PHOENIX – Sun Devil Baseball's comeback bid over New Mexico State came up just shy on Wednesday night in an 8-7 loss at Phoenix Municipal Stadium.
At one point trailing, 8-4, ASU cut the deficit to one run in the seventh but couldn't find the hit it needed to break even in the contest.
Hunter Jump went 3-for-5 and picked up a hit in the bottom of the ninth to represent the potential game-tying run, but ASU couldn't find a way to bring the pinch runner across. Jump is now batting .692 in the last three games on 9-of-13 hitting with a team-best eight RBIs. Jump tripled for the second consecutive game on Wednesday evening as well.
Spencer Torkelson was 2-for-4 with a run scored while Taylor Lane and Alika Williams each added two RBIs in the contest.
The back half of the Sun Devil bullpen was solid, closing the game out with 4.2 innings of scoreless relief led by Dellan Raish's 2.0 innings of one-hit baseball that allowed ASU a chance to climb back into the game.
ASU scored first in the bottom of the second on Williams' RBI double to right center for an early 1-0.
NMSU responded with four runs in to the top of the third, prompting the Devils to have to stage a comeback out their own in the bottom half of the frame. ASU loaded the bases with one out and picked away at the lead behind and RBI walk and an RBI hit by pitch sandwiched around a Hunter Jump RBI single to bring the Sun Devils back even.
New Mexico State took advantage of a pair of errors in the top of the fourth for an unearned run and three more runs in the fifth to retake an 8-4 lead.
ASU would cut it to a one-run deficit in the seventh inning behind a Taylor Lane RBI single, a Jump RBI triple a Williams sac fly to get back within 8-7.
Jump's one-out single in the bottom of the ninth put Adisyn Coffey on base as a pinch runner and he would promptly steal second to put the tying run in scoring position.
Williams drew a two-out walk to put the game-winning run on the base path but ASU saw the game end on a full count strikeout to cut the rally short.
The Sun Devils head on the road for a three-game Pac-12 series against No. 5 Oregon State beginning Friday evening in Corvallis, Ore.
At one point trailing, 8-4, ASU cut the deficit to one run in the seventh but couldn't find the hit it needed to break even in the contest.
Hunter Jump went 3-for-5 and picked up a hit in the bottom of the ninth to represent the potential game-tying run, but ASU couldn't find a way to bring the pinch runner across. Jump is now batting .692 in the last three games on 9-of-13 hitting with a team-best eight RBIs. Jump tripled for the second consecutive game on Wednesday evening as well.
Spencer Torkelson was 2-for-4 with a run scored while Taylor Lane and Alika Williams each added two RBIs in the contest.
The back half of the Sun Devil bullpen was solid, closing the game out with 4.2 innings of scoreless relief led by Dellan Raish's 2.0 innings of one-hit baseball that allowed ASU a chance to climb back into the game.
ASU scored first in the bottom of the second on Williams' RBI double to right center for an early 1-0.
NMSU responded with four runs in to the top of the third, prompting the Devils to have to stage a comeback out their own in the bottom half of the frame. ASU loaded the bases with one out and picked away at the lead behind and RBI walk and an RBI hit by pitch sandwiched around a Hunter Jump RBI single to bring the Sun Devils back even.
New Mexico State took advantage of a pair of errors in the top of the fourth for an unearned run and three more runs in the fifth to retake an 8-4 lead.
ASU would cut it to a one-run deficit in the seventh inning behind a Taylor Lane RBI single, a Jump RBI triple a Williams sac fly to get back within 8-7.
Jump's one-out single in the bottom of the ninth put Adisyn Coffey on base as a pinch runner and he would promptly steal second to put the tying run in scoring position.
Williams drew a two-out walk to put the game-winning run on the base path but ASU saw the game end on a full count strikeout to cut the rally short.
The Sun Devils head on the road for a three-game Pac-12 series against No. 5 Oregon State beginning Friday evening in Corvallis, Ore.