Wildcats pound Sun Devils to take finale
By Kody Acevedo
The Wildcats wrapped up the five-game series with the Sun Devils with a bang. They jumped all over the Sun Devil pitching staff to beat Arizona State 17-6 at home at Hi Corbett Field.
The Sun Devils still won the 2015 series taking three out of five games from Arizona. Things looked promising for the Sun Devils out of the gate. The Sun Devils scored two runs in the top of the first inning off of starter Cody Hamlin.
Hamlin lasted only one inning; Facing just six batters. He gave up two runs on three hits and struck out one. But with a 2-0 lead, Sun Devil starter Ryan Hingst couldn’t get out of the bottom of the first.
Hingst faced six batter and gave up five runs on five hits, one of those was a home run, and walked a batter. He only lasted 1/3 of the inning.
Tracy Smith would turn it over to left-hander Eli Lingos. But Lingos was unable to cool down the red-hot Wildcats either. Lingos would allow four more runs to score over the next 2 1/3 innings.
The Wildcats led the Sun Devils 9-4 after the first three frames. ASU would try to chip away at the Wildcat lead, but Arizona put up another run in the fourth, four more in the fifth and two more in the sixth.
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In fact, Arizona scored in every inning except for the 7th. Kevin Newman led the offensive charge for the Wildcats. He went 5-5 with a double and an RBI. Bobby Dalbec followed close behind with a 4-5 night. Dalbec hit a home run and knocked in six runs. JJ Matijevic had a solid night as well going 3-4 with a home run of his own and seven RBIs.
For the Sun Devils, Joey Bielek, Johnny Sewald and Colby Woodmansee all had 2-4 nights. Bielek also had a double and an RBI. David Greer had three-hit night. He went 3-5 with a double and an RBI of his own.
Wildcat reliever Robby Medel took home the win, his second of the year. He is now 2-3 in 2015 after going six 1/3 innings tonight. He allowed three runs, one earned, on eight hits and struck out two
Hints was slapped with the loss after pitching 1/3 of the 1st inning. He is now 3-2 on the year.
Despite the loss, ASU took the series from Arizona. In Phoenix, the Sun Devils took 2/3 over the weekend series back on April 11-13. Then last week, ASU beat Arizona 6-5 in Tucson for the series win.
As far as the Territorial Cup is concerned, with the win last week, ASU now leads the Territorial Cup standings 9.5 to 7.5 over Arizona.
Up next, ASU heads up to Berkley to take on California over the weekend for a three-game series to begin the month of May.
The Wildcats, meanwhile, will head to Pullman, Washington to take on Washington State this weekend.