2019 Pac-12 Baseball Standings Pac-12 Results
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For Immediate Release \\ Wednesday, March 27, 2019 Contact \\ Carly Fasciglione ([email protected]) 2019 PAC-12 BASEBALL STANDINGS PAC-12 RESULTS PAC-12 OVERALL March 20 W L T Pct. W L T Pct. L10 Streak Arizona State 15, Cal Baptist 9 Stanford 3 0 0 1.000 15 3 0 .833 8-2 W 6 Arizona State 5 1 0 .833 22 1 0 .957 9-1 W 1 March 22 UCLA 5 1 0 .833 18 4 0 .818 9-1 W 5 Arizona State 12, Oregon 2 Washington 5 1 0 .833 14 6 0 .700 6-4 L 1 UCLA 10, Arizona 5 Oregon State 3 3 0 .500 16 5 1 .750 5-4 L 1 California 3, Oregon State 2 Oregon 2 4 0 .333 12 10 0 .545 4-6 L 2 Stanford 7, Utah 4 Arizona 2 4 0 .333 13 11 0 .542 4-6 L 4 UC Irvine 4, Washington State 1 California 2 4 0 .333 11 11 0 .500 5-5 L 3 Washington 7, USC 1 USC 2 4 0 .333 9 14 0 .391 4-6 W 1 Utah 1 5 0 .167 7 12 0 .368 3-7 L 6 March 23 Washington State 0 3 0 .000 6 17 0 .261 1-9 L 9 Oregon 5, Arizona State 4 (12) UCLA 12, Arizona 10 Oregon State 3, California 2 Washington 4, USC 3 (10) Stanford 7, Utah 6 (12) UPCOMING SCHEDULE UC Irvine 5, Washington State 1 Wednesday, March 27 Sunday, March 31 March 24 OREGON at Utah Valley ................................... 5 p.m. PT Oregon at Utah* ............................................. 12 p.m. PT Arizona State 7, Oregon 3 WASHINGTON at Gonzaga ............................... 6 p.m. PT #3 Stanford at Washington State* .............. 12:05 p.m. PT UCLA 3, Arizona 1 Arizona at #9 Arizona State* ............................. 1 p.m. PT Oregon State 10, California 5 Friday, March 29 Long Beach State at CALIFORNIA ............... 1:05 p.m. PT Washington 3, USC 2 (10) Oregon at Utah* ............................................... 5 p.m. PT #7 Oregon State at Washington* ....................... 2 p.m. PT Stanford 7, Utah 3 #3 Stanford at Washington State* ................ 5:05 p.m. PT #1 UCLA at USC* ............................................ 4 p.m. PT UC Irvine 8, Washington State 4 Arizona at #9 Arizona State* ............................. 7 p.m. PT #7 Oregon State at Washington* ....................... 7 p.m. PT Tuesday, April 2 March 25 #1 UCLA at USC* ............................................ 7 p.m. PT USC at UCSB ................................................... 3 p.m. PT San Diego State 6, Arizona 4 Long Beach State at CALIFORNIA ............... 7:05 p.m. PT BYU at UTAH ................................................... 5 p.m. PT LMU 3, Washington State 2 Gonzaga at WASHINGTON STATE ............... 5:05 p.m. PT Saturday, March 30 San Diego State at #7 OREGON STATE ........ 5:35 p.m. PT March 26 #7 Oregon State at Washington* ....................... 2 p.m. PT CSUN at #1 UCLA ............................................ 6 p.m. PT Sacramento State 6, California 0 #3 Stanford at Washington State* ................ 2:05 p.m. PT Fresno State at #3 STANFORD .................... 6:05 p.m. PT UCLA 9, Loyola Marymount 4 Oregon at Utah* ............................................... 3 p.m. PT Long Beach State at #9 ARIZONA STATE .......6:30 p.m. PT Portland 5, Oregon State 1 Long Beach State at CALIFORNIA ............... 3:05 p.m. PT USC 8, Long Beach State 5 (10) #1 UCLA at USC* ............................................ 4 p.m. PT * Pac-12 Conference game Brigham Young 7, Oregon 3 Arizona at #9 Arizona State* ............................. 7 p.m. PT Gonzaga 5, Washington 4 Rankings listed are USA Today Coaches Poll 1 2019 PAC-12 BASEBALL // PAC-12 CONFERENCE 2019 PAC-12 BASEBALL // PAC-12 CONFERENCE RANKINGS PAC-12 NOTES USA Today Top 25 Coaches Poll PREVIEWING THE WEEK: No. 1 UCLA leads a strong Pac-12 baseball field that boasts four teams ranked in the top (Week 5) 10, tied for the most nationally, including two in the top three along with No. 3 Stanford. The week ahead features a 1. UCLA pair of rivalry series between Arizona and No. 9 Arizona State as well as USC hosting the top-ranked Bruins. Pac-12 2. Mississippi State Networks is set to broadcast 10 games this week, including both three-game tilts. 3. STANFORD 4. North Carolina State Some of the hottest bats in the country this will ping in the desert this week. The Wildcats’ and Sun Devils’ offenses 5. Vanderbilt have been exceptionally productive. Arizona ranks third in the country in runs (231) and on base percentage (0.428) 6. Georgia while Arizona State ranks second in batting average (0.344) and slugging percentage (0.557). 