Wednesday, May 24
Scottsdale, AZ
2:30 PM
University of Washington
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UCLA
Washington Kicks Off Pac-12 Tourney with LA Schools
May 23, 2023 | Baseball
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. βΒ Washington has earned the No. 3 seed in the 2023 Pac-12 Tournament and will begin its run in pool play against UCLA and USC at Scottsdale Stadium.
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The Huskies will battle the Bruins at 2:30 p.m. PT on Wednesday before taking on the Trojans at 2:30 p.m. PT on Thursday. The winner of the pod will advance to the semifinals.
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Both games will air on the Pac-12 Network as well as Pac-12 Now. Links to live stats are available on the GoHuskies.com schedule page and HuskyStats.com.
DAWG BITES
β’ The Huskies earned the No. 3 seed in the Pac-12 Tournament, garnering a league record of 17-12.
β’ UW is seeking its first-ever Pac-12 Tournament win.
β’ The Huskies have won five of their six games against UCLA and USC this season, taking 2-of-3 games from the Bruins and sweeping the Trojans.
β’ Four Dawgs earned All-Pac-12 honors on Tuesday in Cam Clayton, Stu Flesland III, Will Simpson and Johnny Tincher.
β’ Josh Emanuels, AJ Guerrero, Kiefer Lord, Case Matter and Coby Morales earned Honorable Mention All-Pac-12 laurels.
β’ Simpson is currently riding a 13-game hitting streak, the longest streak of the season by a Husky.
β’ After posting two home runs in his first 43 games, freshman Sam DeCarlo has left the yard three times in the last five, including twice in the regular season finale against Cal.
β’ Washington is the only team in the Pac-12 without a three-game losing streak in 2023.
SERIES HISTORY VS. UCLA
Built in large part by winning the first 17 meetings of the series, UCLA is 55-29 all-time against Washington. However, the tides have turned towards the Dawgs in recent meetings, with Washington winning seven of the last 10 matchups, including a sweep in Seattle in 2022 and a series victory in Westwood earlier this season. Wednesday's game will be the second meeting in the Pac-12 Tournament, with UCLA defeating UW 14-8 a season ago.
SERIES HISTORY VS. USC
Despite dropping the first 14 and 22 of the first 24 meetings between the two programs, Washington leads the all-time series with USC 46-43. The Huskies have won six straight over the Trojans, pulling off series sweeps in both 2022 and 2023. The last four series between the two sides have been sweeps, with Washington coming out on top in three of them.
ALL-PAC-12 DAWGS
The Pac-12 announced its postseason awards on Tuesday, with four Huskies earning an All-Pac-12 nod. Cam Clayton and Stu Flesland III earned their first all-conference honor, while Will Simpson and Johnny Tincher repeated after also earning All-Pac-12 laurels in 2022. The four honorees are the most for Washington since 2018. UW also had five players land on the honorable mention team, including Josh Emanuels, AJ Guerrero, Kiefer Lord, Case Matter and Coby Morales.
KEEP 'EM COMING SKIP!
In his first season at the helm of the Husky program, Jason Kelly's Dawgs have racked up 33 wins, the second most wins by a first year head coach in program history. Kelly is six victories shy of the 39 wins posted by Ken Knutsen in his first campaign in 1993.
BIG O
The Washington offense has been on another level down the homestretch of the regular season, posting double digit runs in five of the final six games of the season. Over those six games, the Huskies have posted a .361 team batting average with a .622 slugging percentage, scoring 73 runs with 33 extra base hits.
Will Simpson has led the charge in those six games, driving in 14 runs with eight runs scored, batting .520 with a .960 slugging percentage.
BOMBS AWAY
The Huskies have homered in nine straight games with 20 total big flies over the stretch. Washington has gone deep multiple times in six of those nine games.
HEATING UP
Hitting his stride at the right time, Michael Snyder has spearheaded the Washington offense over the last five games. The walk on third baseman leads the team with a .556 batting average over those five games, registering three doubles and three home runs while posting 12 RBIs and 10 runs scored, also team-highs.
Snyder has done his best work against Pac-12 opposition. Eight of the redshirt-junior's 10 home runs have come against league foes, while 29 of his 44 RBIs have been against Pac-12 opponents.
LIKE CLOCKWORK
Coby Morales has reached base in 29 consecutive games, the longest streak at UW since MJ Hubbs reached in 39 straight in 2017.
He's going streaking
Will Simpson is riding a 13-game hitting streak, recording multiple base hits in nine of those 13 games. It is the longest streak of the season by a Husky, eclipsing the 12-game streaks by Cam Clayton and AJ Guerrero.
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.
STRIKE EARLY
The Huskies have gotten off to strong starts to games, scoring 51 runs in the first inning and 46 in the second. Washington has outscored its opponents 97-42 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 third in the conference with a .978 fielding percentage.
STARTING STRONG
The Dawgs have gotten off to fast starts to innings, having the leadoff hitter to a frame reach 44.7 percent of the time. 96 of the 181 leadoff baserunners have come around to score.
ON THE CLOCK
29 of Washington's games this season have been completed in under three hours, including six games completed in under two and a half hours.
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.
STOCK UP
Washington has four players ranked in D1Baseball's most recent position rankings.
