Sun Devils Set For Three Games at UW in the PNW

May 08, 2017

SEATTLE -- Sun Devil Baseball is back on the road this weekend for a three-game series in the Pacific Northwest against Washington in Seattle beginning Friday, May 12. The opener will get underway at 6 p.m. PT, followed by a 2 p.m. tilt on Saturday and a 1 p.m. finale on Sunday

Follow the Action

The game will be live streamed through the Washington Athletic department at www.pac-12.com/live.
The Sun Devils will return the the airwaves this week as well. The Sun Devil Sports Radio Network is scheduled to broadcast each tilttilt on NBC Sports 1060 AM and100.7 KSLX HD 2. The games will also be available through the TuneIn app on TheSunDevils.com. Broadcaster Tim Healey is set to serve his 19th season as the "Voice of the Sun Devils" on baseball broadcasts and will be joined for the second-straight season by color analyst Max Rossiter, who was an all-conference catcher for the Devils from 2012-13.
Fans are encouraged to follow the Devils on Twitter @ASU_Baseball for updates throughout the weekend.

Scouting the Huskies

The Huskies are accustomed to playing close games. UW has 10 one-run losses, five by two runs and four by three runs. Conversely, the Huskies have seven one-run wins, one by two runs and seven wins by three runs.
The Huskies enter the weekend with the second fewest errors in the nation with 28. They are one of three teams with under 30 errors on the season. They rank fourth nationally with a .983 fielding percentage.
Joey Morgan continues to lead hitters in Pac-12 only play with a .411 average and .506 on base percentage.
Noah Bremer is in UW's career top-10 list in three categories: innings pitched (6th, 262.1), starts (8th, 38) and has strikeouts (6th, 184). With 16 more K's, he'll join a group of five others with 200 career strikeouts.

Sun Devils Vs. Huskies

ASU leads the all-time series against the Huskies, 38-22 though Washington has won three of the last four games.
The Devils took two of three the last time the squad traveled to Seattle in 2015.
Arizona State is 11-6 all-time in series' against the Huskies and have five sweeps in that span.

Eli's Coming

Eli Lingos, who earned first team Pac-12 All-Academic honors in 2016, has quickly solidified himself as the team's ace this season after entering the year as the Friday Night Starter.
Lingos has been solid in 2017, going 6-4 with six quality starts in his 13 appearances of the season. No other Sun Devil has more than one quality start this season.
Among those wins were an upset over then-No. 1 TCU and a career-best 7.2 IP outing against LMU in which he allowed no runs.
Lingos went over 6.0 IP in his first five appearances this season after neving having consecutive games over 6.0 IP in his career prior to this season. He has seven games over 6.0 IP this year, six of which were wins.
The junior lefty has allowed no earned runs in two starts this season, something he had done in a start just once in his career prior.
His six wins this season doubles his 2016 total while he has issued no walks in two of his starts this season, something he had accomplished in just two starts prior to 2017.
He is seventh in the league with 72.1 innings pitched this season and ninth in the conference with 56 strikeouts. He is tied for sixth nationally with 13 starts this year.

12-Gage

Gage Canning has been among the hottest Sun Devils in the lineup - and the Pac-12 - in recent weeks.
His 12-game hitting streak this season is tied for the longest by a Sun Devil on the year.
In that 12-game streak prior to the Oregon series, he was 28-for-52 (.538) with three home runs, three triples and three doubles while slugging .885 in the process. The junior outfielder tallied a team leading 13 RBI's, scored 12 runs and was a perfect 4-for-4 attempting to steal and flashed the leather as well, making highlight reel plays in right field leading to a perfect fielding percentage on 26 attempts during the streak.

Canning Do It? Yes, He Can

Canning now has nine games with three or more hits on the season which is four more than any other Sun Devil and surpasses the team lead from last season (6).
The nine three-hit games is tied for the most for an ASU player since Zach MacPhee and Drew Maggi did it in 2010.
Canning is the current national leader with seven triples this season and surpassed his total from last season (6). With 13 career triples, Canning is just seven out of cracking the all-time top-five at ASU in the category.
The sophomore has multiple hits in 12 of ASU's last 20 games.
Canning has spent time at the leadoff spot and turning the order back around in the lower part of the lineup this year and done exactly what's expected of him in that role, second on the team with six stolen bases and leading the way with 33 runs scored.
Canning's recent hot streak has him ranked 10th in the Pac-12 with a .341 batting average and eighth with a .555 slugging percentage.

