PHOENIX – Shortstop Colby Woodmansee delivered the timely hit and starting right-hander Eder Erives was consistent again as Sun Devil Baseball tied its series with Washington on Saturday behind a 6-3 win at Phoenix Municipal Stadium.
The Sun Devils (17-11, 4-7) trailed 3-2 heading into the seventh-inning stretch before Woodmansee put Arizona State on top with a two-run homer in the bottom of the frame. First baseman David Greer followed with a two-run shot of his own in the eighth to secure the three-run victory.
Erives (4-0) allowed just five hits and three runs, including two earned, across seven innings to pick up his second straight win in his second career start is as many weeks. He issued a strikeout to the first batter of the game, stranded a runner at third with a looking strikeout in the fifth, and closed out the seventh with back-to-back strikeouts as he racked up nine on the day. Erives, who had 28 strikeouts in each of his first two seasons, has 20 in the past 14 innings.
Right-hander Ryan Hingst (1) entered the game in the eighth inning and conceded just two hits in the final two scoreless frames for his first career save.
Woodmansee led the way offensively with three hits and three RBI, his team-leading 13th multi-hit and eighth multi-RBI game of the season, and added two runs and his fourth home run of the season. Greer notched two hits, including his second homer of the year, and had two RBI and two runs scored, including the game-tying run in the seventh.
The Huskies (15-11, 6-5) picked up an unearned run in the top of the second inning via a leadoff walk, sacrifice bunt, passed ball and groundout, and Erives issued a walk and two wild pitches in the fourth inning before UW capitalized with a two-out single for a two-run advantage.
ASU responded to the deficit with a pair of runs on six singles across the fourth and fifth innings, respectively, to knot the game, 2-2.
Catcher Brian Serven punctuated a string of three consecutive base hits with a RBI single through the left side to plate Woodmansee, who preceded center fielder Andrew Shaps’ knock with one of his own.
Right fielder Gage Canning opened the fifth inning with a single and moved to third on a sacrifice bunt from third baseman Jordan Aboites and a base hit from second baseman Andrew Snow before Woodmansee drove him home for the tying run on the team’s third single of the frame.
A leadoff double by the Huskies in the seventh turned into the go-ahead run as first baseman John Naff scored on consecutive fielder’s choices before Erives delivered back-to-back swinging strikeouts to send the game into the stretch with the Devils down, 3-2.
Greer led off the seventh with a single and scored on Woodmansee’s two-run homer, which gave the Devils a 4-3 advantage, and Snow was hit by a pitch with two outs in the eighth before Greer’s long ball stretched the lead to three.
Notes: Chris Beall made his first Pac-12 start of the season and was the seventh Devils to start in left field this year…Canning has a hit in each of the past three games…Shaps extended his hitting streak to nine games, tied for the team’s longest this season…the Devils did not commit an error for the ninth game this season.
Up Next
The Devils close out their series with Washington on April 10 at 12 p.m. at Phoenix Muni. The game will be televised on the Pac-12 Networks and broadcast on NBC Sports Radio AM 1060 with Tim Healey and Max Rossiter on the call.
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