VIDEO: Zac Fujimoto’s Career Day Not Enough

Zac Fujimoto tied a career-high with four RBI.LONG BEACH, Calif. — Zac Fujimoto went 3-for-4, falling a home run shy of hitting for the cycle. He tied a career high with four RBI and added a stolen base, but it wasn’t enough for Loyola Marymount.

The Lions fell 7-5 to Long Beach State Monday night on the road at Blair Field as the Dirtbags swept the series with three close wins.

Long Beach State scored four runs in its final at bat in the eighth inning to steal the thunder from Fujimoto after his bases-clearing double had given LMU a 5-3 lead in the sixth inning. The liner to right field chased Dirtbag starter Shawn Stuart.

After Long Beach completed the comeback win, I talked with Fujimoto about having a big game, but still suffering a disappointing loss.

Fujimoto also discussed the big West Coast Conference series the Lions have this weekend at conference frontrunner San Diego and talked about how much fun playing in a tightly contested series is, even if LMU did get swept by Long Beach:

About Shotgun Spratling

Shotgun Spratling covers the Southern California area where he attended 75 games during the 2012 season. He attended grad school at USC where he covered USC sports for Neon Tommy, South LA Intersections, Annenberg TV News, KSCR and the Trojan Vision debate show Platforum Sports. He has worked with the Princeton Devil Rays minor league team, written for daily and weekly newspapers and done freelance work for publications such as ESPN, NBC Los Angeles and the SC Playbook magazine. After being a 3-sport letterman in high school, he was a 4-year letterman at Division III Maryville College where he concluded his collegiate career by inducing a ground out to end the 2007 Great South Athletic Conference Tournament and gave the Scots the GSAC championship. He also spent the 2010 summer in Cape Town, South Africa covering sports for the Cape Community Papers during the first FIFA World Cup held on African soil.