Lin-Sanity

Lyle Lin has had three or more hits in four games on the year while registering multiple hits in 16 games on the season overall - second on the team in the category.
The four 3+ hit games are tied for sixth among all ASU freshmen since the 2000 season.
Lin had streak of reaching base in 24 consecutive games ended in the Oregon series. It was the longest active streak by a Sun Devil and third-longest by any ASU freshman since 2000, trailing only Gage Canning (28, 2016) and Dustin Pedroia (26, 2002).
The 24-game streak was the fourth longest by any Pac-12 player this season.
Lin has reached base in all but four games this season and has a hit in 34 of the team's 45 games.
Lin's prowess of the plate is further exemplified by his team leading 17 walks as opposing pitchers have begun pitching around him.

Re-LYLE-able

Lyle Lin has an approach at the plate that is tough to find in many freshmen. The youngster leads the team's starters with 21 two-out hits and is third with a .350 average (21-of-60) with two outs on the board.
Lin is third on the team with 10 two-out RBIs and also holds a team-leading 17 hits with runners in scoring position on 53 at bats (.321).
Lin has started every game this season, one of just three players to do so.

And All That Chaz

In his first eight appearances, freshman Chaz Montoya struggled with a 14.29 ERA and an 0-1 record.
In his last nine appearances, Montoya has a 4.89 ERA and a 4-2 record, striking out 31 - second on the team in that span - in the process.
Of ASU's 12 wins since Montoya became a starter, five of those have come in games in which the freshman started.
He had a streak of 17.1 innings without allowing a run come to an end in his start against UCLA.

Zach Cer-Bomb

One of the most pleasant surprises of 2017 has been the emergence of senior catcher Zach Cerbo, a four-year veteran who is seeing his most significant action as a Sun Devil this season.
Cerbo's .324 average is third on the team with a .415 on-base percentage that leads the team. He is tied for the team lead with 17 walks.
Cerbo had an 11-game reached base streak and an eight-game hitting streak snapped against Oregon.
Cerbo's defense has been another much-needed component of the team as the senior has thrown out 11 batters attempting to steal a base this season compared to just 21 stolen bases against. Those 11 caught stealing are tied for the lead in the Pac-12.
The senior also has three pickoffs this season - tied for the second in the Pac-12.

Taylor Made

Taylor Lane has been among the hottest hitting Devils in the lineup and leads the team with his .333 average in Pac-12 games this season.
The junior is riding a team-best seven game hitting streak entering the weekend. In that span, he is batting .407 with a team best 11 hits (the only Sun Devil with double digit hits) with two home runs, a triple, a double and a team-leading seven runs scored while slugging .741.

Big Willie Style

Tyler Williams has provided some much needed pop in the lineup this season, leading the team with five home runs on the year after having none in his freshman campaign - a total good for a tie for 10th in the Pac-12.
His 28 RBIs this season are second on the team and he has a knack for pushing runners across even with an out, logging 10 RBIs despite an out and second on the team in advancing runners with an out, doing so 16 times.
Williams leads the team when it comes to advancing runners from a percentage standpoint, doing so 33 times on 58 chances (.569).
The sophomore has also brought home a runner from third with less than two outs a team-best 13 times on 17 chances (.765).
Williams had a career high four RBIs in the team's midweek victory over Arizona in May.

#BISHETE

Another pair of freshmen have certainly been making the presence know this season in the form of Carter Aldrete and Hunter Bishop.
Aldrete currently leads the team with 29 RBIs this season and leads the team with four games with season with 3 or more RBIs. In fact, he has four games this season with three or more RBIs while no other Sun Devil has more than two. His seven multi-RBI games are third on the team.
Aldrete is second on the team with 16 hits with runners in scoring position.
Bishop is riding a five-game hitting streak coming into the weekend, a streak in which he has hit a team-leading .400 with five RBIs, one homer and a triple on eight hits.
Bishop is currently tied for fourth on the team with four home runs this season.
Bishop and Aldrete had history before coming to Arizona State. Both hail for Northern California and played in the 2015 Under Armour All-American games and selected to play for the Oakland Athletics' Area Code team in 2015.

Turning The Tides

Connor Higgins was in pretty dire straights in the first 13 games with a 27.00 ERA in three appearances with just 1.1 innings pitched.
Since then, Higgins has a 3.04 ERA in 11 apperances with 22 strikeouts in 26.2 innings pitched while picking up three wins and a team-best three saves in the process.
In the 32 games since that tough start, Higgins leads the teams relievers in strikeouts, innings pitched, wins and saves.

