Mac Bingham's three-run triple in the bottom of the eight sealed a wild, 8-6 comeback victory for the Arizona Wildcats (37-22) over the Arizona State Sun Devils (26-32) on Friday at the Pac-12 Tournament.
Arizona's win knocked their rivals out of the tournament and secured a rematch against the Stanford Cardinal at 9:00 a.m. MST on Saturday morning at Scottsdale Stadium.
ASU plated two in the opening frame to take an early lead, but the Wildcats responded with a five-run bottom of the third to take their first lead of the afternoon. Catcher Daniel Susac crushed a three-run opposite-field home run to jump Arizona out in front and was followed on the very next pitch by a solo homer from right fielder Tanner O'Tremba. Second baseman Garen Caulfield polished off the rally with a sac fly to make the score 5-2 in favor of the Wildcats.
The Sun Devils went on to score twice in the fifth and seventh innings to take a narrow one-run lead, setting up Bingham's heroics. Three walks loaded the bases with one out for Bingham, who promptly laced a triple over ASU's center fielder on the second pitch of his at-bat.
Right-hander Trevor Long tossed a scoreless ninth inning for Arizona to slam the door shut and earn his seventh save of the season.
Arizona WildBATS
- CF Mac Bingham: 2-for-4, R, 3B, 3 RBI
- C Daniel Susac: 1-for2, R, HR, 3 RBI
- RF Tanner O'Tremba: 1-for-4, R, HR, RBI
- LF Chase Davis: 1-for-2, 2 R, 2 BB
- 2B Garen Caulfield: 1-for-1, RBI, BB
- RHP Quinn Flanagan: 2.0 IP, 3 H, Win (5-1)
- RHP Trevor Long: 1.0 IP, 1 H, 0 R, Save (7)
- Bingham's game-winning triple in the eighth inning was his Pac-12-leading seventh triple of the year.
- Long's seven saves this year are tied for 11th most in a single season in school history.
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