On Deck: Baseball Hits the Road in the City of Angels at #13 UCLA

Apr 28, 2022

LOS ANGELES -- Sun Devil Baseball returns on the road this weekend for a three-game Pac-12 series against 13th-ranked UCLA beginning Friday, April 29 in Los Angeles. The series will get underway at 6 p.m. AZT on Friday, continuing Saturday at 2 p.m. and concluding Sunday at 1 p.m.

FAN INFO

Due to ongoing construction in and around the neighborhood surrounding Phoenix Municipal Stadium, traffic lanes and parking lot entries are expected to be affected throughout the 2022 campaign. Fans are encouraged to arrive to the stadium early in order to account for or avoid delays that might arise getting into the parking lot.
Fans are encouraged to utilize this link and the attached PDFs to print out any roster sheets or stats they wish to bring with them to the games. As part of ASU's sustainability initiatives, roster sheets are no longer provided to the fans.
Tuesday evening, Sun Devil Baseball will host its annual Green Game, celebrating ASU's zero waste and sustainability practices with a green themed day and concession items.

FOLLOW THE ACTION

The series will be available for viewing online via the UCLA Live Stream.
Additionally, the series will be broadcast over the airwaves on KDUS 1060 AM all weekend with the Voice of the Sun Devils Tim Healey alongside analyst Max Rossiter.
Fans are encouraged to follow along pre-game and in-game content and updates throughout the weekend on the Sun Devil Baseball Twitter account: @ASU_Baseball, especially for key weather updates and time changes.

#10THINGS (Twitter-Friendly Notes)

1. The Sun Devil defense has turned 36 double plays so far this season, a total good for 14th in the nation.

2. Ryan Campos is now batting .391 in Pac-12 games this season, nearly 40 points more than any of his teammates and 3rd in the league

3. The Sun Devils are 10th in the nation with 99 doubles this season and have multiple doubles in and 28 of 42 games.

4. ASU has double-digit hits in each of the last 7 games, 16 of its last 17 games and 25 times in 42 total games.

5. Joe Lampe already has 29 extra-base hits this season - tops in the Pac-12. His 113 total bases are 25th nationally

6. ASU has had at least one runner on base on 16 of the last 21 homers. It had a runner(s) on just 8 of the team's first 27 homers this year.

7. There are 29 players in the Pac-12 with double-digit doubles, of which ASU has five of (Baez, Lampe, Rogers, Davis, Long).

8. In the month of April, ASU true freshmen bat 63-for-191 (.330) with 40 of the team's 119 RBIs.

9. Despite missing two games, Sean McLain has recorded a Pac-12 leading 132 defensive assists this season.

10. ASU has gotten 11 quality starts out of its pitchers this season, notable as it had only 9 in the entirety of last season.

BY THE NUMBERS

29 - Joe Lampe has 29 extra-base hits (16 doubles, 3 triples, 10 homers) in 42 games this season, easily passing his total for the entirety of 2022 (20). Those 29 extra-base hits are the most in the Pac-12 this year. All told, Lampe is 3rd in the league in doubles (16), 3rd in stolen bases (12), 4th in runs (47), 4th in hits (61), 5th in triples (3), 6th in homers (10) and 9th in slugging (.614). He and Oregon State's Jacob Melton are the only Pac-12 players to rank in the Top-10 in each of those categories. No other player has more than five.

16 - The Sun Devils have recorded double-digit hits in 16 of the last 17 games and 25 times in 42 games overall. The squad is currently 17th in the country with 437 hits as of April 28. On March 20, the team was 72nd in the nation in total hits. On 16 of the team's last 21 homers, ASU has had at least one runner on base. That is notable as ASU had runners on base just eight times on the teams first 27 homers. Through the OSU series (21 games through March 20), ASU was batting just .231 with runners in scoring position. In the last 21 games, ASU is batting .324 with RISP.

10 - Christian Bodlovich has inherited 50 runners in his career, with only 10 scoring (20 percent), including a 5-for-28 count this season. Will Levine has been impressive in the category through his career as well with only 10-of-38 scoring and just 4 on 18 chances this year. ASU has stranded 359 opponent baserunners this season - an average of 8.5 per game. ASU has done much of that through its mid-to-late relievers, who the team has relied heavily upon. Brock Peery is fourth in the nation with 24 appearances this season while Bodlovich and Levine are 37th with 31.

