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2003 Season Review
Sept. 26, 2003
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The Sun Devils finished the 2003 season with a 54-14 record and were second in the Pac-10 behind Stanford with a 16-8 record... earned final season national rankings of No. 7 (Baseball America, NCBWA), No. 9 (ESPN/Sports Weekly) and No. 10 (Collegiate Baseball)... ASU has now been ranked in the national polls for 78 consecutive weeks dating back to the start of the 2000 season... the national top 10 ranking marks the second highest final ranking during the Pat Murphy era (2nd in 1998) and is the fourth time in the last seven years ASU has finished in the top 12 in the nation... scoring in all 68 games in 2003, the Sun Devils extended their NCAA record consecutive games scoring streak to 501 games... the record, which includes a 335-168-1 record, dates back to April 7, 1995... the Devils connected on 14 grand slams to break the NCAA record of 12 previously set by Oklahoma State in 1996... the Devils opened the season with the best start in ASU history at 28-1 and earned the national No. 1 ranking by Collegiate Baseball and by ESPN/Sports Weekly... the 54 wins are the most by an ASU squad since the 1988 season (60 wins)... ASU was the only team in the NCAA to rank in the top 10 in the four major statistical categories... the Devils were second in batting average (.347), second in scoring (10.03 runs per game), eighth in pitching (3.32 ERA) and ninth in fielding (.973 FLD%)... the Devils also led the Pac-10 in both hitting and pitching, and finished second in fielding... the 3.32 ERA was the best by an ASU pitching staff since 1976 (3.26) and also the best during ASU's 25 years in Pac-10 play... it marked the third lowest ERA during the aluminum bat era (1974-P) and the first time ASU finished a season with an ERA under 4.00 since 1990... the staff combined for 10 shutouts, marking the fifth best effort in ASU history and the most since the 1976 pitching staff had 11 shutouts... three times during the season the Devils held a Pac-10 opponent to under four runs in a three-game series (Cal, Arizona, WSU)... prior to 2003, ASU had held a Pac-10 opponent under five runs in a series only twice dating back to 1979... the offense was equally impressive as the pitching, hitting .347 for the third best season batting average in school history... ASU also ranked third in the record books in runs scored (682), sixth in hits (858), fifth in doubles (160), first in grand slams (14), second in RBI (630) and third in walks (406)... ASU scored 10 or more runs in 35 of their 68 games (52%) and 20 or more runs in three games... ASU's 10.03 run per game average ranks fourth in the single-season record books... the Devils also had the knack for the big inning, scoring five or more runs in 36 different innings... the squad also tallied four innings of 10 or more runs, including a pair of 12-run innings against Washington State (4/27) and New Mexico State (5/30)... ASU hit 80 home runs during the season (1.18 per game), nine more than the 71 combined home runs from 2001 (33) and 2002 (38)... the Sun Devils had all but one regular player hit over .300 during the course of the season... sophomore shortstop Dustin Pedroia was named a first-team All-American by nearly every publication after hitting .404 (120-for-297) with 83 runs scored and 52 RBI... he was also named Pac-10 co-Player of the Year with Stanford's Ryan Garko... Pedroia became only the 16th players in ASU history to hit over .400 in a season and his 120 hits rank fourth in the record books... he broke the ASU and Pac-10 record with 34 doubles and led the team with 41 multi-hit games and recorded four separate hitting streaks of 10 or more games... he was also the only player to start in all 68 games and maintained a .975 fielding percentage, not making an error over his last 26 games... sophomore first baseman Jeff Larish hit .372 (87-for-234) with 18 doubles, two triples and led the team with 18 home runs... Larish set the single-season record with four grand slams and ranks fifth with his 95 RBI... he recorded 78 walks (second most in ASU history) and led the team with a .697 slugging percentage... in addition, Larish tied the ASU single-game records with four doubles (Arizona; 5/25) and nine RBI (SDSU; 1/26)... Larish was named first-team All-Pac-10 and earned several All-America honors... junior designated hitter Jeremy West ended his career with a 24-game hitting streak intact and was the second leading hitter on the team at .381 (77-for-202)... West belted 17 home runs and had 71 RBI while earning first-team ABCA All-America horrors... West ended his career tied for eighth with 36 home runs, 10th with 176 RBI and fifth with a .647 slugging percentage... junior outfielder Andre Ethier ended his career with a 23-game hitting streak and was third on the team in hitting at .377 (98-for-260)... Ethier, who was the second-round draft choice of the Oakland Athletics, hit eight of his 10 home runs during his hitting streak... junior closer Ryan Schroyer led the team with a 1.53 ERA giving up just eight earned runs in 47 innings (30 appearances)... Schroyer was 5-2 with nine saves and earned first-team All-Pac-10 honors... he is tied for third with 17 career saves... senior right-handers Ben Thurmond and Jered Liebeck each finished the season with perfect 8-0 records and classmate Beau Vaughan led the team with 10 wins... outfielder Travis Buck (.326-4 HR-46 RBI) and left-handed pitcher Erik Averill (8-2, 3.66 ERA) were named freshman All-American... ASU led all Division I schools when 12 Sun Devils were taken in the annual MLB amateur draft, with eight being selected in the first 15 rounds... Pedroia, Larish and Buck were all selected for the USA Baseball National Team Trials, with Larish and Pedroia making the 20-man roster and helped Team USA win a silver medal in the Pan Am Games in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
Consecutive Games Scoring Streak Reaches 501:
The Arizona State baseball program has now scored in an NCAA record 501 consecutive games dating back to the 1995 season. The Devils made history on April 7, 2001 when they scored at least one run in their 350th consecutive game. The Devils broke the 12-year-old NCAA record in a 5-1 loss to USC exactly six years to the day when they were last shut out. ASU was shut out 9-0 in that game on April 7, 1995 at Dedeaux Field. The Devils celebrated the eighth anniversary of the start of the streak in 2003 with a 10-2 win over Grand Canyon on April 7. The one run scored in a pair of games to Cal State Fullerton in the Super Regional marked only the 15th and 16th times during the streak that ASU has scored only one run. Coastal Carolina previously held the NCAA record at 349 games set from 1983-1989. ASU also had a stretch of 278 games without being shut out from 1990 to 1994, meaning the program has only been shutout in three games dating back to the 1990 season. ASU is a combined 333-167-1 during the streak. Notable pitchers the Devils have faced during the streak include Jeremy Guthrie (Stanford), Barry Zito (USC), Kirk Saarloos (CS Fullerton), Jason Young (Stanford), Ben Diggins (Arizona), Adam Johnson (CS Fullerton), Ryan Drese (Cal), Jeff Weaver (Fresno State), Chad Hutchinson (Stanford), Abe Alvarez and Adam Pettyjohn (Fresno State).
Poll Mechanics:
Arizona State finished the 2003 season with a 54-14 record and earned a consensus top 10 ranking in all four national polls. ASU ranked as high as No. 7 by Baseball America, and also ended the year ranked No. 10 by Collegiate Baseball and No. 9 by Sports Weekly. Ranked as high as No. 8 in the preseason polls, the Devils spent virtually the entire season in the top 10 and for two weeks manned the top spot in two of the three national rankings, marking the first time being No. 1 since heading into the 1993 College World Series. ASU has been ranked for 78 consecutive national polls dating back to the start of the 2000 season. Arizona State also earned a preseason No. 9 ranking by Sports Weekly/ESPN, No .10 by NCBWA and No. 12 ranking by Collegiate Baseball. The No. 8 preseason ranking is the highest by an ASU squad since opening the 2001 season as the consensus No. 6 team in the nation.
Sun Devils Reach 50-Win Mark in Regular Season:
With the 15-2 victory over Arizona to clinch the series sweep during the las weekend of the 2003 regular season, ASU recorded its 50th. The 2003 squad became just the fifth team in ASU history to win at least 50 regular season games. The other years were 1972, 1973, 1975, 1976, 1982, 1984 and 1988. After going 3-0 in the regional last weekend, ASU's 54 wins are the most by a Sun Devil squad since the 1988 edition of Sun Devil baseball went 60-13. The 2003 season marks the 16th time in program history with 50 or more wins in a season.
Sun Devils Set NCAA Single-Season Grand Slam Record:
ASU ended the regular season in grand fashion vs. Arizona (5/25), hitting two grand slams to set the NCAA record for grand slams in a season with their 13th and 14th of the year. The Devils broke the old record set by Oklahoma State in 1996 with 12. After hitting only one grand slam all of last year, the Sun Devils have gone on a binge this year hitting 14 in 2003. Sophomore first baseman Jeff Larish broke the single-season school record by hitting his fourth grand slam vs. UCLA (4/19). Larish broke the old record of three set by Dave Hudgens in 1977. Steve Garrabrants and Jeremy West each have three slams, Rod Allen has two (both pinch-hit grand slams) and freshmen Ryan Bosch and Travis Buck each have one.