7. OREGON STATE 8. Arkansas Another series to watch for this week is a rematch of an elimination game from last year’s NCAA College World Se- 9. ARIZONA STATE ries where Oregon State knocked out Washington. Both CWS trips were historic for these programs, as Washington 10. Louisville reached the CWS for the first time in program history and OSU went on to claim its third all-time NCAA title. With 11. Texas A&M Washington’s first program appearance in the 2018 CWS, all 11 Pac-12 programs have now reached the College 12. Auburn World Series. The only other league to have all of their baseball programs reach the CWS is the SEC. The Huskies 13. Texas Tech look to avenge that defeat as they host the No. 7-ranked Beavers with the Friday, Saturday and Sunday games 14. Coastal Carolina broadcast on Pac-12 Networks. 15. Louisiana State 16. Texas WEEKLY RECAP: Last Saturday’s Conference games provided all the thrills, as three games featured extra-inning 17. North Carolina walk-offs, courtesy of Oregon’s Evan Williams, Stanford’s Kyle Stowers and Washington’s Braiden Ward. All five 18. East Carolina 19. Oklahoma Pac-12 matchups on Saturday were decided by two runs or less. 20. Texas Christian 21. Florida State Oregon snapped ASU’s season opening win streak of 21 games with a walk-off home run from Williams in the 12th 22. Mississippi inning for a 5-4 Ducks’ victory. The Sun Devils went on to clinch the three-game tilt and are one of only two teams 23. Tennessee in the country with just one loss (N.C. State). ASU was the lone remaining undefeated team in the country entering 24. Florida Saturday night. The Sun Devils’ 21 consecutive wins to open 2019 are tied with the 1961 team for the second-best 25. UC Irvine start in program history. Baseball America Poll (March 25) Oregon has made of habit of playing close games with 14 of its 22 games decided by one or two runs. In the one-run 1. UCLA games, UO is 8-3 with a three walk-off wins and another ninth inning come-from-behind road win. 2. Mississippi State 3. STANFORD Washington needed two extra-inning walk-off hits to sweep USC in its Pac-12 opening series, as the Huskies have 4. Vanderbilt now clinched seven-straight Conference series dating back to April 29, 2018. 5. N.C. State 6. Georgia IN THE RANKINGS: Four Pac-12 teams are ranked in the top 10 in the latest USA Today Coaches poll, including 7. Texas the two of the top three spots. After ASU entered the top 10 last week, it marked the first time four Conference teams 8. OREGON STATE were ranked in the top 10 since the 2013 preseason coaches poll. UCLA held on to its No. 1 spot, Stanford is No. 3, 9. North Carolina Oregon State is No. 7 and Arizona State moves up a spot to No. 9. Also receiving votes are Oregon and Washington. 10. Arkansas The Bruins, Beavers, Cardinal and Sun Devils rank in the top 15 in all five national polls. 11. Texas Tech 12. Texas A&M Nine of 11 Pac-12 programs rank in the top 100 in the NCAA RPI rankings. Oregon State tops the RPI list, with UCLA 13. East Carolina right behind at second, followed by Stanford at seventh. Oregon and Arizona State rank 11th and 12th, respectively. 14. ARIZONA STATE 15. Florida BY THE NUMBERS: Pac-12 pitchers have brought the heat this season as five teams rank in the top 15 in ERA, the 16. Louisville most teams of any other conference to rank in the top 15 in that category. Stanford has the best ERA in the nation 17. LSU 18. Auburn at 2.43. UCLA’s pitching staff has an ERA of 2.53, which is good for third-best. Arizona State is ninth-best at 2.68, 19. UC Irvine Washington comes in at 13th with a 2.79 ERA and Oregon State is right behind ranking 14th with an average of 2.88. 20. Coastal Carolina 21. Florida State Individually, Pac-12 pitchers have also been racking up the victories. ASU’s Alec Marsh is tied for the most wins 22. Mississippi in the country this season with six in just seven appearances. Marsh’s teammate RJ Dabovich and Oregon State’s 23. TCU Brandon Eisert are tied for fifth with three wins apiece. Also of note is OSU’s right-handerBryce Fehmel, who is the 24. Clemson active career leader in Division I with 30 victories. The Pac-12 career mark of 47 wins was set by Arizona State’s 25. Oklahoma Kendall Carter (1981-84). D1Baseball.com Top 25 (March 25) The league’s top hitters have found ways to get on base this year at exceptionally high rates. Four student-athletes 1.