2 - Deuces have wild for the Sun Devils this season with ASU excelling in two categories on the year: doubles by the offense and double plays turned by the defense. ASU has turned 36 double plays on the year - good for 14th among all Division 1 programs. Additionally, ASU has 99 doubles on offense so far this year - good for 10th in Division 1 baseball. ASU has doubled as least once in all but five games this season and has multiple doubles in 26 of 42 games. ASU has 5 of the 29 Pac-12 players with double-digit doubles.

On the Bruins

ASU leads the all-time series against the Bruins 121-78, but was swept in Phoenix in the final week of the season last year.
UCLA appeared in all five major national polls this week, checking in as high as No. 12 (Collegiate Baseball, NCBWA) while also appearing at No. 13 (D1Baseball), and No. 14 (USA TODAY Coaches Poll, Baseball America). UCLA has been ranked as high as No. 9 this season (Apr. 11, Collegiate Baseball), and entered the year as high as No. 22 in the preseason polls.
UCLA is 27-13 so far on the year, including an 11-5 mark in April. The Bruins have won seven of their nine weekend series this year, and are 7-3 in midweek contests
The Bruins trailed at some point in 10 of their last 12 wins (dating to Mar. 29 vs. UCSB)
UCLA ranks top-10 nationally in ERA (3.35, 7th), WHIP (1.17, 5th), and strikeout-to-walk ratio (3.4, 8th)

Big Sean

Sean McLain was named Pac-12 Player of the Week following a 4-0 week against Santa Clara and a sweep of USC after batting .688 and leading the team in runs and RBIs
McLain became a staple in the Sun Devil infield and batting order last season en route to being named a freshman All-American, Pac-12 All-Conference selection and ABCA All-West Region pick. McLain enters the season as the No. 33 overall collegiate prospect in the 2022 class, according to Baseball America.
McLain had the longest reached-base streak of the Sun Devils this season at 22.
McLain sits at .310 on the season and is tied for second on the roster with 30 RBIs.
He is second on the team with 43 runs this season - sixth in the Pac 12.
McLain has drawn 19 walks and a team-high 14 HBP - second-most in the Pac-12 and 29th nationally - giving him a .421 OBP over his .310 average.
The sophomore has been one of ASU's best hitters with two outs with a .362 average on 17-of-47 hitting and is second on the squad with 14 two-out RBIs - nearly half of his 30 on the year.
He has also been one of ASU's few reliable option with a runner on third with less than two outs, recording an RBI 13-out-of-15 times - four more than any other player and an .867 record mark that is tops among those with at least seven opportunities.
McLain has been a part of 26 of ASU's 36 double plays this season - sixth in the Pac-12.
He leads the Pac-12 with 132 defensive assists despite missing two games this season.
McLain recorded a 23-game hitting streak as a freshman last season - tied for the third-longest at ASU since 1998 with Andre Ethier's 2003 23-game hitting streak
McLain was a Collegiate Baseball News freshman All-American, an ABCA All-West Region first team selection at second base and an honorable All-Pac-12 pick.
He was second on the team with a .322 average on the year, just outside ASU's all-time freshman top-10 in the category. McLain led the team in multi-hit games last year with 23. His 10 multi-RBI games were second on the team. McLain had 17 doubles in the regular season, good for sixth in the Pac-12 and finished with 18 on the year – tied for third in ASU freshman history.
He turned 48 double plays last season, two more than any other player in the league even including those with runs to the College World Series and 13 more than any other second baseman.