Dustin Pedroia (co-Player of the Year)
Jeff Larish (1st)
Ryan Schroyer (1st)
Steve Garrabrants (1st)
Ryan Schroyer (1st)
Travis Buck (honorable mention)
Tuffy Gosewisch (honorable mention)
Jered Liebeck (honorable mention)
Frank Mesa (honorable mention)
Ben Thurmond (honorable mention)
Nick Walsh (honorable mention)
Jeremy West (honorable mention)
All-Pac-10 Academic:
Bryce Kartler (honorable mention)
Tuffy Gosewisch (honorable mention)
Nick Walsh (honorable mention)
Pac-10 Player/Pitcher of the Week:
Jered Liebeck (Feb. 4)
Jeremy West (Feb. 25)
Ryan Schroyer (Feb. 25)
Travis Buck (April 1)
Jeremy West (April 28)
Dustin Pedroia (May 19)
Andre Ethier (May 26)
NCBWA All-American:
Dustin Pedroia (1st)
Steve Garrabrants (2nd)
Jeff Larish (3rd)
Jered Liebeck (3rd)
Collegiate Baseball All-American:
Dustin Pedroia (1st)
Jeff Larish (2nd)
Travis Buck (1st freshman)
Erik Averill (1st freshman)
Sports Weekly/ESPN All-American:
Dustin Pedroia (1st)
Baseball America All-American:
Dustin Pedroia (2nd)
Jeff Larish (2nd)
Erik Averill (2nd - freshman)
Travis Buck (2nd - freshman)
ABCA All-American:
Dustin Pedroia (1st)
Jeremy West (1st)
Jeff Larish (3rd)
CollegeBaseballInsider.com All-American:
Dustin Pedroia (1st)
Jeff Larish (2nd)
Jeremy West (HM)
Andre Ethier (HM)
National Player of the Week:
Jered Liebeck (Feb. 4) - Collegiate Baseball/NCBWA
Jeremy West (April 28) - Collegiate Baseball
Andre Ethier (May 26) - Collegiate Baseball
Tempe Regional All-Tournament Team:
Tuffy Gosewisch, C
Dennis Wyrick, 3B
Dustin Pedroia, SS (most outstanding player)
Andre Ethier, OF
Jeremy West, DH
Bean Vaughan, P
Ben Thurmond, P
Coca-Cola Classic All-Tournament (Surprise, Ariz.):
Steve Garrabrants, 2B
Dustin Pedroia, SS (most outstanding player)
Rod Allen, OF
Mark Sopko, P
Bob Schaefer Classic All-Tournament Team:
Jeff Larish, 1B
Steve Garrabrants, 2B
Dustin Pedroia, SS
Dennis Wyrick 3B
Travis Buck, OF
Beau Vaughan, P
USA Baseball National Team Trials:
Dustin Pedroia, SS
Travis Buck, OF
Jeff Larish, 1B
Preseason All-Americans:
Rod Allen (Baseball America - 3rd)
Andre Ethier (NCBWA - 3rd)
Jeremy West (Collegiate Baseball - 3rd)
Ryan Schroyer (Collegiate Baseball - 3rd, NCBWA - 2nd)
Baseball America Midseason All-Americans:
Travis Buck, OF (freshman)
Erik Averill, LHP (freshman)
Dustin Pedroia, SS (sophomore)
Jeff Larish, 1B (sophomore)
Quick Hits:
A Record Breaking Season:
In addition to finishing in the top 10 in the NCAA in the four major statistical categories, the 2003 season also brought about a number of entries into the single-season record books. The 2003 team ranked third in runs scored (682), sixth in hits (858), fifth in doubles (160), second in RBI (630), third in walks (406), tied for third in batting average (.347), fifth in pitching shutouts (10) and third in ERA during the aluminum bat era (3.32). The 54 wins are the most by a Sun Devil squad since the 1988 team finished with 60 victories. ASU also set an NCAA record with 14 grand slams and extended its NCAA record consecutive games scoring streak to 501 games (dating back to April 7, 1995). Individually, several Sun Devils also had record-breaking seasons. Shortstop Dustin Pedroia became only the 22nd player with 100 hits and the 16th player to hit .400. He ranks fourth all-time with his 120 hits and 15th by hitting .404. He set an ASU and Pac-10 record with 34 doubles. First baseman Jeff Larish broke into the record books in several categories, including ranking fifth with 95 RBI and second with 78 walks. He broke the school record with four grand slams and tied the single-game records with nine RBI and four doubles. Designated hitter Jeremy West also tied the single-game records with nine RBI and three home runs.
Pedroia and Larish Named All-American:
The 2003 season was an All-American year for ASU sophomores Jeff Larish and Dustin Pedroia. Collegiate Baseball, NCBWA, CollegeBaseballInsider.com, ABCA and USA Today/Sports Weekly named sophomore shortstop Dustin Pedroia a first-team All-American. He was also named the NCBWA District VIII Player of the Year and Pedroia also earned second-team All-America honors from Baseball America. Larish earned second-team honors from Collegiate Baseball and Baseball America, and third-team honors from the ABCA and NCBWA. Southern second baseman Rickie Weeks, a teammate of Pedroia's on the 2002 USA Baseball National Team, was named the consensus National College Player of the Year. Pedroia (Woodland, Calif.) added to his postseason honors after being named the Pac-10 Co-Player of the Year. The sophomore shortstop finished the year hitting .404 (120-for-297) with 34 doubles, four home runs and 52 RBI. Larish hit .372 (87-for-234) with 18 home runs and a Pac-10 best 95 RBI. The First-Team All-Pac-10 selection became only the second Sun Devil to join the 70-70 (RBI-BB) club with 95 RBI and 78 walks.
Devils Lead All Colleges in MLB Draft:
The Sun Devils had a record 12 players selected in the Major League Draft and had two more players sign free agent contracts. ASU led all major colleges with its 12 selections during the two-day, 50-round draft, setting a record during the Pat Murphy era (1995-P).
|Andre Ethier, OF
|Oakland A's
|Beau Vaughan, RHP
|Boston Red Sox
|Jeremy West, C/DH
|Boston Red Sox
|Steve Garrabrants, 2B
|Arizona Diamondbacks
|Ryan Schroyer, RHP
|Minnesota Twins
|Bryce Kartler, LHP
|New York Yankees
|Robbie McClellan, RHP
|Kansas City Royals
|Ben Thurmond, RHP
|San Francisco Giants
|Mark Sopko, RHP
|Toronto Blue Jays
|Rod Allen, OF
|Tampa Bay Devil Rays
|Dennis Wyrick, 3B
|Baltimore Orioles
|Mike Guerrer
|Arizona Diamondbacks
Two More Sun Devils Make MLB Debut:
Former Arizona State pitcher Jon Switzer (1999-2001) and outfielder Jeff Duncan (1999-2000) made their major league debuts during the 2003 season, becoming the 78 and 79th Sun Devils to wear a MLB uniform. Switzer and Duncan are among eight former Sun Devils who have played in the major leagues at one point this season: Barry Bonds (San Francisco Giants), Willie Bloomquist (Seattle Mariners), Duncan (New York Mets), Paul Lo Duca (Los Angeles Dodgers), Sean Lowe (Kansas City Royals), Gabe Molina (St. Louis Cardinals), Switzer (Tampa Bay Devil Rays) and Fernando Vi�a (St. Louis Cardinals).
Larish and Pedroia Bring Home Silver For Team USA:
Arizona State baseball players Jeff Larish and Dustin Pedroia completed a successful summer season with the USA Baseball National Team helping the Red, White and Blue to a silver medal in the Pan Am Games in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Team USA lost to Cuba 3-1 in the gold medal game to end the summer season with a National Team record 27-2 record (.931). Pedroia (Woodland, Calif.) and Larish (Tempe, Ariz.) become the ninth and 10th selections from Arizona State to represent the Red, White and Blue of USA Baseball. ASU has now had seven selections to Team USA since 1998, including Pedroia who repeated as a member of Team USA after also playing on the team in 2002. Pedroia was second on Team USA with 30 hits. He finished the summer hitting .294 (30-for-102) with 22 runs scored, five doubles, one home run and 12 RBI. Pedroia's stellar defense gained several standing ovations and earned him a place on the Pan Am Games All-Tournament team. In 28 games with Team USA, Pedroia made only one error in 106 total chances (.991 FLD%). Larish started all 29 games for Team USA, leading the team with 23 RBI and his eight home runs were the most by a Team USA player since they started using wood bats. Larish finished the summer hitting .255 (26-for-102) with three doubles and one triple. During one stretch of games against teams from the Great Lakes Collegiate League, Larish hit home runs in five straight games to rank second in the USA Baseball record books.
