San Jose State baseball battled through a lengthy rain delay to score three runs in the bottom of the sixth inning and defeat Air Force 3-2 to clinch the series.With the Spartans trailing 1-0 heading into the bottom of the sixth inning, the skies opened up and a hard rain shower forced play to be suspended. After 2 hours and 15 minutes, play resumed and SJSU came out hot on offense and scored three runs, all unearned, in the bottom of the sixth to take a 3-1 lead.grounded a double play ball to third, but the Air Force third baseman's throw to second went wide allowingto take third andto score. The next batter up,, laid down a perfect sacrifice bunt to bring Strahm home andput a cap on the inning with a RBI single to plate Viola.Air Force (6-5, 1-2) got one back and made things very interesting in the eighth on a RBI groundout with no outs.was brought into the game to relieve. Bonta-Smith got out of the jam with a lineout to third and a groundout to first to strand runners at the corners.Bonta-Smith returned to for the ninth and struck out two of the three batters faced to pick up his third save of the season as the Spartans improved to 9-5, 3-2 on the season.Starting pitcher(2-0) picked up the win after scattering six hits in 6.0 innings of work with just one earned run against. Air Force reliever Luke Chilcutt, responsible for the three-run sixth inning, was charged with the loss (0-1).The Spartans finished with just five hits to the Falcons' eight and finished with a pair of errors.The series finale between the Spartans and Falcons begins tomorrow at 11:00 a.m. PT. The game has been bumped up from its original 12:00 p.m. start time due to the threat of inclement weather.