Tuesday, May 2
Bellevue, WA
4:00 PM
University of Washington
at
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Huskies Set for Short Trip Tuesday to Take on Seattle U
May 01, 2023 | Baseball
SEATTLE βΒ Kicking off four straight in-state road games during the week, the Diamond Dawgs will take a quick trip across Lake Washington to Bellevue to face Seattle U at Bannerwood Park on Tuesday, squaring off with the Redhawks at 4 p.m. PT.
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The game will be available for streaming through WAC International, while a link to live stats is available on the GoHuskies.com schedule page and HuskyStats.com.
DAWG BITES
β’ The Huskies make the short trip across lake Washington to Bellevue, taking on Seattle U at Bannerwood Park.
β’ In the first of three matchups this season, Cam Clayton and Will Simpson hit back-to-back eighth inning home runs to top the RedHawks 6-4 at Husky Ballpark.
β’ The game will be available for streaming through WAC International.
β’ Washington is coming off of a series sweep of USC.
β’ It was the second straight sweep of the Trojans for the Huskies, who have won six of the last seven series against USC.
β’ With the sweep, the Huskies moved up two spots to fifth in the Pac-12 standings with an 11-9 league record.
β’ Josh Emanuels closed out all three games against the Trojans, collecting a win and two saves.
β’ Coby Morales and AJ Guerrero have the longest active reached-base streaks for UW, both reaching in each of the last 18 games.
β’ Morales also reached in 18-straight games last season, the longest Husky streak since Nick Kahle reached in 20-straight and Ramon Bramasco reached in 19-straight in 2019.
β’ Washington is the only team in the Pac-12 without a three-game losing streak in 2023.
SERIES HISTORY VS. SEATTLE U
Washington has been battling it's Seattle neighbor Seattle U since the early days of college baseball, going all the way back to 1903. The Huskies lead the all-time series with the Redhawks 82-62, including 26-10 since Seattle U returned to the Division I level in 2010.
TAKING OVER TINSEL TOWN
Over the last two seasons, Washington is 11-1 against the Pac-12's two Los Angeles based schools during the regular season, sweeping back-to-back series over USC and taking 5-of-6 games against top-10 ranked UCLA squads.
JOSH OF ALL TRADES
Reliever Josh Emanuels did a little bit of everything in Washington's series sweep over USC, earning a win and two saves against the Trojans. Emanuels closed out all three games, retiring nine of the 10 batters he faced. The righty got the last five outs in Friday's extra innings win, before shutting the door in the ninth Saturday and Sunday to take over the team lead with five saves on the year.
HOMER SIMPSON RETURNS
After conceding the Pac-12's home run lead to Arizona's Chase Davis for a whopping two days, Will Simpson walloped two big flies last week to retake the throne as the league's home run king. Simpson's 15 dingers this season give him 33 for his career, tied for foruth all-time on UW's home run list with Jay Garthwaite.
DOUBLE THE FUN
Coby Morales blasted a pair of homers, including the walk-off winner, in Friday night's 14-12 10-inning victory over USC. It was the second two-homer game of the season for Morales. In fact, the California native has just as many two-home run games this season as games in which he's gone deep once.
Morales wasn't the only one to go yard twice, as true freshman Aiva Arquette tanked his first two collegiate home runs Friday as well. Arquette joined Morales, Will Simpson and Johnny Tincher as Huskies with a multi-homer game this season.
THE ULTIMATE SACRIFICE
Laying down a perfect bunt in the 13th inning Friday night at Stanford, McKay Barney became the first Husky to record a sacrifice bunt this season. The Huskies were the second-to-last team in the nation to lay down a sacrifice bunt, with Texas A&M laying down its first the following day.
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 11 straight appearances without allowing a run, totaling 13.1 innings. During the stretch, Matter has struck out 19 batters, while issuing just three hits. Matter has earned four saves this season, sixth most in the Pac-12.
STRIKE EARLY
The Huskies have gotten off to strong starts to games, scoring 37 runs in both the first and second innings in 2023. Washington has outscored its opponents 74-33 in the first two innings of games.
KEEPING IT CLEAN
Washington continues to boast one of the Pac-12's top defenses. The Huskies rank second in the conference and 28th in the nation with a .979 fielding percentage.
STARTING STRONG
The Dawgs have gotten off to fast starts to innings, having the leadoff hitter to a frame reach 42.8 percent of the time. Four different Huskies are reaching base at least half the time when leading off an inning. 68 of the 132 leadoff baserunners have come around to score.
ON THE CLOCK
24 of Washington's games this season have been completed in under three hours, including six games completed in under two and a half hours.
LORD ALMIGHTY
Washington right-hander Kiefer Lord is one of two players to earn multiple weekly Pac-12 honors this season, joining Oregon's Jace Stoffal.
Lord twirled eight shutout innings in UW's 9-0 victory at No. 9 Stanford to earn the Week 10 award, matching his season-high with 10 strikeouts. The eight innings were tied for the most in an outing in his career and two more than any other game this season. Lord retired the final 16 Cardinal batters he faced. The NorCal native was also named a Player of the Week by Collegiate Baseball.
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 became 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.
STOCK UP
The Huskies are on the rise in D1Baseball's positional rankings, with several Washington players making big strides:
UW in D1Baseball's Updated Position Rankings
Kiefer Lord - Starting Pitcher - No. 100 to No. 27 (+73)
Stu Flesland III - Starting Pitcher - No. 166 to No. 41 (+125)
Josh Emanuels - Relief Pitcher - Unranked to No. 44
Will Simpson - First Baseman - Unranked to No. 22
Cam Clayton - Shortstop - Unranked to No. 18
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 sixth most scored by one team in an NCAA Division I game this season. 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.