ASU in NCAA National Rankings:
The Arizona State Baseball team dominated the final release of the NCAA statistics as the only team in the nation (283 Division I teams) to rank in the top 10 in the four major statistical categories. ASU, who finished the season ranked No. 7 in the nation (Baseball America) with a 54-14 record, placed second in batting average (.347), second in scoring (10.03 runs per game), eighth in pitching (3.32 ERA) and ninth in fielding (.973 FLD%). In addition, the Sun Devils also ranked fourth in win-loss percentage (.794), fifth in slugging percentage (.529) and 28th in home runs per game (1.18). ASU also broke the NCAA record with 14 grand slams and extended its NCAA record consecutive games scoring streak to 501 games. Individually the Sun Devils also had several players rank nationally. Sophomore shortstop Dustin Pedroia led the nation with 34 doubles (0.50 per game) and was also 31st with a .404 batting average and fourth in toughest to strikeout. Sophomore first baseman Jeff Larish led the nation in walks (1.20 per game), was sixth with 1.46 RBI per game (95 total) and 18th in runs scored per game (1.23).
|Team Stats
|National Leader
|Batting Average
|Southern U.
|Earned Run Average
|Va. Commonwealth
|Fielding Percentage
|Long Beach St.
|Scoring (283 ranked)
|Southern U.
|Home Runs Per Game
|New Mexico St.
|Triples Per Game
|Doubles Per Game
|New Mexico
|Slugging Percentage
|Southern U.
|Stolen Bases
|Jackson St.
|Double Plays Per Game
|Southern Ill.
|WL Pct
|Southern U.
|Individual Stats
|National Leader
|Batting Average
|Dustin Pedroia
|Rickie Weeks, So.U (.479)
|Jeremy West
|HR Per Game
|Jeff Larish
|Billy Becher, NMSU (0.52)
|Jeremy West
|RBI Per Game
|Jeff Larish
|Billy Becher, NMSU (1.93)
|Jeremy West
|Doubles Per Game
|Dustin Pedroia
|Dustin Pedroia, ASU (0.50)
|Toughest to strikeout
|Dustin Pedroia
|Matt Rogelstad, Ark.St. (41.6)
|Runs Per Game
|Jeff Larish
|Rickie Weeks, So.U (1.63)
|Dustin Pedroia
|Andre Ethier
|Slugging Percentage
|Jeff Larish
|Rickie Weeks, So.U (.933)
|Jeremy West
|Jeff Larish
|Jeff Larish, ASU (1.2)
|Andre Ethier
|Jeremy West
|Ben Thurmond
|Tom Mastny, Furman (1.09)
|Jered Liebeck
|Beau Vaughan
|Jeff Niemann, Rice (17.0)
|K's Per Nine Innings
|Beau Vaughan
|Ryan Wagner, Houston (16.8)
Seven Sun Devils Named To Tempe Regional All-Tournament Team:
Seven Arizona State players were named to the All-Tournament Team after the Devils completed a three-game sweep at the regional held at Tempe Diablo Stadium. Tuffy Gosewisch (C), Dennis Wyrick (3B), Dustin Pedroia (SS), Andre Ethier (OF), Beau Vaughan (P), Ben Thurmond (P) and Jeremy West (DH) were all voted on to the team by represented media at the tournament. Pedroia was 8-for-16 (.500) in the regional and played flawless defense and was named the Regional Most Outstanding Player.
ASU Dominates Regional At Tempe Diablo:
The Sun Devils dominated Central Connecticut State, New Mexico State and UNLV during the NCAA Regional at Tempe Diablo Stadium by outscoring the three teams 45-3. The 42 run margin of victory included a 14-2 win over CCSU, a 15-0 blanking of New Mexico State and brought home the regional championship with a 16-1 victory over UNLV. ASU hit at an impressive .387 clip in the regional and pitched for a 0.67 ERA in the three games.
Larish Becomes Second Sun Devil To Join 70-70 Club:
Sophomore first baseman Jeff Larish led the Pac-10 with 95 RBI and also ranked first in the nation with 78 walks. Larish's amazing season also included 18 doubles and 18 home runs, while hitting .372 (87-for-234). Even more amazing is that Larish became only the second player in ASU Baseball history to join the 70-70 (RBI-BB) club. Former Sun Devil and major leaguer Alvin Davis, who played first base for the Sun Devils from 1979-82, is the only other member of that club after recording 91 RBI and a single-season school record 87 walks in 1982. Larish ranks fifth in the ASU single-season record books with his 95 RBI.
A Record Setting Season For Jeff Larish:
Jeff Larish has rewritten the ASU record books several times this year with countless memorable performances. Larish broke the ASU single-season record with four grand slams, tied the ASU single-game records with nine RBI (SDSU; 1/26) and four doubles (Arizona; 5/25) and with 78 walks ranks in the ASU single-season record books. He has also belted 18 home runs and his 95 RBI led the Pac-10 and ranked fifth in the ASU single-season record books.
Pedroia Sets School and Pac-10 Doubles Record:
Sophomore shortstop Dustin Pedroia set the ASU and Pac-10 single-season record with 34 doubles in 2003. He tied the record of 30 set by Chris Bando in 1978 in the series opener vs. OSU (5/12) and broke the record with a first-inning double against Washington (5/13). Pedroia broke the Pac-10 record of 31 set by Washington State's Mike Kinkade in 1994 vs. Washington (5/18) with a shot down the left field line. Pedroia led the NCAA with 0.50 doubles per game and was only two doubles off the NCAA record of 36.
|ASU Single Season Doubles:
|Pac-10 Single-Season Doubles
|1. Dustin Pedroia, 2003
|1. Dustin Pedroia, ASU (2003)
|2. Chris Bando, 1978
|2. Mike Kinkade, WSU (1994)
|3. Antone Williamson, 1993
|Steve Willis, 1988
|NCAA Single-Season Doubles (last):
|5. Clay Westlake, 1976
|1. Brad Hawpe, LSU (2000)
Pedroia Joins .400 and 100 Hit Club:
Sophomore shortstop Dustin Pedroia joined a pair of elite clubs during his memorable 2003 season. Pedroia became only the 16th player to hit over .400 in a season dating back to the start of varsity baseball at ASU in 1959. With 120 hits, Pedroia also became only the 22nd player to join the 100-hit club. His 120 hits, which included a Pac-10 record 34 doubles and was highlighted by 41 multi-hit games, ranked as fourth most in ASU single-season history. Pedroia will enter his junior season with 202 career hits and a .379 career batting average.
Pedroia Earns Co-Pac-10 Player of the Year:
Sophomore shortstop Dustin Pedroia was named the Pac-10 Co-Player of the Year with Stanford senior catcher Ryan Garko. Pedroia finished the year leading the team in hitting at .404 (120-for-297), while setting the Pac-10 record with 34 doubles. With his selection Pedroia becomes the 10th Sun Devil to earn the Pac-10 Player of the Year award. Since the Pac-10 North and South divisions joined in 1999, ASU has had a player win the POY award in all but one season (1999: Willie Bloomquist; 2000: Casey Myers; 2001: Casey Myers; 2003: Dustin Pedroia).
Ethier, Schroyer, Larish and Garrabrants Named first-Team All-Pac-10:
Four Sun Devils earned first-team All-Pac-10 honors and seven more earned honorable mention status. Andre Ethier (Jr., OF), Steve Garrabrants (Jr., 2B), Ryan Schroyer (RHP, Jr.) and Jeff Larish (So., 1B) were the four ASU selections. Ethier was named for the second straight year. Arizona and Stanford also had four players selected to the first team. In addition, seven Sun Devils were named to the honorable mention All-Pac-10 team. Ben Thurmond (Sr., RHP), Jeremy West (Jr., DH), Travis Buck (Fr., OF), Jered Liebeck (RHP, Sr.), Frank Mesa (So., INF), Nick Walsh (Jr., UTL) and Tuffy Gosewisch (So., C) were all named honorable mention All-Pac-10 selections.
Buck and Averill Earn Freshman All-America Honors:
Left-handed pitcher Erik Averill and outfielder Travis Buck continued the tradition of placing Sun Devils on the various freshman All-America teams. Averill and Buck were both second-team selections by Baseball America and first-team selections by Collegiate Baseball. Averill ended his freshman season with an 8-2 record and a 3.66 ERA. He struck out 61 in 86.0 innings, including a career high eight against Cal State Fullerton in the Super Regionals. Buck hit .326 (78-for-239) with 13 doubles, four home runs and 46 RBI. He became the first freshman in Pac-10 Baseball history to hit for the cycle when he went 5-for-5 against Southern Utah (3/7).
A Clean Sweep of the Wildcats:
The Sun Devils continued their dominance over their rivals to the South, the Arizona Wildcats, by sweeping a three-game series to end the 2003 regular season. The Devils recorded the sweep in dominating fashion, outscoring Arizona 36-4 in the three games. The Devils opened the series with a 5-2 win on Friday night scoring three in the bottom of the eighth to break a 2-2 tie. ASU then pounded UA over the next two games, winning 16-0 on Saturday and completed the sweep with a 15-2 victory on Sunday. For the series the Sun Devils hit .380 with eight doubles, seven home runs and recorded 78 total bases. The pitching was just as dominant with a 1.33 team ERA and for the third time in Pac-10 play held an opponent to under four runs in a series. Andre Ethier earned Pac-10 Player of the Week after hitting .500 (6-for-12) with three home runs in the series. Sophomore Jeff Larish also caught fire going 8-for-11 (.727) in the rivalry series to raise his season average from .358 to .377.
