Thursday, May 17
Salt Lake City, UT
10:30 AM
University of Washington
at
Utah
UW's Last Road Trip Finds Them In Utah For Vital Series
May 16, 2018 | Baseball
Smith's Ballpark (14,511), Salt Lake City, Utah
Thurs., May 17: 10:30 a.m. PT
Fri., May 18: 10:30 a.m. PT
Sat.., May 19: 10:30 a.m. PT
VIDEO/AUDIO:Β Pac-12 NetworkΒ
LIVE STATS:Β UW.StatBroadcast.com
SALT LAKE CITY -Β The Huskies (25-22, 15-9 Pac-12) embark on their final road series of the regular season with three games against the Utah Utes (14-35, 6-18) starting on Thursday at Smith's Ballpark in Salt Lake City. The teams will play a Thursday-Saturday series with all three games starting at 10:35 a.m. PT due to Smith's Ballpark also hosting the Triple-A Salt Lake City Buzz games.
Washington is getting hot at the right time of the year and have won three-consecutive series in Pac-12 play. The Huskies moved into a tie for third with UCLA after beating the Bruins last week in two-of-three.
The Pac-12 Network will air all the action from the park with Thad Anderson and JT Snow providing the commentary. Constant game updates will be tweeted by @UW_Baseball and fans can find all links at GoHuskies.com. Β
LAST WEEK
Washington earned a marquee series win over No. 11 UCLA last week to boost their foothold in the top of the Pac-12 standings and improve its post-season prospects. After dropping the opening game of the series, 7-3, the Huskies rebounded with a 13-6 win in which they pounded out a season-high 18 hits. Joe Wainhouse and Levi Jordan each had a pair of home runs and Joe DeMers went eight strong innings to earn the win. In the rubber match, the Huskies scored a ninth inning run to force extra innings where Wainhouse went deep for the third time in two days to carry the Huskies to a 6-4 win and their third-straight series victory over UCLA, which is a first in team history ... On Tuesday, the Huskies dropped a 6-4 decision to Portland. They trailed at one point 6-1, thanks to a grand slam home run, and fell short in their rally in which they had the tying run on base in the seventh and eight innings.Β
SERIES HISTORY VS. UTAH
Washington leads Utah in the overall series, 15-8, and holds an 14-4 advantage since the Utes joined the Pac-12 in 2012. The first meeting between the two teams was in 1974 when Utah beat UW 10-2. The teams didn't meet again until 1995. Last year, the Huskies swept Utah in a three-game series (3-1, 4-3, 4-1). The Huskies have in fact won 8-straight over the Utes in Seattle. The last time the Huskies played in Salt Lake City was in 2016 when the series was for the Pac-12 title. The Huskies won the Friday game (5-4), but dropped the next two (8-12, 7-21).UW had won 9-straight against Utah before the Utes won the final two regular season games in 2016, which also earned them the Pac-12 title.
UW RPI: 73
vs. RPI 1-25:Β Β Β 3-4
vs. 26-50:Β Β Β 5-2
vs. 51-100:Β Β Β 5-7
vs. 101-200:Β Β Β 10-7
vs. 200+:Β Β Β 2-2
TEAM NOTES:Β
β’ Senior Joe Wainhouse earned Player of the Week honors after hitting .500 (7x14) with 3 HR, 7 RBI against UCLA. He was 4x5 with 2 HR, 4 R, and 5 RBI (all career highs) on Saturday and then clinched the series for UW with a walk-off, 11th-inning, 2-run HR on Sunday.
β’ Levi Jordan is not surprisingly on a tear in the month of May. He is hitting a team-best .406 (13x32, 2 HR, 4 RBI). In 2017, he hit .500 (8x16, HR, 4 RBI) before an injury knocked him out for the final three series of the month, and in 2016 he hit .364 (20x55, HR, 10 RBI) in the month. For his career he is .372 (45x121) hitter in May.
β’ Braiden Ward is the Pac-12 leader with 15 stolen bases. His total is the most by a UW freshman since Chris Magruder swiped 18 in 1996. Ward has a current streak of reaching base in 18-straight games, which is the longest by a Husky this year.
β’ Nick Kahle ranks fourth in the Pac-12 with 17 doubles, which are the second most ever by a UW catcher, trailing Dominic Woody, who had 22 in 1999. The sophomore has also caught 409.2 of 426.2 possible innings (96%) behind the plate.Β
β’ Alex Hardy is ranks first in Pac-12 play with an ERA of 1.30 and opposing batting average against of .194. The fifth-year senior is also climbing UW's record books, ranking 9th all-time with 66 career appearances.
β’ With his next start, Joe DeMers will tie Sean White for 4th on the all-time UW starts list with 45. He also ranks 8th all-time with 258 IP. Β
β’ With 7 games left in the regular season, Levi Jordan needs to play in Β five to become the ninth Huskies to play in 200 games.
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