Lucroy lays down a safety squeeze bunt.
Reyes' safety squeeze bunt with runners on second and third produced two runs in the fifth, allowing UCI to build a 5-2 cushion.
On Wednesday, Valadez also got production from Alex Vaughn, who drove in two runs and had a triple and a run-scoring safety squeeze bunt.
Lions' starting pitcher Scott Torrey worked into the sixth and left after making an error on a safety squeeze bunt that knotted the score, 2-2.
This time, instead of Drew Hillman clearing the fence for a two-run, two-out game winner in the 12th inning, as he did Tuesday against San Diego, it was junior second baseman Tommy Reyes executing a two-strike safety squeeze bunt to break a 2-2 tin in the eighth.
The winning play, in the bottom of the ninth Friday, was a safety-squeeze bunt that went for a single by the pinch-hitter Carlos Guillen.
Everything from pitchouts and pickoffs to suicide bunts and safety squeezes, all designed to stop or advance the runner.
Kurt Suzuki's bunt on a safety squeeze attempt was too close to the mound, and Gott was able to field the ball and flip to catcher Carlos Perez in time to tag Plouffe out.
The bunt was a successful safety squeeze executed by pinch-hitter Ryan Cooper, who plated the winning run with one out in the ninth.
The next batter, the second baseman John McDonald, batting from the right side, had to deal with a tough middle-high pitch but still got his bat up enough to tap a little bunt up the first-base side on a safety squeeze, and Bautista scored.
With Robert Longtree at the plate, Altobelli put on the safety squeeze, on which the runner from third is supposed to wait until the bunt is down before breaking for the plate.