Pitching Staff Dominates in 2003:
Arizona State has always been known as an offensive team, often ranking amongst the top teams in the nation in batting and runs scored. 2003 was no exception, but the pitching also decided to join the hitting in 2003. ASU's pitchers, led by pitching coach Chris Sinacori, led the Pac-10 with a 3.32 ERA, ranking eighth in the NCAA. Senior starting pitchers Ben Thurmond (2.73) and Jered Liebeck (2.88) finished No. 1 and No. 2 in the Pac-10 in ERA and senior Beau Vaughan was second in the league with 105 strikeouts. The 3.32 ERA marks the first time since 1990 that an ASU pitching staff has finished a season under a 4.00 ERA and is the lowest since the 1976 Sun Devil hurlers posted a 3.26 ERA. In fact, since the NCAA adopted the designated hitter and aluminum bats in 1974, the 3.32 ERA is the third lowest.
A Note About Shutouts:
Beau Vaughan, Robbie McClellan, Bryce Kartler, Ryan Schroyer and Carlos Arguello combined for ASU's 10th shutout of the season in a 15-0 win over New Mexico State in the NCAA Regionals at Tempe Diablo Stadium. The 10 shutouts are the most by an ASU squad since recording 11 in 1976 and the fifth most in ASU history. The previous most by a Pat Murphy coached squad was six in 1999. The Devils had recorded only six shutouts combined between 2000, 2001 and 2002.
Comparing 2003 to 1981:
Arizona State put together an amazing season in 2003 leading the Pac-10 and amongst the NCAA leaders in pitching (3.32 ERA), hitting (.347), fielding (.973) and averaged 10.03 runs per game. ASU's fifth and last national championship came in 1981 with a Sun Devil squad that is arguably the best to take the field in program history. The 1981 squad set school records in home runs (110), runs (694) and batting average (.356). Star performers on the 1981 club included Pac-10 Player of the Year Mike Sodders (.424, 22 HR), Alvin Davis (.395, 20 2B) and Kevin Romine (.410, 12 HR, 20 2B). Here is a comparison look at the two squads:
Andre Ethier Named Pac-10 and National Player of the Week:
For consecutive weeks to end the 2003 regular season, an Arizona State baseball player was named the Pac-10 Player of the Week. Junior outfielder Andre Ethier earned the weekly Pac-10 honor and was also named the Collegiate Baseball National Player of the Week after hitting four home runs and compiling a .471 batting average in ASU's four games against Washington and Arizona (5/19-5/25). Ethier, from Phoenix, Ariz., went 8-for-17 (.471) with six runs scored, two doubles, two triples, four home runs and eight RBI during the four-game stretch, including a three-game sweep over instate rival, Arizona. In the four games he compiled a 1.529 slugging percentage while the Sun Devils went 3-1 to reach the 50-win mark on the season (50-12). The Pac-10 Player of the Week honor was the second for Ethier in his career and the 71st selection all-time for Arizona State. Arizona State had four players for five total selections as the weekly player of the week honor in 2003. Jeremy West earned the honor twice, while Dustin Pedroia, Travis Buck and Ethier all earned one weekly award. West, senior right-handed pitcher Jered Liebeck and Ethier have all earned Collegiate Baseball National Player of the Week honors. Ethier finished his ASU career hitting .377 (98-for-260) with 13 doubles, four triples, 10 home runs and 68 RBI. Drafted in the second round by the Oakland Athletics, Ethier ended the year with a 23-game hitting streak. During the streak, which is listed as one of the top 10 longest in ASU history, Ethier combined to go 44-for-99 (.444) with eight home runs and 31 RBI.
West Ends Career With a Bang:
Junior designed hitter Jeremy West ended his ASU career with a bang, hitting .381 (77-for-22) with 17 home runs and 71 RBI. He was named a first-team All-American by the ABCA and an honorable mention selection by CollegeBaseballInsider.com. He was the seventh round selection of the Boston Red Sox and began his professional career with the Lowell Spinners in the New York-Penn League. West finished the season with a 24-game hitting streak, marking the sixth longest streak in ASU history. During the streak West combined to go 46-for-98 (.469) with eight home runs and 38 of his 71 RBI (54%). He was named to the Tempe Regional All-Tournament Team hitting .600 (9-for-15) with seven RBI. Over the last 37 games of the season, West raised his season average from .280 to .381, combining to go 57-for-130 (.438) with 50 RBI. He recorded a record-breaking weekend vs. Washington State (4/25-27) in which he earned his fourth career Pac-10 Player of the Week award. In the three-game set vs. the Cougars, West combined to go 9-for-16 (.562) with five home runs, seven runs scored and 13 RBI. He homered in all three games (extending his consecutive games homer streak vs. WSU to six games), including hitting a walk-off two-run homer in the 10th inning in Saturday's 5-3 victory and belting an ASU single-game record tying three on Sunday. Going 5-for-7 in the series finale, West tied the single-game home run mark with a two-run, three-run and grand slam home run and also equaled the school record with nine RBI. For the season, West finished second on the team with 17 home runs and ranked 53rd in the NCAA with 0.27 home runs per game. He had three multi-home run games, and with 36 career homers tied for 8th in the ASU career record books. His .647 career slugging percentage also ranks fifth and his 176 RBI are tied for ninth in ASU history.
|Best Slugging Percentage (min. 250 at-bats)
|Mitch Jones (1999-2000)
|Bob Horner (1976-78)
|Rick Morris (1985-86)
|Roger Schmuck (1970-71)
|Jeremy West (2001-03)
|ASU Career Home Runs
|ASU Career RBI
|Bob Horner (1976-78)
|Andrew Beinbrink (1996-99)
|Mike Kelly (1989-91)
|Casey Myers (1998-2001)
|Barry Bonds (1983-85)
|Clay Westlake (1973-76)
|Dan Rumsey (1986-89)
|Bob Horner (1976-78)
|Andrew Beinbrink (1996-99)
|Alvin Davis (1979-82)
|Casey Myers (1998-2001)
|Mike Kelly (1989-91)
|Mitch Jones (1999-2000)
|Ken Landreaux (1974-76)
|Jeremy West (2001-03)
|Alan Bannister (1970-72)
|Ted Dyson (1983-87)
|Willie Bloomquist (1997-99)
|Mike Sodders (1980-81)
|Jeremy West (2001-03)
Close Games:
Arizona State finished the year with a 54-14 record and lost consecutive games only two times in 2003. Of the Devils 14 setbacks, five were by one run and eight by three or less runs. ASU's eight Pac-10 setbacks came by way of four one-run games and two, two-run contests. Additionally, ASU proved to be a strong bounce-back team going 11-2 after a loss.
Scoring at Will:
Arizona State finished the season ranked second in the NCAA averaging 10.03 runs per game and scored 10 or more runs in 35 of its 68 games (51%). The Devils have also scored 20 or more runs in three games this season and as a team are also ranked second in the nation (first in Pac-10) hitting .347. The 10.03 runs per game average are the fourth best during 45 years of ASU varsity baseball history. With 35 games of scoring 10 or more runs, ASU trailed only the 1981 Sun Devils (36) for the most games with double-digits in runs scored since ASU joined the Pac-10 in 1979.
Nine RBI:
Twice during the 2003 season a pair of Sun Devils tied the ASU single-season record with nine RBI in a single game. Sophomore Jeff Larish was the first to do it in a 24-9 win over San Diego State (1/26). Larish accomplished the nine RBI with a two-run single, two-run home run, a grand slam home run and a bases loaded walk. Junior Jeremy West also had nine RBI in his record setting game vs. Washington State (4/27), in which he went 5-for-7 with three home runs. West recorded his nine RBI with a two-run homer, a three-run homer and a grand slam. The only other Sun Devil to record nine RBI in a game was Tommy Adams on May 2, 1990 vs. UNLV.
Larish Breaks Single-Season Record With Four Grand Slams:
With his fourth grand slam of the season in the eighth inning of ASU's 17-1 blowout of UCLA on April 19, sophomore Jeff Larish broke the single-season record for grand slams. Dave Hudgens set the previous record of three in 1977. ASU also broke the single-season NCAA record with 14 grand slams. Here is a look at Larish's four grand slams this year:
|Game #
|Jan. 26
|San Diego State
|Feb. 22
|Notre Dame
|Feb. 28
|Penn State
|Apr. 19
Home Run Notes:
The Sun Devils finished the 2003 season with 80 home runs, doubling their entire season total from both 2001 and 2002. In fact, the season total of 80 in 2003 is more than both 2001 (33) and 2002 (38) combined. ASU has hit 56 of those home runs at Packard Stadium and 24 in its 31 road or neutral site games. Of the 37 games played at Packard Stadium the Devils hit at least one home run in 27 games. A total of 12 different players hit at least one home run and nine players had two or more home runs. Sophomore first baseman Jeff Larish led the team with 18 home runs, while junior designated hitter Jeremy West had 17. The Devils homered in 43 of their 68 games (66%), including 23 multi-home run games. The Devils also recorded an NCAA record 14 grand slams with Larish (4), Steve Garrabrants (3), Jeremy West (3), Rod Allen (2) and freshmen Ryan Bosch and Travis Buck all leaving the yard with the bases loaded to tie the NCAA record. ASU had only one grand slam in 2002 and four in 2001. ASU's home run breakdown includes 22 solo shots, 29 two-run homers, 15 three-run home runs and 14 grand slams to account for 25% of the total run production in 2003 (166 runs). Listed below are ASU's home run totals since the NCAA adopted the current bat rules for the 1999 season.
|HR Per Game
Production at First Base:
The first base position proved to be ASU's big run producer this year with Jeff Larish, Mike Guerrero and Jeremy West combining to torture opposing teams. In ASU's 68 games, Larish has played in 61 games, Guerrero in 14 games and West in two games at first base. The trio has combined to go 104-for-261 (.398) with 27 doubles, 20 home runs and 106 RBI.
