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March 23, 2023 | Baseball
LOS ANGELES βΒ Washington resumes Pac-12 play for a marquee matchup this weekend, heading to Westwood to take on No. 7 UCLA in a three-game series at Jackie Robinson Stadium.
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All three games will be broadcasted on Pac-12 Networks. Friday's game will air on Pac-12 Los Angeles, while Saturday's affair will be on Pac-12 Los Angeles and Pac-12 Washington. Sunday's finale will be available on Pac-12 Washington. Meanwhile, links to live stats are available at HuskyStats.com and the GoHuskies.com schedule page.
DAWG BITES
β’ Hitting the road for the first time in three weeks, Washington resumes Pac-12 play with its first league road series of the season at UCLA.
β’ Ranked No. 7 in the nation, UCLA is the first ranked opponent of the season for Washington.
β’ The Huskies have won five of its last seven meetings with the Bruins, including a series sweep in Seattle over No. 8 UCLA last season.
β’ Washington has won 26 of its last 30 games during the regular season, including 18 of the last 20 home games at Husky Ballpark.
β’ Despite falling in a shootout, the Huskies clubbed four home runs Wednesday against Tulane, tying the season high set in the season opener against Santa Clara.
β’ Cam Clayton and Will Simpson combined to go 6-for-9 against the Green Wave, totaling eight RBIs, five runs and three homers.
β’ Clayton hit his second leadoff home run of the season, extending his hitting streak to 9 games.
β’ Simpson recorded his first multi-homer game of his career, taking over sole possession of the Pac-12 lead with nine.
β’ UW continues to receive votes in the most recent NCBWA Poll. The Dawgs are ranked No. five in the West by D1Baseball.
SERIES HISTORY VS. UCLA
Built in large part by winning the first 17 meetings of the series, UCLA is 55-28 all-time against Washington. The Bruins have dominated on their home field, winning 33 of the 46 meetings between the two sides in Los Angeles. However, Washington has won five of its last seven against UCLA, including taking 2-of-3 at Jackie Robinson Park in 2021.
PARTY LIKE IT'S 1994
Washington's 14-5 start is tied for its best through the first 19 games of a season in nearly 30 years. The Huskies last got off to a hotter start in 1994, beginning that campaign 16-3. U Dub has won 26 of its last 31 games during the regular season and has won each of its last four Pac-12 series.
CLAYT-ON FIRE
Cam Clayton is riding a nine-game hitting streak and has recorded a base hit in all but one game this season. During his current streak, the Oregon native has posted multiple hits six times, including a pair of three-hit games. The Husky leadoff has demonstrated his power too, with nine of 17 hits during the streak going for extra bases.
WILL POWER
Pummeling a pair of big flies against Tulane, UW slugger Will Simpson took over sole possession of the Pac-12 with nine homers this season, ranking 14th in the nation. It was the first multi-homer game of Simpson's career and also moved Simpson into a tie for 10th place all-time at Washington with 27 career home runs.
When Simpson registers hits, they come in bunches. He has recorded 10 two-hit games this season, compared to eight games in which he has registered less than two base knocks. The Sammamish, Washington, native has produced four games without a hit and four with one.
CASE CLOSED
When righty flamethrower Case Matter is summoned from the Husky bullpen, a Washington victory is nearly a matter of fact. The UW closer has made six straight appearances without allowing a run, totaling 8.1 innings. During the stretch, Matter has struck out 13 batters, while issuing just a pair of hits and seven walks, collecting three saves this season.
ONE-TWO PUNCH
Coming at you from the right and left side, respectively, starters Kiefer Lord and Stu Flesland III pose a daunting task for opposing offenses. Flesland ranks second in the Pac-12 with a 2.48 ERA, sitting sixth in the league with 33 strikeouts. Meanwhile, Lord is close behind in fifth with a 2.60 ERA and ranks fifth in the conference with 35 strikeouts. Flesland and Lord rank first and second in the Pac-12 in WHIP at 0.86 and 0.87, respectively.
THE KID'S CLUTCH
Freshman Sam DeCarlo has made his biggest impact this season in the biggest moments. DeCarlo is batting .387 with runners on base and .350 with runners in scoring position, compared to just .269 with the bases empty.
STARTING STRONG
The Dawgs have gotten off to fast starts to innings, having the leadoff hitter to a frame reach 44.8 percent of the time. Six different Huskies are reaching base at least half the time when leading off an inning. 38 of the 74 leadoff baserunners have come around to score, including 9-of-11 in the series against Rhode Island.
