LONG BEACH, Calif. — The Arizona State Sun Devils continued Long Beach State’s late-game woes by taking a 3-2 victory in 12 innings Friday night at Blair Field.
Starting pitchers Brady Rodgers and Shawn Stuart dueled to a stalemate after both right handers pitched nine innings and allowed two runs. But Arizona State was able to get a run in the 12th inning off reliever Eddie Magallon when Andrew Aplin singled home James McDonald.
After the game, I talked to Sun Devils head coach Tim Esmay about the extra inning affair. Esmay discusses Rodgers and Stuart’s performances as well as his team continuing to battle this season despite knowing ASU can’t go to the postseason. Esmay also mentions his commitment to getting a number of guys some early looks and how that has paid off so far:
Shotgun Spratling covers the Southern California area where he attended 75 games during the 2012 season.
He attended grad school at USC where he covered USC sports for Neon Tommy, South LA Intersections, Annenberg TV News, KSCR and the Trojan Vision debate show Platforum Sports. He has worked with the Princeton Devil Rays minor league team, written for daily and weekly newspapers and done freelance work for publications such as ESPN, NBC Los Angeles and the SC Playbook magazine.
After being a 3-sport letterman in high school, he was a 4-year letterman at Division III Maryville College where he concluded his collegiate career by inducing a ground out to end the 2007 Great South Athletic Conference Tournament and gave the Scots the GSAC championship.
He also spent the 2010 summer in Cape Town, South Africa covering sports for the Cape Community Papers during the first FIFA World Cup held on African soil.
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LONG BEACH, Calif. — The Arizona State Sun Devils continued Long Beach State’s late-game woes by taking a 3-2 victory in 12 innings Friday night at Blair Field.
