Washington Shuts Out Portland In Home Opener On Tuesday

Tuesday, March 4

Seattle, WA

4:02 PM

University of Washington

5-8

Portland

5-8

Portland

Washington

March 04, 2025 | Baseball

Box Score

By: UW Athletic Communications

SEATTLE – Washington started the home slate with a win on Tuesday afternoon, taking down Portland 3-0 at Husky Ballpark.

Washington improves to 5-8 on the year while Portland falls to 5-8 with the loss. The win is the first shutout for the Huskies this season.

The Dawgs used powerful pitching to earn the victory, starting with 3.0 shutout innings by Justin Tims. The freshman right-hander struck out three batters while allowing only one hit.

Neither team could get the offense rolling until the fifth inning, when Casen Taggart drove home Carson Crawford with a sacrifice fly. Trevor Kole added the second Husky run of the game immediately after, hitting a single to the left side to bring home AJ Guerrero from second.

Sam DeCarlo scored the third Washington run in the sixth inning when he hit a solo home run to left field. It was his second home run of the season and the first homer in Husky Ballpark in 2025.

Nic Bronzini, Jase Evangelista, and Bradley Gilbert pitched in relief to finish off the victory for Washington. Bronzini began the fourth inning before Evangelista came in.

The sophomore right-hander tossed 3.1 hitless innings, allowing only one walk. Bradley Gilbert pitched the eighth and ninth innings to earn the save, striking out three while allowing one hit and one walk.

AJ Guerrero led the Huskies with two hits, two walks, and one run scored. Casen Taggart, Trevor Kole, Jackson Hotchkiss, and Sam DeCarlo added the other four hits for the Huskies.

Defensively, the Washington pitchers combined to allow only three hits on the day while striking out seven batters.

The Huskies return to action on Friday, taking on Nebraska in the first Big Ten contest in program history. Washington will play a three-game series against the Huskers, with Friday's game set for 12:00 p.m. PT.

DAWG BITES

The Huskies earned their first shutout of 2025, a 3-0 win over Portland. Washington pitchers combined for a season-best three hits allowed against the Pilots
Washington tied its most runs in a game this season against Texas Tech with 12
Three Huskies were named to the Las Vegas College Baseball Classic All-Tournament Team (AJ Guerrero, Colton Bower, Casen Taggart)
Nine Huskies have produced 27 multiple hit games (Kole – 5, Taggart – 4, Bower – 4, Guerrero – 4, DeCarlo – 3, Whitton – 3, Knight – 2, Terry – 1, Wilson – 1)
Eight Huskies have generated 19 multi-RBI games, with Casen Taggart leading the way with five (Taggart – 5, Guerrero – 4, Kole – 3, Bower – 2, Whitton – 2, DeCarlo – 1, Knight – 1, Wilson – 1). Guerrero has the team's only four-RBI game, which came against No. 15 Texas
AJ Guerrero is on a nine-game hitting streak. The senior slugger has recorded at least one hit in every game he's been active for this season and has homered in three of the last four games
Guerrero's home run against Texas Tech moved him into a tie for fourth in the Husky home run record book with 36 career home runs (T-1. 42, Kyle Conley, 2006-09; T-1. 42, Ed Erickson, 1997-00; 3. 41, Zach Clem, 2003-06; 4. 36, Will Simpson, 2020-23)
Colton Bower has reached base safely in the last 10 games
The Huskies have turned 13 double plays this season. Washington turned three against No. 15 Texas two against Illinois, and one against Texas Tech in Las Vegas
28 of Washington's 64 RBIs have come from new transfer players (Casen Taggart - 13, Trevor Kole - 9, Malakhi Knight – 5, Julian Sanders – 1)
The top four spots of the batting order are responsible for 46 of 78 runs and 55 of 107 hits
Four Huskies are batting .300 or better (Guerrero - .378, Taggart - .349, Knight - .348, Bower - .333)
18 Huskies have made their program debuts (Banks, Bronzini, Bujacich, Crawford, Curran, Denomme, Gilbert, Henning, Hotchkiss, Knight, Kole, Nichols, O'Neal, Taggart, Thomas, Tims, W. Woodward)