UW Finishes Up Season Series with Seattle U at Husky Ballpark

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SEATTLE – Finishing up its non-conference schedule and the season series with its crosstown neighbors, Washington hosts Seattle U on Tuesday at 6:05 p.m. PT at Husky Ballpark.

The game will be available for streaming through Washington Live Stream 2, while a link to live stats is available on the GoHuskies.com schedule page and HuskyStats.com.

DAWG BITES
• Fresh off taking 2-of-3 road games in its Boeing Apple Cup matchup with Washington State, the Huskies return home for their final midweek of the season, hosting Seattle U.
• Washington has won both previous meetings with the Redhawks this season, earning a win apiece in Seattle and Bellevue.
• The Dawgs have won three straight over Seattle U and 10 of the last 11 meetings.
• Tuesday's game will be streamed on Washington Live Stream 2.
• The Huskies have won seven of their last eight games, including four consecutive wins at Husky Ballpark.
• With the series victory in Pullman, the Huskies sit fifth in the Pac-12 standings with a 13-10 league record and are just one win shy of second place Arizona State.
• The Huskies surrendered just six total runs to Washington State, the fewest in a Pac-12 series for Washington since 2018.
• McKay Barney went 4-for-4 in the series clinching win Sunday, becoming the first Husky with multiple four-hit games this season.
• Josh Emanuels has not allowed a run in his last four appearances, collecting a win and three saves.
• 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 83-62, including 27-10 since Seattle U returned to the Division I level in 2010.

HOW BOUT THEM APPLES?
Taking two-of-three games out on The Palouse, Washington claimed its fifth series over Washington State in the last six meetings with its Apple Cup rivals. Pitching led the way for the Huskies, holding the Cougars to just two runs in all three games. The six total runs allowed were the fewest in a Pac-12 series for UW since surrendering three in a sweep of Arizona in 2018.

JOSH OF ALL TRADES
Right-handed reliever Josh Emanuels has locked down a save in three consecutive appearances, allowing just one hit over 3.1 innings. Prior to that, Emanuels earned the win in UW's extra-inning win over USC. Emanuels' 21 appearances are the most by a Husky this season, holding the opponent scoreless 14 times. Emanuels six saves rank fourth in the Pac-12.

SQUARING IT UP
The Huskies have seen a player post four hits in a game four times this season and twice the man in question has been McKay Barney after the speedster went 4-for-4 in Sunday's series clinching win over Washington State. The Arizona native has collected four hits in a game three times in his career.

LIKE CLOCKWORK
Coby Morales has reached base in 22 consecutive games, the longest streak by a Husky since Braiden Ward reached in 23 straight games in 2018.

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.

STRIKE EARLY
The Huskies have gotten off to strong starts to games, scoring 39 runs in both the first and second innings in 2023. Washington has outscored its opponents 78-36 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 22nd 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 44.3 percent of the time. Five different Huskies are reaching base at least half the time when leading off an inning. 76 of the 151 leadoff baserunners have come around to score.

ON THE CLOCK
28 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.

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.

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
• Games Started - 88.5%
• Runs - 87.7%
• Hits - 91.4%
• Doubles - 92.3%
• Triples - 87.5%
• Home Runs - 93.8%
• RBIs - 90.9%
• 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.

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