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USC baseball opens Dedeaux Field with no-hitter, sweep of Pepperdine
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This weekend, the USC baseball team played its first home games on campus in nearly three years. After two seasons of construction and playing off campus, the Trojans finally opened the new Dedeaux Field with a three-game series against Pepperdine.
It was certainly a successful weekend, with USC sweeping the series. Friday and Sunday featured relatively routine 3-1 and 8-5 victories, respectfully. Saturday night's contest, however, was one of the more unique results in recent memory.
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In the bottom of the seventh inning, Andrew Lamb hit a two-run home run to put the Trojans up 11-0. Due to a mercy rule, that ended the game, giving USC an extremely rare seventh-inning walk-off.
But it gets even better! At the time of the home run, USC pitching had not yet allowed a hit. Hence the Trojans pulled off something even more rare: a seven-inning, mercy rule, walk-off no-hitter.
So does this officially count as a no-hitter? In MLB, a no-hitter has to be nine innings to be officially recognized. After a bit of research, however, I was not able to definitively determine whether that same rule applies at the NCAA level or not.
Regardless, this was a massively successful weekend for the Trojans. They opened up their new stadium and started the season 3-0. In addition, head coach Andy Stankiewicz got to coach against his son Dane , who is an assistant on Pepperdine's staff.
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USC has four more home games this upcoming week. the Trojans will host LMU on Tuesday night, before welcoming Rice to Los Angeles for a three-game series next weekend.
This article originally appeared on Trojans Wire: USC baseball sweeps Pepperdine to open new Dedeaux Field
