PHOENIX -- Sun Devil Baseball takes to the road for the first time this season, traveling to Southern California for a two-game midweek set against Cal State Fullerton on Tuesday, March 3 and Wednesday, March 4. Both games will get underway at 6 p.m. locally (7 p.m. Arizona time).
#10THINGS (Twitter-Friendly Notes)
1. The Sun Devils have 13 homers this season, a total that leads the Pac-12 and is good for 19th in the country.
2. .@spennyt leads the nation in being walked 24 times this season - six more than any other play - and 13 of those have been intentional.
3. .@spennyt has at least one hit in 100 of his 123 career games at ASU and has multiple hits in 49 of those.
4. .@spennyt has played in 33 weekend series/postseason tournaments in his career and homered at least once in 27 of those.
5. .@trevor_hauver leads the team with a 10 game hitting streak heading into the week and 5 multi-RBI games.
6. After Spencer Torkelson's last 7 intentional walks, @trevor_hauver has gone 2-for-3 (2 sac flies, 2 RBI walks) with 8 RBIs and a homer.
7. .@ErikTolman has 22 strikeouts in just 12.0 innings of work this season, a 16.50 K/9 innings ratio that is 15th nationally.
8. @swiftyy23 has a team-best six multi-hit games this season, three more than any other Sun Devil.
9. .@alika_williams has 24 defensive assists this season, a total good for fifth in the Pac-12 and he has just one error on over 40 chances
10. The Sun Devils have drawn 81 walks this season, 15 more than any other team in the Pac-12 and fourth in the nation.
Follow the Action
- Both games will be carried through the Big West Live Stream, available at: BigWest.TV
- Fans are encouraged to follow along in-game content throughout the weekend on the Sun Devil Baseball
On The Titans
- ASU owns a 34-26 all-time record against Fullerton and the two programs have met numerous times in the postseason as two of the elite program in the West.
#TorksUp
- Projected as No. 1 Overall Pick in several early MLB mock drafts and a unanimous Top-3 Pick in any mock draft he's not listed No. 1, junior first baseman Spencer Torkelson figures to pace a potent offense against this season.
- When Torkelson has actually seen pitches to hit this year, he has responded with five home runs on his 11 base hits and three doubles to boot for a gaudy .879 slugging percentage.
- The junior leads the Pac-12 and is 16th nationally in slugging (.879) and also leads the league in OBP (.621/7th nationally) and runs scored (16/12th nationally).
- Torkelson has 53 homers in his career, second in Sun Devil history and needing just four to surpass Bob Horner's long-standing school record of 56.
- He is the active career leader in homers at 53, regardless of NCAA level, and has 16 more home runs than the next closest Division I player.
- Torkelson has played 32 weekend series at ASU and homered at least once in 26 of those. He has played 20 Pac-12 series and homered in 18 - the season finales against Cal (2018) and Stanford (2019) being the only exceptions
- Torkelson needs 20 home runs to break into the NCAA all-time Top-10 in career homers and in doing so would become the first player in the BBCOR era to even sniff the feat. He would be just the second player since 2000 to have a career home run tally that left him in the Top-10 in NCAA homers (Matt LaPorta, Florida).
Fear the Tork
- Torkelson leads the nation with 24 walks through the first 12 games, an incredible 13 of which have been intentional. He has six more walks than any other player in the country and six more intentional walks than anyone as well. He has seven more walks than any other player in the Pac-12 (Trevor Hauver is second with 17) and 10 more than any player that is not a teammate.
- Torkelson drew a school record five walks in ASU's extra-inning victory over New Mexico State, tying the record set by Kole Calhoun (2010), Alvin Davis (1982) and Fred Nelson (1967).
- His 13 intentional walks are already the most by any Sun Devil in a season since at least 1998 (Jeff Larish with 11 in 67 games in 2005). His 13 intentional walks are more than the entire Sun Devil TEAM posted in 15 of the last 22 seasons.
Just Like He Drew It Up
- Drew Swift has been Mr. Sun Devil for the ASU this season, seeing time at second base, shortstop, center field and right field.
- Swift leads the team in batting average, sitting at .362 on the season with a team-best 17 hits - five more than any of his teammates.
- Swift has a team-best six multi-hit games - three more than any of his teammates - and is the only player on the squad to record a 4 hit game thus far this year.
- Swift was 9-for-13 in the series against Nebraska and recorded his first career homer.
- Swift was named to the Pac-12 honorable mention All-Defensive team as a sophomore.
- He had nine doubles last season - a career-best - and a triple for 10 extra-base hits on the season despite missing several weeks to injury. He had just two extra-base hits as a freshman
- Swift was a part of 36 double plays, despite the time missed, good for fourth in the Pac-12 in the category and second among non-first basemen. He helped ASU turn 61 double plays on the season - sixth in the nation and first in the Pac-12
- His 135 defensive assists were good for 7th in the Pac-12.
Trev Lightly and Carry a Big Stick
- Trevor Hauver shook off a tough opening week and has become one of the hottest bats in the Sun Devil lineup, providing valuable protection to Torkelson in the lineup.
- Hauver has a hit in 10 straight games, the longest streak on the team this season, and has reached base in 11 straight games.
- The junior leads the team with 14 RBIs, which is fourth in the Pac-12. He has five multi-RBI games, two more than any other player on the roster.
- He is tied for second in the league behind Torkelson with four homers - 22nd nationally.
- Hauver is third in the nation in drawing 17 walks this season, trailing only Torkelson's national-leading 24 in the Pac-12.
- In Torkelson's last seven intentional walks, Hauver has gone 2-for-3 with eight RBIs, a two-run homer, two RBI walks and two sac flies.
- Hauver had a breakout sophomore campaign in which he was named to the Pac-12 Honorable Mention team as well as earning a second-team nod on the ABCA All-West Region team
- Slugged .574 on the year behind 13 home runs (10th in the Pac-12) and 16 doubles (7th in the conference) and reached base at a .433 clip
- Hauver had a 15-game hitting streak at one point in the season, the third-longest streak for a Sun Devil on the year
- He was the top ASU player in games in several categories, posting a seven-RBI game, a five-hit game, a four-walk game and a two-home run game.
- Hauver was very productive for his teammates as well, successfully advancing runners 68 times on 126 chances (.540). Of ASU's day-to-day starters, Hauver's 32 runners left stranded were the fewest on the team.
- He was light's out with runners in scoring position, leading the team with a .450 average on 27-of-60 hitting while also making it tough for pitchers to get out of innings with a second-best .370 average on 20-of-54 hitting with two outs.