The Sun Devils are the No. 5 overall seed and will play in Pool B along side No. 2 Oregon State and No. 8 Arizona. ASU opens against the Wildcats on Tuesday at 10 a.m. AZT and will have a day off before taking on Oregon State at the same time on Thursday. The winner of each pool will advance to a single elimination semifinal and final for the league championship on Friday and Saturday.
#10THINGS (Twitter-Friendly Notes)
1. The Sun Devils have walked off an opponent five times this season after not doing so in any game at Muni last year.
2. ASU has scored five or more runs in an inning on 12 different occassions this season and has scored 48 runs in the eighth inning of games.
3. The Sun Devil pitching staff has produced a 3.00 ERA over the last six games, striking out 42 to just 18 walks.
4. ASU's 82 home runs this season are already the fourth-most since the 1998 season and within four of climbing into fourth.
5. Luke Keaschall's 25 doubles are the fourth-most at ASU since the 1998 season and the most in the BBCOR era.
6. Jacob Tobias has posted a team-leading 58 RBIs this season that are sixth in the Pac-12 conference and notable as he had just 29 for the season last year.
7. The Sun Devils have trailed at some point in 17 of the team's last 22 victories and in 17 of the squad's victories overall.
8. Ryan Campos has reached base safely in 73-of-81 (90.1%) of games with the Sun Devils overall and all but two games this season.
9. Seven Sun Devils have at least 7 homers this season -two more than any ASU team since at least the '98 season and with another within striking distance.
10. The Sun Devils are the only team in the Pac-12 with eight different players with six or more homers this season.
BY THE NUMBERS
76 - Ryan Campos has reached base safely in 76-of-84 (90.4%) of games with the Sun Devils overall and all but two games this season. Campos is currently 23rd among active Division I players with a career batting average of .375. It is the highest career average among active catchers in Division I. His .395 average is fourth in the Conference of Champions and his .508 OBP is second by .01 points in the league. His 0.49 strikeout to walk ratio is the lowest in the Pac-12. Campos was named as a semifinalist for the Buster Posey Catcher of the Year on Monday.
25 - Luke Keaschall is third in the nation with 25 doubles this season - one of the national lead and five more than any other player in the Pac-12 . 21 of Keaschall's last 27 hits have gone for extra bases and his 43 extra base hits are five more than the rest of the league. Keaschall slugged .822 in Pac-12 only games - the fourth-best average in the league. Keaschall in-game adjustments against starters were absolutely unreal, batting .452 in the third inning of games - typically his second time seeing a pitcher - with five homers, fiv doubles (1.097 SLG%) and 16 of his 54 RBIs.
18 - The Sun Devils have shown an ability to be successful in close games, going 18-9 this season in games decided by three runs or less. A year ago the team was 14-16 in those games. More notably, ASU is 7-3 in one run games this season after going 1-7 in those games last year. ASU has trailed in 17 of its last 22 victories and 19 of its victories overall and trailed by three or more runs in nine wins this year and by five or more in four of those - including two five-run comebacks over Top-25 opponents in Oregon and Oregon State on Sunday games and two seven-run comebackers earlier this year.
7 - Seven different Sun Devils have reached seven home runs this season - two more than any ASU team since at least the 1998 season and with another within striking distance of adding to that tally. Seven is a prominent ASU number this season as the Sun Devils also won or tied seven of their Pac-12 series this season - becoming one of just 11 teams in a Power Five conference this year that can lay such a claim. Nine of those other teams were ranked in the D1Baseball Top-20 this week with the only exception's being the Pac-12 ASU and USC.