I Love Lamp

Joe Lampe has been a spark plug for the Sun Devils since he stepped foot on campus last year and that has continued this season.
Lampe is batting .332 this season and leads the way with 47 runs - good for 4th in the Pac-12.
Lampe also leads the team with 31 RBIs on the year.
He is slugging .614 on the year - good for 9th in the Pac-12. His 16 doubles are tied for third in the Pac-12 and 29th in the nation.
His power numbers are especially notable as he has 29 extra-base hits this season (16 doubles, 3 triples, 10 homers) - tops in the Pac-12. It's especially notable as he had 20 for the entirety of the 2021 campaign and he has already more than doubled his home run output from last year (13 doubles, 4 triples, 3 homers).
His 113 total bases are 25th in the nation and second in the league.
His 14 stolen bases are tied for third in the Pac-12.
To recap, Lampe is 3rd in the league in doubles (16), 3rd in stolen bases (12), 4th in runs (47), 4th in hits (61), 5th in triples (3), 6th in homers (10) and 9th in slugging (.614). He and Oregon State's Jacob Melton are the only Pac-12 players to rank in the Top-10 in each of those categories. No other player has more than five.
He has just one error on 107 defensive chances, recording 103 putouts and three assists. He is one of just 12 players in the Pac-12 with over 100 defensive chances with one or fewer errors.
His 106 putouts/assists are second among Pac-12 center fielders (Arizona's Mac Bingham 126). He was the last of the Pac-12 centerfielders to not commit an error, with his first coming in the 37th game of the season, and that remains tied for the fewest among centerfielders in the league.
The redshirt sophomore showed off his toughness against #4 Oklahoma State, dislocating his shoulder in the first inning while attempting to steal a base. He popped it back in in the clubhouse, returned to the game and later recorded a single, stolen base and run scored.
Last season, Lampe was one of three Sun Devils selected to the Pac-12 All-Defensive Team last after not posting an error in center field in conference games all year. He finished the season with just one error and a .993 fielding percentage and was also named a ABCA/Rawlings Gold Glove Finalist as an outfielder. In the opener against USC, Lampe recorded nine putouts - the most by an ASU center fielder since at least 1998. Hunter Bishop had eight in 2019 and no other player had more than seven.

We Want EZ

Ethan Long is tabbed as the No. 37 overall collegiate prospect in the 2022 MLB Draft class by Baseball America.
The big bat was a little slow getting going this year, but Long has settled into a nice pace and he is now second on the team with seven homers on the year and one shy of the team lead with 28 RBIs.
He has used 18 walks and 3 HBPs to post a .384 OBP over his .300 average.
He was named the Pac-12 Player of the Week for the fourth time in his career following his efforts in the Washington series.
Long homered twice in the USC series, one on a three-run shot breaking a 7-7 tie in the sixth inning en route to a 14-12 victory and again in a tight 4-2 game in Game Two with a two-rub blast in the seventh that effectively shut the door on the Trojans.
Four of his seven home runs have come in the sixth inning or later.
Long became the 129th Sun Devil to be named an All-American last seson, becoming a consensus selection after being named to teams by Collegiate Baseball News, NCBWA, and Baseball America
Also earned two freshman All-America nods (CBN/NCBWA) and was a First Team All-Pac-12 pick as well as an ACBA All-West Region second team selection and Pac-12 All-Conference first team pick
Long finished the 2021 regular season 22nd nationally and second in the Pac-12 with 16 home runs while finishing 13th nationally and leading the league with a .725 slugging percentage on .340 hitting. He was sixth in the league with 53 RBI. His .340 average was the ninth-highest freshman average in Sun Devil history.
Finished with a team-best 54 RBI, tied with Barry Bonds for fourth in ASU freshman history while his 16 homers on the year surpassed Bonds for second in ASU freshman history behind only Spencer Torkelson (25) and good for Top-Five in the league.
Behind Long's bat, ASU won five straight weekend series in the last half of the year. In a 19-game stretch, Long bat .444 with 40 RBI, 15 home runs, eight doubles, a 1.181 slugging percentage, a .500 OBP and an absurd 1.681 OPS. Of his 32 hits in that span, 23 were for extra bases.

Murphy's Law

One of the hottest batters in the Sun Devil lineup over the last month has been Kai Murphy.
In the month of April, Murphy has the second-highest average on the team at .373 and leads the team with 18 RBIs and also with four home runs. He has multiple hits in eight of those games.
He has boosted his average from .210 following the UNLV game to .279 in the process.
His team-best 18 RBIs in the last 16 games are notable as he had just four in the first 26 games of the season.
Perhaps the biggest difference? He has struck out just nine times in 59 at-bats in those eight games (15.3 percent) games after posting 19 in 81 (23.4 percent) to start the year and 43 of 135 (31.9) last season.
Murphy has been king of the productive outs this year as well, recording a team-best 15 runners advanced with an out.
He has become ASU's best hitter with two outs by average, now batting .400 on the year with two outs on 16-of-40 hitting. His 13 two-out RBI are third on the team.