RACKIN' 'EM UP
Starting with a season-high 21 knocks in the 32-7 win over Northern Colorado, Washington has recorded double digit hits in 9 of its last 12 games.
RISING TO THE OCCASSION
Husky shortstop Cam Clayton was on fire during UW's first Pac-12 series. Clayton batted .583 during the Dawgs' series with Utah, the third highest average for a player during the conference's opening weekend. Four of Clayton's seven hits went for extra bases, garnering a 1.083 slugging percentage.
CHIEF KIEF
Throwing six perfect innings with 10 strikeouts against Northern Colorado, Kiefer Lord was named the Week 3 Perfect Game National Pitcher of the Week and Pac-12 Pitcher of the Week. The righty hurler was the first Husky to earn a national pitching award since Joe DeMers in 2018 and the first Husky pitcher to earn a Pac-12 weekly award since Josh Burgmann in 2019.
THAT'S OFFENSIVE
The Dawgs put up astonishing numbers during their four-game series with Northern Colorado. Most notably was the school-record 32 runs scored in the series opener. Those 32 runs are the second most scored by one team in an NCAA Division I game this season (William & Mary, 33 runs). The Huskies outscored the Bears 57-12 for the series, batting .388 as a team with 15 doubles, six home runs, 51 RBIs, 26 walks, 16 HBPs and a .513 team on-base percentage.
HOMEGROWN DAWGS
Nearly half of the Husky roster, 19 of 39 players overall, are homegrown talents from the state of Washington. Of those 19 local products, 16 hail from the greater Seattle Metropolitan area. Below is a breakdown of the counties UW's Washington natives call home.
UW Washington Natives by County
King County - 14
Clark County - 2
Pierce County - 1
Snohomish County - 1
Spokane County - 1
HEEEEEEERE'S JOHNNY
After earning All-Pac-12 and Pac-12 All-Defensive Team honors in 2022, Washington catcher Johnny Tincher was named to the Preseason All-Pac-12 team as voted on by the conference's head coaches.
A redshirt junior, Tincher enters his fourth season at UW coming off of a campaign in which he ranked second on the team with a .314 average. He drove in 35 runs and scored 27 more while posting 19 extra-base hits, including 13 doubles, five home runs and a triple. Defensively, Tincher threw out 10 of 31 runners attempting to swipe a bag last season, while garnering a .989 fielding percentage.
POSITION RANKINGS
Washington has five players listed in D1Baseball.com's position rankings, released ahead of the start of the 2023 season. The full list of UW players ranked is below.
UW in D1Baseball's Position Rankings
Johnny Tincher - No. 22 catcher
AJ Guerrero - No. 52 outfielder
Kiefer Lord - No. 100 starting pitcher
Jared Engman - No. 154 starting pitcher
Stu Flesland III - No. 166 starting pitcher
RUN IT BACK
Washington returns nearly the entirety of its offense from the 2022 season with seven of eight positional starters returning that started more than 40 games, the Dawgs are poised once again to put up big numbers on the scoreboard.
Percentage Return from 2022
β’ Games Started - 88.5%
β’ Runs - 87.7%
β’ Hits - 91.4%
β’ Doubles - 92.3%
β’ Triples - 87.5%
β’ Home Runs - 93.8%
β’ RBIs - 90.9%
β’ Walks - 82.5%
THE JUCO JUMP
Washington has 10 junior college products on its roster. Four players come from the Washington Community and Technical Colleges system, with four California Community College system products and two players from Arizona's Maricopa County Community College District.
15 GAMES TO AIR ON PAC-12 FAMILY OF NETWORKS
15 Washington baseball games have been selected to air across the Pac-12 family of networks this season. Six home games from Husky Ballpark will air on your television set, while nine road games are set to be broadcasted. Of the 15 TV games for the Dawgs, 10 will air on Pac-12 Washington.
2018 OMADAWGS
2023 marks the five-year anniversary of Washington's 2018 team that became the first squad in program-history to reach the College World Series. The Huskies ran through the Conway Regional, sweeping three games against UConn and host Coastal Carolina. UW then took a decisive Super Regional Game 3 at Cal State Fullerton, erasing a one-run deficit in the ninth to force extras and walking off the Titans on Kaiser Weiss' sacrifice fly to score Levi Jordan and send the Dawgs to Omaha.
