(Photo: Jessica Carnivale/WCSN) It wouldn’t be too far fetched to consider the pitching staff to be the strength of Arizona State Baseball heading into the 2021 season. With second-year pitching coach Jason Kelly at the helm and loads of depth, the Sun Devils' staff has turned heads this offseason, and it’s
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ASU Baseball: Fall Ball showcases improvement from pitching staff
(Photo: Nicholas Badders/WCSN) If one was looking for the direct and immediate impact new Arizona State Baseball pitching coach Jason Kelly had in his first 17 games, a case study of junior right-handed pitcher Boyd Vander Kooi would have turned up impressive results. Vander Kooi was coming off a bad year when
ASU Baseball: Hot bats return to Tempe following road sweep
(Photo: Jessica Carnivale/WCSN) On their journey to a miraculous College World Series title in 2008, the Fresno State Bulldogs eliminated then No. 4 Arizona State in the NCAA Super Regionals. The Bulldogs dropped the first game of the postseason series before taking the final two contests to punch their ticket to
ASU Baseball: No. 13 Sun Devils hope bats will come, continue nonconference against Boston College
ASU Baseball: Vander Kooi shines but isn’t enough in 2-1 loss
(Photo: Jessica Carnivale/WCSN) Boyd Vander Kooi's start to his sophomore season in 2019 did not go how he wanted it to. The right-hander took the mound in Arizona State baseball's second game of the season against Notre Dame last February and struggled. He last 3.2 innings and gave up five earned runs. The
ASU Baseball: Team USA Baseball Exhibition Notebook
(Photo: Karli Matthias/WCSN) Arizona State baseball played the USA Baseball Olympic Team at Phoenix Municipal Stadium on Friday night in the final game of ASU’s fall baseball schedule. Here are notes and takeaways from the exhibition matchup as Team USA used a four-run seventh inning to beat the Devils 7-3. Junior
ASU Baseball: Sun Devils squander lead in the ninth against No. 4 Stanford, but take glass half-full approach in preparation for postseason
(Photo: Karli Matthias/WCSN) On a day when Arizona State baseball (37-17, 16-13 Pac-12) crossed the T's and dotted the I's on the 2019 regular season opposite the No. 4 Stanford Cardinal (41-11, 22-7 Pac-12), with Saturday afternoon's matchup at Phoenix Municipal Stadium seemingly having little impact on either team's postseason standing,
ASU Baseball: Never-say-die attitude at the forefront again for Sun Devils in walk-off win over No. 4 Stanford
(Photo: Nicholas Badders/WCSN) Building a winning culture doesn't happen overnight. It takes time, building brick-by-brick, to establish an eternal mindset of competitive spirit and belief that anything is attainable. It's been a long and sometimes treacherous path to this point, but it seems like Tracy Smith might finally be starting to establish
ASU Baseball: Sun Devils split rain-shortened series against California
Photo: Nicholas Badders/WCSN It wasn't an ideal trip to northern California for the Arizona State baseball team (36-15, 15-11 Pac-12), as Mother Nature forced a failed attempt for a doubleheader on Sunday at Evans Diamond against the California Golden Bears (30-18, 15-11 Pac-12). As a result, the Sun Devils will return
ASU Baseball: No. 22 Sun Devils drop series to No. 1 UCLA with lopsided 18-3 loss
(Photo: Nicholas Badders/WCSN) Despite their torrid start to the 2019 season, charging through their opposition with an offensive onslaught and pitching prowess that left the stat sheet looking like a video game at times, the Arizona State baseball team is realizing just how much it will take to return to the