Wildcats head home to face ASU

The Arizona baseball team wins 2 of 3 from the Washington State Cougars over the weekend and return home today and will face the Arizona State Sun Devils on Tuesday at Hi Corbett Field. Game time is 6 p.m.

The Wildcats lost the opener of the series in Pullman by a score of  9-5 last Friday, but won on Saturday 6-5 and captured the rubber game 7-3 today behind a complete-game pitching performance from Tyler Crawford. The hard-throwing sophomore needed just 85 pitches to take down the Cougars.

Arizona (23-12 overall and 8-7 in Pac-12 play) banged out 10 hits today, including three hits by second baseman Trent Gilbert.

Brandon Dixon, Johnny Field and Gilbert are in a three-way battle for the top dog in batting on the season for the Wildcats. Dixon carries a .386 batting average into the ASU game on Tuesday, while Field is right behind him at .367 and Gilbert follows at .360. Dixon and Field are tied for the lead in hits with 51 after 35 games, while Gilbert is right behind them at 50. Gilbert is the leader in RBI with 39.