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ASU Baseball: No. 13 Sun Devils come up inches short to Oregon State, focusing on fundamentals moving forward

by Bobby Kraus - April 14, 2019

(Photo: Nicholas Badders/WCSN) The later and later you get into a baseball season, the more and more the clichés of the game start to rear their ugly heads. Throwing strikes, simplifying the moment, making the routine plays are ones that come to mind for the everyday fan. In the case of Arizona State

ASU Baseball: No. 13 Sun Devils lose tightly contested game to No. 4 Oregon State

by Jacob Rudner - April 13, 2019

(Photo: Brady Klain/WCSN) Put a baseball game on a scale. The first inning has both ends lined up evenly with the weight on each side distributed perfectly. As the game progresses, the scale becomes more uneven. With each run, some weight is dropped on the side of one of the two

ASU Baseball: Marsh throws complete game masterpiece as No.13 Devils take series opener over Beavers

by Gareth Kwok - April 12, 2019April 12, 2019

(Photo: Karli Matthias/WCSN) Alec Marsh stared into Sam Ferri’s catcher’s mitt in the top of the seventh inning with a 3-2 count. Digging into the batter’s box was Oregon State’s All-American catcher Adley Rutschman, the projected number one overall draft pick this June. A matchup countless numbers of college baseball fans

ASU Baseball: No. 13 Devils host defending National Champion, No. 4 Oregon State

by Jessica Carnivale - April 12, 2019April 12, 2019

(Photo: Karli Matthias/WCSN) No. 13 Arizona State baseball had a hot start to their season but now have found themselves in a bit of a slump. The team has lost four out of their last five games, leaving them with a 9-3 record in conference play and 26-5 overall. This skid caused

ASU Baseball: No. 13 Sun Devils break down late, fall to UNLV

by Chase Drieberg - April 10, 2019April 10, 2019

(Photo: Nicholas Badders/WCSN) A baseball season is often referred to as a horse race, rather than a sprint. This, due to the length of the season and the fact that short spurts of success won’t result in making the postseason. However, for much of Arizona State’s baseball season it has felt like a

ASU Baseball: Sun Devils salvage series finale with USC, look to improve on sloppy weekend

by Jacob Rudner - April 7, 2019

(Photo: Brady Klain/WCSN) LOS ANGELES -- A baseball game is like a mirror: a pane of glass clear enough, with reflections so strong, that a player or a team can look into it with a clear picture of the past staring right back at the looker. Each game a new peek

ASU Baseball: No. 7 Sun Devils suffer their second-straight dismantling loss

by Jacob Rudner - April 6, 2019

(Photo: Brady Klain/WCSN) On a 1-2 curveball diving sharply into the Dedeaux Field dirt, Hunter Bishop swung hard and missed harder. He walked back into the dugout, put his bat down and unleashed a frustrated punch into the stomach of the blue Powerade cooler nearest the bench’s side wall. Bishop’s punch

ASU Baseball: The Sun Devils resume conference play with three-game series against USC

by Jessica Carnivale - April 5, 2019

(Photo: Brady Klain/WCSN) The Arizona State baseball team will travel 383 miles to University of Southern California for their second away series this season. Last weekend, the Sun Devils swept rival University of Arizona to improve their in-conference record to 8-1. After a grueling three-games series the team fell to Long Beach

ASU Baseball: No. 7 Sun Devils come back down to Earth after Territorial Cup sweep in loss to Long Beach State

by Bobby Kraus - April 3, 2019

(Photo: Nicholas Badders/WCSN) The highest of highs can be followed by the lowest of lows seemingly overnight in baseball, or in the case of Arizona State (25-2) after two nights, as it suffered its second loss of the season in a midweek matchup against the Long Beach State Dirtbags (4-23) by

ASU Baseball: No. 7 Devils prepare for Tuesday tilt against Long Beach State

by Gareth Kwok - April 2, 2019April 2, 2019

(Photo: Karli Matthias/WCSN) A 5 hour 10 minute victory over the Arizona Wildcats on Sunday afternoon that head coach Tracy Smith referred to as an “ugly win” clinched Arizona State’s first Territorial Cup series sweep since 2009. After such a barnburner of a ballgame in the series finale, the Devils (25-1,