The Hawaii baseball team held off Cal State Bakersfield 5-3 today at Hardt Field on the CSUB campus.Hekili Robello and Brody Martin-Grudzielanek combined to space 10 hits as the Rainbow Warriors evened the three-game series at a win apiece. First pitch of Sunday’s series finale is at 10 a.m. Hawaii time.Robello allowed three runs in 6 2/3 innings.

Martin-Grudzielanek, who made the move to closer a week ago, earned the seven-out walk.With two outs in the eighth, head coach Rich Hill nade a mound visit. It turned into a brainstorming session with Martin-Grudzielanek.“He was the one who brought it up to me on the mound,” Hill said. “He said, ‘I think I can pick this guy off.”Martin-Grudzielanek picked off pinch runner Taison Miller to end the eighth inning.In the ninth, Martin-Grudzielanek relinquished a leadoff single, then struck out the next three.The ’Bows scored the game’s first run on Kamaehu Sanchez’ RBI double.The ’Bows added two more in the fifth when Tate Shimao was plunked with the bases loaded and Evan Rolbiecki followed with a run-scoring fielder’s choice.The ’Bows added insurance runs in the seventh when Ben Ziegler-Namoa dashed home from third on a wild pitch and Shimao scored on Draven Nushida’s opposite-field single to left.