Jacob Galloway and USC will take the field on Saturday night against Joey Kramer and Washington State.
USC will head on the road this weekend for the second game of a three-game series against Pac-12 rival Washington State in Pullman, Washington, on Saturday night. The Trojans are under the .500 mark overall this season at 22-26, but they are over the .500 mark at 12-11 inside of Pac-12 play. They got the beginning of last week off finishing it with a three-game series against Cal at home. They won the first game 5-1, but followed that up with two straight losses 11-4 and 6-3 to round out the series. Earlier this week, they made it a three-game losing streak dropping a game to Long Beach State 7-6 on the road. Austin Overn and Jacob Galloway have been the best two batters on the team this season. Overn is leading the team in home runs with eight on the season on 49 hits in 196 at-bats. However, Galloway is leading the two in batting with a .303 average and a .411 on-base percentage. He has a team-high with 36 RBIs paired with six home runs on 53 hits.
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The Cougars are 20-27 overall this season and have dropped down to just 8-16 against teams in the Pac-12 as well heading into this series. Last week, they lost an opening game to Seattle on the road 4-0 and followed it up losing two of three games to Oregon State at home. They lost to Portland 5-3 earlier this week.
Joey Kramer and Casen Taggart have been the best on the team. Kramer has nine home runs and 31 RBIs this season while batting .297 with an on-base percentage of .351. Taggart is batting .269 as a designated hitter with six home runs and a team-high 36 RBIs on 46 hits in 197 at-bats this season.
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