TEMPE – Sun Devil Baseball put up a season-best 14 runs on a season-high 16 hits helping them to a 14-2 victory over Oklahoma State in game two of a three-game weekend series.
Gage Canning had two triples, four RBIs and three hits – his eighth multi-hit game of the season and fifth game with 3 or more hits in just 11 games to date. Gage Workman also added three hits and three RBIs in the effort – bringing his total to 5 RBIs in the last two games. Eli Lingos pitched a gem for the Sun Devils (5-4) as he improved to 2-0 on the season.
The 16-hit effort came after a night in which the Sun Devil offense collected what was then a season-high 14 hits on Friday evening, giving the Sun Devils 23 runs on 30 hits through the first two games of the series. Arizona State will go for their first three-game sweep of the season tomorrow afternoon at 12:00 P.M. MST.
Despite the offensive fireworks of the contest, it was a defensive battle through the first four inning with both starting pitchers mowing through the opposing lineups.
Lingos was nearly flawless early, allowing just one hit and one walk and no runs scored through the first five innings of the contest and surpassing his season high in strikeouts with 7 in the process.
Workman broke through for the Sun Devils on the board in the bottom of the fourth, scoring Spencer Torkelson on his single to right – his third RBI and third hit of the weekend.
A Gage of a different last name opened the floodgates in the fifth inning as Gage Canning tripled down the right field line to score Alika Wiliams. Drew Swift plated Canning with a Texas Leaguer to right to make it 3-0 with no outs in the frame and the merry-go-round was on.
The Devils would proceed to bat around the order, highlighted by a Hunter Bishop base-clearing, two-run double en route to a 7-run fifth inning – the most ASU had scored in an inning since putting up seven against Washington State on April 2, 2016 in Pullman, Wash.
The inning gave ASU an 8-0 cushion to work with and sealed the win for Lingos, who finished with a final line of 5.2 innings pitched, 7 strikeouts, two walks and just one earned run allowed. Lingos has gone at least 5.2 innings in each of his three appearances so far and has yet to allow more than three runs in a game.
Canning would add another triple in the sixth, his second of the contest and NCAA-leading fifth of the season and the 19th of his career. It was the second time this season that Canning had two triples in a game. He needs just one more triple to move in ASU's all-time Top-5 in the category and become the first player to reach at least 20 since Willie Bloomquist did so from 1997-99. Canning is the NCAA's active leader in career triples.
The Sun Devils would again pile it on in the bottom of the seventh with six more runs, scoring one on a Workman double followed by a bases-loaded walk from Williams. With the bases still juiced for Canning, the junior delivered with a base-clearing double before scoring, himself, on a Drew Swift single that made it a 14-1 game.
Ryan Hingst was effective in his only inning of relief, retiring the Cowboys in the top of the ninth to give the Sun Devils the victory.
Up next, Arizona State will go for the three-game sweep on Oklahoma State in the third game of the weekend series. The game is scheduled for 12:00 P.M. MST and will be televised by Pac-12 Network with J.B. Long and Andy Lopez on the call.
NOTES:
Gage Canning had two triples, four RBIs and three hits – his eighth multi-hit game of the season and fifth game with 3 or more hits in just 11 games to date. Gage Workman also added three hits and three RBIs in the effort – bringing his total to 5 RBIs in the last two games. Eli Lingos pitched a gem for the Sun Devils (5-4) as he improved to 2-0 on the season.
The 16-hit effort came after a night in which the Sun Devil offense collected what was then a season-high 14 hits on Friday evening, giving the Sun Devils 23 runs on 30 hits through the first two games of the series. Arizona State will go for their first three-game sweep of the season tomorrow afternoon at 12:00 P.M. MST.
Despite the offensive fireworks of the contest, it was a defensive battle through the first four inning with both starting pitchers mowing through the opposing lineups.
Lingos was nearly flawless early, allowing just one hit and one walk and no runs scored through the first five innings of the contest and surpassing his season high in strikeouts with 7 in the process.
Workman broke through for the Sun Devils on the board in the bottom of the fourth, scoring Spencer Torkelson on his single to right – his third RBI and third hit of the weekend.
A Gage of a different last name opened the floodgates in the fifth inning as Gage Canning tripled down the right field line to score Alika Wiliams. Drew Swift plated Canning with a Texas Leaguer to right to make it 3-0 with no outs in the frame and the merry-go-round was on.
The Devils would proceed to bat around the order, highlighted by a Hunter Bishop base-clearing, two-run double en route to a 7-run fifth inning – the most ASU had scored in an inning since putting up seven against Washington State on April 2, 2016 in Pullman, Wash.
The inning gave ASU an 8-0 cushion to work with and sealed the win for Lingos, who finished with a final line of 5.2 innings pitched, 7 strikeouts, two walks and just one earned run allowed. Lingos has gone at least 5.2 innings in each of his three appearances so far and has yet to allow more than three runs in a game.
Canning would add another triple in the sixth, his second of the contest and NCAA-leading fifth of the season and the 19th of his career. It was the second time this season that Canning had two triples in a game. He needs just one more triple to move in ASU's all-time Top-5 in the category and become the first player to reach at least 20 since Willie Bloomquist did so from 1997-99. Canning is the NCAA's active leader in career triples.
The Sun Devils would again pile it on in the bottom of the seventh with six more runs, scoring one on a Workman double followed by a bases-loaded walk from Williams. With the bases still juiced for Canning, the junior delivered with a base-clearing double before scoring, himself, on a Drew Swift single that made it a 14-1 game.
Ryan Hingst was effective in his only inning of relief, retiring the Cowboys in the top of the ninth to give the Sun Devils the victory.
Up next, Arizona State will go for the three-game sweep on Oklahoma State in the third game of the weekend series. The game is scheduled for 12:00 P.M. MST and will be televised by Pac-12 Network with J.B. Long and Andy Lopez on the call.
NOTES:
- Canning and Lyle Lin have a hit in every ASU game this season, 11 straight games.
- Every Sun Devil in the starting lineup had a hit in the lineup just a night removed from 8 of 9 starters logging a hit in Friday's contest.
- Through two games this weekend, the squad is hitting .484 (15-of-31) with runners in scoring position. Coming into the weekend, the Sun Devils hit .207 (18-of-87) in those situations.
- Drew Swift finished the night 2-for-3 with a pair of runs batted in, giving him his first multi-RBI game of his career. He also drew two walks, pushing his team-high leading total to nine.
- During his four-game hitting streak, Alika Williams has raised his average from .071 to .292 adding a pair of walks and an RBI.
- Carter Aldrete has gone 4-for-6 with two multi-hit games this weekend, ending a streak of going a paltry 1-for-20 in the previous six appearances.
- 2350 were in attendance, pushing the series total to 4,723 fans over two games.