The Hawaii baseball team might have found a homefield advantage some 2,500 miles away.

The Rainbow Warriors practiced at Dobbins Stadium in Davis, Calif., on Thursday to prepare for today’s Big West series opener against UC Davis.

The wind was blowing straight in from the outfield, making it extremely tough to hit balls out of — kind of like a stadium UH is pretty familiar with.

Sounds just like Les Murakami Stadium, where Hawaii has played its last 19 games since winning two of three against San Francisco in late February.

“The park was playing extremely big, and when that’s the case, you’ve got to just go pitch and play defense and execute,” Hawaii coach Mike Trapasso said Thursday evening by phone.

The Rainbow Warriors (13-15, 2-1 Big West) have won seven of nine overall and six consecutive conference games on the road heading into the series against the Aggies (8-15, 1-2).

UC Davis, which lost two of three to UC Riverside to open its Big West schedule, hammered the same USF team UH won a series against 15-3 on Tuesday.

Hawaii is coming off its first series win against UC Irvine as a member of the Big West. UH won its first two games against the Anteaters since joining the conference and will now look to buck another trend that has haunted them since leaving the Western Athletic Conference.

This is the third time UH has opened 2-1 in league play. In 2013, UH opened with a series win against UC Santa Barbara but lost seven of its next eight in conference and finished 11-16 in the league.

The following year, UH again won a series against UCSB, this time on the road. It turned out to be one of only two series wins as UH went 1-14 over its next five weeks. The ’Bows finished 6-18 in league play that season.

Hawaii can avoid that with a good showing this weekend and could potentially move over .500 with a three-game sweep, marking the first time more than 30 games into the season UH would have more wins than losses since 2012.

UH is 7-2 against UC Davis in BWC play.

“Like every series, you go into it understanding this is Big West baseball and that in and of itself is a challenge,” Trapasso said. “Even more so this is not an easy place to play. Davis plays well at home.”

UCD has found a legit ace in left-hander Robert Garcia, who is 1-1 with an 0.77 ERA.

A redshirt freshman, Garcia made seven appearances out of the bullpen before moving to the top of the rotation two weeks ago against Air Force.

He has struck out 41 in 35 innings and opponents are hitting .136 against him.

“We’ve got a very good pitcher going against us, so we’re going to have to play our typical brand of baseball to win,” Trapasso said.

Hawaii has done that recently by pitching to contact and avoiding walks. The Rainbow Warriors have jumped all the way to 30th in the country averaging 2.98 walks per nine innings and have given up four runs or fewer in nine of their last 11.

Junior Brendan Hornung (3-5, 2.15 ERA), who will oppose Garcia this afternoon, has not allowed an earned run in three of his past five starts and has walked just three in the last 36 innings.

Senior Kyle Von Ruden (4-1, 2.76) hasn’t walked a batter in six of his eight starts this season. His 0.77 walks per nine innings is second in the BWC to the Aggies’ Justin Mullins, who will oppose Von Ruden in Game 2 on Saturday.