About the 19-Game Winning Streak:
After starting the year 9-0, ASU suffered its first setback with an 11-5 loss at nationally ranked Long Beach State on Jan. 31. After that loss, ASU went on a 19-game winning streak combining to go 13-0 in February and won the first six games in March before losing 6-5 to No. 30 Oklahoma (3/14). The 19-game winning streak is the longest by an ASU squad since the 1990 team won 23 straight games. Dustin Pedroia led ASU during the streak hitting .432 (35-for-81) with 11 of his Pac-10 leading 28 doubles. As a team the Sun Devils hit at a .344 clip and pitched for an impressive 2.56 ERA.
Sun Devils Record Best Start in School History:
Arizona State's 28-1 start to the season goes down in the record books as the best start in school history. The 28-1 record includes an 11-game winning streak to start the season before a loss at nationally ranked Long Beach State (Jan. 31) and a 19-game win streak up until suffering a 6-5 loss to Oklahoma (3/14). During the 28-1 start to the season ASU's pitchers posted an impressive 3.11 ERA and the hitters combined for a .360 team batting average. Here is a look at ASU's best starts in school history:
|Final Record
Ethier and West End Careers With Record Hitting Streaks:
Arizona State juniors Andre Ethier and Jeremy West ended their respective careers with a bang, each notching memorable hitting streaks. West extended his streak to 24 games in the season finale and Ethier ended with a 23-game streak. Each are among the top 10 longest hitting streak in ASU Baseball history, with West's tying for the sixth longest. Here is a look at how each player did during their hitting streaks:
|Current Streak
|Statistics During Streak
|Jeremy West
|24 Games
|.469, 46-for-98, 26 R, 38 RBI, 6 2B, 1 3B, 8 HR
|Andre Ethier
|23 Games
|.444, 44-for-99, 32 R, 31 RBI, 4 2B, 3 3B, 8 HR
Thurmond and Liebeck Lead Pac-10 in ERA:
Senior right-handed pitchers Ben Thurmond and Jered Liebeck finished No. 1 and No. 2 in the Pac-10 in ERA (with pitching minimums). Thurmond, a senior transfer from Winthrop, finished the year 8-0 with a 2.73 ERA. He struck out 58 and gave up 24 earned runs in 79.0 innings. Thurmond ended his brief ASU career picking up the win in the Super Regional against Cal State Fullerton and was drafted in the 15th round by the San Francisco Giants. Liebeck was also 8-0 during his senior year with a 2.88 ERA. He struck out 54 and gave up 25 earned runs in his 21 appearances (78.0 IP).
The Big Inning:
The Sun Devils were a scoring machine in 2003 finishing second in the NCAA by averaging 10.04 runs per game. ASU also proved to be an explosive team at the plate, recording 160 big innings (2 or more runs). The team has also recorded 36 innings when they score five or more runs and have scored over 10 runs in an inning four times. ASU's biggest run production in a single frame was 12 in the opening game vs. Washington State (4/25) and 12 in the ninth inning vs. NMSU (5/31). ASU has also produced a pair of first innings with 10 or more runs (Arizona; 5/24, WSU; 4/27).
Double Vision:
ASU recorded a Pac-10 best 160 doubles in 2003 (2.35 per game average) to rank fifth in ASU single-season history. Sophomore shortstop Dustin Pedroia led the NCAA with a school and Pac-10 record 34 doubles. Junior Jeff Larish was second on the team with 18 after recording a record-tying four vs. Arizona (5/25). The team record for doubles in a season is 185 set in 1988, while the individual season record was previously 30 by Chris Bando in 1978.
ASU Single-Season Doubles:
|1. 185
|2. 181
|3. 172
|4. 161
|5. 160
|6. 158
Pedroia Named To Initial Watch List For Golden Spikes Award:
Arizona State sophomore shortstop Dustin Pedroia was included among 25 players named to the initial watch list for the 2003 Golden Spikes Award, given annually to the nation's top amateur baseball player. The 2002 Team USA member was one of only two Pac-10 players to be named to the initial watch list (Carlos Quentin, Stanford). The five finalists were named this week without Pedroia making the final cut. Arizona State has a long tradition of Golden Spikes Award winners as three past Sun Devils have won the award. Bob Horner (1978), Oddibe McDowell (1984) and Mike Kelly (1991) have all won the award. Only Florida State and Cal State Fullerton have matched ASU's legacy also with three winners of the annual Golden Spikes Award.
National Players of the Week:
Three Sun Devils have earned national player of the week honors this year. Senior RHP Jered Liebeck earned national acclaim after his complete-game, three-hit shutout against nationally ranked Long Beach State on Feb. 1. He was named the Collegiate Baseball and NCBWA pitcher of the week for his performance. Junior designated hitter Jeremy West earned Pac-10 Player of the Week and Collegiate Baseball and CollegeBaseballInsider.com national player of the week after hitting five home runs in three games against Washington State (4/25-27). Junior Andre Ethier is the latest to add his name to the list earning Pac-10 and Collegiate Baseball National Player of the Week honors (5/26). Freshman Travis Buck also earned CBI's western regional player of the week honor after his impressive series vs. USC (3/28-30).
Travis Buck Hits For The Cycle:
Freshman outfielder Travis Buck went 5-for-5 with even RBI and hit for the cycle in ASU's 19-0 win over Southern Utah (3/7). He became only the seventh Sun Devil in recorded history to record the elusive cycle and became the first freshman in Pac-10 history to hit for the cycle. Buck capped his perfect night with a grand slam home run as part of an eight-run sixth inning to become ASU's first player to hit for the cycle since Mitch Jones on May 21, 2000 at Arizona. Buck, ASU's normal starting left fielder who was making only his second start in right field, had a single in the first, a double in the third and a triple in the fifth before connecting on his second home run of the year for the cycle. He also added a run-scoring single in the fourth and tied a career high with two stolen bases. Buck was also named the Pac-10 Player of the Week after going 8-for-11 (.727) vs. USC. He was named a freshman All-American by both Collegiate Baseball and Baseball America. He finished his freshman season hitting .326 (78-for-239) with 13 doubles and four home runs. Below is a list of ASU player who have hit for the cycle:
|Travis Buck
|March 7, 2003 vs. Southern Utah
|Mitch Jones
|May 21, 2000 vs. Arizona
|Dan McKinley
|April 1, 1997 vs. Grand Canyon
|Antone Williamson
|May 27, 1993 vs. George Mason
|Kevin Higgins
|May 1, 1988 vs. UCLA
|Todd Brown
|March 18, 1984 vs. USC
|Paul Ray Powell
|March 21, 1969 vs. Michigan
Murphy's Teams Know How To Score:
A true icon of the Pat Murphy system is scoring runs. The Sun Devils have done plenty of that since he arrived in 1995. ASU has led the NCAA in scoring in two of the last five years, averaging 11.32 runs per game in 1999 and 10.97 runs per game in 2000. The Devils paced the Pac-10 in 2001 and 2003, hitting at a .327 clip in 2001 and a .347 mark in 2003. ASU finished second in the nation in 2003 averaging 10.03 runs per game. ASU also led the nation in batting average with a team total of .356 in 1999 and fell just percentage points shy of matching that feat a second year in a row in 2000 with a .346 mark, trailing Stony Brook by one point. During Pat Murphy's nine seasons at ASU, the Sun Devils have been a scoring machine with 4,981 runs in 539 games. During that stretch ASU has averaging 9.24 runs per game and scored in an NCAA record 501 consecutive games. The Devils are hitting at an overall .331 clip during the Pat Murphy era. ASU led the Pac-10 in hitting again in 2003 at .347 and averaged 10.03 runs per game (with 35 games with 10 or more runs). Below is an offensive team breakdown of Murphy's ASU teams:
ASU Mixes Things Up:
After mixing and matching for 41 different starting batting lineups in 58 games in 2002, head coach Pat Murphy continued with the trend by keeping the lineup fresh in 2003. In the 68 games in 2003, the Devils mixed and matched for 57 different batting lineups and 34 different positional lineups. The most common batting lineup, which was used six times, had the following players batting in order: Pedroia (SS), Walsh (LF), Ethier (CF), Larish (1B), West (DH), Buck (RF), Mesa (3B), Garrabrants (2B), Gosewisch (C)
An Early Season Opener:
The Jan. 16 season opener at Hawaii-Hilo was the second earliest start in ASU Baseball history and the earliest start by any collegiate team in 2003. The Devils opened the 1999 season at home with a game at Packard Stadium against the University of Utah on Jan. 15. Arizona State's previous earliest start before 1999 was a Jan. 19 home contest against Grand Canyon (W, 12-2) in 1990. With the 9-0 blanking of UHH on 1/16, ASU is now 25-2 in season-opening games (dating back to 1977) and head coach Pat Murphy is 8-1 in season-openers at ASU (15-1 at D1).
