six while the latter hit .308 with 11 runs in the month of the April.

In a dozen conference games last month, senior Jake Tandy has tallied three home runs while sporting a .350 batting average with eight runs and 14 RBIs. Tandy has hit a home run in three straight conference series.

LMU has won one conference series this season, defeating USF at home from April 2-4. Last Tuesday, the Lions were no-hit by UC San Diego in its 10-0 defeat in La Jolla, California. Most recently in league play, LMU was swept by Gonzaga in Spokane, Washington last weekend.

One key Lion to keep an eye hitting wise would be Noah Malone, who is hitting a team-best .341 with a home run against conference foes this year.

The Tigers have won three of the previous five games against the Lions, including taking last year's series in Los Angeles. On April 6, 2025, Pacific recorded the largest comeback in program history, scoring ten runs in a ninth-inning rally to win the series finale by a 14-11 margin. Pacific seeks its first home series victory over LMU since 2018.

All three games will be streamed live on ESPN+ with Jake Schuerman on the call for Friday's 6 p.m. first pitch and Dennis Ackerman for Saturday's 3 p.m. first pitch and Sunday's 1 p.m. first pitch.

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