> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.emeraldcityspectrum.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Gonzaga Baseball Closes Historic Regular Season With Sweep of Seattle U - URL: https://www.emeraldcityspectrum.com/gonzaga-bulldogs-baseball-closes-historic-regular-season-sweep-seattle-u/ - Published: 2026-05-18T20:09:40.000Z - Updated: 2026-10-08T05:52:56.000Z - Author: Corbin Smith - Tags: Game Day, Analysis, Gonzaga Baseball, Mark Machtolf, Justin Feld, Karsten Sweum, Jacob Wrubleski, Mikey Bell, Landon Hood, Tommy Eisenstat, Ricky Sánchez, Bo Shinkle, Noah Meffert, Hudson Shupe, Brandon Cabrera, Peyton Miller To cap off a truly historic regular season, Gonzaga baseball (35-17, 22-5) secured its ninth sweep of the season by taking all three games against Seattle U at Steve Herz Field. The result of the set makes 22 conference wins for the Zags, which is a program record and the most any WCC team has had since 2002, when Pepperdine won the same amount. They finished the season 15-3 at the Patterson Baseball Complex, but their dominance on the diamond for the last two months has been consistent, no matter the venue. Since their first game of WCC action against San Diego, the Bulldogs have gone 28-6, as they surge into the conference tournament in Phoenix with as much momentum as could be hoped for. More dominance ensured versus the Redhawks, as everyone in the lineup got involved throughout Senior Weekend while the team’s two frontline starters delivered quality outings once more. **Game 1: Gonzaga wins 12-2 (7 innings)** Ironically enough, Justin Feld’s outing on Thursday didn’t get off to a smooth start. Seattle first baseman Payton Knowles lifted the second pitch of the game over the wall in left-center for a leadoff homer. Feld would retire the next three to come to the plate, including striking out a couple of hitters, but the Redhawks took some air out of the stadium early. However, it didn’t last for long. After Ricky Sánchez stroked a single to kick off the home half of the first, Mikey Bell popped a lazy fly into right. But on a windy day in Spokane, the ball was knocked down and fell just out of reach of the right fielder, Jared Stevenson. He attempted to quickly get the ball to second for the forceout, but instead fired it into left field. Both runners moved up a bag and would eventually come home to score on a wild pitch and a sacrifice fly, respectively. In the second, Tommy Eisenstat blooped a single into shallow center to kick off the inning before Jacob Wrubleski drove a two-run blast off a tree beyond the wall in left, making it 4-1 Zags. Wrubleski’s next at-bat would come in the fourth inning, and he doubled down the left-field line on the first pitch of the frame. A single by Bo Shinkle would drive Wrubleski in, and after Sánchez walked, they each were plated on a Bell sac fly and an RBI knock by Ryder Young. Wrubleski and Shinkle tangoed with the same batted ball events in the following frame to bring in another run, and Sánchez then doubled Shinkle home from first to make it 9-1 Bulldogs. Meanwhile, Feld was cruising in his final start at the Patterson Baseball Complex. He allowed just one additional run in his six innings of work, surrendering only three more hits and a walk while fanning eight Redhawks. If he didn’t exit the sixth at the century mark in pitch count, Feld might’ve gotten the chance to be credited with a complete game, because his offense got everyone home early. Hudson Shupe grounded one just past the diving third baseman for a two-run two-bagger in the bottom of the sixth. Then, after a scoreless seventh from Joe Thornton, Maddox Haley lined a double into the corner that scored Sánchez and clinched a run-rule victory for GU. **Game 2: Gonzaga wins 5-1** After no-hitting San Francisco last week, Karsten Sweum surrendered his first hit in 8 1/3 innings when the Redhawks’ Royce Hale lined a single the other way with one out in the second. But still staying dominant, Sweum tallied five strikeouts in the first three frames, facing just one hitter over the minimum. The bottom of the Zags’ order opened the scoring in the third, with the help of some porous defense by Seattle U. Wrubleski first worked a leadoff walk and Eisenstat doubled him to third on a scorcher past the first baseman. Shinkle then lofted a pop-up to left that the left fielder got a bad break on and fell in for a double, which plated Wrubleski. After Sánchez walked to load the bases with none out, Bell also popped up into shallow left-center. Shortstop Kenny Rhein made the routine play but proceeded to skip a throw to third that got away and chased Eisenstat home. GU tested its luck on a can of corn off the bat of Young, but Shinkle was dead to rights