How They Have Finished:
Arizona State has finished five seasons ranked in the top 10 in the final Collegiate Baseball national poll since 1990, ranking 7th of all college baseball programs. The schools with the most Top 10 Collegiate Baseball finishes are listed below:
|1. Florida State
|3. Stanford
|4. Miami
|5. Clemson
|6. Cal State Fullerton
|7. Oklahoma State
|7. Wichita State
|7. Arizona State
Success in the Classroom As Well As On The Field:
ASU has long enjoyed much success on the diamond, and with 18 College World Series appearances, it is known as one of the gems of college baseball. But academics, as well as on-field talent, has shown its true colors in the storied program. Pat Murphy's Sun Devil squads have produced four Academic All-Americans over the past five years (Willie Bloomquist, Mark Ernster, Jeff Phelps, Casey Myers), including Myers being named the Academic All-American for college baseball in 2000 and 2001. The four players honored as First-Team Academic All-Americans is the second most by any college baseball program in the nation since 1995. Tuffy Gosewisch, Bryce Kartler and Nick Walsh all earned All-Pac-10 Academic Honorable Mention honors in 2003.
ASU Owns Pac-10 Player of the Year Award:
Since the old Pac-10 North (formerly Washington State, Washington, Oregon State, Portland State) and the Six-Pac joined to form the unified Pac-10 baseball conference in 1999, Arizona State has enjoyed much success with a combined 74-46 record in league play. Even more impressive is that in four of the five years a Sun Devil has won the annual Pac-10 Player of the Year award. Willie Bloomquist won the inaugural award in 1999, while Casey Myers took home the hardware in 2000 and 2001 to become only fourth player in Pac-10 history to win the award twice in a career. Dustin Pedroia shared the Pac-10 Player of the Year award with Stanford senior catcher Ryan Garko. In all, ASU has won 10 Pac-10 Player of the Year Awards dating back to 1978 (Myers (2), Bloomquist, Dustin Pedroia, Jacob Cruz, Paul Lo Duca, Linty Ingram, Oddibe McDowell, Alvin Davis, Mike Sodders) and two Pac-10 Pitchers of the Year (Noah Peery and Marc Barcelo).
Hitting For The Cycle... in the First Inning:
In what may be one of the rarest feats of Arizona State baseball history, the Devils led off the Feb. 9, 2002 game vs. Tennessee in grand fashion with the first four hitters combining to hit for the cycle in the first inning. Leadoff hitter Steve Garrabrants led off the game with a first-pitch home run, then Dustin Pedroia followed with a double, then Rod Allen singled and to cap off the amazing event, Jeremy West tripled to give ASU the early 2-0 lead. ASU also accomplished the rarity in the 10-run first inning against Washington State (4/27) in 2003 when the first five batters (Pedroia, 3B; Walsh, 1B; Larish, 2B; West HR) combined to hit for the cycle.
Why Not #9 Murphy:
Most who are close to the ASU Baseball program know what the No. 9 means to head coach Pat Murphy. Often his slogan to 'Play all 9 Innings', Murphy and No. 9 are synonymous with each other... until last year. In a preseason meeting with team, Murphy gave a speech on how you have to be able to give up anything for the team. In this case, he even offered up his prize No. 9, knowing no one would take it. That is, until ASU's Steve Garrabrants raised his hand and said, I'll take it, and with that, the leader of the Devils is willing to give up anything for the team and will wear No. 7 again this year.
Home Sweet Home:
ASU returned to Packard Stadium in 2003 after playing in Mesa (Hohokam Park) in 2002. The Devils recorded their 800th career victory at Packard Stadium (3/1 vs. PSU) and have an all-time 818-235-1 dating back to 1974. ASU played 40 of its 62 regular-season games in the state of Arizona and 37 at Packard Stadium. After going 29-10 in designated home games last year, the Devils were 30-7 at Packard Stadium this year now have a combined 163-50-1 (.764) home record in the last five years dating back to 1998. ASU is hitting .354 with 56 home runs in 37 home games and pitching for a 3.27 team ERA on the mound.
Arizona State at Packard Stadium (1998-2003):
ASU And Team USA Connections:
Arizona State baseball has had a long-standing tradition of sending players to play for the USA National team during the summers. In a recent poll distributed by USA Baseball, ASU ranked No. 11 as a supplier to the National Team. With the selections of Jeff Larish and Dustin Pedroia to the 2003 team, ASU has now had nine players and 10 total selections don the Red, White and Blue for Team USA since 1984. The first Sun Devil on Team USA was Oddibe McDowell in the 1984 Olympics played at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles. Jim Austin played for Team USA in 1990 and ASU has had seven more players play with Team USA in the last six years. 1999 Pac-10 Player of the Year Willie Bloomquist played in the summer of 1998, 2000-2001 Pac-10 Player of the Year Casey Myers played in the summer of 2000 and was also a member of the Team USA Junior National Team before arriving at ASU in 1998. Current Tampa Bay Devil Ray prospect Jon Switzer was also a member of the 2000 National Team and Mike Esposito was 3-1 with a 1.56 ERA in the summer of 2001. Pedroia played for the National Team in 2002 and is the first Sun Devil to repeat n the national team. Pedroia, Travis Buck and Larish were nvited to USA Baseball National Team Trials in June in Tucson, Ariz.
Golden Spikes Common At Arizona State:
While Rickie Weeks of Southern was the recipient of the 2003 Golden Spikes award as the nation's top amateur baseball player, it should be noted that three Arizona State players have won the award. In addition to ASU, only Cal State Fullerton and Florida State have won three Golden Spikes Awards. Bob Horner, who was a standout at ASU from 1976-78, won the inaugural award in 1978. Oddibe McDowell, who was a member of the first Team USA baseball team to compete in an Olympics, won the award in 1984. Mike Kelly, who ranks second in ASU history with 46 home runs from 1989-91, won the award in 1991. In all, 12 players that have worn the Maroon and Gold have been named a Player of the Year for college baseball. Dustin Pedroia was one of 25 players named to the initial watch list for the 2003 award.
ASU Leader of the Pac When It Comes to Player of the Week:
Arizona State has amassed 46 Pac-10 Pitchers of the Week and 71 Players of the Week since 1981. That total leads all Pac-10 member schools. Senior RHP Jered Liebeck became the first Pac-10 Pitcher of the Week after his complete-game, three-hit shutout of Long Beach State (2/1) and Ryan Schroyer earned his first award on Feb. 25. Junior Jeremy West joined Schroyer as ASU swept the weekly awards on Feb. 25. Andre Ethier (May 26), Travis Buck (Apr. 1) and Dustin Pedroia (May 19) joined West (Feb. 25, Apr. 28) as Pac-10 Players of the Week. Ethier and West (twice) were named Pac-10 Players of the Week in 2002, while Robbie McClellan and Mike Esposito earned Pac-10 Pitcher of the Week honors last year.
Arizona State in Postseason Play:
The Sun Devil baseball program has created a dynasty in college baseball that has been matched by few. With 18 appearances in the College World Series, ASU ranks fifth for the most trips to Omaha. Arizona State has now advanced to the NCAA Tournament in 27 of the program's 45 varsity seasons (dating back to 1959), amassing an incredible 128-53 (.707) record. ASU's five National Championships rank as the second most of any NCAA school. In addition to ASU's five national championships, the Sun Devils have also turned in five second-place teams and three third-place finishes. Arizona State is 19-12 in the NCAA Tournament under ninth-year head coach Pat Murphy. In addition to advancing four straight years, ASU has been left out of the tournament only once (1999) in the last seven years and played for the national championship in 1998.
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We are looking forward to a New Years Eve that is spent with family and then friends! In preparation for both I've made these fun treats.
I think that the petit fours turned out really cute. They were inspired by these but since I didn't have fondant I used chocolate ganache. I don't know why I can't seem to get the icing down (it's good but it looks a bit sloppy). Also, I did track down a recipe for them that used oreo cakesters but I thought I would make them with the traditional sponge cake. Cakesters didn't sound all that good to me. The 2010 on top was surprisingly easy to do.
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If you suffer from the most-enviable predicament of having both too much money and too much wall space, the UK's premiere high-end retail outlet would like to speak with you—something about a 152-inch plasma TV.
The 152-inch Panasonic TH-152UX1W—the world's largest commercially available flat-screen—is typically used in airports and theme parks for mega-sized displays. It is the equivalent area of a three by three grid of 50-inch sets, weighs 1,200 pounds, and don't even ask how you get it through the front door (pretty sure there's going to be sawing involved).
It has a 4K2K display—4,096 x 2,160 pixels—that exceeds the current high-def standard nearly four-fold. And yes, it's 3D capable, showing a full HD image to each eye. Harrods is selling this monstrosity for $958,000 (£600,000). Just remember to sit a safe distance from the screen to prevent eye strain. Cleveland should do. [The Telegraph via Born Rich via Yahoo]


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The database that tried to be everything to everyone is being replaced by more specific tools. The Google Base API, launched in 2005, has been deprecated. In its place, Google suggests using its new Google Shopping Search API for finding products and Shopping Content API for merchants to add products. The new APIs will help Google focus on the most common uses of Google Base. However, the change means that developers will have to update code and that some non-shopping applications will be left without a replacement.