For more information on the UW baseball team, follow @UW_Baseball on Twitter and Instagram.
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All three games will be broadcasted on Pac-12 Networks. Friday's game will air on Pac-12 Los Angeles, while Saturday's affair will be on Pac-12 Los Angeles and Pac-12 Washington. Sunday's finale will be available on Pac-12 Washington. Meanwhile, links to live stats are available at HuskyStats.com and the GoHuskies.com schedule page.
DAWG BITES
β’ Hitting the road for the first time in three weeks, Washington resumes Pac-12 play with its first league road series of the season at UCLA.
β’ Ranked No. 7 in the nation, UCLA is the first ranked opponent of the season for Washington.
β’ The Huskies have won five of its last seven meetings with the Bruins, including a series sweep in Seattle over No. 8 UCLA last season.
β’ Washington has won 26 of its last 30 games during the regular season, including 18 of the last 20 home games at Husky Ballpark.
β’ Despite falling in a shootout, the Huskies clubbed four home runs Wednesday against Tulane, tying the season high set in the season opener against Santa Clara.
β’ Cam Clayton and Will Simpson combined to go 6-for-9 against the Green Wave, totaling eight RBIs, five runs and three homers.
β’ Clayton hit his second leadoff home run of the season, extending his hitting streak to 9 games.
β’ Simpson recorded his first multi-homer game of his career, taking over sole possession of the Pac-12 lead with nine.
β’ UW continues to receive votes in the most recent NCBWA Poll. The Dawgs are ranked No. five in the West by D1Baseball.
SERIES HISTORY VS. UCLA
Built in large part by winning the first 17 meetings of the series, UCLA is 55-28 all-time against Washington. The Bruins have dominated on their home field, winning 33 of the 46 meetings between the two sides in Los Angeles. However, Washington has won five of its last seven against UCLA, including taking 2-of-3 at Jackie Robinson Park in 2021.
PARTY LIKE IT'S 1994
Washington's 14-5 start is tied for its best through the first 19 games of a season in nearly 30 years. The Huskies last got off to a hotter start in 1994, beginning that campaign 16-3. U Dub has won 26 of its last 31 games during the regular season and has won each of its last four Pac-12 series.
CLAYT-ON FIRE
Cam Clayton is riding a nine-game hitting streak and has recorded a base hit in all but one game this season. During his current streak, the Oregon native has posted multiple hits six times, including a pair of three-hit games. The Husky leadoff has demonstrated his power too, with nine of 17 hits during the streak going for extra bases.
WILL POWER
Pummeling a pair of big flies against Tulane, UW slugger Will Simpson took over sole possession of the Pac-12 with nine homers this season, ranking 14th in the nation. It was the first multi-homer game of Simpson's career and also moved Simpson into a tie for 10th place all-time at Washington with 27 career home runs.
When Simpson registers hits, they come in bunches. He has recorded 10 two-hit games this season, compared to eight games in which he has registered less than two base knocks. The Sammamish, Washington, native has produced four games without a hit and four with one.
CASE CLOSED
When righty flamethrower Case Matter is summoned from the Husky bullpen, a Washington victory is nearly a matter of fact. The UW closer has made six straight appearances without allowing a run, totaling 8.1 innings. During the stretch, Matter has struck out 13 batters, while issuing just a pair of hits and seven walks, collecting three saves this season.
ONE-TWO PUNCH
Coming at you from the right and left side, respectively, starters Kiefer Lord and Stu Flesland III pose a daunting task for opposing offenses. Flesland ranks second in the Pac-12 with a 2.48 ERA, sitting sixth in the league with 33 strikeouts. Meanwhile, Lord is close behind in fifth with a 2.60 ERA and ranks fifth in the conference with 35 strikeouts. Flesland and Lord rank first and second in the Pac-12 in WHIP at 0.86 and 0.87, respectively.
THE KID'S CLUTCH
Freshman Sam DeCarlo has made his biggest impact this season in the biggest moments. DeCarlo is batting .387 with runners on base and .350 with runners in scoring position, compared to just .269 with the bases empty.
STARTING STRONG
The Dawgs have gotten off to fast starts to innings, having the leadoff hitter to a frame reach 44.8 percent of the time. Six different Huskies are reaching base at least half the time when leading off an inning. 38 of the 74 leadoff baserunners have come around to score, including 9-of-11 in the series against Rhode Island.
