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Just how good has Pac-10 baseball been this year?
The Pac-10 received 8 bids to the NCAA tournament today, tying them for the most bids by a conference with the SEC and ACC, both of whom are 12 team leagues. 8 out of the 10 teams in the league are playing in the postseason, a ridiculous 80% rate. Last year, the Pac-10 received just 3 bids to the...
Around the Bases Is Recovering from a Long Weekend // 03.15.10
Kansas defeats No. 1 LSU, 2-1 Friday Kansas 11 LSU 9 Saturday LSU 4 Kansas 2 Sunday Kansas 8 LSU 4 Ahem. Well, baseball games are not decided by knowledge of geography. But they are decided at least in part by pitching, and LSU has now allowed at least six...
Leading Off: SEC Ping for the Weekend of 03.12.10
The most important games of the weekend. All rankings are Baseball America. No. 18 OLE MISS (11-2) vs. No. 10 LOUISVILLE (12-0)This is the only matchup this weekend between Top 25 teams involving an SEC team and one of just two series between ranked opponents in the nation. So far, Ole Miss has...
Cry Me A River, Pat Murphy
"The loser is always at fault." -Vasilii Nicolaevich Panov, Russian author. Perhaps someone could inform Arizona State baseball coach Pat Murphy of that little nugget of truth. It all started on Thursday with Murphy's declaration that pitcher Mike Leake has "probably serious tendinitis" and that...
Washington State Baseball Sweeps Oregon
Before this season, the Washington State baseball team had not swept a single Pac 10 series since the conference reunified in 1999. Now they've swept two. The Cougs were able to take care of business against the Ducks this weekend. In the process they improved their conference record to 14-7...
ASU Baseball moves up to #3, goes 2-1 against USC
Solid weekend with two great pitching performances, followed by a stinker on Sunday. First game was a 2-1 win over Boxberger, USC's first round prospect. Total pitching duel. Boxberger went 8 strong with 8Ks, but Josh Spence was better. Complete game shut out with 10 strike outs. The lefty is...
2 week look: #4 ASU baseball goes 6-2, sweeps Arizona
Past two weeks saw ASU climb from #7 to #4 going 3-2 against the Kansas Schools (1-1 vs. Kansas State) (2-1 against Kansas) and then sweeping Arizona, 3 games to 0. Game by game breakdown.First game, 3/10/09 - upset by Kansas State. We fall 6-2 dropping us to 11-2 on the season. Mike Leake had a...
Week in Review: Baseball, #4 ASU Goes 4-0
First game was on Tuesday and was a good matchup, #4 ASU against #15 Missouri. I went to the game. Josh Spence had the start for us nearly every pitchers the Tigers had. They tried the whole, pitch one guy one inning thing to try and limit our offense by allowing all their pitchers to throw like...
Meet Your '09 ASU Baseball Team: Starting Pitchers
ASU Starting Pitchers:Mike Leake, 6-0, 180, RHP, Jr. via www.azcentral.com Our #1 starter. MLB Draft: Selected in the seventh round (218th overall pick) by the Oakland Athletics in the 2006 MLB Draft, but chose to come to ASU. Pre-Season 1st Team All-AmericanStats: Career Pitching Stats at...
Games 2, 3 and 4 of ASU Baseball - All wins
ASU opens up the season with a sweep of UW-Milwaukee. 15-3, 13-5, 14-1, and 11-0. Not bad for a young team to start off the season by outscoring their opponent 53-9.So we covered game one already but not the rest, so here we go.Game #2 13-5 ASU over MilwaukeeFirst game of a double header, ASU had...
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