April 2, 2000
Senior Mitch Jones hit his 19th home run of the season as the seventh-ranked Arizona State Sun Devils defeated No. 2 Stanford 11-6 this afternoon at Packard Stadium. ASU won the three-game series taking two of three games. The Sun Devils improve to 28-8, 4-2 in conference play while the Cardinal fall to 21-9, 3-3 in Pac-10 play.
ASU won the series with the Cardinal for the first time since 1997 when they swept Stanford at Palo Alto. It is the first time the Devils have won the three-game series at home since 1994.
Arizona State took the early lead scoring three in the bottom of the first off of Stanford starter Mike Gosling. With one out on the board, junior Jeff Duncan walked on four straight pitches. Senior Mitch Jones also walked on four straight pitches. Junior Casey Myers then hit his 10th homerun of the year with a shot to rightfield.
The Devils would score three more in the second to chase Gosling from the mound. Stanford would counter with four runs in the top of the third highlighted by a two-run homer by rightfielder Joe Borchard.
ASU would put the game out of reach scoring five more runs over the middle innings.
Picking up his third win of the season was reliever Franco Pezely (3-2) who pitched 2.0 shutout innings with two strikeouts. Starter Drew Friedberg went 2.1 innings, allowing four runs on four hits in the no-decision.
Taking the loss for the Cardinal was starter Mike Gosling (2-2) who giving up six hits on two hits with four walks and two strikeouts in one inning of work. The Stanford pitching staff walked a season-high 11 batters on the afternoon.
For the Devils, Mitch Jones went 1-for-1 with two runs scored, an RBI and four walks. Jeff Phelps went 2-for-2 with a run scored and three walks. Brooks Conrad and John Gusich each collected two hits for ASU. Casey Myers notched three RBI as well.
For the Cardinal, leadoff man Craig Thompson went 3-for-3 with two runs scored as well as two stolen bases. Joe Borchard went 2-for-4 with two RBI and a run scored. Third baseman John Gall also knocked in two for the game.