(Photo: Dominic Cotroneo/WCSN) The Arizona State Sun Devils baseball team left Berkeley’s Evans Diamond on Sunday with their head coach in the belief that his team was quitting early on and lacking the competitiveness needed to win. Having lost eight of their last 11 games, the Devils returned to Phoenix Municipal Stadium
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ASU Baseball: Sun Devils Can’t Capture Series Against UCLA After Poor Start to Game
(Photo: Blaine McCormick/WCSN) The first inning has been an issue for the Arizona State Sun Devils in 2017. The team has fallen behind time-after-time causing ASU to constantly work from behind. ASU (12-14, 2-7 Pac-12) was brutally beat 17-4 by UCLA (13-12, 6-3 Pac-12) after surrendering five runs in the first inning. “We’ve
ASU Baseball: Sun Devils Hope Spencer Van Scoyoc Is Just Getting Started
(Photo: Blaine McCormick/WCSN) It should go without saying that no matter the talent level or the hype surrounding any incoming college baseball freshman, adjusting to the game at the NCAA level is always a daunting challenge. Ask anyone associated with Arizona State baseball, and they will tell you they believe that freshman
ASU Baseball: Resiliency and Team Effort Proven Once Again, Sun Devils Sweep Long Beach State
(Photo: Nicole Hernandez/WCSN) For the third straight game, the Arizona State Baseball team came back from a first-inning deficit to win a game as they topped Long Beach State on Sunday afternoon 8-5 for a three-game sweep. After every starter got a hit on Saturday, eight different players recorded hits on Sunday. Resiliency and
ASU Baseball: Senior leadership on and off the field lead Sun Devils to series win
(Photo: Dominic Cotroneo/WCSN) Every college baseball coach will agree that upperclassmen leadership is one of the most crucial intangibles for a team's success. Arizona State head coach Tracy Smith is no different. Enter Zach Cerbo. The senior catcher, one of only two players who has been at Arizona State prior to Smith's
ASU Baseball: Game 2 Instant Recap vs. Long Beach State
(Photo: Dominic Cotroneo/WCSN) In the second game of a three-game series from Phoenix Municipal Stadium, the Arizona State Sun Devils and Long Beach State Dirtbags battled back and forth, with Arizona State emerging victorious and clinching the series by a score of 9-4. For the second straight day ASU got off to
ASU Baseball: Stadler Pitches Well in Relief, Bats Come Alive as Sun Devils Reach Double Digits in win over New Mexico State
(Photo: Nicole Hernandez/WCSN) Arizona State (5-3) took down New Mexico State (6-4) 12-5 after overcoming a rocky start by Zach Dixon. Dixon lasted just 1 and 2/3 innings, walking five Aggies and allowing one run. After Dixon’s second consecutive start in which he couldn’t pitch past the third inning, there will be serious
ASU Baseball: Instant Recap of Sun Devils’ 12-5 midweek win over New Mexico State
ASU Baseball: Sun Devils drop conference opener after two critical bunts go unexecuted
(Photo: Dominic Cotroneo/WCSN) Only two days ago, Tracy Smith addressed the progress of his team heading into conference play. The answer was a resounding work-to-be-done attitude—with a greater attention to executing the fundamentals the main focus of that attitude. Smith’s 12th-ranked Sun Devils (10-6, 0-1) dropped their conference opener to Oregon State