The Long Con-or

Sun Devil super senior Conor Davis might be among the oldest players in college baseball, but there is not denying his impact on the Sun Devil program early on.
After his senior season at Auburn was cut short due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Davis came to ASU as a graduate transfer expecting to fill some of the void left at first base with the departure of 2020 MLB No. 1 overall pick Spencer Torkelson. In ASU's very last fall scrimmage prior to the 2021 campaign, Davis blew out his knee and was forced to sit out the season with ACL surgery.
Davis' appearance in the lineup on Opening Night was special regardless of the outcome but the "grandpa" - as his teammates call him - made it a night to remember as he launched a 1-2 offering to left field in his very first plate appearance in nearly two seasons - a solo shot that set the pace for ASU in a 3-1 victory.
Davis is batting a team-best .340 on the season to go with a .435 OBP (a team-best) and a .519 slugging percentage - sitting in the Top-15 in the Pac-12 in average and OBP.
He is second on the team with 30 RBIs.
He has also drawn a team-best 23 walks this year. This includes a four-walk game against BYU that was tied for fifth in ASU single game history.
Davis has also quietly been one of ASU's best hitters in Pac-12 games, slashing .353/.423/.559. The .353 average is Top-15 in the league as well.
While ASU as a whole has struggled advancing runners at times this season, Davis has exceeded and done so a team-best 54 times on 91 chances (.593) - 8 more than any other player on the team and easily the highest average on the squad (Ryan Campos at .557 and every other starter under .510).

Nate the Great

Nate Baez has been a force in the middle-bottom of the lineup for the Devils, batting .320 on the season with a team-best 19 doubles - which are tops in the Pac-12 and 4th nationally.
Eight of his last 13 hits have been doubles and 11 of his last 19.
He is tied for second on the team with 30 RBIs. 19 of those have come with two outs - five more than any of his teammates.
He has been among ASU's hottest bats since the start of league play, currently third on the team with a .341 average since Pac-12 play started on March 18.
Baez has the best average on the squad with runners in scoring position at .367 (18-of-49).
He has shown the versatility to play a number of positions and has seen action at catcher, second base, third base, left field and designated hitter this season.
Baez has two grand slams this season - making up 2 of his 4 homers - marking him the first Sun Devil to have two in a season since Ike Davis in 2006.
His other two homers were three-run shots, giving Baez 14 RBIs on his four homers.
Baez bat a team-best .362 over the final 14 games of the 2021 season with team highs in homers (8) and RBI (20) in that stretch while slugging a gaudy .915. All eight of his home runs came in those 14 games.
He earned All-Pac-12 Honorable Mention accolades as a catcher in 2021, despite only playing behind the dish for the last month and a half of the season after being a career infielder prior to coming to ASU and including his first year and a half on the roster.

Welcome to the Jam

The Sun Devils have made a recent habit of having its relief pitchers inherit baserunners and getting out of games with minimal damage done. Last season, ASU inherited 205 baserunners for the year and allowed just 58 to score (28.3 percent). That total was the second-lowest of any season since 1998 (28.1 percent in 2010).
Christian Bodlovich has inherited 50 runners in his career at ASU, with only 10 scoring (20 percent), including an 5-for-28 count this season.
Will Levine has been impressive in the category through his career as well with only 10-of-38 scoring and just 4 on 18 chances this year.
ASU has stranded 359 opponent baserunners this season - an average of 8.5 per game.
ASU has done much of that through its mid-to-late relievers, who the team has relied heavily upon. Brock Peery is fourth in the nation with 24 appearances this season while Bodlovich and Levine are 37th with 31.

