The Sacramento State baseball team scored as many runs in its win against Seattle University Friday afternoon as it did in their first three games combined.

The Hornets never trailed as they defeated the Redhawks 9-6, finishing with a season high both in runs and hits.

Senior catcher Derrick Chung led Sac State’s offense with a team-high three hits and three RBIs.

“This weekend we found it finally,” Chung said. “Before the game we talked about it and we said, ‘instead of winning this game let’s crush it,’ and that’s what we did.”

After the Hornets scored a run in the first two innings, Sac State starting pitcher Hunter Greenwood walked three straight batters, allowing two Redhawks to score.

Head coach Reggie Christiansen would quickly call on his bullpen to bring in junior Tyler Hoelzen.

“[Hunter] wasn’t dealing with the adversity of locating his pitches, and it is one of those situations where my gut told me Tyler would be a good match-up,” Christiansen said.

In his two pitching appearances so far, Greenwood has allowed five earned runs and walked six batters in nine innings pitched.

“You create your own strike zone when you throw strikes, so I need to go out next week and focus on finishing and throw more strikes with my fastball,” Greenwood said. “If I do that I will get some more calls my way.”

For the second game in a row, Sac State used a plethora of pitchers from its bullpen. After Seattle tied the score at 5-5 on a double by catcher Brian Olsen scored a pair of runs, Christiansen made another walk back to the mound for a switch.

Sophomore relief pitcher Dallas Chadwick was brought in and pitched two scoreless innings and allowed just one hit.

The Hornets’ bats would give Chadwick the lead in the sixth inning when sophomore Andrew Ayers doubled down the third base line to drive in Trevor Paine.

One inning later, Will Soto also connected on a double to drive in two more runs, extending Sac State’s lead to 9-5.

Despite a solo home run in the eighth inning given up by relief pitcher Brennan Leitao, senior closer R.J. Davis pitched a perfect ninth and got his first save of the year.

The Hornets will host Seattle once again on Saturday when Tanner Mendonca will get his second start of the year coming off of his five hit shutout last week. First pitch is at 1 p.m.

Ryan Kuhn can be reached at @rskuhn