Sacramento State Hornets baseball

The Sacramento State Hornets baseball team represents California State University, Sacramento, which is located in Sacramento, California. The Hornets are an NCAA Division I college baseball program that competes in the Western Athletic Conference. They began competing in Division I in 1990 and re-joined the Western Athletic Conference in 2006. They were a part of the Big West Conference from 1997 to 2002.
The Sacramento State Hornets play all home games on campus at John Smith Field. The Hornets have played in three NCAA Division I Tournaments. Over their 19 discontinuous seasons in the Western Athletic Conference, they have won two WAC regular season titles and three WAC Tournaments.
Since the program's inception in 1949, six Hornets have gone on to play in Major League Baseball, including Philadelphia Phillies first baseman and outfielder Rhys Hoskins. Under head coach Reggie Christiansen, 22 Hornets have been drafted, including Rhys Hoskins who was selected in the fifth round of the 2014 Major League Baseball draft.

Conference membership history

John Smith Field is a baseball stadium on the California State University, Sacramento campus in Sacramento, California that seats 1,200 people. It opened in 1953 and was known as Hornet Stadium. In 2010, it was named in honor of longtime coach John Smith.

Records taken from the Sac State coaching history.

Records taken from the Sac State year-by-year results.

Sacramento State began playing Division I baseball in 1990. They have played in the NCAA Division I baseball tournament three times. The Hornets have a record of 2–6.

2014	San Luis Obispo Regional	Cal Poly Arizona State Cal Poly	L 2–4 W 5–4 L 5–6
2017	Stanford Regional	Stanford BYU	L 0–10 L 1–6
2019	Stanford Regional	Stanford UC Santa Barbara Stanford	L 0–11 W 6–4 L 3–12

Over their 31 seasons in Division I, two Hornets have been named to an NCAA-recognized All-America team.
Over their 19 discontinuous seasons in the Western Athletic Conference, 8 different Hornets have been named to the all-conference first-team.
Over their 6 seasons in the Big West Conference, one Hornet was named to the all-conference first-team.

Taken from the Sac State awards and honors page. Updated March 21, 2020.

Athlete	Years in MLB	MLB teams
La Schelle Tarver	1986	Boston Red Sox
Keith Brown	1988, 1990–1992	Cincinnati Reds
Gary Wilson	1995	Pittsburgh Pirates
Erik Bennett	1995–1996	California Angels, Minnesota Twins
Roland de la Maza	1997	Kansas City Royals
Rhys Hoskins	2017–present	Philadelphia Phillies, Milwaukee Brewers
Sam Long	2021-present	San Francisco Giants, Oakland Athletics, Kansas City Royals
James Outman	2022–present	Los Angeles Dodgers
Nathan Lukes	2023–present	Toronto Blue Jays
Travis Adams	2025–present	Minnesota Twins

Taken from the Sac State Hornets in the Pros page.