They Can Mash Too

Eleven Sun Devils (Tyler Williams 5, Andrew Shaps 5, Gage Canning 3, Hunter Bishop 4, Carter Aldrete 3, Zach Cerbo 2, Ryan Lillard 2, Jeremy McCuin 2, Taylor Lane 2, Lyle Lin 2, and Jackson Willeford 1) have combined for ASU's 33 home runs this season - an interesting note as those 10 combined entered the 2017 season with just seven Division I career home runs between them (Canning 3, Shaps 2, Lillard 1, McCuin 1).
Despite the not-so-home-run-friendly confines of Phoenix Municipal Stadium, the Sun Devils are currently third in the Pac-12 with 29 home runs this season.

Clutch Hitting

The Sun Devils have lived and died by their clutch hitting this season, currently batting 81-of-238 (.340) with runners in scoring position and 89-of-251 (.355) with two outs in the team's wins but struggling to get timely hits in the team's losses at just 39-of-206 (.189) with runners in scoring position and 50-of-249 (.201) with two outs.
On the flip side, ASU has struggled defensively to get out of some innings, allowing opponents to bat .304 (161-of-529) with two outs.

Baseball's in Their Blood

There are eight Sun Devils on the 2017 squad who have a history of baseball in their family: Ryan Hingst (father, David, UT El Paso), Andrew Snow (cousin, Dustin Pedroia, Boston Red Sox), Garvin Alston Jr. (father, Garvin, MiLB), Eli Lingos (brother, Angelos, UC Riverside), Jackson Willeford (brother, Guy, Palomar JC; brother, Alex, Palomar JC/SDSU), Hunter Bishop (brother, Braden, Seattle Mariners), Fitz Stadler (Brothers Sullivan and Walker, Indiana), Carter Aldrete (father, Rich, MiLB; uncle, Mike, New York Yankees), Andrew Shaps (father, Robert, Cleveland Indians).

Keeping It Interesting

The Devils had a knack for success in close games last season and that continued this season
Since 2016, the Devils are 7-2 in extra-inning games (1-1 in 2017), with six walk-off wins (two this season) and are 21-5 (9-4 this year) in one-run games including 7-4 in Pac-12 play. ASU has driven in the game-winning run in the eighth inning or later 14 times (four times this year).
Arizona State has notched 10 wins since 2016 when trailing after six innings (four times this season).

#OccupyPHXMuni

ASU drew more than 78,000 fans last season, finishing in the top-30 nationally in total attendance and attendance per game.
The Sun Devils have had a pair of big attendance games this season, including 6,010 against Oregon State in the series opener - the second largest crowd since moving back to Phoenix Muni - as well as 4,107 fans against UNLV in the largest mid-week attendance since returning to Muni and fifth-largest overall since returning.
The Devils are currently 25th nationally with 74,014 cumulative fans this season (second in the Pac-12) and 27th with 2,467 fans per game (third in the Pac-12).
ASU ranked 13th in total attendance and was the only school west of Texas to draw more than 100,000 fans in 2015, and ranked 18th in average attendance with 3,082 fans per game. ASU's 107,010 fans were the program's most since 2010 and ranked as the fourth-highest regular-season attendance since 1988.
ASU moved back to Phoenix Municipal Stadium in 2015 after playing 40 seasons at Packard Stadium from 1974-2014, winning their first contest in the team's on a walk-off home run in extra inning against No. 5 Oklahoma State on Feb. 13, 2015.
The Devils played 137 games at Muni from 1964-74, and went 111-26 at the stadium, including 17-6 against Arizona. ASU's first game at Muni was April 10, 1964, and was a 5-3 win over Arizona. ASU's last game at Muni was March 18, 1974, and was 9-6 win over Colorado. ASU won District 7 titles in 1965 and 1967 at Muni before going on to win National Championships in Omaha.
Former Sun Devil and eventual Major League Baseball Hall of Famer Reggie Jackson was the first college player to hit a home run at Muni.

Erives On Fire

Eder Ervies has worked his way into the starting lineup in recent weeks, despite also leading the team with three saves this season.
The senior is the only player to pitch a complete game this season, going a career best 8.0 innings while allowing just one earned run in the loss.
After struggling early in this season, Erives has a 3.92 ERA in 11 appearances since the Long Beach State series, striking out 28 and allowing a team-best .250 opponent batting average.

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