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.
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
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%
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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The game will be available for streaming through WAC International, while a link to live stats is available on the GoHuskies.com schedule page and HuskyStats.com.
DAWG BITES
β’ The Huskies make the short trip across lake Washington to Bellevue, taking on Seattle U at Bannerwood Park.
β’ In the first of three matchups this season, Cam Clayton and Will Simpson hit back-to-back eighth inning home runs to top the RedHawks 6-4 at Husky Ballpark.
β’ The game will be available for streaming through WAC International.
β’ Washington is coming off of a series sweep of USC.
β’ It was the second straight sweep of the Trojans for the Huskies, who have won six of the last seven series against USC.
β’ With the sweep, the Huskies moved up two spots to fifth in the Pac-12 standings with an 11-9 league record.
β’ Josh Emanuels closed out all three games against the Trojans, collecting a win and two saves.
β’ Coby Morales and AJ Guerrero have the longest active reached-base streaks for UW, both reaching in each of the last 18 games.
β’ Morales also reached in 18-straight games last season, the longest Husky streak since Nick Kahle reached in 20-straight and Ramon Bramasco reached in 19-straight in 2019.
β’ Washington is the only team in the Pac-12 without a three-game losing streak in 2023.
SERIES HISTORY VS. SEATTLE U
Washington has been battling it's Seattle neighbor Seattle U since the early days of college baseball, going all the way back to 1903. The Huskies lead the all-time series with the Redhawks 82-62, including 26-10 since Seattle U returned to the Division I level in 2010.
TAKING OVER TINSEL TOWN
Over the last two seasons, Washington is 11-1 against the Pac-12's two Los Angeles based schools during the regular season, sweeping back-to-back series over USC and taking 5-of-6 games against top-10 ranked UCLA squads.
JOSH OF ALL TRADES
Reliever Josh Emanuels did a little bit of everything in Washington's series sweep over USC, earning a win and two saves against the Trojans. Emanuels closed out all three games, retiring nine of the 10 batters he faced. The righty got the last five outs in Friday's extra innings win, before shutting the door in the ninth Saturday and Sunday to take over the team lead with five saves on the year.
HOMER SIMPSON RETURNS
After conceding the Pac-12's home run lead to Arizona's Chase Davis for a whopping two days, Will Simpson walloped two big flies last week to retake the throne as the league's home run king. Simpson's 15 dingers this season give him 33 for his career, tied for foruth all-time on UW's home run list with Jay Garthwaite.
DOUBLE THE FUN
Coby Morales blasted a pair of homers, including the walk-off winner, in Friday night's 14-12 10-inning victory over USC. It was the second two-homer game of the season for Morales. In fact, the California native has just as many two-home run games this season as games in which he's gone deep once.
Morales wasn't the only one to go yard twice, as true freshman Aiva Arquette tanked his first two collegiate home runs Friday as well. Arquette joined Morales, Will Simpson and Johnny Tincher as Huskies with a multi-homer game this season.
THE ULTIMATE SACRIFICE
Laying down a perfect bunt in the 13th inning Friday night at Stanford, McKay Barney became the first Husky to record a sacrifice bunt this season. The Huskies were the second-to-last team in the nation to lay down a sacrifice bunt, with Texas A&M laying down its first the following day.
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 11 straight appearances without allowing a run, totaling 13.1 innings. During the stretch, Matter has struck out 19 batters, while issuing just three hits. Matter has earned four saves this season, sixth most in the Pac-12.
STRIKE EARLY
The Huskies have gotten off to strong starts to games, scoring 37 runs in both the first and second innings in 2023. Washington has outscored its opponents 74-33 in the first two innings of games.
KEEPING IT CLEAN
Washington continues to boast one of the Pac-12's top defenses. The Huskies rank second in the conference and 28th in the nation with a .979 fielding percentage.
STARTING STRONG
The Dawgs have gotten off to fast starts to innings, having the leadoff hitter to a frame reach 42.8 percent of the time. Four different Huskies are reaching base at least half the time when leading off an inning. 68 of the 132 leadoff baserunners have come around to score.
ON THE CLOCK
24 of Washington's games this season have been completed in under three hours, including six games completed in under two and a half hours.
LORD ALMIGHTY
Washington right-hander Kiefer Lord is one of two players to earn multiple weekly Pac-12 honors this season, joining Oregon's Jace Stoffal.
Lord twirled eight shutout innings in UW's 9-0 victory at No. 9 Stanford to earn the Week 10 award, matching his season-high with 10 strikeouts. The eight innings were tied for the most in an outing in his career and two more than any other game this season. Lord retired the final 16 Cardinal batters he faced. The NorCal native was also named a Player of the Week by Collegiate Baseball.
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 became 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.
STOCK UP
The Huskies are on the rise in D1Baseball's positional rankings, with several Washington players making big strides:
UW in D1Baseball's Updated Position Rankings
Kiefer Lord - Starting Pitcher - No. 100 to No. 27 (+73)
Stu Flesland III - Starting Pitcher - No. 166 to No. 41 (+125)
Josh Emanuels - Relief Pitcher - Unranked to No. 44
Will Simpson - First Baseman - Unranked to No. 22
Cam Clayton - Shortstop - Unranked to No. 18
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 sixth most scored by one team in an NCAA Division I game this season. 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.
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.
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
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%
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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