Google Base launched with broad goals, as described within Google Base help pages:
Google Base is a place where you can easily submit all types of online and offline content, which we'll make searchable on Google (if your content isn't online yet, we'll host it for you). You can describe any item you post with attributes, which will help people find it when they do related searches.
Because of the broad nature, many felt Google was reaching too far with its launch of Base. Some thought Google wanted to be in its own search results, while others worried that Google shouldn't own the structured web. Others thought Google Base could go on to disrupt entire industries, writing about Google Base's potential impact to real estate
With Google Base there is very little justification for sellers to use a broker because they can do a FSBO, market their own homes and get the same amount traffic through Google because of its strong brand presence. And sellers don't have to pay a dime.
In the end, Google Base was probably too broad to achieve these fears. While real estate was a popular user of Base (often from the selling agents), it didn't replace the tried and true local methods. In fact, real estate is one of the areas that is left behind by the move to the new APIs, according to Google's announcement:
There are a few non-shopping data types that won't be supported with new Shopping APIs, such as jobs, real estate, events, and activities. We hope this won't cause too much disruption, and we recommend developers use Google Site Search and other search technologies for those use cases.
Our directory lists a number of Google Base real estate mashups, including RealGeni shown above. We also list a few mashups for the other unsupported categories, but overwhelmingly the most use we've seen of the Google Base API are in Google Base shopping mashups. Shopping makes up 40% of the 63 Google Base mashups that we list. Those developers will still need to update their mashups, but it appears that Google has chosen the right segment upon which to focus its structured search.


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Windows 8: Erase Your Old Computer's Hard Drive
If you have a new machine loaded with Windows 8 and want to donate your old computer, remember to erase the hard drive on the old machine. A freshly donated hard drive can be a thief's delight. If it's like most hard drives, it contains passwords to websites, e-mail accounts, and programs; credit-card numbers; identifying information; and possibly financial records. None of this information should fall into the wrong hands.
If your hard drive contains particularly sensitive information, purchase a data-destruction program, available in the Utilities section of most computer stores. These specially designed programs completely erase the hard drive and then fill it up again with random characters. (Many programs repeat that process several times to reach the required government privacy specification.)
If you have a tech-savvy friend or child, have him or her download Darik's Boot And Nuke program. The freebie program creates a bootable CD that wipes your hard drive clean.
If you're donating a Windows 8 computer, run the Remove Everything and Reinstall Windows tool. Be sure to choose the Fully Clean the Drive option when telling the program to clean your hard drive.
To wipe your hard drive clean in Windows 8 and reinstall Windows 8, follow these steps:
From the Start screen, summon the Charms bar, choose Settings, and then choose the Change PC Settings link.
Click the General category, find the Remove Everything and Reinstall Windows section, and then click the Get Started button.
Follow the instructions, telling the program to clean your hard drive.
When the program finishes, it leaves your computer freshly scrubbed, free of your personal data, and with a copy of Windows 8, ready for the new owner.
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Creating unique artistic designs on t-shirts is easy and fun when you use Tulip's Brush Tip Fabric Markers. With the thicker markers you can control the width of your strokes to create more painterly brush strokes. Get creative and have fun with your designs! Let's get started!
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Have fun with this. With the thicker markers you can create bigger strokes and fill in more areas with color.
You can also create depth with shading and your strokes to make the colors lighter or darker.
I was inspired to work bigger and a little more abstract. Sketchy lines are really popular right now so go with it and have fun!
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I'm a huge fan of these fabric markers. The colors stay really true and last after washing. I also have to admit that they are just great to have around, I've used them for so many things like writing my daughter's name in her jackets for school, touching up bleach spots on black clothes. You'd be surprised how useful they are.
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Tony Romo threw for 198 yards with two long touchdowns to Dwayne Harris while playing only the first quarter, and the Dallas Cowboys beat the St. Louis Rams 20-19 Saturday night.
In what was supposed to be Romo's most extensive action of the preseason, he showed more than enough to coach Jason Garrett in three offensive drives, even with his top three pass-catchers hurt and not playing.
Romo completed 9-of-13 passes, including a 61-yard TD after Harris got behind the Rams defense. On the next possession, Harris split two defenders after making the catch for a 38-yard score.
Dallas (2-1) wraps up its preseason at home against Miami on Wednesday, a week before opening the regular season at the New York Giants. The Rams (1-2) play Baltimore on Thursday.


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Swimming pool slides add a whole 'nuther dimension to your pool enjoyment. We have swimming pools from Mild to Wild at In The Swim.
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These aren't your father's pool slides! SR Smith offers up the latest & greatest, developed with safety and installation ease in mind, the entire line is also salt pool and sea air friendly – made with completely non corrosive components.
1. Footprint. Gartenschuh Herren Gr.44 Clean Land kaki m.Neopren can take up a good bit of deck. More than you may think. When looking at our pool slides, click the Specifications Sheet on the More Info tab. This will have a schematic to show you the overall length and width of concrete needed for installation. Slides take up a lot of deck space, and some installations may require additional concrete. You should also account for room for the line of sliders that will develop behind the slide, and an easy way to pass around the slide, without stepping off the pool deck.
2. Location. Most slide manufacturers call for installation in depth of 44″ – 48″ of water. This rules out most shallow end walls and deep end walls. Pool slides need to be installed in water that's not too shallow – and not too deep, for safety reasons. This depth also needs to be maintained for a distance past the slide exit point, as illustrated in the 'Water Safety Envelope' image shown here.
3. Color. It used to be that slides came in any color you wanted, as long as that color was sky blue. Nowadays, you can usually also get white, and many of the newer slides are available in earth tones of granite or buff (gray or brown), to match the natural stone.
4. Left or Right? Depending on how much deck space you have, and the location of the slide, choosing a left or right turn slide can be important in your pool slide fitting your particular pool deck size. Careful measurement of your deck, and a few phone calls to our helpful experts are in order – before you order your pool slide.
4. Tall or Small? We have slides from mild to wild! The taller they are, the larger the footprint, however.
5. Truckline delivery. It would be nice if UPS or FedEx would deliver our pool slides, but they just refuse! I can understand, these boxes would fill their whole truck! Pool slides are delivered by an 18 wheeler direct to your driveway. Our pool slide delivery trucks have a "Lift Gate" on the back, to lower your slide safely to the curb.
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7. Installation. Can a slide be DIY installed – of course it can! If you can follow the installation manual, you should have no problem. Using a rotary hammer drill, stanchion anchors are epoxied into the concrete deck, and then nuts are tightened down to secure the slide legs. Adding a water supply to the pool slide complicates things a bit, but is usually tapped off of the pool supply (so it doesn't over-fill the pool if left on), or it can come from the house water supply.


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TransCorp Spine surgical system attracts national peer-review award
The Brain + Spine Center in Holland Township has announced that the SpinePort surgical system co-invented by the clinic's neurosurgeon, Dr. David W. Lowry, and physician assistant Scott M. Tuinstra has received a 2012 Spine Tech Award from the trade publication Orthopedics This Week.
The publication's annual awards are determined by a peer-review process and recognize the best products, engineers and inventors in spine surgery. The 2012 Spine Tech Award in the cervical, neck category was presented to TransCorp Spine, an Ada-based company that markets the SpinePort and was launched by Lowry in 2007.
"They are decided in a peer-review manner," said Lowry, "so thought-leading surgeons, both neurosurgeons and orthopedic spine surgeons, sit on a panel that determines who will get these awards. We were fortunate enough to be selected."
The SpinePort System provides precise instrument control needed by surgeons to more effectively perform transcorporeal microdecompression, a minimally invasive alternative to fusion of spinal discs or total disc replacement. This newer procedure helps retain the natural movement in the neck, along with the potential of returning the patient to normal activity in a much shorter time.
Lowry said the traditional surgery to remove herniated disc fragments or bone spurs will often require a fusion or a disc replacement. The patient's recovery time — the time off from work — from fusion or disc replacement can vary from four to eight weeks.
"With this newer technique, we are able to get half of the patients back to work within five days," said Lowry.
"While this approach is not appropriate for all patients with neck spine problems, for the right patient, this can really get them back into normal life more quickly," he added.
Lowry's and Tuinstra's names are on the patent issued for the SpinePort System, in addition to Hope College engineering professor Roger Veldman and Desmond O'Farrell, an executive at TransCorp Spine.
The SpinePort was approved for use by the FDA in September.
"It is definitely an honor to be singled out for the innovation in our field. The greatest satisfaction is seeing patients enjoy a life of motion again. I have literally been hugged because of TCMD outcomes," said Tuinstra.
In addition to practicing medicine at The Brain + Spine Center, Lowry is a founder of several privately held, early stage medical device companies developing minimally invasive and tissue-saving products and procedures for the treatment of spinal and neurological pathologies.


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MIT demos 1 PB IP SAN
MIT will announce a mammoth IP SAN that also includes IP multicasting, which is already proving a boon to the consumer and SMB market.
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is holding a press conference today to unveil an IP storage system that sources say is a gigantic version of a "dirt cheap" IP SAN, which debuted to great acclaim in the consumer and SMB market last fall.