UW in D1Baseball's Updated Position Rankings
Kiefer Lord - Starting Pitcher - No. 32
Josh Emanuels - Relief Pitcher - No. 42
Johnny Tincher - Catcher - No. 39
Cam Clayton - Shortstop - No. 22
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.
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%
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 Huskies will battle the Bruins at 2:30 p.m. PT on Wednesday before taking on the Trojans at 2:30 p.m. PT on Thursday. The winner of the pod will advance to the semifinals.
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Both games will air on the Pac-12 Network as well as Pac-12 Now. Links to live stats are available on the GoHuskies.com schedule page and HuskyStats.com.
DAWG BITES
β’ The Huskies earned the No. 3 seed in the Pac-12 Tournament, garnering a league record of 17-12.
β’ UW is seeking its first-ever Pac-12 Tournament win.
β’ The Huskies have won five of their six games against UCLA and USC this season, taking 2-of-3 games from the Bruins and sweeping the Trojans.
β’ Four Dawgs earned All-Pac-12 honors on Tuesday in Cam Clayton, Stu Flesland III, Will Simpson and Johnny Tincher.
β’ Josh Emanuels, AJ Guerrero, Kiefer Lord, Case Matter and Coby Morales earned Honorable Mention All-Pac-12 laurels.
β’ Simpson is currently riding a 13-game hitting streak, the longest streak of the season by a Husky.
β’ After posting two home runs in his first 43 games, freshman Sam DeCarlo has left the yard three times in the last five, including twice in the regular season finale against Cal.
β’ Washington is the only team in the Pac-12 without a three-game losing streak in 2023.
SERIES HISTORY VS. UCLA
Built in large part by winning the first 17 meetings of the series, UCLA is 55-29 all-time against Washington. However, the tides have turned towards the Dawgs in recent meetings, with Washington winning seven of the last 10 matchups, including a sweep in Seattle in 2022 and a series victory in Westwood earlier this season. Wednesday's game will be the second meeting in the Pac-12 Tournament, with UCLA defeating UW 14-8 a season ago.
SERIES HISTORY VS. USC
Despite dropping the first 14 and 22 of the first 24 meetings between the two programs, Washington leads the all-time series with USC 46-43. The Huskies have won six straight over the Trojans, pulling off series sweeps in both 2022 and 2023. The last four series between the two sides have been sweeps, with Washington coming out on top in three of them.
ALL-PAC-12 DAWGS
The Pac-12 announced its postseason awards on Tuesday, with four Huskies earning an All-Pac-12 nod. Cam Clayton and Stu Flesland III earned their first all-conference honor, while Will Simpson and Johnny Tincher repeated after also earning All-Pac-12 laurels in 2022. The four honorees are the most for Washington since 2018. UW also had five players land on the honorable mention team, including Josh Emanuels, AJ Guerrero, Kiefer Lord, Case Matter and Coby Morales.
KEEP 'EM COMING SKIP!
In his first season at the helm of the Husky program, Jason Kelly's Dawgs have racked up 33 wins, the second most wins by a first year head coach in program history. Kelly is six victories shy of the 39 wins posted by Ken Knutsen in his first campaign in 1993.
BIG O
The Washington offense has been on another level down the homestretch of the regular season, posting double digit runs in five of the final six games of the season. Over those six games, the Huskies have posted a .361 team batting average with a .622 slugging percentage, scoring 73 runs with 33 extra base hits.
Will Simpson has led the charge in those six games, driving in 14 runs with eight runs scored, batting .520 with a .960 slugging percentage.
BOMBS AWAY
The Huskies have homered in nine straight games with 20 total big flies over the stretch. Washington has gone deep multiple times in six of those nine games.
HEATING UP
Hitting his stride at the right time, Michael Snyder has spearheaded the Washington offense over the last five games. The walk on third baseman leads the team with a .556 batting average over those five games, registering three doubles and three home runs while posting 12 RBIs and 10 runs scored, also team-highs.
Snyder has done his best work against Pac-12 opposition. Eight of the redshirt-junior's 10 home runs have come against league foes, while 29 of his 44 RBIs have been against Pac-12 opponents.
LIKE CLOCKWORK
Coby Morales has reached base in 29 consecutive games, the longest streak at UW since MJ Hubbs reached in 39 straight in 2017.
He's going streaking
Will Simpson is riding a 13-game hitting streak, recording multiple base hits in nine of those 13 games. It is the longest streak of the season by a Husky, eclipsing the 12-game streaks by Cam Clayton and AJ Guerrero.
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.
STRIKE EARLY
The Huskies have gotten off to strong starts to games, scoring 51 runs in the first inning and 46 in the second. Washington has outscored its opponents 97-42 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 third in the conference with a .978 fielding percentage.
STARTING STRONG
The Dawgs have gotten off to fast starts to innings, having the leadoff hitter to a frame reach 44.7 percent of the time. 96 of the 181 leadoff baserunners have come around to score.
ON THE CLOCK
29 of Washington's games this season have been completed in under three hours, including six games completed in under two and a half hours.
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.
STOCK UP
Washington has four players ranked in D1Baseball's most recent position rankings.
UW in D1Baseball's Updated Position Rankings
Kiefer Lord - Starting Pitcher - No. 32
Josh Emanuels - Relief Pitcher - No. 42
Johnny Tincher - Catcher - No. 39
Cam Clayton - Shortstop - No. 22
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.
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%
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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