The Cardinal hit five home runs to win their 14th in a row; Wildcats, Sun Devils to meet for the fifth time in 2021.
Michael Lev SCOTTSDALE – Arizona couldn’t cool off the hottest team in the Pac-12 Thursday, losing 15-8 to No. 1 seed Stanford on Day 2 of the Pac-12 Tournament at Scottsdale Stadium.
Arizona and ASU split four games during the regular season. The Sun Devils won a non-conference game in Phoenix on April 5; the Wildcats took two of three in Tucson later in the month. People are also reading… The Cardinal – who easily led the Pac-12 with 86 home runs during the regular season – homered four times off of Irvin, who had allowed three in his first 14 starts. He yielded a season-high seven earned runs in 4 1/3 innings. Irvin hadn’t surrendered more than three earned runs in any 2021 start.
The first 13 UA batters took the first pitch they saw from the veteran right-hander. Many took the second as well.