RACKIN' 'EM UP
Starting with a season-high 21 knocks in the 32-7 win over Northern Colorado, Washington has recorded double digit hits in 9 of its last 12 games.
RISING TO THE OCCASSION
Husky shortstop Cam Clayton was on fire during UW's first Pac-12 series. Clayton batted .583 during the Dawgs' series with Utah, the third highest average for a player during the conference's opening weekend. Four of Clayton's seven hits went for extra bases, garnering a 1.083 slugging percentage.
CHIEF KIEF
Throwing six perfect innings with 10 strikeouts against Northern Colorado, Kiefer Lord was named the Week 3 Perfect Game National Pitcher of the Week and Pac-12 Pitcher of the Week. The righty hurler was the first Husky to earn a national pitching award since Joe DeMers in 2018 and the first Husky pitcher to earn a Pac-12 weekly award since Josh Burgmann in 2019.
THAT'S OFFENSIVE
The Dawgs put up astonishing numbers during their four-game series with Northern Colorado. Most notably was the school-record 32 runs scored in the series opener. Those 32 runs are the second most scored by one team in an NCAA Division I game this season (William & Mary, 33 runs). The Huskies outscored the Bears 57-12 for the series, batting .388 as a team with 15 doubles, six home runs, 51 RBIs, 26 walks, 16 HBPs and a .513 team on-base percentage.
HOMEGROWN DAWGS
Nearly half of the Husky roster, 19 of 39 players overall, are homegrown talents from the state of Washington. Of those 19 local products, 16 hail from the greater Seattle Metropolitan area. Below is a breakdown of the counties UW's Washington natives call home.
UW Washington Natives by County
King County - 14
Clark County - 2
Pierce County - 1
Snohomish County - 1
Spokane County - 1
HEEEEEEERE'S JOHNNY
After earning All-Pac-12 and Pac-12 All-Defensive Team honors in 2022, Washington catcher Johnny Tincher was named to the Preseason All-Pac-12 team as voted on by the conference's head coaches.
A redshirt junior, Tincher enters his fourth season at UW coming off of a campaign in which he ranked second on the team with a .314 average. He drove in 35 runs and scored 27 more while posting 19 extra-base hits, including 13 doubles, five home runs and a triple. Defensively, Tincher threw out 10 of 31 runners attempting to swipe a bag last season, while garnering a .989 fielding percentage.
POSITION RANKINGS
Washington has five players listed in D1Baseball.com's position rankings, released ahead of the start of the 2023 season. The full list of UW players ranked is below.
UW in D1Baseball's Position Rankings
Johnny Tincher - No. 22 catcher
AJ Guerrero - No. 52 outfielder
Kiefer Lord - No. 100 starting pitcher
Jared Engman - No. 154 starting pitcher
Stu Flesland III - No. 166 starting pitcher
RUN IT BACK
Washington returns nearly the entirety of its offense from the 2022 season with seven of eight positional starters returning that started more than 40 games, the Dawgs are poised once again to put up big numbers on the scoreboard.
Percentage Return from 2022
β’ Games Started - 88.5%
β’ Runs - 87.7%
β’ Hits - 91.4%
β’ Doubles - 92.3%
β’ Triples - 87.5%
β’ Home Runs - 93.8%
β’ RBIs - 90.9%
β’ Walks - 82.5%
THE JUCO JUMP
Washington has 10 junior college products on its roster. Four players come from the Washington Community and Technical Colleges system, with four California Community College system products and two players from Arizona's Maricopa County Community College District.
15 GAMES TO AIR ON PAC-12 FAMILY OF NETWORKS
15 Washington baseball games have been selected to air across the Pac-12 family of networks this season. Six home games from Husky Ballpark will air on your television set, while nine road games are set to be broadcasted. Of the 15 TV games for the Dawgs, 10 will air on Pac-12 Washington.
2018 OMADAWGS
2023 marks the five-year anniversary of Washington's 2018 team that became the first squad in program-history to reach the College World Series. The Huskies ran through the Conway Regional, sweeping three games against UConn and host Coastal Carolina. UW then took a decisive Super Regional Game 3 at Cal State Fullerton, erasing a one-run deficit in the ninth to force extras and walking off the Titans on Kaiser Weiss' sacrifice fly to score Levi Jordan and send the Dawgs to Omaha.
For more information on the UW baseball team, follow @UW_Baseball on Twitter and Instagram.
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