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Arizona State
Devils Even Series With 9-4 Win Over UW
March 27, 2004 | Baseball
March 27, 2004
TEMPE, Ariz. - Ninth-ranked Arizona State rebounded from an 11-1 loss Friday night and evened its three-game series with the Washington baseball team, beating the Husies, 9-4, Saturday afternoon at Packard Stadium.
Devils starter Brett Bordes (2-0) recovered from early wildness to hold the Huskies to four hits and four runs over his six innings of work. Reliever Quentin Andes earned the save, throwing the final three innings and allowing only a double to the UW hitters, who compiled 13 hits in the opener on Friday.
Washington fell to 14-7-1 on the year and 1-1 in Pac-10 play while the Devils improved to 21-6 on the season and 2-3 in the conference.
Both teams scored a run in the first inning by way of a bases-loaded walk. The UW plated a run when Bordes loaded the bases on a hit batter and a pair of walks before issuing a free pass to Kyle Larsen. Husky starter Keaton Everitt surrendered two walks and a single before walking Colin Curtis to force in a run, tying the game at 1-1.
Everitt (3-2) went only two and two-thirds innings, allowing five runs (four earned) on four hits and four walks to suffer the loss.
In the top of the second, the UW went back on top 2-1 when Matt Tucker walked, moved to second on a wild pitch and scored when Brent Lillibridge singled back up the middle. ASU, however, responded when Dustin Pedroia belted a two-out solo homer in the bottom of the second to knot the score at 2-2.
In the third, ASU took command, scoring five runs. For the third straight inning, Everitt retired the first two batters in the frame. However, Zechry Zinicola singled and Curtis walked to put two runners on base. Tuffy Gosewisch singled to left to send home Zinicola, but the ball got under the glove of UW left fielder Zach Clem, allowing Curtis to score and Gosewisch to move into third.
Reliever David Dowling replaced Everitt and Joe Persichina blooped a double down the left field line to plate Gosewisch. UW second baseman Greg Isaacson mis-played a grounder from Seth Dhaenens to keep the inning alive before Persichina scored on a wild pitch. The Devils fifth run of the frame came across when Dhaenens scored on a Nick Walsh single, giving ASU a 7-2 lead.
The Huskies entered the fifth with only the one hit before rallying for two runs with two down. After a pair of strikeouts, Aaron Hathaway singled and scored when Clem doubled down the left field line. John Otness then singled up the middle to drive in Clem and the Huskies had cut the Devils' lead to 7-4.
ASU, which hadn't scored since the third, finally got back in action in the eighth. Walsh singled to drive home Gosewisch, who'd walked to lead off the inning and Pedroia, who'd reached on a fielder's choice and moved to third on the Walsh single, scored on a balk by UW reliever Jamie Hawkins, giving the Devils a 9-4 lead.
Clem led the Husky hitters, going 2-for-4 with a pair of doubles, and RBI and a run. ASU got two hits each from Walsh, Gosewisch and Persichina.
The Huskies and Devils decide the series with game three Sunday at noon (PST). The game will air live on KKNW AM-1150.
LINESCORE #9 Arizona State 9, Washington 4 Washington 110 020 000 -- 4 5 2 Arizona St. 115 000 20x -- 9 10 0 Keaton Everitt, David Dowling (3), Jamie Hawkins (7) and Aaron Hathaway. Brett Bordes, Quentin Andes (7) and Tuffy Gosewisch. W - Bordes (2-0). L - Everitt (3-2). Sv - Andes (2). 2B - UW, Zach Clem 2; ASU, Joe Persichina. HR - ASU, Dustin Pedroia (5). T - 2:50. A - 2,588. Records: UW 14-7-1, 1-1 Pac-10; ASU 21- 6, 2-3.
