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Baseball
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Saturday, April 29
Salt Lake City, UT
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University of Utah
17-24-1, 6-16-1
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Photo by: Liv Medivitz/Utah Athletics
Comeback Utes Take Down Washington State, 12-10
4/29/2023 8:41 PM | Baseball
Utah secures series victory and will look for the sweep on Sunday
SALT LAKE CITY – Trailing 10-5 after a Washington State grand slam in the sixth inning, the Utah baseball team answered with seven unanswered runs to close the ballgame and come away with a 12-10 win over the Cougars on Saturday afternoon at Smith's Ballpark. The result secures a series victory for the Utes, who will look for the series sweep on Sunday in a 1 p.m. MT game.
Everyone in the Utah lineup reached base safely, eight Utes combined for 19 hits and seven players had multi-hit efforts. Davis Cop, TJ Clarkson and Jayden Kiernan all were 3-for-5 and combined to score five runs in the Nos. 2-4 holes and Karson Bodily finished the day 3-for-4 with two RBI and a run scored. Bruer Webster drove in four, his most as a Ute.
Utah slapped five doubles on the day with two for Bodily and one apiece off the bats of Cop, Clarkson and Matt Flaharty.
Blake Whiting earned the win on the mound for Utah with a 2.2-inning relief appearance and four strikeouts. Zac McCleve recorded a punchout to begin the ninth, then Micah Ashman came on after a one-out base hit for Washington State. Ashman retired pinch hitter Nate Swarts with a strikeout, then won a nine-pitch battle with Bryce Matthews that ended with a dropped third strike and Cop firing to first for the game-ending out.
Webster got Utah on the board with a two-run single in the second inning, but the Cougars would come back with the game's next four tallies to carry a 4-2 lead at the halfway point of the contest.
In the home half of the fifth, Cop laced a one-out single and took third on a Clarkson double. Gurney then drove in the pair with a single into left, with Gurney himself advancing to second base on an error in the outfield. Gurney would score to put Utah in front 5-4, but WSU hung six runs in the sixth inning for a sudden 10-5 score.
Not about to fold, the Utes began their comeback effort with a two-spot in the bottom of the sixth, before Webster laced another two-run knock in the seventh. Now trailing just 10-9, Whiting worked a 1-2-3 top of the eighth to put Utah in position to cap off the rally.
Cop and Kiernan singled early in the eighth, with Cop taking third base on Kiernan's base hit. Gurney then laid down a bunt in front of the mound with Cop starting for home on the safety squeeze attempt. The pitcher made a nice flip to the plate, sending Cop into a rundown between home and third base—he got back to third safely all while Gurney reached base and Kiernan moved to second.
Still with one away and the bases now loaded, Bodily worked the count to 3-0 before being hit in the back to bring in Cop with the tying run. Two batters later, Flaharty went up the middle for a single that broke the tie in scoring Gurney and Kiernan with the game-sealing runs.
The 19 hits for Utah were the club's most in a home game this season and most in a Pac-12 game since belting out 21 in a game at Arizona on March 15, 2019. The series win is the second straight for Utah over Washington State, and first in Salt Lake City since 2019.
Kiernan has reached base safely in 23 straight games played and Clarkson in 14 straight.
Follow Utah baseball on social media (@utahbaseball).
Everyone in the Utah lineup reached base safely, eight Utes combined for 19 hits and seven players had multi-hit efforts. Davis Cop, TJ Clarkson and Jayden Kiernan all were 3-for-5 and combined to score five runs in the Nos. 2-4 holes and Karson Bodily finished the day 3-for-4 with two RBI and a run scored. Bruer Webster drove in four, his most as a Ute.
Utah slapped five doubles on the day with two for Bodily and one apiece off the bats of Cop, Clarkson and Matt Flaharty.
Blake Whiting earned the win on the mound for Utah with a 2.2-inning relief appearance and four strikeouts. Zac McCleve recorded a punchout to begin the ninth, then Micah Ashman came on after a one-out base hit for Washington State. Ashman retired pinch hitter Nate Swarts with a strikeout, then won a nine-pitch battle with Bryce Matthews that ended with a dropped third strike and Cop firing to first for the game-ending out.
Webster got Utah on the board with a two-run single in the second inning, but the Cougars would come back with the game's next four tallies to carry a 4-2 lead at the halfway point of the contest.
In the home half of the fifth, Cop laced a one-out single and took third on a Clarkson double. Gurney then drove in the pair with a single into left, with Gurney himself advancing to second base on an error in the outfield. Gurney would score to put Utah in front 5-4, but WSU hung six runs in the sixth inning for a sudden 10-5 score.
Not about to fold, the Utes began their comeback effort with a two-spot in the bottom of the sixth, before Webster laced another two-run knock in the seventh. Now trailing just 10-9, Whiting worked a 1-2-3 top of the eighth to put Utah in position to cap off the rally.
Cop and Kiernan singled early in the eighth, with Cop taking third base on Kiernan's base hit. Gurney then laid down a bunt in front of the mound with Cop starting for home on the safety squeeze attempt. The pitcher made a nice flip to the plate, sending Cop into a rundown between home and third base—he got back to third safely all while Gurney reached base and Kiernan moved to second.
Still with one away and the bases now loaded, Bodily worked the count to 3-0 before being hit in the back to bring in Cop with the tying run. Two batters later, Flaharty went up the middle for a single that broke the tie in scoring Gurney and Kiernan with the game-sealing runs.
The 19 hits for Utah were the club's most in a home game this season and most in a Pac-12 game since belting out 21 in a game at Arizona on March 15, 2019. The series win is the second straight for Utah over Washington State, and first in Salt Lake City since 2019.
Kiernan has reached base safely in 23 straight games played and Clarkson in 14 straight.
Follow Utah baseball on social media (@utahbaseball).
Team Stats
Pitching:
W: Whiting, Blake (1-2)
L: Grillo, Chase (1-2)
S: Ashman, Micah (8)
Batting:
2B: Harvey, Jake 1
HR: Harvey, Jake 1
RBI: Brown, Sam 3 ; Russell, Kyle 1 ; Magee, Cam 1 ; Harvey, Jake 4 ; Morrow, Jacob 1
SH: Harvey, Jake 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Advincula, Jonah 2 ; McKeon, Jacob 2 ; Brown, Sam 1 ; Magee, Cam 1 ; Hainline, Elijah 2 ; Harvey, Jake 1 ; Morrow, Jacob 1
SB: Advincula, Jonah 1 ; Hainline, Elijah 1
HBP: Advincula, Jonah 1 ; Brown, Sam 1
Batting:
2B: Cop, Davis 1 ; Clarkson, TJ 1 ; Bodily, Karson 2 ; Flaharty, Matt 1
RBI: Cop, Davis 1 ; Clarkson, TJ 1 ; Gurney, Cameron 2 ; Bodily, Karson 2 ; Flaharty, Matt 2 ; Webster, Bruer 4
SH: Duffalo, Dakota 1 ; Flaharty, Matt 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Frei, Landon 1 ; Cop, Davis 3 ; Clarkson, TJ 1 ; Kiernan, Jayden 1 ; Gurney, Cameron 2 ; Bodily, Karson 1 ; Duffalo, Dakota 2 ; Flaharty, Matt 1
SB: Flaharty, Matt 1
HBP: Bodily, Karson 1
PO: Webster, Bruer 1
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