at the plate, and the double play ended the inning. Padding its lead in the sixth, Gonzaga got another two-run double in a left-on-left matchup from Shupe, and the next hitter, Wrubleski, singled back up the box to make it 5-0. Sweum was lights out again, finishing with six shutout innings and nine punchouts, while allowing just three hits and one free pass. He and Feld both moved to 8-1 on the year. Landon Hood would come on to close out the final three frames, and the hard-throwing freshman picked up his fifth save of the season in the process. He struck out five in his outing, with a two-out solo shot by Hale in the ninth representing Hood’s only earned run allowed in 35 innings out of the bullpen all season. **Game 3: Gonzaga wins 16-13** Going with a bullpen game to close the series, the Zags engaged in a wild one with the Redhawks in order to finalize the sweep. Garrett Gores opened things up, and he was greeted by Hale, who once again went the other way for damage as he snuck a two-run shot just over the left-field wall in the first. That would be the only hit and substantial damage that Gores gave up, as the right-hander got through the first three innings of the contest. Sánchez and Bell each singled in the bottom of the first and, with a wild pitch sandwiched between, they produced a run. In the next frame, Shupe reached with one out after Hale botched a routine grounder at third, and Wrubleski ripped a ground-rule double to right-center. Eisenstat and Shinkle then laced back-to-back singles to leapfrog Seattle U 3-2. Rain began to fall in the bottom of the third, and by the time Zach Bowman came out of the pen for the fourth, it was pouring. Bowman missed with two pitches before the umpires convened and decided a delay was necessary. The intermission lasted all of four minutes, and when play resumed, Bowman retired the side with some help from a 4-6-3 double play. In the home half, Bell chopped a swinging bunt with runners on the corners and two down to plate another run for the Zags. Bowman walked a couple of men in the fifth, which is always a sign of trouble. The next batter, Knowles, rarely beat out another double play, but the catcher Wrubleski was backing up the throw to first on the play. It left home plate vacated and the runner, who was originally at second, came all the way around to score. Then, Rhein swatted a no-doubt shot to deep left that gave the Redhawks the lead again, now 5-4. But as the Bulldogs have done all season, they shook off the punch to the mouth. Noah Meffert, Eisenstat, and Bell each clubbed two-run taters in the bottom of the fifth to re-take the lead for Gonzaga. They tacked on an 11th run in the following frame when Wrubleski tagged another double to right-center that scored Shupe. However, Seattle U did not go down quietly. The first five Redhawk hitters reached base in the seventh, punctuated by a two-run double from Rhein. A groundout and a sac fly each scored runs as well, as the five-run frame cut their deficit to one. Then in the next inning, Brandon Stinnet got just enough of a fly ball to right, and when it landed just beyond the reach of Meffert, it knotted the score at 11. When Gonzaga loaded the bags with only one out in the bottom half of the eighth, it gave opportunity for unfamiliar faces to shine. When GU originally went up five, head coach Mark Machtolf opted to get some final-year players on the diamond, pinch-hitting for Shinkle and Sánchez during the sixth. So it gave grad student Brandon Cabrera, who was taking just his eighth at-bat of the year, the chance to drop an RBI single into shallow left in an 0-2 count that gave the Zags the lead again. Next was senior Peyton Miller, who was taking his 12th at-bat of the season, and he struck a sacrifice fly to right. They set the scene for Bell, and he picked up his fifth and sixth RBI of the day on his WCC-leading 24th double of the year. Young’s grounder to third in the following plate appearance seemed to end the inning, but the first baseman couldn’t handle Hale’s throw, and Bell scooted home as the ball got away. The Redhawks would scrape across a couple of runs against Mickey McClaskey in the ninth, but he escaped the traffic and got credited for the win. **On Deck** Gonzaga’s first game of the WCC tournament will be on Thursday, May 21, at 2 PM PT. It will face the lowest advancing seed from the first day of the tournament on Wednesday in its quarterfinal matchup. That opponent will be either No. 3 San Francisco, No. 6 Santa Clara, No. 5 Saint Mary’s, or No. 4 Pepperdine. The Zags swept the Gaels and Dons on the road, and won two out of three games against the Waves at home, but the Broncos stand as the only WCC squad to take GU down in a series, doing so in Spokane.