Playing the Field

The Sun Devils feature a moderately new look infield this year as the majority of the season has featured new or mostly new faces at every position.
ASU has turned 36 double plays on the year - a tally good for 14th in Division I and third in the Pac-12.
ASU has had one or fewer errors in 29 of 42 games this year.
Sean McLain has the most defensive of assists of any player in the Pac-12 (132) despite missing two games. He has turned 26 double plays as well - 6th in the league.
Joe Lampe was the last centerfielder to record an error this year (doing so in his 37th game). He is one of just 12 Pac-12 player with over 100 defensive chances to have one or fewer errors.
It's the same tale for ASU as last year, the Sun Devils were likely one of the few teams in the country that did not returning a single position player to their 2020 positions in 2021. ASU's only veteran starter was Drew Swift - who shifted over to shortstop after spending the majority of his career at second base. All other positions on the diamond were replaced by newcomers.
Despite that, ASU had one or fewer errors in 40 games last year during the regular season, going 29-11 in those.
In 2021, ASU fielded at a very respectable .976 fielding percentage in the regular season - good for 47th nationally. ASU was first in the nation with 60 double plays turned last season, which is especially impressive since the team had just six in the first 14 games of the season.
Sean McLain (48), Drew Swift (32) and Hunter Haas (12) all led their respective positions in the Pac-12 in double plays turned in the regular season. McLain and Swift were first and third in the league in the category, regardless of position - incredibly notable as first basemen tend to lead the way in the area.

Adam's Family

Junior Adam Tulloch was exceptional through the first month of the season and earned Pac-12 Pitcher of the Week after his 7.0 inning, 13 strikeout, 3 ER, no walk victory over San Francisco.
The victory was Tulloch's third-straight quality start for the Sun Devils. It was the first time a Sun Devil pitch had 13 strikeouts in a game since Jake Borup in 2010 and he was the first Sun Devil to be named a Pac-12 Pitcher of the Week since Ryan Hingst following his no-hitter in 2016. The 13 strikeouts were the most by any Pac-12 pitcher in a game this season.
In his first four STARTS this year, Tulloch had a 2.16 ERA with a 2-0 record over 25.0 innings pitched. He has struck out 36 batters to just seven walks while holding opponents to a meager .141 batting average.
Tulloch has cooled in six starts since then however, struggling against #3 Oregon State, Grand Canyon and Washington but has posted promising improvements against Stanford, USC and Arizona and looks to continue building back to the early season form.
Tulloch is sixth in the nation and tops in the Pac-12 with 11 starts.
Despite his recent struggles, Tulloch is still 6th in the Pac-12 with 56 strikeouts.
Tulloch has given ASU 6.2, 7.0, and 7.0 innings of work in three starts this season, notable as he never eclipsed 5.2 innings in any game at West Virginia last year.
At West Virginia last year, the 17th Round pick of the Dodgers struck out 52 in 37.1 innings pitched, including a 10-strikeout effort against Coastal Carolina.

A Little Luck-ham On Our Side

When Adam Tulloch struggled, Kyle Luckham stepped up in his place and easily assumed the mantle on Friday nights.
Luckham has ASU's two longest outings of the season, going a career-high 7.2 innings on the road against San Diego State before besting that with an 8.0 inning effort against San Francisco a week later.
It's notable as Luckham had never gone 7.0+ innings in his career in back-to-back starts, including his time at Cal State Fullerton.
Luckham now has four starts this season in which he has gone over 7.0 innings, recording quality starts in all of those - a team high. That notable has he had made it to the 7.0 inning mark just five times in 24 career starts entering the season before doing so four times in 10 starts this year
Luckham has induced a team-best nine double play balls.
His 56.1 innings pitched this season are 5th in the Pac-12.
He has allowed just 12 walks this year, 5th-fewest in the league. His WHIP of 1.92 is also fifth in the league.
He is tied for 29th in the nation and third in the league with six wins.

Tyler The Negator

Transfer pitcher Tyler Meyer has been among the most pleasant surprises of the early 2022 campaign, posting a 3.78 ERA with six starts and 33.1 innings pitched on the year.
In his three midweek starts - against 2021 NCAA competitor Nevada, then fourth-ranked Oklahoma State and Preseason Top-25 UC Irvine - Meyer had a 2.45 ERA in 14.2 innings pitched with 16 strikeouts.
His efforts in midweek games have earned him the nod in the weekend rotation in which he delivered a Herculean effort against #3 Oregon State as he held OSU to just four hits in his career-high 7.0 innings of work. He struck out nine Beavers to just two walks, allowing just one run in the second inning – where two of those four hits occurred.
He followed that effort with another 7.0 inning quality start to earn the win and series victory over Washington to tie him with the team lead with three quality starts this year.
Meyer has allowed just six doubles this year, sixth-fewest in the Pac-12. His 35 total hits allowed are second-fewest among eligible pitchers in the league.
It has been an especially notable effort as Meyer didn't pitch last season after his previous school, Stanislaus State, canceled its season.