The original Netgear Inc. IP SAN was constructed with components from Bell Microproducts Inc., Seagate Technology, Marvell Technology Group and Zetera Corp., and had space for two 3.5-inch Integrated Drive Electronics drives of any size that mirrored each other. Zetera's firmware also enabled partitioning of the drives and the ability to string multiple Storage Central arrays together. At the time, the company claimed it would be theoretically possible to scale the system up to 128 petabytes (PB), but the initial version scaled up to just 1 terabyte.
In order to support the number of video files needed for the project, as well as the compute power necessary for the heavy calculations and storage of their output, "The array … will be built out over time to a massive 1.4 PB -- enough storage capacity for a high-resolution digital photo of every human being in the world," according to a press release put out by MIT last week.
"There's actually a lot of potential applications for this," said Jon William Toigo, CEO of Toigo Productions, who has been the technology's biggest champion so far. "If MIT's use goes well, it could really establish Zetera as an up and comer in the industry."
The lab affiliated with Toigo's company, TPI Technologies Inc., has been testing the Netgear equipment against other small SANs. Toigo notes the company is not paying for the research.
Rather, Toigo says he is enthused about a product that allows users to build their own SAN infrastructures from cheap commodity hardware. If it's done right, Toigo said, the performance numbers have been shown in TPI's lab to be superior to proprietary arrays including Dell Inc.'s and EMC Corp.'s AX100 products.
The system does storage service functions like replication, mirroring and RAID striping via a process called IP multicasting in which a switch sends data to multiple IP-addressed disks simultaneously. This is a proposition much less expensive than purchasing software to perform the tasks on the major vendors' arrays.
It has been pointed out that Zetera uses a proprietary version of User Datagram Protocol (UDP), rather than TCP used by iSCSI, in order to boost performance without the need for TCP offload engine cards.
"It's true that how they use it is proprietary," Toigo said. "As proprietary as any other vendor's technology inside the array -- the scheme of getting data on to and off of the disk is because of their own internal development."
Toigo also pointed out that the Netgear SAN will now support an NT file system as an alternative to a SAN file system from Data Plow Inc., in order to offer more open source options.
Other analysts more skeptical
"They very well may be on to something, but the point is there is a heck of a lot more to becoming a commercial success than spouting a statistic or a protocol in an academic environment where it's OK to play with toys," said Steve Duplessie, founder and analyst with the Enterprise Strategy Group. "InfiniBand was going to revolutionize the world a few years ago -- and it was proven to be better technically, but the business side didn't work."
"There's no question that five years from now, significant chunks of the enterprise storage environment will have moved over to entirely new IP-based products," said Brad O'Neill, senior analyst with the Taneja Group. "But it's still in the very early stages, and we still don't know what the IP architecture is ultimately going to look like -- it's going to take at least five years before a lot of this radical stuff comes off the fringe."
If the system's scalability can successfully be demonstrated, bigger enterprise users processing large amounts of data or who want to get away from proprietary replication and mirroring technology could take an interest in it. However, since the system uses UDP rather than TCP/IP as a protocol, it does not support the security standard for IP, called IPsec. Thus, it may not find as much penetration into companies with sensitive data in distributed environments.
Meanwhile, though Zetera says its goal is "to make its network storage technology the de facto industry standard," but so far its only customer traction has been in the consumer and small to midsized business (SMB) markets, where its biggest attractions -- simplicity and cost-effectiveness -- are more of a priority. It remains to be seen whether the product can break into the mainstream.
"They need to answer a lot of security and reliability questions before being considered an enterprise product," O'Neill said. "There's also the matter of software integration."


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But nature's most simple edibles can be enjoyed in a myriad of ways. Take the cranberry, for example. This small, bouncy, perky berry, which grows in areas known as "bogs" on short evergreen perennial shrubs, tastes tart when eaten raw. But cooking cranberries mellows their taste, especially when mixed with a natural sweetener. Hence, cranberries taste delicious in pastries or as glazes on meats—think cranberry-rubbed turkey, venison with cranberry chutney, or wild boar in cranberry-wine sauce.
This deep-red fruit has a rich history, especially among the Wampanoag of Cape Cod and the outer islands, who have nurtured them for eons. Now cranberries are a major industrial crop, along with two other totally Native fruits grown commercially in North America: blueberries and strawberries—the original finger foods. Cranberries are a time-honored staple in trail mix and pemmican, also known as "jerky," in which animal fats, nuts and berries of various sorts are pounded into preserved meats—typically buffalo, venison (including elk, deer and moose) or small game like rabbit or squirrel. Pemmican is a true example of traditional American Indian "fast food"—a far cry from modern America's oil-drenched burgers and fries. Cranberries, rather, are loaded with anthocyanins, which are responsible for their vibrant red pigment and deliver antioxidants that may slow aging and reduce inflammation.
Beyond nutrition, cranberries offer medicinal uses. Our ancestors ground them into a paste to fight wound infections, treated by high levels of acidity and vitamin C. Plus, the indigenous fruit contains compounds that help block bacteria—giving credence to the common belief that drinking cranberry juice can help prevent urinary tract infections.
Fresh cranberries are primarily available in the cool fall months, although they can be purchased year-round in dried form, often called craisins, or crushed in sauces and juices. Have fun and experiment with the versatile cranberry—toss them in corn breads, apple pie or cake batters. Take inspiration from Native chefs and restaurants, like Tocabe: An American Indian Eatery. The Osage family-owned restaurant in Denver, Colorado makes a corn salsa with cranberries that has earned praise on the Food Network show "Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives."
Still, my all-time personal favorite way to enjoy them is in cranberry chutney.
Cranberry "Sassamanesh" Chutney
3 cups cranberries
12 apples, firm, cored
2 sweet onions, sliced
1 cup golden raisins
2 tablespoons ground ginger
¾ cup mint leaves, fine chopped
2 ounces chili peppers
4 cups apple cider vinegar
2 tablespoons salt
1 pound dark brown sugar
2 tablespoons flour dissolved in ¼ cup water
You will need a heavy stainless steel pot. Combine all ingredients except the cranberries and flour mixture. Cook apples, onions, raisins, ginger, mint, chili pepper, vinegar, salt and brown sugar over very low heat for about a half hour. Now, add the cranberries and flour/water mixture and simmer 5-10 minutes to allow berries to pop and chutney to thicken. This will yield about 4 pints. Allow the mixture to blend and thicken overnight. *Pack your chutney into jelly jars. They make great gifts this way, too. . . .
Cranberries make for finger-licking desserts during the blustering fall season as well:
Sassamanesh Scones
preheat oven to 375 degrees 1 cup flour
½ cup quick cooking rolled oats
3 tablespoons sugar (brown preferred) or equivalent substitute
2 teaspoons baking powder
½ teaspoon salt
4 tablespoons chilled sweet butter, cut in pieces
½ or more cup Craisins (dried cranberries)
1 egg ¼ cup milk, more if needed
Using a food processor, mix the oats, flour, sugar, baking powder and salt. Pulse to blend. Put the butter on top and pulse again a few times. Add cranberries and pulse once to mix them in. Beat the egg with the milk in a small glass bowl and pour into processor feeding tube until dough sticks together, add more milk if dough is too dry to stick together. Put dough on an ungreased cookie sheet and flatten down to a large circle. Cut into 12 pieces, leaving about an inch between them. Sprinkle with a little more sugar if desired. Bake about 20 minutes. Serve warm.
Cranberry Heaven
Preheat oven to 400 degrees
2 cups fresh whole cranberries
1 cup cranberry juice cocktail
4 eggs
1 cup sugar (or substitute equivalent)
¼ cup flour
1 cup milk
½ cup heavy cream
½ teaspoon vanilla
Pinch of cinnamon
Grease a 9-inch pie pan. Cook the cranberries in a large non-reactive saucepan for 5 minutes over medium heat. Remove cranberries and set them aside. Boil down liquid to ¼ cup remaining. Use a blender or food processor to combine the eggs, sugar, flour, milk, cream and vanilla. Add the cranberry liquid to form a custard. Spread the slightly cooled cranberries on the bottom of the greased pie pan. Pour custard mixture over the berries and sprinkle with cinnamon. Bake in the center of the oven until golden and puffed, about 40-45 minutes. Let cool and serve warm or at room temperature.
Dale Carson, Abenaki, is the author of three books: New Native American Cooking, Native New England Cooking and A Dreamcatcher Book. She has written about and demonstrated Native cooking techniques for more than 30 years. Dale has four grown children and lives with her husband in Madison, Connecticut.


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Words Starting With Alphabet F"F" is sixth letter and fourth consonant of the modern English alphabet, its a constant and can be used to represent "Sixth Grade" or sixth in a series or row. The origin of "F" is the Semitic letter vâv (or waw) that represented a sound like /v/ or /w/. Graphically, its shape is life a hook. "F" also represents a grade that indicates failing status.The English language alphabet after "E" and before "G". Any of the speech sounds represented by the letter f. "F" in capital and "f" in small alphabets. An example of "F" is the letter that ends the word surf or the letter that start the word forex. "F" is the symbol for the element fluorine and abbreviation of Fahrenheit.
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