Boom Goes the Dynamite

The team has added 99 doubles on the year as well, good for 10th in the nation and tops in the Pac-12. Nate Baez is fourth nationally and leads the league with 19 of those.
ASU has at least one double in all but five games so far this season and multiple doubles in 27 of 42 games.
There are 29 Pac-12 players with double-digit doubles this season, of which ASU has give (Baez, Lampe, Rogers, Long, Davis). That's tied with Utah for first in the league. No other team has more than three.
ASU had a streak of 10 straight games with double-digit hits ended against UNLV this week. Still ASU has reached double digits in 16 of the last 17 games.
The team has reached double digits in the H category 25 times in 42 games and is 17th in the country with 437 hits as of April 28. On March 20, the team was 72nd in the nation in total hits.
Through the Oregon State series (first 21 games through March 20), ASU was batting just .231 with runners in scoring position. In the last 21 games, ASU is batting .324 with runners in scoring position.
Of the nine position players with at least 23 starts this season, all nine have multiple home runs.
The timing of the home runs has improved lately as well. On 16 of the last 21 homers, ASU has had at least one runner on base. That is notable as ASU had runners on base just eight times on the teams first 27 homers.
The Sun Devils already have four grand slams this year, the most it has had in a season since 2004 (also four). ASU has some work to do for the next milestone as the 2003 Sun Devils had 14 grand slams - an NCAA record.
Nate Baez is the first Sun Devil to have two grand slams in a season since Ike Davis in 2006.
ASU hit two grand slams (Will Rogers and Nate Baez) in consecutive innings (6th and 7th) in its 17-8 series clinching win against Dixie State on opening weekend. That was notable as prior to that, the Sun Devils had recorded just one single grand slam at Phoenix Municipal Stadium since moving there in 2015.
It was the first time ASU had two grand slams in a single game since 2003 when the Sun Devils did so against San Diego State on Jan. 26 (also in consecutive innings in the 3rd and 4th).

Hold on to Your Seats

ASU has played no shortage of tight games this season - for better or worse - with 20 of the teams 42 games being decided by one or two runs. For perspective, ASU played in 20 1-2-run games in the entirety of last season.
Unfortunately, ASU is 1-7 in one-run losses and 12 of the teams 22 losses have come by way of 1-2 runs.
That said, the Sun Devils have shown that no opponent lead is safe, showing off plenty of grit in the last month in erasing multi-run deficits.
On 10 occasions this season, ASU has erased a lead of at least three runs.
ASU has won seven games already this season when trailing after four innings, matching its total for all of 2021.
The seven-run deficit overcome by the Sun Devils to defeat and take the series from Cal were the most since March 3, 2000 against Arizona. The Wildcats jumped to a 7-0 lead before ASU rallied to win 9-7.
Three times this season that ASU has rallied from a deficit of five or more runs to tie or win the game - the first time that has happened since 2010 (also 3).

The Kids Will Be Alright

ASU has gotten significant contributions from its true freshmen in the last month.
Ryan Campos is the team's best hitter in Pac-12 games, coming in at .391 in league games, nearly 40 points higher than any of his teammates and third in the league.
His .473 OBP in league games in also third in the Pac-12.
Campos has the second best average on the team with runners in scoring position at 14-for-41 (.341) and a perfect 6-for-6 bringing a runner home from third with less than two outs.
Campos had a 10-game hitting streak come to an end against UNLV. He had multiple hits in eight of those games and at least one RBI in seven of them as well.
Jacob Tobias is tied for the third on the team in Pac-12 games with 13.
In the month of April, the Sun Devil true freshmen were 63-of-191 (.330) with 40 of the team's 119 RBIs.

Big Willie Style

One of the best players in the program's record books will start a new era of Sun Devil Baseball as Willie Bloomquist looks forward to his first season at the helm of the Devils.
A 14-year Major League Baseball veteran and with over 20 years of experience in professional baseball, Bloomquist returns to the Sun Devils as one of the most accomplished alumni in program history and has remained deeply entrenched in all levels of baseball.
Bloomquist spent five years as a Special Assistant to Arizona Diamondbacks President & CEO Derrick Hall after joining the front office in May 2016. In this role, Bloomquist assisted Hall and other departments throughout the baseball and business side of the organization, including working on-field with players at all levels of the organization, attending community events, meeting with corporate partners, interacting with season ticket holders and visiting D-backs Minor League affiliates.
The Port Orchard, Wash., native joined USA Baseball's Board of Directors in 2016, a post he has retained since then. Bloomquist is a two-time alum of Team USA, having played for the Collegiate National Team in 1998 and for the 2013 World Baseball Classic.
Bloomquist became the first Arizona State Sun Devil to play for the Diamondbacks and spent three seasons with the franchise from 2011-13, serving a key role on the 2011 National League West Championship team. In 225 games for the D-backs, he hit .289 with 36 doubles, 8 triples, 4 homers, 63 RBI, 43 walks and 27 stolen bases. In the 2011 NL Division Series vs. Brewers, he hit .318 (7-for-22) with an RBI and three stolen bases in five games. In 2012, he set career highs with a .302 average and 21 doubles.
During his 14-year Major League career, which included time with the Mariners (2002-08, '14-15), Royals (2009-10) and Reds (2010), Bloomquist hit .269 with 778 hits, 110 doubles, 23 triples, 18 home runs, 225 RBI and 133 stolen bases in 1,055 career games. He compiled a .977 fielding percentage playing outfield (339 games), shortstop (305 games), third base (142), second base (141) and first base (47). Of the 111 Sun Devils to play in MLB, only seven earned more service time than Bloomquist.
Bloomquist played three seasons at ASU (1997-99) and earned 1999 Pac-10 Player of the Year honors as a junior. In 1998, he tied a College World Series single-game record with 5 hits in a game while leading a team that competed for the National Championship. Bloomquist was an All-American in both the 1998 and 1999 campaigns. He finished his college career with a .394 average before being drafted by the Mariners in the third round of the 1999 draft.
To this day, Bloomquist still holds the fourth-highest career batting average in school history (.394) while he remains fifth in ASU history in runs (216), fourth in triples (22) and fourth in stolen bases (72) and was named to the All-Packard Team in 2014.

ON DECK - APRIL 25 through MAY 1

Tuesday, April 26, 6 p.m. | Arizona State vs. UNLV (Phoenix) | L, 1-9

Friday, April 29, 6 p.m. | Arizona State at UCLA (Los Angeles) | WATCH LIVE: UCLA Live Stream | LISTEN: KDUS 1060 AM

Saturday, April 30, 2 p.m. | Arizona State at UCLA (Los Angeles) | WATCH LIVE: UCLA Live Stream | LISTEN: KDUS 1060 AM

Sunday, May 1, 1 p.m. | Arizona State at UCLA (Los Angeles) | WATCH LIVE: UCLA Live Stream | LISTEN: KDUS 1060 AM

IN THE HOLE - MAY 2 through MAY 8

Friday, May 6, 6:30 p.m. | Arizona State at UCLA (Los Angeles) | WATCH LIVE: ASU Live Stream | LISTEN: KDUS 1060 AM

Saturday, May 7, 6 p.m. | Arizona State at UCLA (Los Angeles) | WATCH LIVE: ASU Live Stream | LISTEN: KDUS 1060 AM

Sunday, May 8, 12:30 p.m. | Arizona State at UCLA (Los Angeles) | WATCH LIVE: ASU Live Stream | LISTEN: KDUS 1060 AM

LAST TIME OUT - APRIL 18 through APRIL 24

Tuesday, April 19, 6 p.m. | Arizona State vs. CSUN (Phoenix) | W, 6-1

Friday, April 22, 6 p.m. | Arizona State at Arizona (Tucson) | L, 6-7 (10)

Saturday, April 23, 5 p.m. | Arizona State at Arizona (Tucson) | W, 8-5

Sunday, April 24, 12 p.m. | Arizona State at Arizona (Tucson) | L, 4-14

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